By Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)
South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool boasted last year that he owned a keffiyeh that had been signed by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Rasool posted on Facebook on September 23, 2023 — two weeks before the Hamas terror attacks of October 7:
Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, Iran, in July, in an operation for which Israel has taken credit. Raid Salah is not the “leader” of “Palestinians” in Israel, but rather the leader of a radical Islamist movement that has been banned.
The Middle East Forum documented the history of Rasool’s flirtations with extremist Islamic groups. He is known as a moderate in the context of South African politics, but has courted the support of radicals who want to destroy Israel.
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