'squad' Members 'decide To Lie And Twist Facts' About Israel's History, Says Prominent Arab Activist

Members of the "Squad" are undermining coexistence betwixt Arabs and Jews successful nan Middle East, Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad told Fox News Digital.

"Representatives of nan Squad are trying to harm nan coexistence and business that beryllium successful nan region betwixt Arabs and Jews," Haddad said. "I deliberation it was [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez herself who said she had nary thought astir nan geopolitics of this region—she’s right. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib cognize precisely what’s going connected here, but they determine to dishonesty and twist nan facts."

Haddad, nan CEO of Together Vouch for Each Other — an statement founded successful 2018 by young Israeli Arabs to span taste and belief divides — has emerged arsenic a salient sound successful Israel’s nationalist diplomacy efforts pursuing Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. 

Since nan attack, Jewish communities crossed nan United States and Europe person faced a sharp rise successful antisemitic incidents, pinch pro-Hamas demonstrations appearing connected assemblage campuses arsenic early arsenic October 8.

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From near to right, "Squad" members Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades | Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images | AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

"The first group is what I telephone nan useful idiots — group who person nary thought what’s going connected but joined because it felt for illustration nan cool point to do," Haddad said. "Then location are nan paid protesters. You spot nan aforesaid faces astatine different rallies holding different signs — sometimes it’s astir LGBTQ issues, sometimes it’s pro-Palestinian, sometimes it’s astir soul American problems."

"It’s ever nan aforesaid person, conscionable a different outfit and a different sign," he continued. "And nan 3rd group — nan astir dangerous—are nan extremists who’ve travel from nan Middle East. Those are nan ones we should beryllium astir concerned about."

Haddad traced nan emergence of extremist voices successful nan West to waves of migration and organization displacement from conflict zones successful nan Middle East. While nan mostly of Muslim immigrants fled persecution successful hunt of a amended life, he said, a vocal number brought pinch them nan ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, efficaciously holding their communities hostage.

An anti-Israel motion pinch nan building "from nan stream to nan oversea Palestine will beryllium free" astatine a protestation adjacent Tulane University successful New Orleans. The building has been criticized arsenic calling for nan demolition of Israel. (Credit: Ryan Zamos)

"When you person truthful galore immigrants each astir nan world, it’s capable for 10 aliases 20 percent of them to beryllium extremists — and suddenly, you’re dealing pinch millions of extremists," he said.

"Ostriches, erstwhile location is simply a threat and location is simply a problem, what they do is they instrumentality their caput successful nan soil reasoning nan problem will conscionable walk because cipher will announcement them," he added. "And this is what nan anemic governments are doing correct now, becoming for illustration an ostrich. The only problem is that nary 1 will skip them over, it will make it easier to chop their heads off."

Addressing accusations that Israel enforces an apartheid system betwixt Jews and Arabs, Haddad rejected nan comparison outright.

Israeli Arab activistic Yoseph Haddad takes "Squad" members to task complete their anti-Israel rhetoric. (Photo: Elliot Jacobs)

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"In existent apartheid, for illustration successful South Africa, everything was segregated — transportation, hospitals, courts, sports, moreover stepping connected nan sidewalks," Haddad said. "But if you really travel to Israel and spot life here, it’s nan complete other — 180 degrees different."

"Stop speaking from a spot of emotion — that’s precisely what The Squad is doing," he continued. "Start talking astir facts. Then you’ll recognize that anyone who concludes Israel is an apartheid authorities is an imbecile."

Protestors stitchery astatine nan gates of Columbia University, successful support of student protesters who barricaded themselves successful Hamilton Hall, contempt orders from assemblage officials to disband aliases look suspension, during nan ongoing conflict betwixt Israel and nan Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, successful New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. (REUTERS/David Dee Delgado)

He besides mentioned a run-in he had pinch a protester, who he refers to arsenic "the useful idiots."

They person nary hint … One time, I publication nan charter of Hamas to immoderate pro-Palestinian useful idiot, I publication it to them, and I said you work together to this, and they said no, no, nary I didn’t cognize that. And I said yes, but this is what you are supporting, and he had nan headband of Hamas connected his head. You understand that this is what you are supporting.

"He virtually took nan set disconnected aft that. Such useful idiots for illustration this you person a lot, not conscionable successful nan United States, you tin spot it successful Europe arsenic well."

Memorials astatine nan tract of nan Oct. 7 Hamas panic onslaught connected nan Supernova euphony show adjacent Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, connected Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

When asked what he believes nan Palestinians yet want, Haddad pointed to slogans often heard astatine anti-Israel and antisemitic protests, specified arsenic "From the stream to nan sea, Palestine will beryllium free" and "There is only 1 solution: Intifada revolution."

"The mostly of Palestinians do not want to unrecorded broadside by broadside pinch Israel," Haddad said. "So erstwhile group talk astir a two-state solution and mobility Israel’s commitment, I say: Don’t inquire nan Israelis — inquire nan Palestinians. You’ll beryllium shocked to find that galore of them aren’t consenting to judge it."

Haddad pointed retired that history tin beryllium approached successful aggregate ways — done belief texts for illustration nan Torah for Jews, nan Bible for Christians and nan Quran for Muslims. Even those who are atheists tin look to history books for grounds of nan deep-rooted relationship of nan Jewish group to nan onshore of Israel.

Haddad based on that nan Torah explicitly mentions nan beingness of Jews successful Israel, tracing their beingness backmost thousands of years. He besides highlighted nan Biblical reference to nan birthplace of Jesus successful Jewish Bethlehem, challenging nan conception that Palestinian Muslims person a humanities declare to nan onshore earlier nan Jews.

Haddad noted that while Jerusalem is ne'er mentioned successful nan Quran, nan word "sons of Israel" appears much than 43 times. He besides emphasized that nan sanction "Palestine" was imposed by nan Romans arsenic a reward for nan Bar Kokhba revolt.

Students and others show during a protestation extracurricular nan gates to nan Columbia University main field successful New York City connected April 21. (Reuters/Ryan Murphy)

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Haddad highlighted that successful 1947, Arabs had the opportunity to establish a Palestinian authorities done nan U.N. Partition Plan, which nan Jews accepted contempt receiving little onshore and less resources. However, nan Arabs rejected nan scheme and opted to costs war. When nan Jews emerged victorious, 156,000 Arabs remained wrong what became Israel. Sharing his individual relationship to this history, Haddad explained that his grandfather was 1 of those Arabs who stayed and yet became portion of nan Arab Israeli identity.

"It’s either you judge nan truth that Israel exists and is present to stay, aliases you proceed pinch this rhythm of bloodshed and decease that we are trying to escape," said Haddad. "But nan ones who will suffer nan astir are you, the Palestinians, whether successful nan West Bank aliases Gaza."

Several requests for remark sent to Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Omar were not returned.