The viral post's claim centers on what Hamas's charter says about Jews. The evidence clearly shows this depends on which charter is being referenced.
The 1988 Hamas Covenant, the group's founding document, contains language that is unambiguously antisemitic. As documented by the Avalon Project at Yale and a translation hosted by the Federation of American Scientists, the charter includes the passage: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: O' Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." Congressman Dan Newhouse quoted this same passage in a November 2023 op-ed. The charter also refers broadly to "our struggle against the Jews" in its introduction.
However, in May 2017, Hamas unveiled a new "Document of General Principles and Policies" that significantly altered this language. As The Guardian and Middle East Eye reported at the time, the 2017 document states: "Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine." Wikipedia's article on the 2017 charter confirms that this document "removed the antisemitic language" of the original.
Critically, Hamas never formally revoked the 1988 charter. Wikipedia notes that Hamas leaders described the original as "a historical document and part of an earlier stage in our evolution" that would "remain in the movement's bookshelf as a record of our past." Analyst Jean-François Legrain argued that since the 1988 charter was never formally repealed, its antisemitic provisions could be considered still valid, with only the antisemitic aspects effectively superseded by the 2017 document.
So the X post is correct that the original Hamas charter contains language calling for killing Jews specifically. But the post omits that Hamas issued a new document in 2017 that explicitly rejected this framing, and that the 1988 charter has been described by Hamas itself as a historical document—though it was never formally rescinded.
The evidence includes the full text of the 1988 charter from two independent academic/government sources, extensive reporting on the 2017 charter from The Guardian, Middle East Eye, and Wikipedia, and a congressional op-ed quoting the original charter. The sources are well-dated and directly address the claim.
