Who is Mohammed Hijab?

Mohammed Hijab is a YouTuber, with over a million subscribers to his channel. He also has over 450,000 followers on X, more than 800,000 on Instagram and some 290,000 on TikTok.

So, what gets posted on these channels?

Only two days after Hamas carried out its attacks on 7th October 2023, a reply from Mr Hijab’s X account to a now-deleted post from another user read: ​​“‘This wouldn’t have happened’ if a racist regime didn’t decide to trap 2.2 million human beings in an open-air prison for sixteen years and then conduct five military operations affecting primarily civilians. But those talking points you would never mention because you [are] a coward.”

The barbaric attacks have been described as the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Just over a week after the attacks, another post on his X account read: “I don’t know why reasonable Westerners would go along with the ethno-supremacy bulls*** of the Zionist elites who think that one Jewish baby is worth a million babies from other races. Doing so makes you a slave, a weasel, a subjugate to a cause that isn’t yours.”

On 19th October this year, a post on his X account read: “To be honest, we Muslims need a dirty enemy like the Zionists so that we wake up from a 100 year sleep.”

According to our polling, eight in ten British Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. Only six percent do not.

Last month, a post on his X account read: “I’m sorry to say, but I think more Jews need to condemn the genocide in Palestine. Too many Jews support it.”

Recently, another post read: “Message to Zionist Jews: If you don’t want people to hate you, stop supporting a Holocaust.”Another post on his X account read: “Message to the Jewish community: Ignoring Palestine’s suffering while expecting sympathy for Hitler’s atrocities – compassion or narcissism?”

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