* Hamas, Iran, and the 1991 International Conference to Support the Palestinian People’s Islamic Revolution: A Short Thread on the Nascent Beginning of Iran-Hamas Relations*

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had landed in Tehran in 1979 as the first official visitor to the capital
under the revolutionary government of Iran and was given a triumphal welcome befitting mujahidin. The visit resulted in the opening of a Palestine embassy in place of what used to be the Israeli mission under the Shah. The first few months witnessed the flowering of fraternal

*Hamas, Collaborators and the death penalty: a short history*

With the exception of Yezid Sayigh's excellent book, "We Serve the People: Hams Policing in Gaza" (Waltham, MA: Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University), little has been written on the issue of Hamas' legal code following its governance as of June 2007 "hâsim" (the term Hamas prefers to “inqilâb” (coup).

[pictured: new cadets with wooden rifle ceremony, 2019, Palestinian Interior Ministry]

*On Beverley Milton-Edwards: the West's Favorite Putative Hamas Scholar*

Beverley Milton-Edwards is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs who has published several books and articles on Hamas including, most recently, the co-authored "HAMAS: The Quest for Power" with Stephen Farrell (published in 2024 by Wiley). She is also the chief popularizer of the false narrative that Hamas's existence can be attributed to the witting role of Israel.

*How Hamas' "Amn al-haraka" unit, i.e. Hamas' internal unit for internal security, audited and suspended al-Qassam Brigades fighters who became Salafis in 2010. A thread*

In 2010, to combat the Saudi-funded rise in Salafism in Gaza, Hamas undertook a number of measures. This included putting membership applications to the al-Qassam brigades on hold whilst members who engaged in suspicious behavior like using Takfiris language were scrutinized.

“Dispelling the Myth, propagated by Abu Mazen’s wing of Fatah and liberal zionists, that Israel Funded Hamas: A Thread”

This is an old Fatah lie, anchored in, during the Israeli occupation of Gaza, Israel permitting Sheikh Yassin’s Islamic Society to open in 1967 and then the 1976 Islamic Center to engage in food pantry, orphanage, and religious civil services.

Indeed, in 1967, the al-Jam'iyah al-Islamiyah (the Islamic Society) received permits for the educational activities run in al-Shati (beach) Mosque.

@NotZionist44 @RealScottRitter @thopelep No, that’s a narrative I have seen popularized recently. But it betrays ignorance about Hamas’ political bureau—both its history and how it operates. Meshal has long made such statements but he is part of the “diaspora” wing.

Hamas' Political Bureau is called the maktab @NotZionist44 @RealScottRitter @thopelep al-siyâsî and the internal groups are spread out in four locations: 1) the Gaza Strip, 2) the West Bank, 3) Israeli prisons in which some of its members are jailed and, lastly, 4) the outside.