Reporter Paige MacPherson and her crew attended a rally Thursday night where some 300 protested against Israel and in support of Hamas. Though those in the group had strongly-held opinions, those opinions weren’t always backed up by fact, as MacPherson quickly discovered. TheBlaze provides reality checks of the protester’s statements in brackets below.

She began by asking protesters: Does Israel have a right to defend itself?

Her first interviewee said: “They’re not defending themselves. They’ve been stealing people’s land since 1946” [Note: the State of Israel was established in 1948, not 1946.]

This was her exchange with a man wearing a Palestinian keffiyah around his neck:

Demonstrator: “These rockets don’t actually have firepower.”

Reporter: “They’re rockets.”

Demonstrator: “They’re rockets, yes, they have flight capability. But they don’t have firepower to the same extent as phosphorous bombs that are being dropped on Gaza every single day.”

[Note: not even the Palestinians are accusing the IDF of using phosphorous bombs during its Operation Pillar of Defense — the name of the latest military response.]

“Gaza has been under siege for a really, really long time,” said one woman whose head was covered by a hijab. “I feel it is self-defense for them [Hamas] if they fire a few rockets. But Israel has been killing people every day for a longer time than they have been firing back. So I feel that Hamas has the right to defend itself.” [Note: Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense days after Hamas and other terrorist groups began pounding southern Israeli communities.]

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