Who is Dr Amal Saad?

Dr Amal Saad is a lecturer at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University.

According to her X profile, which has a following of over 35,000, she is a “Scholar of Hizballah and politics of Resistance Axis”.

So, what gets posted on this account?

In 2019, a post appeared on Dr Saad’s X account which read: “When you’re eager to call a legitimate and popular resistance like Hizbullah [sic] ‘terrorist’ but refer to the murder of Muslims by white supremacists a ‘terrible act’ rather than a ‘terrorist act’, that’s precisely the type of racism and Islamophobia that enables white terrorism.”

Hizballah is a proscribed antisemitic genocidal terror group.

On 8th October – one day after Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel in which some 1,200 people were murdered and 250 were taken hostage – Hizballah launched rockets from Lebanon into the world’s only Jewish state. According to Hizballah, this was purportedly done “in solidarity” with Gaza.

The same year, another post from her X account, also on the topic of Hizballah, read: “Absolutely shameful to equate with al-Qaeda affiliates, a legal and legitimate popular resistance movement that’s an integral part of the Lebanese state, which closely coordinates with the Lebanese army & security forces and represents a significant segment of the Lebanese people.”

In November last year, a post appeared on her X profile which described Israel – the world’s only Jewish state – as a “terrorist state”. It also compared Israel to ISIS.

According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour,” is an example of antisemitism.

Her account also reposted a post from another account which read: “Everyone in Gaza is a Holocaust survivor.”

According to the Definition, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of antisemitism.

Her account also reposted a post from another account which read: “Zionism is an absolute irredeemable evil that must be eradicated. To support this is to be a repugnant, depraved individual.”

According to our polling, 80% of British Jews consider themselves to be Zionists; only 6% do not.

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