This campaign is an intelligence driven, investigative process to expose Zohran as a Shia, Marxist Twelver who intends on deconstructing America’s Constitutional Judeo-Christian foundations and replace it with Islamic Doctrine and Shariah law.
Our campaign has two objectives that are connected and interrelated. First, the expose on Zohran and second, publicly supporting Israel on their final attack in Gaza City, against the HAMAS even as the world turns, more and more, against Israel.
Zohran will use this global anger to mobilize pro-HAMAS rallies all over New York City, enlisting more angry, young communist and jihadi voters.
Timmy Davis was probably America’s most enthusiastic supporter of Qatar during his 33 months as U.S. ambassador to the Middle Eastern country. “There is not anything that we do in the region that’s not enhanced by our relationship with Qatar,” Davis said in May at a conference in its capital city, Doha, just before leaving his diplomatic post. He didn’t say what he planned to do next.
The answer emerged last week—and it surprised even some people in Washington who are accustomed to the revolving door between government and the private sector. Irth Capital Management, an investment fund backed by Doha and whose co-founder and chairman is a member of Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family, said that Davis has joined the firm as president and partner.
Davis has no experience in finance or on Wall Street, according to his LinkedIn profile. What he does have is a track record of publicly supporting many of Qatar’s most controversial policies, such as their financial and diplomatic backing of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that killed 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023. Davis also said that Qatar should be the focal point through which Washington engages the Middle East.
“Timmy Davis may be a smart, accomplished, and charming guy, but the reason he’s being hired is not because of those qualities,” said Matt Boyse, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, who spent over 35 years in the Foreign Service. “It’s likely because he has connections and relationships and knowledge that is of value to the Qatari royal family.”
Government ethics experts interviewed by The Free Press also said it is fair to ask whether Davis’s activities as ambassador were in any way shaped by his impending business relationship with members of Qatar’s royal family.
“This is always a problem that we’re keeping a close eye on, in terms of undue foreign influence on U.S. policymaking,” said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group. “Oftentimes, the mechanism through which a foreign entity might try to wield that influence is by dangling, or winking and nodding, to employment posts like being in government.”
Davis didn’t respond to requests for comment made through Irth, which has offices in Doha and New York, according to its website. Irth reportedly was part of a takeover offer this year for pizza chain Papa John’s International.
The Al Thanis view Davis, a former U.S. Marine who spent over 15 years in State Department posts around the world, as an important part of their efforts to expand Qatar’s financial reach.
“Timmy’s experience and strategic vision will be a tremendous asset as we continue building a global investment platform from Doha to the world,” Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulla Al Thani, Irth’s co-founder and chairman, wrote on X about Davis’s hiring.
State Department ethics rules dictate that former high-level diplomatic officials, including ambassadors, are subject to at least a one-year cooling-off period after their work for the U.S. government ends. That cooling-off period prohibits them from working on behalf of foreign governments to influence U.S. policy. But the ban doesn’t include companies such as Irth. Hedtler-Gaudette said that Davis’s new job is an example of a “big loophole” in the ethics rule book that is easily exploited.
Qatar has spent almost $100 billion over the past two decades to influence U.S. schools, universities, media, Congress, and even the White House itself, an investigation by The Free Press revealed in May. President Donald Trump’s attorney general, FBI director, chief of staff, and special Middle East envoy had lobbying, consulting, and financial deals with Qatari entities shortly before their current jobs. Robert Menendez, the former Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and New Jersey senator, began serving an 11-year prison sentence in June for taking bribes from Egyptian and Qatari interests.
Patrick Theros, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar from 1995 to 1998, went on to become president of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council for 17 years. The group hosts events with Qatari officials, including Al Thani family members, and its managing director is part of the royal family. Theros also is strategic adviser for the Gulf International Forum, a research institute that received money from a Qatari-government-backed tourism center in Doha.
Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar from 2004 to 2007, was later founding chairman of the Qatar-America Institute, which was required to register as a foreign lobbying group under federal law. Untermeyer registered as a lobbyist in 2020 on behalf of the Embassy of Qatar, which paid him at least $15,000 a month to serve as an adviser, including by arranging trips for high-ranking Qatari officials and investments and donations from Qatari funds.
In 2022, Richard Olson, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying on behalf of Qatar, including by accepting payments of up to $20,000 a month just after leaving his post in Pakistan. Olson also failed to disclose an $18,000 first-class plane ticket and a stay at a luxury London hotel.
“Every country tries to do what it can to wield influence and shape U.S. policy to its benefit,” said Hedtler-Gaudette of the Project on Government Oversight. “If you’ve got the resources the Gulf countries have, you’re just able to do it at a different level.”
Scrutiny of Qatar has surged since The Free Press’s May investigation. Qatar’s gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet for use as Air Force One and then transfer to Trump’s presidential library deepened worries among Democrats and Republicans that the two countries are way too close for comfort.
Current and former U.S. officials told The Free Press that they believe Qatar could increase its lobbying and influence operations in Washington following Israel’s attack this month on Hamas’s political leadership in Doha. American and Middle East analysts had believed that the nearby Al Udeid Air Base—built and paid for by Qatar, and the Pentagon’s largest in the region—made Qatar essentially immune from such strikes. But the Israeli operation and an Iranian missile attack in June shattered that illusion.
Qatari and Trump administration officials have announced in recent days that they are discussing an enhanced security agreement that would further bind U.S. and Qatar military forces. The Israeli attack “expedites the need for a renewed strategic defense agreement between us and the United States,” said Majed al-Ansari, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman.
Every homeowner knows the frustration of pulling weeds only to watch them return weeks later, stronger than before. You can trim the leaves, spray the surface, even burn what’s visible, but until you dig deep and rip out the roots, the problem persists. For years, Americans have watched violent protests tear through their cities, wondering why the cycle never ends despite arrests and prosecutions of street-level agitators.
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University shook the nation to its core. It wasn’t just another protest that “got out of hand” – and let’s be honest, we’re all tired of that excuse anyway. It was targeted political violence, the kind we’re told doesn’t happen in America. Yet it follows a pattern we’ve seen escalate since 2020: Antifa riots, coordinated attacks on ICE facilities, “direct actions” that leave businesses destroyed and communities terrorized. Each incident is treated as isolated, spontaneous, organic. But what if they’re not? What if – and stick with me here – there’s actually a money trail?
Behind every sustained movement lies funding, organization, and protection. The street-level actors are just the visible weeds. The real question Americans should be asking isn’t who throws the Molotov cocktails, but who buys the bottles, who prints the propaganda, and who ensures the “protesters” walk free to strike again.
This week, the Trump administration decided to stop trimming leaves and start digging for roots. The Department of Justice has directed federal prosecutors across six major jurisdictions to investigate George Soros’ Open Society Foundations for potential racketeering, wire fraud, material support for terrorism, and arson charges. This isn’t political theater – it’s a serious criminal probe backed by a damning 95-page report showing that over $80 million has allegedly flowed from Soros’ network to groups the FBI defines as domestic terrorists.
From ‘The New York Times via NY Post’:
A senior Department of Justice official reportedly instructed half a dozen top federal prosecutors to probe a George Soros-founded liberal philanthropic arm for potentially funding “pro-terror groups.” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office told several US attorneys in a directive to begin looking into the viability of bringing possible arson, wire fraud, racketeering or material support for terrorism charges against entities linked to Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
Think about that number for a second. Eighty million dollars. That’s not pocket change or some rich guy’s hobby fund – that’s an operation. The scope is staggering. According to counterterrorism expert Ryan Mauro’s report, Open Society didn’t just fund peaceful protests that occasionally turned violent. They allegedly poured $23 million into seven groups that “directly assist domestic terrorism and criminality on U.S. soil,” including the Ruckus Society, which trained activists in “property destruction and sabotage” during the 2020 riots.
Another $50 million apparently went to organizations allegedly linked to foreign terrorist groups. The Movement for Black Lives, which received $18 million, co-authored a guide that “glorifies Hamas’s October 7 massacre” while instructing activists in using false IDs and economic disruption. Let me ask you – does that sound like “community organizing” to you?
These aren’t freedom fighters or civil rights champions. They’re allegedly part of what Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller calls “a vast domestic terror network” – organized cells conducting doxing campaigns, posting people’s addresses, and using messaging “designed to trigger or incite violence.” Yet for years, they’ve hidden behind the shield of “free speech” and “peaceful protest,” while their wealthy benefactors remained untouchable in their Manhattan penthouses and Swiss chalets.
Open Society’s response was predictable: they “unequivocally condemn terrorism” and claim these are “politically motivated attacks on civil society.” But here’s what kills me – notice what’s missing. Any denial of the specific funding allegations, any explanation for the money trails, any accountability for what their grant recipients actually did with those millions. When your defense is essentially “you can’t prosecute us for exercising free speech,” you’re admitting the speech happened while hoping nobody notices the buildings burning in the background. It’s like a mob lawyer crying about civil liberties while his client’s enemies keep disappearing.
This isn’t about silencing dissent or crushing political opposition. Americans have always respected genuine protest, even when we disagree with the message. But there’s a canyon-wide difference between holding a sign and holding a Molotov cocktail, between organizing voters and organizing violence. When “free speech” becomes a blank check for domestic terrorism, when “philanthropy” funds the destruction of American cities, when billionaires can allegedly orchestrate chaos while claiming charitable intentions, then the Constitution isn’t being upheld – it’s being weaponized against the very people it’s meant to protect.
For too long, the establishment told us these groups were grassroots, spontaneous, and protected. They insisted we were conspiracy theorists for following the money, extremists for demanding accountability, fascists for wanting our communities safe from organized violence. Now, finally, someone is pulling up the roots instead of just trimming the weeds. The question isn’t whether this investigation will find evidence – Mauro’s report already documented it. The question is whether America still has the courage to hold its oligarchs accountable when they allegedly fund the destruction of our Republic.
Look, this is bigger than George Soros – though I’ll admit, it’s satisfying to finally see his name in a DOJ memo. This is about whether we’re a nation of laws or a nation where billionaires can allegedly buy violence and call it charity. The garden is overrun, but for the first time in years, someone’s reaching for the root system. And when you pull the roots, the whole garden changes.
JERUSALEM — The Bible tells of two midwives who stood between a tyrant’s order and the future of a people. Pharaoh commanded that Jewish newborn boys be killed. The midwives refused. They feared God more than a human ruler. Their defiance preserved Jewish life and helped sustain the nation.
That lesson is not merely an ancient allegory. It is a lesson for our hour. Today, we are told to reject the annexation of Judea and Samaria. We are warned that doing so would be provocative, dangerous, and unnecessary. We are told that powerful friends will punish us if we proceed. We are told that peace depends on obedience to outside dictates.
This counsel echoes Pharaoh’s edict: obey the powerful and accept measures that diminish our people. It is bad counsel then. It is bad counsel now.
Some say the United States is indispensable. That is true. America is a vital ally and friend. But friendship is not the same as vassalage. Israel has often been a better friend to the United States than America has been to some of its allies. We have shared intelligence. We have stood in the line against common enemies. We have done more than our share to keep the region stable.
Ask yourselves a simple question. When President Trump urged Egypt and Jordan to take the Gazans, did those governments comply? They did not. Cairo and Amman both stood up to pressure and acted according to their own interests. They were hardly mighty powers. Yet they retained the courage to say no. If two nations of modest means could resist, why should Israel, whose history and security stakes are uniquely profound, be expected to bow?
The Palestinian Authority is no neutral partner. It pays stipends to convicted terrorists and, in many instances, promotes curricula that do not prepare future generations for peaceful coexistence. Public opinion in parts of the Palestinian territories has shown strong support for armed groups, not their disarmament. To recognise statehood unconditionally now is to reward a system that, in critical respects, sustains violence rather than rejects it.
There is a moral argument here as well as a strategic one. Israel’s primary obligation is to protect its citizens. That duty precedes the desires of distant capitals. Sovereignty over land that is central to Jewish history and to the country’s security cannot be treated as a bargaining chip to be handed away on the promise of distant reassurances.
Let us be clear about what standing firm does not mean. It does not mean closing the door on negotiated peace for its own sake. It does not mean rejecting genuine partners who renounce terror, embrace democracy, and seek coexistence. It does mean refusing to validate systems and leaders that have, repeatedly and publicly, rewarded murder and incitement.
Finally, there is a question of moral example. If two midwives in bondage could defy a tyrant to preserve their people, surely a sovereign Jewish state can find the courage to choose life and security over capitulation. If modest regional actors could defy the threats of a superpower, Israel can and must act with clarity and independence.
Who do we fear? A foreign leader’s threats or the judgment of history and conscience? The answer ought to be plain. Israel must act in the interest of its citizens and its future. That is not arrogance. That is a duty.
How dare Israel violate the international borders of Qatar by attacking Hamas terrorists inside of Qatar? That was essentially the question that Hillel Neuer had to contend with. Rather than just laugh it off for being such a ridiculous assertion, Hillel artfully pointed out that what Israel did was precisely the same thing as what the United States did when it knocked off Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Israel indeed did make a decision to violate the integrity of Qatar’s borders by flying in and bombing the location that it thought Hamas was hiding it’s leaders. There is no way that the United States was not aware of this going on. But the United States has a very deep interest in remaining cordial with Qatar, the location of one of it’s most strategic bases in the Middle East. So, it had to claim that it wasn’t happy with the bombing. But it sure understood Israel’s motive.Israel’s moral justification was no different than the moral justification of the United States sending in their special forces to swoop down and kill Bin Laden. If perpetrators of attacks such as 9-11 are not sent to a life in a different world, then they will simply continue along their path of terror.More than 80% of the Jewish Israeli population knows that there is nothing to talk about as far as the Jihadists that perpetrated the 10-7 attack. They need to be eradicated – all of them. Yes – all of them, even the ones wearing ties and hiding out in Qatar and managing the funneling of funds to the terrorists.
Without the funds, there are no weapons, no tunnels being dug, and Gaza becomes the next Cuba – a poor area that poses no threat to it’s neighbors.
But Israel should do more than impoverish Gaza. Israel should declare sovereignty on the entire Gaza area in order to make a crystal clear point. Once and for all, the Jihadists and their supporters, need to know that any location used as a platform for terror to attack Israel will be lost and annexed into the State of Israel. Any time they dig a tunnel they should know that they are digging the foundation for a high-rise building in a future Jewish city.
This is the kind of universal language that terrorists understand.
Qatar, a sponsor of Al Qaeda and Hamas, has bought up chunks of our political class like the old sheikhs used to buy out entire European department stores. The effects are all around us. What is amazing is how little we talk about it.
This story revealing that the Witkoff family was cashing in on Steve Witkoff’s baffling status as an international negotiator isn’t surprising. But it’s a New York Times story with a Qatari source which means that the only reason it exists is because Witkoff is Trump’s guy and because he wasn’t delivering what Qatar wanted.
As Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, conducted delicate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas this year, his son Alex was on another mission. He was quietly soliciting billions of dollars from some of the same governments whose representatives were involved in peace talks with his father.
Alex Witkoff pitched Qatar, a mediator in the Gaza talks and a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, on a planned investment fund focused on commercial real estate projects in the United States, according to a spokeswoman for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
He later wooed prospective investors by telling them that he had already secured pledges of billions of dollars from government-affiliated funds in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, according to people familiar with his pitches who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The real estate fund had the potential to yield hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for the Witkoff Group, which Steve Witkoff founded in 1997. He remains a partial owner of the company, after selling a portion of his stake this year.
No one “government-affiliated funds in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait” is talking except with the specific authorization of the rulers. Not unless they want to end up in prison or buried out in the desert.
So this is a hit job that the second paragraph already tells us comes out of Qatar. That doesn’t mean it’s not true. There’s a reason Witkoff Jr was at the Qatari real estate affair. (Ditto, there’s a reason why Tucker Carlson was pitching his viewers on the Saudi real estate fair.) Much like in the old Soviet Union, these Muslim countries seduce their useful idiots, offer promises of lucrative deals, and are then ready to burn them over it.
Now Qatar is burning or at least semi-burning Witkoff. Why? He’s not delivering the Hamas deal they want.
For now this is probably a warning. A full-court press will include stories in Al Jazeera, a hit by Tucker Carlson, who formerly promoted Witkoff, and a social media storm.
There’s a lesson here.
Qatar, the Saudis and the rest of the Jihad gang buy useful infidels by the dozen, but dispose of them when they don’t perform up to expectations.
“The spokeswoman for the Qatar Investment Authority, Melanie Dunn, confirmed that Alex Witkoff had pitched the sovereign wealth fund but said that after internal discussions it had decided not to buy in.”
The ‘internal discussions’ translate to bailing out Hamas. Witkoff either could not or hopefully would not deliver whatever Qatar wanted. Which is was an end to Israel’s assault on Hamas.
That is the real story here.
Qatar tried to corrupt the Trump administration. It should be treated that way.
In the fall of 2017, Mr. Allaham, whose Prime Grill restaurant in Midtown Manhattan was a popular venue for power lunches among New York’s observant Jews, prepared a memo for his Qatari bosses.
The memo, which The Times reviewed, described Steve Witkoff as a “confidant” and “unofficial adviser” to Mr. Trump and noted that “the president counts loyalty above all else.” Mr. Allaham added that because Mr. Witkoff is Jewish, a relationship with him would “provide credibility to others in the greater Jewish community.”
The memo suggested that the Qataris invest in Witkoff Group projects. “Real estate has long been an entree to a higher profile and domestic engagement for foreign investors,” Mr. Allaham wrote.
“We knew he needed the money,” Mr. Allaham said in an interview. He contacted a real estate lawyer whom they both knew and arranged for a sit-down. “It was an easy meeting to get.”
In late 2017 in a suite at the St. Regis, Steve Witkoff and Alex, who was being groomed to take over the family business, met with an entourage of Qataris led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad al-Thani, brother of the emir.
The men discussed the Park Lane and Mr. Trump. Steve Witkoff “described the president and described his long relationship with him,” recalled Mr. Allaham, who also attended the meeting. He said Mr. Witkoff made it clear that he had direct access to Mr. Trump. “We needed access to his friends,” Mr. Allaham said.
Two Jewish midwives, serving under pharaoh, defied his decree that they prevent the birth of sons to the Jewish people and kill them. Instead these two G-d fearing women defied pharaoh and that is exactly what Israel needs to do to any modern day pharaoh.
We are told to prevent the birth of the annexation of Judean Samaria to Israel which belongs to us.
We must defy this evil edict. Lest anyone think that disaster will come to Israel , let us remember that Trump declared that he will make Egypt and Jordan absorb the Gazans, that America gives them tons of money, and military assistance, and that they better listen, and what did Egypt and Jordan do instead?
They defied Trump. Egypt has not taken in any Gazans even with Trump’s threats. The same with Jordan. These two ‘nothing’ countries that don’t give much of anything to America had the courage to defy this pharaoh.
We, Israel, who give invaluable information and are a proven friend to the United States all the more so should be able to do what is right for its citizens and act like a sovereign country and not like a vassal state of America.
If two weak, defenseless women could defy pharaohs command, certainly Israel can stand up for itself and make its own decisions that will only bring blessing to us and the world.
Students have been told Gazans “deserved what they got” and a Sydney teacher was “forced out [of] his job” for wearing a traditional scarf in whatresearchers say are increasing instances of anti-Palestinian racism in schools across Australia.
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) released its first national register report on Friday to examine “the climate of fear, censorship, intimidation and punishment” experienced by students, teachers and members of the school community.
The report analysed the testimonies of 84 respondents over a four-month period between March and July 2024, including witness accounts and lived experiences from the Palestinian diaspora and allies.
It captured tensions in Australia in the months after October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its attack on Israel, prompting retaliation that escalated into war.
Families reported students were experiencing racial violence that went ignored by educators, including a Year 2 Victorian child told by a Jewish student they “can’t wait to help the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) go kill Palestinians”, and anotherPalestinian student “physically attacked” after speaking Arabic.
According to the report, a Palestinian teacher was also banned by a principal from wearing her grandmother’s keffiyeh after a complaint, a primary school teacher was called a “terrorist” for also wearing the cultural scarf, and a casual staff member said their shifts were cut after donning a pro-Palestinian badge.
APAN found some schools were disciplining students and teachers for discussing the situation in Gaza or displaying symbols of Palestinian solidarity.
The research analysed wider experiences of verbal and physical vilification in face-to-face interactions and social media posts.
Co-author of the report and anti-racist education academic, Ryan Al-Natour, said the recorded instances had taken a “profound” toll.
“There is a huge contradiction happening here, whereby educational institutions are boasting about cultural diversity within Australian education, but at the same time, silencing those who want to speak out against … the genocide currently happening right now,” Dr Al-Natour said.
Dr Al-Natour said anti-Palestinian racism in schools was becoming “widespread”. (Supplied)
Dr Al-Natour said the number of people who participated in the report was a “reflection of how many people actually knew about the register” rather than the total number of anti-Palestinian racism cases in Australian schools.
“What we can see is that [instances] … are becoming widespread and quite frequent across Australian educational institutions,” he said, based on what APAN in the year since the data was collected.
‘Embedded, subtle, covert little bits of racism’
Rumzi Hajaj from Sydney’s eastern suburbs said his primary school-aged child had experienced “covert” racism in the playground.
Mr Hajaj, whose grandparents survived the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, said he felt disheartened a teacher tapped the then-nine-year-old on the shoulder for having a Palestinian badge on their backpack.
“[The staff member] said, ‘Oh be careful walking around with those on your back, you might upset someone’,” he told the ABC.
Mr Hajaj said being told a cultural symbol was offensive was confusing to his child, who then chose not to wear Palestinian clothing for Harmony Day like they usually did.
“A small comment like that can have such a big effect on a child,”
he said.
“These embedded, subtle, covert little bits of racism, they’re designed to be seemingly innocuous, but on the other hand, they’re designed to have an effect.
“It’s a deliberate effort to tell Palestinian kids that they should suppress their identity, that they shouldn’t be proud of who they are.”
Dr Al-Natour, who is also Palestinian, said the experiences he had heard were “awfully familiar”.
“Unfortunately, anti-Palestinian racism is unbelievably prominent,” he said.
“Students and educators, they often reported that they were feeling extremely anxious, fearful, they were dehumanised, but they were also very, very exhausted.”
Students ‘hungry to know’ about world events
Sydney high school teacher Chris Breen said APAN’s findings were “just the tip of the iceberg”.
The spokesperson for Teachers and School Staff for Palestine said anti-Palestinian racism was “quite a widespread problem in New South Wales schools” — the state where more than half of the report’s responses came from.
Mr Breen said the activist group had also heard of a student reprimanded for drawing a Palestinian flag on their hand and about 10 schools that had banned Palestinian colours from Harmony Day.
“I’ve taught students who’ve got family who were killed in Gaza and the schools have set up nothing to help those students,” he said.
Mr Breen said students were “hungry to know” about the war, but were being told by educators “they’re not allowed to talk about it”, often interpreted as instructions trickled down from principals.
“It makes teachers nervous about what they say in the classroom,”
he said.
Call for ‘national coordinated approach’
Mr Breen would like to see more support for students and staff who “have suffered discrimination” in the school environment.
“I think they should look at compensation for lost earnings for teachers, in particular, who have lost work or had career progression halted,” he said.
Dr Al-Natour said APAN wanted educators and students to feel confident when wearing Palestinian symbols, in appropriate circumstances.
He called for education departments, internal policies and schooling authorities to develop strategies to combat not only racism but also how to approach the Israel-Gaza war.
“As students and educators, we do have the right to discuss current events,” he said.
“But unfortunately, there is a racist exception when it comes to approaching the topic of Palestine in schools.”
Race discrimination commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, Giridharan Sivaraman, said there needed to be a review into complaint-handling mechanisms in schools.
“We don’t have a national coordinated approach to tackling racism in high schools and primary schools,”
he said.
“We need to improve racial literacy of students and of teachers and of principals and of the departments that administer these schools.
“Without that, we will constantly be at the margins and not actually tackling racism at its source.”
The ABC reached out to Federal Education Minister Jason Clare for comment.
The Gaza war has dominated headlines, but it obscures a more enduring peril: the rise of Sunni and Shia radical Islamists and their convergence, bolstered by radical left movements.
Hamas embodies this convergence. Though rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood – a transnational Sunni organisation – Hamas enjoys the backing of Shia Iran, undermining the notion of an immutable Sunni-Shia enmity. Iran sponsors Hamas as one of their network of Shia militias, while Qatar, steeped in Brotherhood ideology, has become Hamas’s largest financial patron. The result is a movement at once Sunni and Shia, Islamist and radical leftist, united above all by hostility to the West.
Coupled in a ‘red-green alliance,’ Islamist groups – particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Qatar – together with radical leftist currents such as Marxists, communists and anarchists, have opportunistically mobilised in rallies. These factions and their followers have remained largely unchallenged by the mainstream media.
A Capital Research Center report, Marching Towards Violence, warns that, ‘the backbone of the current protest movement is Hamas.’ The campaign is steadily becoming more violent and criminal, often demanding America’s destruction. More than 150 ‘pro-terrorist’ groups have joined rallies in the United States. Many support Hamas while also endorsing Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis, and Shia militias in Iraq and Syria – all part of Iran’s proxy network. Directed by the Revolutionary Guard and its extraterritorial Quds Force, Iran’s proxies have caused havoc regionally and worldwide, including antisemitic terror attacks in Australia.
At the forefront of the protests is Students for Justice in Palestine, boasting more than 250 campus chapters across the US and Canada. In Britain, Palestine Action became notorious after members broke into RAF Brize Norton, sprayed red paint into the engines of military aircraft and damaged infrastructure, causing more than £30 million in damage. The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the UK.
A network of organisations is affiliated with the Brotherhood’s ideology. These include the Muslim Students Association and SJP, with links to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair). The largest Muslim advocacy organisation in the US, Cair grew out of the Islamic Association for Palestine, itself grounded in the Muslim Brotherhood. Cair has been proscribed by the UAE.
Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Brotherhood seeks to revive a global caliphate to unify Muslims under sharia law. Al-Banna argued that the greatest threat to Islamic society came from contact with Western culture and secularism. Initially, he emphasised grassroots preaching and welfare work, but later some ideologues embraced violence.
Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood’s leading thinker in the 1960s, maintained that secular, decadent Muslim governments and societies must be destroyed by offensive jihad. His writings inspired al-Qaeda and Isis.
The late Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Brotherhood’s most prominent modern scholars, predicted that Islam would triumph over the West ‘not by the sword but by preaching and ideology.’
Today, despite being banned in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Russia, the Muslim Brotherhood remains the most influential Islamist movement. Funded by Qatar and Erdogan’s Türkiye, it maintains worldwide reach through political parties, NGOs, charities, universities and student networks. Qatar was the largest foreign donor to US universities well before the Gaza war, and its state media platform, Al Jazeera, has become a global megaphone for Brotherhood ideology.
At first glance, Islamist radicals and Marxists are ideological opposites. One seeks theocracy, the other atheism. Yet they share hostility to liberal democracy, free markets and Western culture. This explains why Western activists march beside groups that call for sharia punishments, oppression of women, persecution of minorities and execution of dissidents and gay people.
There is little outrage on campuses when Iran jails women for refusing the veil, or when Hamas glorifies suicide bombings. Universities enriched by Qatari money rarely teach the triumphalist and supersessionist doctrines of Islamist thought, or the dhimma laws that imposed second-class status and special taxes on Christians and Jews. Nor do they revisit the history of Nazi and Soviet influence on Islamist ideology, or the imperialist expansion of Iran’s revolution, rooted in jihad, clerical rule, and the aspiration for an apocalypse to induce the return of the Hidden Imam.
At the same time, the massacres by Hamas in Israel on 7 October 2023, and by other jihadis in Syria against Druze, Christians and Alawites, and across Africa, are ignored or erased.
Some on the left even celebrate the current moment as the culmination of their ‘long march through the institutions,’ begun against the West in the 1960s, and now bearing fruit with the prospect of creating a new world order.
Hamas, meanwhile, has reaped symbolic victories. Recent pledges by Western governments to recognise a Palestinian state are presented as triumphs for ‘resistance’. Each diplomatic gain strengthens its brand, encourages recruitment, and could elevate Hamas to being the pre-eminent jihadist organisation. Terror, instead of being punished, appears rewarded.
Western governments have too often chosen appeasement over confrontation. Instead of strengthening moderate Muslims at home and abroad, they empower extremists. Such weakness emboldens radicals to press for concessions and increases long-term risks of jihadist violence.
Affluent Western activists, intoxicated by virtue signalling, imagine themselves partners in a shared project. In reality, they are boosting the political strategies of extremists for whom Gaza is an expedient battleground. Essentially, Western activists are sleepwalking through Islamist tunnels towards an illusory vision of power their allies will never share.
They might remember Ayatollah Khomeini’s idealistic and devoted leftist allies, who were slaughtered in mass executions once they had helped him seize power and served their purpose.
The spectre of Islamist extremism already looms over Europe. Reports suggest police have lost control of some 900 no-go zones, where parallel societies enforce their own codes of conduct, and authorities are reluctant to confront the ideology behind them. Internationally, state-sponsored terrorism from Iran remains a scourge.
Both radical Sunni and Shia Islamist ideology and activism are spilling into the public square with formidable support from the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, Qatar, and the radical left.
Unless this nexus, which aims to reshape Western politics is firmly confronted, the threat could swell into a militant torrent – one that will not end with Gaza.
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