Who is Robert Carter?
According to 5Pillars, which describes itself as the largest English language Muslim news site in Europe, Australia and the Americas, Robert Carter is a ‘correspondent’. His X profile currently has a following of over 140,000.
So what gets posted on this account?
On the day of Hamas’ barbaric 7th October attacks in Israel, a post appeared on his X profile which read: “This latest round of violence proves once again that occupation cannot exist without bloodshed. As long as Israel occupies Palestine, the violence will continue.”
The attacks have been described as the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Some 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists and over 250 taken hostage.
On the same day, another post read: “Pleased with the outcome of the Palestinian retaliatory action against Israel. Palestinian leadership in Gaza performs sujud al shukr, the prostration thanking Allah.”
Another post on that day read: “According to some online videos, Palestinian resistance fighters have captured Israeli regime soldiers during the fighting. Some may have been captured alive…”
Less than a week after the attacks, a post appeared on his X profile which read: “FACT: Occupied people have the right to resist according to international law. It is the occupier that doesn’t have any rights to employ violence of any kind. The West defends this principle in Ukraine but not in Palestinian or Muslim lands. ASK YOURSELF WHY!”
On 12th October 2023, just days after the attack, a post appeared on his X profile which read: “Palestinians don’t have to invent fake news of massacred babies for the cameras. They have plenty of evidence but Western bulletins don’t care that much to show it.”
In February 2024, his X account appeared to share a post apparently by Dr Asif Munaf, who referred to Zionism as a “satanic cult”, and read: “Let’s rally around this hero and offer solidarity in any way we can insha’Allah.”
According to our polling, eight in ten British Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. Only six percent do not.
