Breaking: I've uncovered that Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi served as the "coordinator" for Fatah’s Student Movement at Birzeit University.
The group glorifies mass murderers, urges students to become "martyrs," has members who ARE terrorists, and hosts terror parades on campus🧵
The other day, the NYT offered a glowing portrayal of Columbia University's Mohsen Mahdawi, whom they bizarrely portray as a lifelong advocate for peace.
In doing so, they unintentionally helped me find previously unreported facts that show who Mohsen really is.
But first, let's look at some other nuggets the NYT gave us:
This seems to be the first time it's been reported that Mahdawi’s best friend was killed while throwing stones at IDF soldiers.
That’s a far cry from how he told the story in past appearances, like on @60Minutes
How do Islamists like Mohsen Mahdawi, Mahmoud Khalil, and even Mehdi Hasan infiltrate institutions, manipulate media, and win sympathy in the West?
Simple: Through a set of Islamic doctrines that explicitly permit deception—as long as it serves the cause
Let's break some down🧵
🔸 Taqiyya: Originally developed for Shi’a Muslims under persecution, taqiyya allows someone to lie about their beliefs or intentions if telling the truth would cause danger.
Radical Islamists have weaponized this to publicly pose as moderates, while secretly supporting extremism
🔸 Kitmān: While taqiyya is about active deception, kitmān is about strategic silence. It’s the calculated omission of information to mask radical beliefs, allowing Islamists to blend into institutions, avoid detection, and operate freely
Qatar's Campaign to Influence America: A Brief Intro 🧵
As @DouglasKMurray rightly points out, while critics obsess over Israel, it's Qatar that’s spent billions quietly shaping the US—across lobbying, media, universities, and more.
More funded. More opaque. Less talked about.
1. Lobbying & FARA Compliance
🔸️ Qatar spent $250M+ on lobbying since 2017, hiring 35+ firms, many under FARA.
🔸️ In 2017–18 alone: $19.5M to rehab its image during the Gulf Crisis.
🔸️ DOJ ordered AJ+ to register as a foreign agent. Qatar refused.
🔸️ Israel’s gov doesn’t lobby through FARA. AIPAC spent $3.3M in 2024—all legal & disclosed.
2. University & Academic Funding
🔸️ Qatar is the #1 foreign donor to U.S. universities: $4.7B–$6B+ since 2001.
According to @JoeTruzman, Dr. Fadel Naim (second from right) is the brother of Basem Naim (second from left), a senior Hamas official sanctioned by the U.S.
He has served as Hamas's Minister of Health and is currently Deputy Head of the group’s Arab and Islamic Relations Office.
Fadel’s son, Anas Fadel Naim, was a Hamas fighter killed by the IDF in a 2009 airstrike.
Fadel's nephew, Naim Basem Naim (son of Basem Naim), was also a Hamas fighter, killed in combat with the IDF in 2003.
A new website has been launched presenting legal arguments from various so-called scholars, experts, and professors, all pushing to overturn Hamas’ terror designation.
But hilariously, some of the contributors are terrorists themselves🧵
Two of the submissions are from Sami Al-Arian, a convicted Islamic Johad financier who was deported to Turkey from the US
Another is from Charlotte Kates, one of the heads of Samidoun, which has been designated as a terror group by the US, Canada, Germany, and Israel