Moderate Arab Nations That Partner With America And Israel And Fight Terror Organizations In Their Neighborhood Were Shocked To See Flags And Slogans Of Terror Groups On Elite U.S. Campuses.
THIS PHOTO FROM A PRINCETON CAMPUS sent shockwaves through the Middle East media when it went viral a few days ago. It shows a pro-Palestine protest with a flag of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed international terror organization whose missiles on northern Israel after the October 7 terror attack led to the displacement of thousands of Israeli families. Hezbollah is listed as a terror organization by the U.S. Government.
Pro-Terror Media Outlets Linked To Iran celebrated these images and portrayed them as proof that the cause of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah is just and right. For example, the INNLB wire service based in Beirut, Lebanon, an outlet suspected of Iranian links, published this image with the comment, ‘American Universities Raise Hezbollah Flags While Arab States Are Divided,’ criticizing moderate Arabs who won’t support these terror groups. Another Lebanese outlet with dubious connections published this image under the title, ‘Hezbollah’s Flag is Waving At American Universities.’
ARABS AND MUSLIMS OPPOSED TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH SPEAK UP. Omar Abu Layla, a Syrian graduate of Harvard who founded a news platform that reported on Assad regime atrocities in Syria, mocked the protesters in an X post saying that protesters waving Hezbollah and Hamas flags should also raise the images of Assad and Iran’s Khamenei. Lebanese-Christian Jonathan Elkhoury posted saying that “Hezbollah waited 40 years [to be] whitewashed by liberal peace activists in the West,” adding, “Frightening that these are the next generation leaders.” Pakistani influencer Faran Jaffery wrote that this picture captures what the pro-Palestine protest is all about. “This photo really captures the essence of it, doesn’t it?”
THE U.A.E. FOREIGN MINISTER JOINS THE U.S. CAMPUS PROTEST DEBATE with the shortest comment possible: “I told you so.” This brief comment by Foreign Minister Abdullah packed a punch. We explain his post below:
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed was referring to a wakeup call he made seven years ago to the West on the dangers of tolerating lobbies sympathetic to terror causes in the Middle East. “There will come a day,” he said in the clip at an international conference in 2017, “that we will see far more radical extremists and terrorists coming out of Europe because of a lack of decision making, trying to be politically correct, or assuming that they know the Middle East or that they know Islam and they know the others far better than we do.” The X post by Sheikh Abdullah garnered 6.7 million views. The original post by the Visegrad24 account received over 68.4 million views.
A KEY ORGANIZER OF COLUMBIA PROTEST BLOCKED A SAUDI ACTIVIST WHO CRITICIZED THE PROTEST. Loay Alshareef, a Saudi social media influencer with 201.1K followers on X, visited Columbia University campus a few days before the anti-Israel protests and delivered a lecture on peace between Arabs and Jews and between Israel and its neighbors. He argued that Arabs and Israelis trying to make peace are the good guys while terror groups like Hamas are the bad guys. The result? The protest organizers apparently blocked him on social media. So the Saudi activist wrote an open letter to the organization known as the ‘Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine’ and accused it of not supporting Palestinians but supporting the “annihilation of Jews” and Israel. See the screenshot below. His post received 327.1K views.
ANOTHER GULF ARAB ACTIVIST ADDRESSED PROTESTERS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. Here is what Amjad Taha, who lives in the UAE and London, said in that open message:
A PRO-PALESTINE PROTEST TURNED INTO A PRO-HAMAS RALLY, IN LONDON despite assurances by protest leaders that they were only expressing support for Palestinians. London’s Metropolitan Police arrested three women who displayed images supporting Hamas at a pro-Palestine demonstration. They were found guilty of a terrorism offense following a police investigation.
IRANIAN ACTIVISTS CRITICIZE ANTI-ISRAEL CAMPUS PROTEST. Iranians opposed to the regime have been vocal on social media in their support for Israel after October 7. They are probably the largest group of Muslims coming out in support of Israelis against Hamas [see this clip of a large Iranian pro-Israel rally and check out posts with the hashtag: #IraniansStandWithIsrael].
Iranian activist Alica Le Bon posted this picture, below, of anti-Israel protesters from the University of Texas bowing in a line on the ground and criticized protesters for confusing a religion, Islam, with antisemitism. The image was published by Iran International, an opposition Iranian broadcaster that recently reported the arrest of two individuals in Texas caught sending money to Iran to support Iranian terror militias in the Middle East.
Another post by Iranian activist Alica Le Bon on X platform reminded a supporter of campus protest that not all similar protests on campuses end in good results since those in Iran in the 1970s brought the Khomeini terror regime into power, she wrote and posted an image of one of those Iranian campus protests.
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