This week 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. #Kennedy, Jr. added three more states to his quest to get on the ballot across America: California, Ohio, and my home state of Oklahoma.
Kennedy’s electors filed the paperwork Thursday at the Oklahoma State Capitol, and paid a $35,000 fee to achieve ballot access.
The Kennedy campaign has launched a robust ballot access plan to ensure the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
“We have the field teams, volunteers, legal teams, paid circulators, supporters, and strategists ready to get the job done,” said Stefanie Spear, campaign press secretary. “We are exceeding all our ballot access benchmarks and will announce new states each week.”
It was a special pleasure for me to see Mr. Kennedy get on the ballot in my state.
I started working to help get him there 17 years ago, when I participated in a Draft Kennedy campaign in 2007, asking him to seek the nation’s highest office.
With Bobby Kennedy at the University of Oklahoma, April 18, 2008
16 years ago I tried to convince @RobertKennedyJr to run for president. (This photo was taken at my alma mater, the University of #Oklahoma in April 2008.)
DISCLOSURE: I have endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president and am a volunteer recruiter on the Kennedy24 campaign. Join me at http://Kennedy24.com/LoriSpencer.
Episode 36 of “Strange Bedfellows” takes you to #Jerusalem, where we speak with Avi Abelow, movie producer and advocate for #Israel, the place he now calls home.
Avi served in the Israel Defense Forces and has a unique perspective on the #Gaza war that we don’t often hear in the Western media.
Tonight you’ll hear what is really going on, beyond the headlines, with Israel and the Jewish people.
Despite the demonization of Israel’s war on social media, Avi says “we are the good guys!”
This interview will challenge everything you know (or think you know) about the war.
We will discuss the #IDF’s invasion of #Rafah, the history behind the war, and why Avi says Israel has no choice but to fight until victory and smash #Hamas.
He will also share his thoughts on the pro-#Palestine protests on American college campuses — including his alma mater, #ColumbiaUniversity, as well as rising #antisemitism against #Jews around the world.
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Avi Abelow is a proud Jew, born and raised in New York City. He is now “living the Jewish dream in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.” He’s the host of “The Pulse of Israel” podcast, and CEO of 12 Tribes Film Foundation.
We are pleased to have Avi with us tonight, live from Jerusalem, to give you the true pulse of Israel.
A fascinating conversation is always guaranteed on “Strange Bedfellows.”
Join us tonight from 9-11 P.M. Eastern on the Maverick News Network.
On Episode 33 of “Strange Bedfellows” I reported on the mysterious disappearance of my friend Russell “Texas” Bentley, who vanished from #Donetsk on April 8th.
After 20 days of speculation as to whether Russell was dead or alive, it has now been confirmed by his wife Lyudmila that he was indeed murdered.
The 64 year-old Bentley, an American citizen, left his #Austin, #Texas home in 2014 to fight for #Russia in the #Donbass region of #Ukraine. He joined the armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic and served numerous combat missions. After aging out of military service, Russell worked as a reporter for #Sputnik television news.
On the day he disappeared, Russell was on his way to investigate the scene of a Ukrainian shelling in his capacity as a journalist. He never returned.
His white Niva car was later found burned and blown up at the brick factory in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, almost at the front line. Inside were Russell’s remains.
His body was incinerated. Collected fragments were taken for DNA analysis to make a positive identification.
After days of being stonewalled by local authorities, Russell’s widow Lyudmila released a video statement in which she made a desperate appeal directly to Russian president Vladimir #Putin for help.
After Lyudmila’s video appeal to the president, “the matter was taken up at the top” by Moscow military authorities, who quickly arrested members from the 5th Tank Brigade of the Russian Federation.
The still-unnamed alleged killers were said in a statement posted April 28th by Lyudmila on Russell’s official Telegram channel to be “werewolf extortionists.” (“Werewolves” are soldiers with loyalties to Ukraine inside the Russian armed forces.)
The soldiers were apparently intending to rob Russell Bentley, thinking him a wealthy American, before killing him and attempting to dispose of his body.
A criminal investigation has been opened into Bentley’s violent and mysterious death. What we now know provides more questions than answers.
On this edition of Maverick News we have a new interview with Russell’s widow Lyudmila and her attorney with the latest details on the case.
Protesters clash with police on the UCLA campus, Los Angeles
2024 Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has been strangely silent the past few weeks about the #antisemitic, pro-#Hamas protests happening on college campuses.
Although #RFKJr has been asked about it in recent interviews, and answers briefly in a lawyerly manner about the difference between demonstrations on public vs. private property, he has otherwise completely avoided talking about the issue.
While every other candidate in the presidential race issued statements on this national crisis immediately, Kennedy waited nearly three weeks before speaking up.
Kennedy finally posted a tweet about the campus unrest Saturday outlining what he would do as president to ensure fairness to all students on campus, but said nothing about what he would do to stop the lawlessness and violence we are witnessing on campuses across America.
American universities can be part of the solution in the Middle East. We should welcome protest, yes — but also foster debate and dialogue to reach common ground. We should be producing leaders and innovations to help build a new, peaceful future for the region.
Instead, we see…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 5, 2024
Kennedy has proclaimed himself to be strongly pro-Israel, and supports #Israel’s war against Hamas. At the same time, he says he is “very pro-Palestinian,” and supports the two-state solution that would establish #Palestine as an independent sovereign nation.
Is Kennedy doing the same “both sides” dance as President #Biden, afraid of losing progressive Democrats and Gen Z voters? Are his campaign advisers telling Bobby to tone down his pro-Israel rhetoric in order to appease the woke mob?
At a time when #antisemitism escalating to frightening levels, #Jews are being assaulted in the streets, and some protesters are issuing calls to “kill all the Zionists,” it feels like open season on Jews.
The exclusion of Jewish “#Zionists” from campuses, establishment of “Zionist-free zones,” Jewish students not being allowed to attend class, acts of harassment, intimidation and violence, hate speech and symbols of Jew hatred on campus property are all flagrant violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — which is not being enforced by campus administrators, state governments, or the federal government.
On this edition of Maverick News we ask why President #Biden isn’t doing what President John F. #Kennedy did: send in the National Guard to protect the rights of ALL students, stop the violence, enforce the law of the land, and restore order on campus.
The Kennedy legacy is civil rights. It is time for #RFK to pick up the mantle of #JFK and his father, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on this divisive issue that is tearing our nation apart, and undoing 60 years of racial progress started by his ancestors.
His uncle Jack’s campaign slogans during the 1960 were “a time for greatness,” and “leadership for the 60s.” Can his nephew meet that high standard now? Because this is a time for greatness, not timidity. We need moral clarity and leadership for the 20s, right now.
Now is the time for Kennedy to shine; to lead; to do something bold.
I’ll tell you what that is tonight on Maverick News. Join us at 9 PM Eastern.
Join us tonight on “Strange Bedfellows” for an important conversation about what’s wrong in black America, and most importantly, how we as a country can heal that self-inflicted wound.
Our guest is filmmaker Kenneth Jefferson, whose new documentary “Fatal Error” has been called “the most profound film on the internet” by Reelblack One.
“Fatal Error” is a short documentary that focuses on a major cultural issue within the black community that many are aware of but have either ignored or have never truly thought about.
This fatal error has led to the destruction of the black community from within.
How? By glorifying “pimp and ho” culture, gang affiliation, violent role models, gangsta rap, drug use and trafficking, and a life of crime.
Jefferson, director of “Fatal Error” believes that if this cultural issue is resolved, that it will trigger a mass awakening in the black community that will have major effects in the United States and the world as a whole.
“Fatal Error” is the first part of a multitiered plan meant to influence a radical cultural shift that the filmmaker believes is on par with other ideological revolutions such as Martin Luther’s 95 Theses or The Enlightenment.
Kenneth Jefferson is a middle school teacher and social activist who made “Fatal Error” as a labor of love, in hopes of saving Black America from itself — before it’s too late.
In an opinion article published by The New York Post Thursday, Douglas Murray wrote:
“This one is for the morons.
For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses.
The automatons whose new radical-chic uniform is an Arab keffiyeh.
Specifically to the ones who have decided to chant for “Intifada” and unveil a vast banner down the side of Hamilton Hall at #Columbia this week.
“Intifada,” the banner said, in huge letters as the mob below shrieked approval.
Most of these students weren’t born when the Palestinians last had an “Intifada.”
Murray’s article went on to describe just a few of the terror attacks upon #Israel that happened during the second #Intifada, in a desperate attempt to give America’s youth a quick education in recent history that they’re not old enough to have any firsthand memory of, and that obviously wasn’t taught to them at their Ivy League schools.
But will the message reach them? Will facts convince them at this point? They’ve gone down a rabbit hole of #propaganda so deep, and been so thoroughly indoctrinated by their professors, it may be impossible to deprogram them with any amount of brain bleach.
The anti-Zionist hatred they’ve learned from their #Marxist theory professor is reinforced daily by their favorite online influencers: Richard Medhurst, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Col. Douglas MacGregor, George Galloway, Candace Owens…the list goes on.
Some of these well-known political commentators present themselves as journalists, but they’re not. They’re propagandists, doing public relations work for Hamas, Qatar, and Iran as soldiers on the front lines of the information war — and right now, Hamas is winning.
On this episode of Maverick News, Rick and I discuss the escalating intimidation and violence against #Jews at the #Gaza Solidarity Encampments across America, the social media propagandists who are stoking this fire of #antisemitism and #hate, and who’s funding them.
From #CUNY to #UCLA to my old Alma Mater, the University of Texas at #Austin, thousands of young college students are being hoodwinked by #Hamas, through their paid mouthpieces.
We’ll show you some pretty shocking videos from the riots on university campuses this week, and examples of the #antisemitic propaganda that our kids consume on the regular.
At Maverick News, we don’t do propaganda for foreign enemies. We report the news, and tell you the truth as best we can discern it — because truth without integrity is worth nothing.
This episode opens with an editorial from Maverick News CEO Rick Walker, then I join the program to add my perspective. It’s an important conversation between two veteran journalists you won’t want to miss. Please join us tonight at 8:30 Eastern.
Protesters decorated a statue of President George Washington with Palestinian flags, stickers, keffiyehs, and signs at the university bearing his name in Washington, D.C.
As students protesting the #Israel-#Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters.
With the death toll mounting in the war in #Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding that schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the #protests have veered into #antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.
Early today police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston while several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance. Massachusetts State Police said about 102 protesters who refused to disperse were arrested and will be charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct.
The school said in a statement that the demonstration, which began two days ago, had become “infiltrated by professional organizers” with no affiliation to the school and antisemitic slurs, including “kill the #Jews,” had been used.
“We cannot tolerate this kind of hate on our campus,” the statement posted on the social media platform X said.
The University of Pennsylvania took similar action Friday when interim President J. Larry Jameson called for an encampment of protesters on the west Philadelphia campus to be disbanded, saying it violates the university’s facilities policies, though about 40 tents remained in place Saturday morning.
The “harassing and intimidating comments and actions” by some protesters violate the school’s open expression guidelines as well as state and federal law, Jameson said, and vandalism of a statue with antisemitic graffiti was “especially reprehensible and will be investigated as a hate crime.”
At Columbia University, where protesters have inspired pro-#Palestine demonstrations across the country, negotiations continued with the student encampment.
The university’s senate passed a resolution Friday that created a task force to examine the administration’s leadership, which last week called in police in an attempt to clear the protest, resulting in scuffles and more than 100 arrests.
Though the university has repeatedly set and then pushed back deadlines for the removal of the encampment, the school sent an email to students Friday night saying that bringing back police “at this time” would be counterproductive.
Also Friday, Columbia student protester Khymani James walked back comments made in an online video in January that recently received new attention. James said in the video that “#Zionists don’t deserve to live” and people “should be grateful” James wasn’t killing them.
James, who served as a spokesperson for the pro-Palestinian encampment as a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, was banned from campus Friday, according to a Columbia spokesperson.
Protest organizers said James’ comments didn’t reflect their values. They declined to describe James’ level of involvement with the demonstration.
But the tensions pile pressure on school officials, who are already scrambling to resolve the protests as May graduation ceremonies near.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, gave protesters who have barricaded themselves inside a building since Monday until 5 p.m. Friday to leave and “not be immediately arrested.” The deadline came and went. Only some of the protesters left; others doubled down. After protesters rebuffed police earlier in the week, the campus was closed for the rest of the semester.
In Colorado, police swept through an encampment Friday at Denver’s Auraria Campus, which hosts three universities and colleges, arresting about 40 protesters on trespassing charges.
In France, students at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, which counts President Emmanuel Macron among its many famous alumni, students blocked access to a campus building and classes went online as the wave of protests reached overseas.
Tonight on “Strange Bedfellows” we welcome back Na’omi Allen in South Africa, history blogger and proud Zionist, who argues that Israel’s war against Hamas is justified and that the protests erupting at college campuses worldwide are celebrations of antisemitism.
Last time Na’omi was with us on Episode 28, she predicted that “a second #Holocaust” is coming, and that “it will start in New York City.”
Currently #NYC has four large anti-Israel campus protests in full swing — more than any other city in the United States. Na’omi will explain why she thinks this is a dangerous trend.
Also joining us is Kevin Michelizzi, our Maverick News correspondent in #Crimea, #Russia, to discuss the “other war” in his neck of the woods, and the $60 billion aid package passed by the U.S. Congress this week, and how this influx of money and weapons will affect the ongoing war in #Ukraine.
Tonight’s international panel will include four countries (possibly five, depending on whether you view Crimea as Russia or Ukraine!):
Rick Walker in Canada
Lori Spencer in the United States
Kevin Michelizzi in Crimea
Na’omi Allen in South Africa
A fascinating conversation is always guaranteed on “Strange Bedfellows.” Join us LIVE from 9-11 P.M. Eastern.
The trial of Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert F. #Kennedy concluded 55 years ago this week after four months of courtroom drama.
The jury found Sirhan guilty of first degree murder for the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and attempted murder of five other innocent bystanders wounded by his barrage of bullets at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
The seven men and five women, who deliberated 16 hours and 42 minutes before reaching their verdict, found the young Palestinian was mentally capable of mature premeditation before shooting down the senator on June 5, 1968.
As the verdict was announced Sirhan, who had been nervously chewing at his fingers, stared straight ahead and showed no emotion.
After a one-day recess, the same jurors heard arguments as to whether Sirhan’s fate should be life in prison or a sentence to the gas chamber at San Quentin. The penalty phase lasted only a few days in contrast to the 15-week trial.
The prosecution did not seek the death penalty but told the jurors either sentence would be just. The jury’s ultimate unanimous verdict was death in the gas chamber for Sirhan. (The sentence was commuted to life in prison a few years later when California abolished the death penalty.)
As part of my ongoing investigative series “Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?” marking the 55th anniversary of Sirhan’s trial, I recently spoke to #JFK/#RFK assassination historian James DiEugenio about the evidence in the case, which Jim believes points to a #conspiracy.
In this highlight from our interview, we dive into the autopsy and ballistics evidence presented at trial. In Sirhan’s defense, DiEugenio argues that it was impossible for Sirhan’s bullets to have hit and killed Senator Kennedy.
Jim DiEugenio is editor in chief at KennedysAndKing.com, author of numerous books on the assassinations of the 1960s,and wrote the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s “JFK Revisited” documentary series.
Don’t miss this important discussion! Premiers tonight at 9 PM Eastern.
My friend and fellow Austinite Russell “Texas” Bentley has been missing since April 8. Despite rumors and speculation about his mysterious disappearance, Russell’s fate is still a mystery.
On the day he went missing, Russell and his wife Lyudmila had been in line at a local government building in #Donetsk to deal with some administrative documents, when he went to go help civilians injured in a nearby attack by Ukrainian forces. But when his wife went looking for him she only found his car, with his baseball cap, glasses, and his phone, which was shattered.
On April 16th his wife wrote on Russell’s Telegram account that she had received “reliable and confirmed ironclad information” that her husband was kidnapped “and continues to be illegally detained by the tankers of the 5th Brigade of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.”
She pleaded with Russell’s friends and supporters to appeal urgently to the governments of the Donetsk People’s Republic and #Russia, the FSB, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs, to help her locate her husband, adding “perhaps, there is not much time.”
His wife posted again on Thursday, April 18th: “Today is the 10th day since Russell disappeared. To this day, I do not know his whereabouts,” she said.
On Friday, reports began to emerge that seemingly confirmed our worst fears.
Sputnik, who employed Russell as a war correspondent, released a statement written by Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russia Today TV, stating that Russell (call sign “Texas”) was dead.
Russell’s former combat unit, the Vostok battalion, and a local official in #Donetsk also confirmed his death yesterday, adding that their information came from Russell’s wife.
The U.S. State Department has not confirmed this information, however. In a statement Friday, a spokesperson said:
“We are aware of reports of a U.S. citizen missing in the Donetsk region in #Ukraine. Our ability to verify reports of incidents regarding U.S. citizens in Ukraine is extremely limited.”
The mystery deepened when Russell’s wife and some of his friends spoke out Saturday, saying that they could not — and would not — confirm that he was in fact deceased.
Our Maverick News correspondent in #Crimea, Kevin Michelizzi, is a personal friend of the Bentleys and told us he was furious about the premature reports of Russell’s demise, adding that most of what we’ve been told is #FakeNews.
Saturday afternoon Russell’s wife Lyudmila posted on Russell’s official Telegram channel that “I have not seen him alive, nor his body, nor his remains. That’s a fact. And yes, there is some insider information that is very not good.” She thanked “the Wagner group guys for finding out what happened, how that happened, who they were, how many of them there were and their motive…”
“I still hope for real operational professionalism and decency from all involved agencies,” she said.
Since leaving his #Austin, #Texas home ten years ago to volunteer for the Russian armed forces against what he called “the #Nazis in Ukraine,” Russell was willing to lay down his life for a cause he believed in: the struggle against #fascism.
Even though Russell had aged out of the armed forces a few years ago, he was still not afraid to put himself in dangerous situations; often running directly towards active combat zones to cover battles as a journalist, or to provide first aid to civilians injured by the constant shelling in Donetsk — as he did in the moments before his mysterious disappearance on April 8.
In an interview exactly one month before he vanished, Russell told journalist Patrick Henningsen on TNT Radio that Donetsk was swiftly becoming a hotzone of combat activity once again as NATO soldiers were infiltrating the area — which may provide some clues as to his violent kidnapping and perhaps, his murder.
At this point, it is probably safe to say we won’t be seeing our friend “the #Donbass Cowboy” again. Who killed Russell Bentley? Was it the Ukrainians, who had his name on their infamous kill list? Was it the #DPR, who reportedly suspected him of being a #NATO spy? Was it Pro-Ukrainian Russian “Werewolves” who had a personal score to settle? Or perhaps a shadowy NATO special forces unit who black-bagged him?
We may never know. All we do know for sure is that Russell “Texas” Bentley’s life — and his ultimate sacrifice — was not in vain. Those of us who knew and loved him will miss his war stories, his guitar picking, his wry wit, and his encyclopedic knowledge of history.
Although Russell and I were on opposite sides of the political spectrum (I’m a #libertarian; he was a #communist), we shared much in common: a deep love for our native Texas, our musical tastes, our #cannabis activism, and our mutual hatred of fascism.
Episode 33 of “Strange Bedfellows” is a tribute to my friend Russell. Since today is 4/20, the annual #marijuana holiday, I couldn’t think of a more appropriate time to bring you some selected highlights from my last interview with Russell on July 14, 2023. Here, he told us his fascinating life story, in his own words.
If you never had the pleasure of getting to know Russell “Texas” Bentley, maybe tonight’s show will make you wish you did. And if you did know “Tejas,” this incredible conversation will serve as a remembrance of the beautiful human being we have apparently lost to the horrors of war.
Please join us for this special edition of “Strange Bedfellows.”
Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a notorious Nazi collaborator in World War II, known as “the Fuhrer of Palestine.”
As the Führer hid in his bunker and prepared for his suicide, he penned his last political will and testament.
Adolf Hitler’s last written words were a plea to the world to continue to “resist mercilessly the poisoner of all nations, international Jewry,” a plea most thoroughly and systematically heeded by the Islamic Jihadists and one of their primary movements, Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, the Islamic Resistance Movement known as #Hamas.
To fully grasp the ideology that drives Hamas and the Palestinian liberation movement today, one must first understand the history that gave rise to it — and specifically, Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini, the tie that binds #Hitler to Hamas.
Haj Amin al-Husseini came to power through a British act of appeasement after he had been tried in absentia and found guilty of inciting riots in #Palestine in 1920; the riots arose in response to the first proposal for a two-state solution outlined by the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement of January 1919.
Attempting to calm the Arab population, British mandate governor Herbert Samuel appointed him Mufti of Jerusalem on 8 May 1921. Among the newly appointed Mufti’s first actions was a declaration of #jihad against the British and the #Jews.
In March 1933 he paid his first official visit to the new Nazi German General Consul Heinrich Wolff in Jerusalem. Once again wanted by the British for inciting the Arab Revolt of 1936 – 1939, al-Husseini fled Palestine for #Iraq.
After inciting an overthrow of the Iraqi government and murderous pogroms that resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of Jews, the Mufti found safe harbor in Berlin, where he was handsomely rewarded by the #Nazis with money, a lavish lifestyle, and armed guards. He was employed by Nazi Germany making propaganda radio broadcasts for the Arab world.
I’ve written several lengthy threads about the Grand Mufti on X (formerly Twitter), diving deep into the complex history of Nazi/Arab collaboration, such as this one:
Hitler’s support of German Jewish emigration to #Palestine in the 1930s was part of his broader efforts to complete the new racial order in Germany before the planned war on the USSR for Lebensraum. (“Living space”)
One change that did take place was the assumption of control…
As early as January 1941 al-Husseini was recruiting Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Waffen SS and in SS killing units. The largest of the Mufti’s Muslim killing units was the infamous 13th Handschar Division of 21,065 men.
As a result of his murderous actions in service to the Nazis, al-Husseini was charged with war crimes — yet, he managed to evade prosecution at #Nuremberg and flee, aided by British intelligence.
The Mufti and the Fuhrer: Al-Husseini meets with Hitler, November 1941
In June 1946 he turned up in Cairo, where, as noted above, the Muslim Brotherhood gave him a hero’s welcome.
That same year the Mufti took in his second cousin Yasser #Arafat as his protégé; he brought in a former Nazi commando officer to teach Arafat “the fine points of guerilla warfare.” Some scholars argue that “al-Husseini was himself most likely the true founder of the al-Fatah,… Arafat’s terror cell… the nucleus of the #PLO.”
This thread relies on OSS and CIA documents declassified 50 years after #WWII under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998, tracing the Grand Mufti’s activities after the war — which included terrorist bombings, the assassination of a King, and the funding of terror groups.
On Page 1 of Amin Al-Husseini’s CIA file is a 1944 OSS document.
You might be puzzled by the description of “Palestinian Aryan Germans” in the text.
😂 sounds pretty crazy, right? 🤷♀️
Hitler’s propaganda often conferred “honorary Aryan” status on their Arab collaborators. pic.twitter.com/06js4IzrEv
Hamas emerged immediately after the outbreak of the Palestinians’ First Intifada against Israel as a militant Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood on 9 December 1987.
The Movement was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his comrades Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi and Mahmoud al-Zahar. Yassin grew up in awe of Haj Amin al-Husseini. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1957 and in 1973 established the Islamic Congress in #Gaza to expand the influence of the Brotherhood; in 1978 he was among the founders of the Islamic University of #Gaza.
Yassin and his cohorts embraced the Nazis’ fundamental view that the #Jews are “the dirtiest and meanest of all races, defiling the most sanctified and honored spot on earth,” making “no distinctions between Jews, Zionists, and Israelis.”
As in all ideologies driven by Jew hatred, from Hitler to Hamas, where the Jew is the enemy, #Judaism is the enemy.
Nazi ideology is alive and well today in parts of the Arab world, and especially in Gaza, where Hamas rules (for now).
In this highlight from Episode 28 of “Strange Bedfellows” (with history blogger Na’omi Allen in South Africa), we give a brief history lesson of the Strangest Bedfellows of all time: the Nazis and the Arabs.
I’ll discuss with Na’omi the lasting influence of the Grand Mufti in radical Islamist movements like Hamas.
We’ll even show you the most popular chain of clothing stores in Gaza City today: “Hitler 1” and “Hitler 2”– where fashionable young Palestinian #fascists buy “Hitler Chic” apparel.
Join us for this important discussion at 9 P.M. Eastern tonight.
Lori Spencer 