Anti-Zionist

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas, May 9, 2006

Date
May 9, 2006
Name of Author
Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas
Body

In an interview with PBS Frontline:

“Hamas is going to destroy Israel? [laughs] Because we have a nuclear weapon and F-16 jets and Apache helicopters and because, all the time, we are killing Israelis this is policy that is not acceptable. We are [using] primitive weapons to defend ourselves, to push the Israelis outside our land. So I think the question should be answered by the Israelis: Who is going to destroy the other? The people who occupied our area in 1948, who reoccupied our area in 1956, the people who reoccupied our land and Arab land in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt in 1967, who went to Lebanon and killed thousands of people in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Who is going to destroy whom?” Frontline, “Extended Interviews Mahmoud Zahar,” PBS, May 9, 2006, https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/palestine503/interviews_zahar.html.

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Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas, May 9, 2006

Date
May 9, 2006
Name of Author
Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas
Body

<p><em>In an interview with PBS Frontline:</em></p>

<p>&ldquo;Hamas is going to destroy Israel?&nbsp;<em>[laughs]</em>&nbsp;Because we have a nuclear weapon and F-16 jets and Apache helicopters and because, all the time, we are killing Israelis this is policy that is not acceptable. We are [using] primitive weapons to defend ourselves, to push the Israelis outside our land. So I think the question should be answered by the Israelis: Who is going to destroy the other? The people who occupied our area in 1948, who reoccupied our area in 1956, the people who reoccupied our land and Arab land in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt in 1967, who went to Lebanon and killed thousands of people in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Who is going to destroy whom?&rdquo;<span class="footnote"> Frontline, &ldquo;Extended Interviews Mahmoud Zahar,&rdquo; PBS, May 9, 2006, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/palestine503/interviews_zahar.html">https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/palestine503/interviews_zahar.html</a>.</span></p>

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Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General, February 13, 2024

Date
Feb.13, 2024
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General
Body

“Hezbollah will not stop the border offensive before the end of the Zionist war on Gaza.” “Hezbollah leader vows to continue attacks on Israel until Gaza war ends,” Xinhua, February 14, 2024, https://english.news.cn/20240214/35f4749e77f444cda020210ac07fb7bc/c.html.

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Lucas Gage, June 25, 2025

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Date
June 25, 2024
Body

“‘The Alliance’ with these types of Muslims: Help us fight Zionism and free Palestine, and shut up while we openly shit on Whites, reinforce enemy buzzwords and anti-White narratives, push Open Society and multiculturalism. I don’t lie like you snakes. I called out what I saw.” (Tweet)“Lucas Gage,” Twitter post, June 25, 2024, 8:16 p.m., https://twitter.com/Lucas_Gage_/status/1805756977022222708.

Al-Qaeda General Command, May 28, 2024

Date
May 28, 2024
Body

Statement encouraging attacks against Israeli interests:

“We call on the youth of our nation to follow this blessed path…outpace them with the number of operations and the force of strikes and to fill the hearts of the children of Zion with terror in retaliation for the blood of our oppressed people in Gaza.”Joe Truzman, “Al-Qaeda’s general command lauds attacks against Jews, commends anti-Israel protests on Western campuses,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, May 28, 2024, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/28/al-qaedas-general-command-lauds-attacks-against-jews-commends-anti-israel-protests-on-western-campuses/.

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Ebrahim Raisi, April 22, 2024

Author
Date
April 22, 2024
Name of Author
Ebrahim Raisi
Body

Statement at a press conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a state visit to Pakistan:

“We respect the people and the government of Pakistan who are fed up with the oppression being committed against … the people of Gaza, and the genocide and the child-killing … by the Israeli Zionist regime with the support of the United States and other Western countries.”Ayaz Gul, “Iran and Pakistan urge Gaza cease-fire,” Voice of America, April 22, 2024, https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-s-president-arrives-in-pakistan-for-wide-ranging-talks/7579598.html.

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Ebrahim Raisi, Apr. 15, 2024

Author
Date
Apr. 15, 2024
Name of Author
Ebrahim Raisi
Body

Following an April 13 attack on Israel, during which Iran launched hundreds of rockets and drones:

The attack “taught a lesson to the Zionist enemy.”Benoit Faucon, “Iranian President Hails Attack as ‘Lesson’ for Israel,” Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2024, https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-iran-strikes-live-coverage/card/iranian-president-hails-attack-as-lesson-for-israel-BVxr8zGc765oyK1yFQnW.

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Ziad al-Nakhalah, April 13, 2024

Date
April 13, 2024
Name of Author
Ziad al-Nakhalah
Body

“We have entered the seventh month of the aggression of the Zionist regime, which has not achieved any of its goals, but is retreating day by day.” “US seeking to withdraw Israeli forces from Gaza after failing to achieve goals: Islamic Jihad,” Press TV, April 13, 2024, https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/13/723620/Palestine-Israel-Gaza-war-Islamic-Jihad-Ziyad-al-Nakhaleh-US-negotiation-withdraw-Israeli-troops.

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Hamas statement, April 13, 2024

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April 13, 2024
Name of Author
Hamas statement
Body

“We call upon the masses of our people and our heroic resistors, in the banks of Al-Ayyash, Abu Hindi, Tawalba and Al-Karmi, to rise up in the face of these plans, to escalate the revolutionary and resistance movement, to clash with the Zionist enemy and his criminal militias of extremist settlers, to confront these barbaric attacks, and to complete the image of heroic cohesion in the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, with Our people in the Gaza Strip and their brave resistance.”“Press statement,” Hamas – Online English Telegram Channel, April 13, 2024.

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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