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Oct 17 21 tweets 7 min read
On October 7th, 2023, Hamas launched brutal attacks across Israel, ruthlessly killing innocent children among others.

This thread details 20 young victims, their names, and the savage acts committed by these terrorists.

🧵 1/21 Image Noya Dan, 12 years old: Killed during an attempted abduction, along with her grandmother, on the Nir Oz Kibbutz. Terrorists set the house they were hiding on fire.

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Oct 8 7 tweets 13 min read
A thread on how the UN under Antonio Guterres has built a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood through Yusuf al-Qaradawi

There's now a nexus between Qatar, Hamas, UN-supported Islamist NGOs & the new MB base in South Africa for islamist lawfare against Israel & the West 🧵 Image The Network

To the surprise of many, there are close ties between UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Muslim Brotherhood’s late spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi and his Qatar-based organization International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS).

These players are in turn all connected to the growing Muslim Brotherhood base in South Africa and the South African Lawfare Nexus.

Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, spent decades issuing fatwas legitimising jihad against Israel, encouraging suicide bombings, and promoting antisemitic narratives.

The IUMS, founded by Qaradawi, has been formally designated a terrorist organisation by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain due to its Hamas and Brotherhood affiliations.

Despite this, António Guterres met with Al-Qaradawi and visited the IUMS. The organisation’s leadership publicly confirmed and exploited this engagement, boasting of “good relations with the UN” and claiming cooperation on Islamic charity and waqf initiatives.

The IUMS used the Guterres encounter as a deliberate legitimacy laundering tactic, neutralising its terror designation in Arab countries by pointing to having received recognition by the UN.

These links are not incidental. They align with the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-standing strategy of weaponizing international institutions to delegitimise Israel.

South Africa has become a critical node in this campaign, with Qaradawi’s influence visible through key figures:

• Ebrahim “Jibril” Gabriels – Muslim Judicial Council leader, IUMS affiliate, Union of Good trustee and president of the Al-Quds Foundation South Africa.

• Ebrahim Rasool – African National Congress (ANC) politician, expelled South African Ambassador to the United States in early 2025, linked deeply and bound into Qaradawi’s radical orbit.

• Imtiaz Sooliman – Founder of Gift of the Givers, cultivating ties to Qatar and Qaradawi’s network while advancing pro-Palestinian narratives under humanitarian cover. Sooliman has a 33-year track record with only recent exposure as to his real activist agenda and affiliation with Qawadari’s Union of Good including his close ties to Gabriels and the Muslim Judicial Council

Together, these elements explain why South Africa today spearheads lawfare against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other forums. The UN’s top official, by engaging Qaradawi and his institutions, has strengthened this islamist network.

The picture below shows Al-Qaradawi, Ebrahim Gabriels and Nelson Mandela spending time together.

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Oct 7 15 tweets 6 min read
The Hamas-led October 7th Massacre in Israel murdered over 1200 people, including people from more than 30 nationalities outside Israel.

More than 100 US, UK and French citizens were murdered.

This thread shows the faces of people from across the world murdered on that day.

🧵 1/15Image 46 U.S. citizens were murdered on October 7th.

US citizens, both residents and visitors were murdered by Hamas.

70-year-old Judith Weinstein, 70 was shot during her morning walk in Kibbutz Be'eri.

Danielle Edery and Noam Shay were murdered at the Nova Music Festival. The young couple was just about to get married.

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Sep 30 12 tweets 5 min read
Thread of some of the most famous Palestinian terrorists.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, most people in the West mainly associated Palestine with hijacked planes and terrorist attacks.

These are some of the worst terrorists to come out of Palestine 🧵 Image Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was also known as the “Father of Global Jihad.”

This Palestinian cleric from Jenin mentored Osama bin Laden at King Abdulaziz University and in Afghanistan and co-founded al-Qaeda's precursor, Maktab al-Khidmat, recruiting thousands of Arab fighters against the Soviets.

His fatwas justified offensive jihad and shaped a generation of terrorists. He was assassinated in 1989.

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Sep 30 20 tweets 8 min read
A thread on who will rule Gaza after the war.

Fatah and Hamas, the two dominant Palestinian factions, have clashed since the 1980s over ideology, governance, and resistance.

Their rivalry splits the Palestinian cause, and their relationship has been in ruins since Hamas threw Fatah out of the Gaza Strip following a civil war in the summer of 2007.

🧵 1/20Image Founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat, Fatah embraced secular nationalism, seeking a Palestinian state via diplomacy and guerrilla tactics. It led the PLO, which was internationally recognized as Palestine’s representative in 1974.

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Sep 29 22 tweets 8 min read
A thread on how the Palestinian diaspora in the West and the Middle East engages in radicalism via funding and activism.

From U.S. charities to Lebanese refugee camps, militancy is supported and financed by people living far away from the dangers of war.

🧵 1/22 Image Around 6 million Palestinians live abroad: With nearly 800,000 in North America, 400,000 in Europe, and 50,000 in Australia.

The vast majority live in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Many of them play key roles in funding Hamas and PA terrorism.

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Sep 26 20 tweets 7 min read
A thread on the terror tunnels of Gaza and how Hamas spent hundreds of millions of dollars & 20 years on making this war as bloody as possible

🧵 1/20 Image Gaza’s terror tunnels, built by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, serve as tools for militancy, smuggling, and attacks.

They make life hell for civilians.

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Sep 24 20 tweets 8 min read
A thread on the role Palestinian women play in the radicalization of Palestinian society.

As most Palestinian terrorists are men, the role played by women receives less attention, but is as important. This thread will show how women also shape Palestinian militancy.

🧵 1/20 Image Palestinian women joined radicalism in the 1960s via the PLO’s secular terrorist movement.

By the 1987 Intifada, they embraced militant roles. Radicalism offered agency in a patriarchal society but fueled violence and soon even turned some of them into suicide bombers.

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Aug 28 25 tweets 9 min read
Palestinian suicide bombings

Starting in 1993, Palestinian islamist terror groups started copying Hezbollah’s new tactic of suicide bombings. It peaked during the Second Intifada (2000–2005), when hundreds of civilians were killed in such heinous attacks and thousands were wounded.

🧵 1/25Image While conventional bombings had been ongoing for decades, suicide bombings emerged in the 1990s - driven by groups like Hamas and PIJ opposing peace talks.

Suicide bombers killed 735 Israelis and wounded 4,554 between 1994 and 2005, fueling cycles of violence.

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Aug 27 25 tweets 8 min read
Islamism in Palestine

Thread on the Islamist roots of the violence in Gaza. How Hamas developed out of the Muslim Brotherhood and joined forces with other Islamist terrorist organization the wage Holy War.

🧵 1/25 Image Hamas, founded in 1987, emerged as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement started in Egypt in 1928.

Its goal: establish an Islamic state in historic Palestine, rejecting Israel’s existence.

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Aug 27 25 tweets 8 min read
Thread on quotes and positions taken by Palestinian leaders and organizations over the past decades, negating a two-state solution and voicing the wish to eradicate Israel through violence.

🧵 1/25 Image Hamas Charter (1988), Art. 13: “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are a waste of time.”

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Aug 26 25 tweets 9 min read
Thread: The History of Palestinian Rejections of Statehood Offers – A Pattern of Maximalism Over Peace

The Palestinians have been offered their own state numerous times but have rejected it.

Why? Because accepting would mean recognizing Israel's existence and committing to a two-state solution. Instead, leaders pursued the goal of eradicating Israel entirely.

🧵 1/25Image Starting early: In 1937, the British Peel Commission proposed partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.

The Jewish side accepted; Arab leaders rejected it outright, refusing any Jewish sovereignty. This set a pattern of rejectionism to avoid recognizing a Jewish state.

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Aug 25 20 tweets 7 min read
For decades, Palestinian radicals have wrecked havoc across the Middle East.

They have no allies. Their accomplices and benefactors always pay a high price for tolerating and appeasing them.

🧵 1/20 Image In Jordan: The PLO's growing presence in the late 1960s led to tensions with King Hussein.

By 1970, PLO fedayeen controlled parts of Amman, acting as a "state within a state," challenging Jordanian sovereignty. This culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings.

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Aug 23 20 tweets 7 min read
Thread: Historical Control of Gaza & the West Bank 🧵

These areas have never been part of an independent Palestinian state.

In recent times, they have been controlled by the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Jordan and Israel (1/20) Image The Ottoman Empire ruled Gaza and the West Bank from 1517 to 1917.

These areas were part of broader administrative regions, with no distinct Palestinian national identity or statehood during this period.

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Aug 22 20 tweets 7 min read
A thread on Palestinian terrorism after the Six Day War of 1967

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Palestine was associated with international terrorism. These are just some of the hijackings, bombings and shootings they carried out: 🧵⬇️

(1/20) Image June 5th, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant who couldn’t tolerate the democratic victory of a pro-Israel candidate.

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Aug 21 20 tweets 7 min read
The European pogroms of the late 19th Century spurred early waves of Jewish migration back to Ottoman-controlled Palestine.

During the First Aliyah (1882-1903), around 25,000 Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, boosted the local economy with agriculture & infrastructure

(1/20) Image Ottoman policies encouraged general migration to Palestine.

Drawn by land opportunities, Arabs from Syria, Lebanon & Egypt settled in areas like Jaffa & Salt, with about 12,000 migrating pre-WWI plus 56,000 Bedouins east of Jordan.

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Jul 31 14 tweets 5 min read
While the world looks away, a brutal civil war is tearing Sudan apart.

Millions have been displaced, famine is imminent, and war crimes are being committed daily.

This is a humanitarian catastrophe that barely makes headlines.

Here's what you need to know. 🧵 Image Sudan is now the site of one of the worst humanitarian crises on Earth.

Over 10 million Sudanese people have been displaced, millions of children are facing hunger.

Yet global attention is focused elsewhere, mostly on Gaza, which has become the darling cause of the left. Image
Jul 28 9 tweets 4 min read
For nearly 2 years, students across the world have been chanting slogans about "globalizing the Intifada."

Most of them have no idea about what an Intifada is.

A thread on the first and second intifadas and the detrimental affect they had on Israeli-Palestinian relations 🧵 Image The First Intifada began on Dec. 8th, 1987 after an Israeli truck driver crashed into a a couple of cars in Gaza, killing 4 Palestinians.

Protests erupted, with tone-throwing, strikes, and other violence killing 1000 Palestinians & 160 Israelis by 1993 (2/?) Image
Jul 27 11 tweets 4 min read
The 1960s shaped Palestinian militancy.

A thread on how the 6-Day War was followed by never ending Palestinian attacks on Israel 🧵 (1/?) Image Encouraged by Arab leaders who told them they could soon return together with “the victorious Arab armies” many Palestinians left their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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Jul 20 15 tweets 6 min read
A thread on how Saudi Arabia distanced itself from Hamas and the Islamic Regime in Iran became its primary backer, despite the often strained relations between Shia and Sunni Muslims in the Middle East 🧵

(1/?) Image Since Hamas won the election in 2006 & seized Gaza in 2007 in a civil war against Fatah, its funding has shifted from Arab states to the Islamic Regime in Iran.

Early on, Saudi Arabia backed Hamas but the Arab Spring in 2011 changed everything. By 2014, Iran had become Hamas' primary backer, giving $100M+/year

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Jul 18 15 tweets 5 min read
How Hamas was democratically elected, launched a civil war in Gaza, never held elections again and started a series of wars with Israel: A thread on the failures of Palestinian democracy 🧵

(1/?) Image In 2006, Hamas won the first Palestinian election (44%) securing 74 of 132 seats, defeating the rival terrorist group Fatah (41%)

The picture shows the Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh voting

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