Media Determined to Heroize Palestinian Poet Who Joked About Burning Israeli Babies

The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Rafaat Alareer was not a good person.

In fact, during his life, Alareer revealed himself to be a thoroughly despicable individual who celebrated the gruesome murder of Israeli babies by Hamas terrorists, and engaged in Holocaust revisionism.

And yet, for some unfathomable reason...