Mohammed Alsayyed, included in our April 2017 report, still lists himself as an Assistant Head Teacher at UNRWA. In a post celebrating “Land Day,” Alsayyed glorifiedterror and violence. He has also posted content denying Israel’s right to exist and advocating terrorism.
The above post post included several images, three of which are enlarged below:
This post celebrates Land Day, an annual day protesting Israel’s alleged theft of Palestinian land. Mohammed Alsayyed’s takes the opportunity in this post to “confirm theidentity of the Palestinian land from Galilee to the Negev and from the River to the Sea,” meaning to advocate for the elimination of Israel.
This irredentism is further evident in the images, each of which include the number “27000,” a commonly understood reference to the 27,000 Square Kilometer area of the entirety of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River which includes the State of Israel. The clear implication is that Israel has no right to exist and the Jewish people have no right to self-determination in the State of Israel.
In addition to rejecting Israel’s right to exist, this post also glorifies violent terrorism. One image depicts a Palestinian with various symbols of terrorism, including an automatic weapon, fist raised holding a rock, and a burning tire. He is perched in exactly the same place where another image has the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, as if he is raising his weapons in defense of these Muslim holy sites. The caption reads: “The Intifada of the Land; The Land, from its river to its sea, is ours; 27,000 km.”
One image depicts these sites with a Palestinian flag being raised on an automatic weapon which serves as the flagpole and a similar caption. Another image in the series depicts Marwan Barghouti, an infamous Fatah terrorist, who is now serving five life sentences for masterminding three shooting attacks that killed five people. The image honors and reveres him with the caption “our prisoners are symbols of steadfastness.”
The images and text are each inflammatory in their own right. However, together they send a message that terrorism is justified in defense of Palestinian land, which includes the territory of the State of Israel.
This post below shares a number of images together with a quote from the Palestinian poet AbuSalma.22 The shared memory (from April 26, 2017) incites children to violence and terrorism by celebrating Palestinian knife and vehicular attacks for bringing back “Palestinian manhood.”
Our manhood was regained, through a knife in the hand of a girl.
Our story is back.
A knife stabs a settler,
A driver runs over the occupier.
The poem accompanying the image also yearns for “the times of the rifle” and for “stones, that long to be thrown.”
In addition, the below image contains a poem titled “This is our Palestine: From the River to the Sea” next to a map which appears to erase Israel. The poem reinforces the map claiming the entire territory as Palestine with lines:
From the River,
To the Sea,
From the Galilee,
To the Negev,
Palestine remains ours.
