Fox News Guest Claims ‘Pro-Palestinian Rallies’ Are the ‘Same Thing’ as ‘Pro-Hamas’ Gatherings

On Monday’s hour of Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum, a guest equated pro-Palestinian rallies with neo-Nazi rallies, one of which took place in Wisconsin over the weekend, calling any rally in support of Palestine “pro-Hamas” and “the same thing.”

Host Martha MacCallum first played footage of the Nazi rally at the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin before welcoming guest Brooke Goldstein, a human rights attorney and founder of the Lawfare Project. MacCallum asked Goldstein for her “gut reaction,” and Goldstein called the images “hatred…on display.” She added more about the gathering, comparing it to other rallies and protests that have been taking place since the Israel-Hamas War began:

I want to point out, Martha, something so important. When we see these Nazi rallies, do we call them pro-Palestinian? We don’t, right? That would be ridiculous. The white supremacists hate all Semitics, they hate the Muslims, they hate the Arabs, they hate the Jews. But they’re exploiting this opportunity to have hate-fest rallies.

The same thing is happening on the left. And yet when we have pro-Hamas rallies, some in the mainstream media, obviously not Fox News, but others in the mainstream media call them pro-Palestinian rallies. And that’s simply inaccurate. It’s the same thing. They are exploiting a conflict thousands of miles away to spread a hateful ideology and to target Jewish people in the United States. We have to call both of these protests what they are: pro-hate.

Goldstein’s observation about Fox News is incorrect; the network has referred to pro-Palestinian rallies using that term, and they are also referred to that way on the Fox News web site.

In addition to the rise in anti-Semitism, either in the form of rhetoric or violence, there has also been a tandem rise in Islamophobia since the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7 and Israel’s response.

Watch the video above via Fox News.