Guardian's Ahmed Moor shills for another antisemitic terror group

The Houthis, an Iranian-backed Islamist extremist group whose slogan includes “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews“, has, in addition to having fired hundreds of missiles at Israel since Oct. 2023, been attacking and highjacking mostly Western (non-Israeli affiliated) merchant and naval vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting traffic in one of the world’s vital commercial waterways.

This is how Guardian contributor Ahmed Moor , a Palestinian-American writer who opposes Israel’s continued existence within any borders, frames the group in his May 12 piece at the outlet:

And then there’s Yemen, where the Houthi government has harassed Israeli-affiliated boats in response to the genocide. The catastrophic [US] effort to bomb the Yemenis into submission, again, an extension of Joe Biden’s Israel policy, was preceded with bluster.

Moor’s sympathy for Houthi terrorists comes as no surprise, given that he wrote the following last year in a Guardian column, effectively endorsing terrorist attacks by Hamas:

It remains the case that many Palestinians view the Islamist parties Hamas and Islamic Jihad as among the only actors committed to their right to self-defense. That right is self-evident to the Palestinians and their supporters, no matter their views of either party. As Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid peace conference, told me: “People under occupation have the right to defend themselves. It is enshrined under international law.”

Hamas’s assertion of Palestine’s right to self defense – in defiance of Israel, the United States, Britain and Germany – also acts as one of the few points of leverage available to the Palestinians after decades of a failed “peace process”.

That wasn’t one-off for Moor. On October 21st, 2023, he wrote this in the Guardian on his emotional response to the Oct. 7th mass murder, rape, torture and mutilation of men, women and children in southern Israel:

I experienced a commingled set of feelings. You can’t, as a Palestinian, as somebody of conscience, observe that bulldozer breaking through that wall and not feel a sense that “the natives have broken free – good for them”. At the same time, I had a deep sense of foreboding [about Israel’s likely response].

As we’ve been documenting for the past nineteen months, the Guardian’s coverage and commentary since the Oct. 7th massacre has been effectively pro-Hamas. In their obsessive vilification of Israel, and defense of morally indefensible antisemitic extremist groups, the outlet continues to fuel anti-Jewish hatred in the UK.