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** From Pogrom to Propaganda: Hamas's Legacy and the Flotilla Fraud ([link removed])
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by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury • October 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The only just response to such barbarism [Hamas's October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel] must be unflinching: to rescue the hostages, hold the perpetrators and their sponsors to account, and refuse to normalize propaganda that celebrates murder and rape.
* Through its Al-Jazeera television empire, Qatar has promoted violent jihadist activity for Hamas and other Muslim Brotherhood-inspired terrorist groups. In addition, during the 2011 "Arab Spring," it virtually single-handedly whipped up unlimited jihadist propaganda to oust the Egyptian government.
* Continuing its terrorist financing, Qatar seems to be in the process of orchestrating yet another "Arab Spring", this time to oust the current government of Egypt.
* Qatar has already spent "nearly $100 billion" just in the US to gain influence there, according to MSNBC.
* For any future in a Gaza that actually hopes for real peace, it is crucial that Qatar be totally out of the picture.
* This combination -- of staged humanitarian pretenses fronting for violent networks -- is the new hybrid threat of our age.
* The Global Sumud Flotilla incident also highlights a deeper problem: selective outrage in which states and NGOs deploy the language of human rights in an unequal way.
* Democracies and civil-society actors should strip terrorists from their enablers, sanctuaries and financiers. Humanitarian language should not be weaponized to hide terrorism.
* For the hostage families still waiting, for the communities still grieving, and for the future of a rules-based international order, the only acceptable response to the October 7 atrocity is the application of justice, the dismantling of the terrorist networks that made it possible, and the refusal to tolerate any narrative that excuses or sanitizes savage, unprovoked cruelty.

Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

On October 7, 2023, an orgy of slaughter and sexual violence was unleashed on Israeli civilians. It was a measured, premeditated pogrom, broadcast with grotesque pride. The world watched as terrorists streamed their atrocities across social media, turning murder and rape into a live propaganda show.

That day was not merely another episode in the long, tragic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was an operational and moral rupture, a mass atrocity whose reverberations continue to shatter families. The event also exposes an international discourse in which moral clarity too often gives way to equivocation.

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