Staff for State Senator Julia Salazar praised Hamas in the hours and days after the group’s October 7 terrorist attack, which left at least 1,200 Israelis dead.
Hamas destroyed two communities near the border with the Gaza Strip and slaughtered hundreds of people at a music festival, with reports of mass rapes, children beheaded and babies found burned in ovens.
“By any means necessary,” Salazar’s Director of Communications and Policy Sarah Campbell wrote on X day of the massacre.
Sarah Campbell refuses to condemn Hamas after massacre.X @srh_cmpbll Sarah Campbell tweeted that she does not condemn Hamas. State Senator Julia Salazar’s Communications and Policy Director Sarah Campbell has publicly praised Hamas on Twitter.
“After decades of violent occupation, armed resistance is justified,” he wrote on Oct. 12. “I don’t condemn Hamas, I condemn Israel. Who has commanded more violence: Hamas for their entire existence, or Israel in just the last 30 days? Which group has killed more civilians? Millions moved? Hospital bombed? Killing premature babies? All the people are starving?”
X Campbell’s account is private, but The Post was able to obtain a screenshot of the post.
Salazar’s Chief of Staff, Isabel Anreus, “liked” the Oct. 7 post. at X that reads, “What’s happening in Palestine really makes me happy.”
Tweet from Sarah Campbell on the day of the Hamas attack.X @srh_cmpbll State Sen. Julia Salazar has tried to tone down her party’s most extreme rhetoric.AP
Although Salazar, a Democratic Socialist, has aligned himself with Hamas supporters and called for a ceasefire, he has publicly tried to tone down the left’s most extreme rhetoric.
“Some on the Left … wrongly minimize or deliberately ignore the horrific crimes of Hamas militants against Israeli civilians,” he admonished in an Op-Ed for Jacobin, a socialist magazine.
Both Campbell and Anreus told The Post that the tweets were personal opinions and did not reflect the views of Senator Salazar.
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