In January 2006, during an interview with the New York Sun, Al-Sahlani told the paper that the figure of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust "has been exaggerated."
"The numbers which have been mentioned are too much," Al-Sahlani told Sun reporter Russell Berman. "The numbers, the reasons, we have to study more."
In April 2006 author Walter Ruby said he didn't trust the Sun's conservative bent and wanted to speak to the sheikh himself about the issue:
"I went to see Al-Sahlani last week predisposed to believe that he might have been treated unfairly by the Sun, or, at least, deserved a chance to set the record straight. Yet his responses to me only deepened the hole he dug for himself in the original interview."
Al-Sahlani cited Nazi apologist David Irving as a source for his Holocaust information — at the time Irving was serving a prison sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial
A list of animals Israel has been accused of "weaponizing" against Palestinians over the years
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Several Palestinian media outlets on Saturday quoted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as accusing Israel of using “wild pigs” against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Abbas’s allegation was made during a speech he delivered at a pro-Palestinian conference in Ramallah on Friday night.
The charge was omitted from reports published by official PA media.
A Palestinian villager encountered Israeli cattle and fabricated a story about how Israel has been secretly training the cattle to spy on Palestinians, according to Palestinian Media Watch citing the official Palestinian Authority daily news outlet Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
"These are recruited and trained cattle, Palestinian villager Rushd Morrar reportedly told the daily. "On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun large and small."
Adam Hamawy (@HamawyForNJ) the Democratic candidate leading in the race to replace retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman served as a defense witness in the 1995 trial of terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman (AKA "The Blind Sheikh")
Adam Hamawy (@HamawyForNJ) running to represent New Jersey's 12th district had a yearslong relationship with the The Blind Sheikh who was sentenced to life in prison after his followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Trial testimony is all online — start on page 1576
When @HamawyForNJ served as a defense witness for The Blind Sheikh terrorist — he revealed he frequently went to the Sheikh's home to hear him speak and provided translation services
When they traveled to a conference in Detroit together — Hamawy and Sheikh Rahman stayed in the same room at the Westin
Rama Duwaji — the wife of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani— shared several posts glorifying Palestinian terrorism on old social media accounts that remain active.
In September 2017, NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji posted a photo to her Tumblr account of the Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled.
"If it does good for my cause, I'd be happy to accept death," the photo caption read.
Khaled, a longtime member of the PFLP, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, participated in plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970. Between the two hijackings, she underwent several cosmetic surgery procedures to disguise her identity. In the 1970 hijacking, Khaled threatened to detonate a grenade unless the pilots let her into the cockpit. Today, she is revered by terrorists and their allies as the first woman to hijack a plane.
On International Women's Day, NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji retweeted a post praising Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, another PFLP terrorist.
Ghazaleh participated in the bombing of an Israeli bus and led several other terrorist attacks.
Ghazaleh was killed in 1968 when a bomb she was building in her home—which she intended to use to blow up a building in Tel Aviv—exploded accidentally.
Zohran Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, provided illustrations for a book compiled by Susan Abulhawa — who has called Jews "rootless parasites" , "cockroaches" "rabid demons" — and many other names
While Susan Abulhawa often couches her insults as directed against "Israel" or "Zionists" — she sometimes lets the mask slip as she did here
Zohran Mamdani's wife provided illustrations for Abulhawa's recent book
The number of X posts from Susan Abulhawa on the subject of Jews/Zionists/Israel is very considerable
Zohran Mamdani's wife provided illustrations for Abulhawa's recent book
On Oct 9, 2023 — two days after Hamas' Oct 7 massacre in Israel — the Muslim Democratic Club of New York put out a statement blaming Israel for the attack, saying they stood "in solidarity with the besieged Palestinian people"
Today, the founders of this group occupy top posts in City Hall under NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
The Muslim Democratic Club of New York was founded by Ali Najmi, Faiza Ali, Aliya Latif and Linda Sarsour
As of today:
Faiza Ali — Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Aliya Latif — Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Faith-Based Partnerships
Ali Najmi — leading the mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
All of these individuals view Linda Sarsour as a mentor
Aliya Latif has described Sarsour as her "right hand," "sister," and "seeker-mother" in posts on X