Thread by @EFischberger

Meet Heba Farouk Mahfouz, a reporter in the @washingtonpost's Cairo Bureau.

Since the start of 2025, all 13 of the articles she's written have focused on Israel and Hamas.

The problem? She actually supports Hamas, and thinks Israel shouldn't exist. Let's dive in 🧵

Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s wildly inappropriate for a journalist to report on a country she believes is “illegal” and shouldn’t exist

Doubling down on the "Israel being illegal" thing

Ms. Mahfouz also thinks that Zionism—the belief in the Jewish right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland—is racism.

FYI the UN revoked and completely disavowed that resolution in 1991

While she does concede that she “[doesn’t] like Hamas’ social repression of Palestinians,” she finds it in herself to still “always and forever support the resistance as long as it is against the Zionist entity."

Wow, how sweet.

She similarly posted that “I am always and forever with the resistance! And with Hamas and Hezbollah too, as long as their weapons are against Israel….”

I’d reach out to Ms. Mahfouz to get her response to all of this, but I suspect that, given what she posted on September 11, 2012, she’d probably just tell me to “F*CK OFF & SHUT THE F*CK UP!”

It’s been roughly nine years since Ms. Mahfouz joined The Washington Post team. Did nobody, during those approximately 3,200 days, notice her burning desire for Israel to cease existing and for Hamas to terrorize it? Not a single editor? Not a single colleague? I doubt it.

It’s simply inarguable that Ms. Mahfouz should be kept far away from any newsroom covering Israel and the Palestinians.

But with the way The Washington Post has been operating, expect her to be named Middle East Editor by next week.

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