Your cherry-picking of the most egregious instances of hypocrisy to demonize “the left” as a whole is simplistic and banal. As a person of “the left,” I have never heard anyone justify the brutal atrocities of Hamas against Israeli civilians. They support the long struggle of Palestinians for self-determination and freedom from Israeli brutality and apartheid to become sure, but such attitudes do NOT equate to support for genocidal terrorist psychopaths! But nor do we support saturation bombing of Palestinian civilians—men, women, and children alike—with no way to escape, as a means to the dubious end of “eliminating Hamas.” If anything, such mass murder will only cause Hamas and similar deranged terrorist groups to metastasize, for when people lose all hope, they instead embrace murderous hatred.