EXCLUSIVE: Democrats commemorate October 7th by citing Hamas's "falsified death toll numbers" and with silence

Democrats across the country and across generations commemorated the horrors of October 7th in manners far different from Republicans.

Congressional and national Democrats commemorated the two year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of October 7th, 2023 with a mixture of citing Hamas terrorists and with outright silence.

Aging Democrats like Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) cited death counts from Hamas in their statements about the terrorist attack.

“Since that terrible day, more than 65,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in the brutality of the war in Gaza,” Markey wrote. Jewish Insider’s Emily Jacobs noted that Markey’s statement “quotes the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s falsified death toll numbers.”

But Markey was not alone, and the Democrats’ reliance on bogus numbers from a Palestinian terrorist organization spanned generations. Democrat Zohran Mamdani also mourned the “death toll that now far exceeds 67,000.”

Other anti-Israel Democrats, like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Greg Casar (D., Texas), and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) have yet to post anything commemorating the massacre. A Washington Reporter review of their social media feeds found that, prior to publication, neither Democrat had posted anything.

Republicans, in contrast, made clear to both the Reporter and beyond that their support for Israel is resolute — especially in the wake of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho), for example, shared their exclusive statements with the Reporter; both pro-Israel lawmakers made it clear that they stand firmly with America’s greatest ally in the Middle East.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), too, outlined its plans to hold anti-Israel Democrats accountable to the Reporter.