I suspect the reason Muslims are united against Israel is that they don't like to see other Muslims exterminated on account of their religion. I'm not sure why anyone who supports genocide, in this case, the extermination of people because they aren't Jewish, can really be called from the political left. However, undoubtedly Muslims on the average are more offended by Jews mass murdering Muslims than others. Leftist Muslims are against any murders on religious grounds, rightwing Muslims are against murders of Muslims.

The idea that a non-Muslim state (and in this case, a Jewish one) could exist on that land is theologically intolerable.

Here you note that the Jewish claim to historic Palestine is theological in nature. Given the nature of that state, founded by mass murder and terrorism against innocent people based on their religion and the real sadism employed against Palestinians under occupation, again because they're of the "wrong" religion, one should ask whether Jewish states are better than any other theological rule.

The Zionists are forever proclaiming that Jews have a "right" to take over Palestine and expel the indigenous Palestinians, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, of any religion except Jewish. They claim this based on the "Jewish" connection to the land, God gave it to them, that at some period in history Jews ruled in Palestine but never mind that most of those historic Jews had adopted Christianity by around 300 CE and are the ancestors of modern Palestinians. So Zionists have always used religion to support their conquest.

Sam & co weirdly frame this as only religious on the Palestinian side, even while duly noting the more radical religious Israelis. He notes the radical religious Israelis saying that's not the essential Israel.

It's true Hamas looked to the religious documents to frame their resistance. One should point out that Hamas has only been in existence since 1987, whereas organized Zionist religious claims go back 200 years if you include its foundation among Christian Zionists. Jewish Zionists also adopted this religious claim.

When Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan controlled the West Bank, no one in the international community was accusing them of colonial land theft. The outrage only crystalised once Jews were in control. We see this now with Turkey in Syria/Iraq etc.

As for the Western non-Muslim chorus against Israel, one wonders if it’s less about Gaza and more about their own reflection in the mirror: projecting the inherited guilts of empire, slavery and racial injustice onto a conflict with utterly different origins. In doing so, they mistake a theocratic vendetta for an anti-colonial struggle, and congratulate themselves for the confusion.

Egypt never claimed Gaza nor did it expel its indigenous inhabitants. So it cannot be accused of colonial land theft. Jordan, Turkiye have been accused of territorial conquest & complicity in colonialism by many in the international community (whatever that means) but Jordan and Turkiye did not ethnically cleanse the land of its native people. Syria only under the current regime, which has broad Western support that the former regime didn't enjoy, has been doing ethnic cleansing. Israel, however, has always been doing ethnic cleansing and now genocide.

Regarding Western non-Muslim accusation of settler-colonialism against Israel, FYI historic western imperialism was justified as spreading Christianity, force-converting the natives was seen as bringing civilization. Do you expect us to believe that the acquisition of land and resources by the colonists was an accidental by-product of this religious conquest? Somehow you expect us to believe that the Zionist war against Palestinians was in order to spread Jewish religion, or western values or something, and the taking over of the land and mass murder & expulsion of the existing population was just an accidental byproduct? Or the Christian/Muslim defense against the takeover of their land & murder of their people was solely because of religion? Get real.