Majed al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry and an adviser to the Qatari prime minister, praised Palestinian terrorism on social media prior to his appointment in 2022, it was revealed on Sunday.
Al-Ansari glorified Palestinian suicide bombings and rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilian population centers, according to social media posts uncovered by Israeli researcher Eitan Fischberger.
The posts date back to Al-Ansari’s tenure as head of the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies, an institution reportedly funded by the Qatari government that has provided training to the country’s general security services.
During the Israel Defense Force’s 2021 “Operation Guardian of the Walls” against the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Ansari voiced support for rocket attacks, writing on X, “Palestine emerges to remind this nation of its glory and the greatness of its message.” His post—published as PIJ launched hundreds of rockets toward Israel—included the hashtag #Tel_Aviv_is_burning.
During the war, which also sparked rioting by Arab Israelis, he tweeted: “Jerusalem, the interior [of Israel], the West Bank, Gaza. Decades of plans and projects meant to break them apart and isolate them are collapsing—they are emerging together with one voice against the occupier. This unity is what terrifies the enemy the most. Oh Allah, unite their word and guide their aim.”
In a 2021 blog post, Al-Ansari praised the Second Intifada, the Palestinian terrorist campaign against Israeli civilians that killed more than 1,130 people and wounded over 8,000 between 2000 and 2005.
“Then, years later, and with our growing awareness of the cause, the al-Aqsa Intifada broke out with its martyrdom operations and bloody confrontations, and the mechanisms of conflict evolved there into an organized guerrilla war that inflicted large losses on the enemy,” he wrote. “One of its results was the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, making it the first Palestinian land liberated from the occupier.”
Al-Ansari also lauded what he described as the evolution of Palestinian terrorist groups, from “resistance with stones and bare chests” to “the launching of 3,000 rockets in ten days toward the entity’s [Israel] cities.”
Al-Ansari’s blog was taken down on Sunday after Jewish Insider requested comment from the Qatari Embassy in Washington, which did not respond.
Qatar, which has hosted Hamas leadership and provided the group with hundreds of millions of dollars, played a role in mediating the release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian terror organization.
Earlier this year, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Affairs Minister Sa’oud bin Abd Al-Rahman Al Thani published and then quickly deleted a post on X saying: “We are all Hamas.”
The Qatari official also deleted a 2014 post he wrote during “Operation Protective Edge,” the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in which he urged Muslims in Jerusalem to “rise up” and “revolt.”
