Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf is funding Hamas, yet again

Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf, courtesy of the Scottish National Party (SNP), is sending £500,000 ($607,262.50) to Gaza. This money will be used to fund Hamas’ terrorist activities against Israel. I’ve already written about Humza’s sympathies with and ties to Hamas here. In 2015, £500,000 was also given to Hamas by the SNP when Humza was Scotland’s first minister for external affairs. Meanwhile, the chairman of the Glasgow Friends of Israel association has called for the Scottish government to be more “balanced on the war between Israel and Hamas.” Granted, the money is being sent via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), but we see what Hamas can do with aid and supplies from the UN or anyone else.

For example, just this week, we saw Palestinians ripping up water pipes in order to fire bombs into Israel. The EU funded this water system to the tune of 100 million euros, but now these pipes are “being repurposed as the main components of homemade rockets.” And in spite of the revelation about the water pipes, the EU Commission bizarrely stated on Monday that “no EU funding indirectly enables any terrorist organisation to carry out attacks against Israel.” But as we see, raw materials such as pipes or iron can be used by terrorists. Anything that isn’t food or clothing can be used “indirectly” by Hamas to suit its terrorist agenda.

One obvious way that aid money, including Humza’s £500,000, can be misused is by rebuilding any damaged or destroyed hospitals or schools. Even while the medical situation in Gaza, for its people, is in crisis, it is well-known that “Hamas hides weapons and soldiers within and near hospitals and health facilities, complicating its (Israel’s) military attacks.” Until Hamas and every single one of its supporters and devotees have been neutralised (killed, jailed, resettled elsewhere), every single penny sent to the region will always directly or indirectly enable terrorism. Rebuilding hospitals means giving terrorists a place to hide and store weapons. Rebuilding roads, or any infrastructure at all, gives jihadis an even terrain on which to travel as they carry out their atrocities, gives them accommodation from which to plot attacks, get shelter from the elements, and to network from. At the extreme end, sending food, medicine, and other forms of aid to the people of Palestine is “indirectly” funding terrorism since, as polls show, so many of them hate Jews and stand in support of Israel’s destruction. Anti-Semitism is being kept alive and nourished by foreign aid policies. In 2014, a survey conducted by the ADL showed that over 90% of people living in Gaza hold anti-Semitic views.

Studies have found that “in certain regimes, foreign aid can actually increase terrorist activity, as governments that benefit from counterterrorism assistance have an incentive to maintain a perpetual threat of terrorism to ensure funds continue to flow… Terrorist groups capitalize on the local population’s feelings of disenfranchisement, promising to empower those who join their organizations.” This puts me in mind of the “open-air prison” narrative of Gaza that the media feeds us daily. “Occupiers.” “Oppressors.” “Settlers.” “Colonisers.” “Ethnic cleansers.” All pejoratives for Jewish people. I’d also say that Hamas/Gaza/Palestine ensures that foreign aid funds continue to flow to them, not because they need counterterrorism assistance, but because they portray themselves as being perpetual victims, even while they are the stubborn aggressors. Almost 70% of Palestinians are opposed to coexisting peacefully, according to a survey conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research.

A Jerusalem Post report from 2021 stated that “the misuse of funds for Gaza is rampant. Foreign aid, it says, is “susceptible to mismanagement and diversion to terrorism.” The article continues: “Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s political leader in Gaza, rejected a UN proposal to finance the enclave’s reconstruction using a new monitoring mechanism to prevent terrorist activity… Sinwar turned down the proposal because he would be unable to use the cash as he saw fit.”

Just last year, Mohammed Halabi, head of the World Vision charity in Gaza, was found guilty of diverting $50 million in aid money to Hamas. He was found to have used “a sophisticated and systematic apparatus” to transfer 60% of the charity’s annual budget for Gaza to the militant group. He was alleged to have set up projects ostensibly for farmers, fishermen, the sick and people with disabilities as a cover to siphon off funds for Hamas…In addition, he was said to have imported materials, including thousands of tonnes of iron ore, under the guise of aid work – which were then passed to Hamas to build tunnels.” The last thing Hamas needs is money for which it is unaccountable.

“Nazi” is the favourite insult to hurl at “right-wing” people, and even at Jewish people themselves, but Humza Yousaf and the Scottish National Party are the true Nazis. Here in Scotland, we call them Nat-zis for short. Humza bemoans the alleged hatred and racism that Israelis supposedly direct towards Palestinians, whilst being guilty of creating the exact same set of circumstances in Scotland. The social atmosphere here today is such that hatred of English people, with whom we share a border, is normalised. Bigotry and the “racial” dislike of another group of people is actually championed. Palestinian people, the horrors of war notwithstanding, can only be of the same mindset as the Nat-zis over here. Voted into power, people surely allege with Hamas’ ideology and methodologies, as they do the SNP’s, as they do Islam’s. Hatred gets passed down from one generation to the next, and morality gets twisted as people try to justify their rage towards another. I don’t doubt that should violence become the norm over here, we would see lynchings, beatings and murders on a scale to match Palestinian aggression towards Jews. For the time being, we remain semi-civilised in our behaviour towards the English.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the SNP has actual ties to Hitler and his Nazi party: “founder member Andrew Dewar Gibb, who became the second chairman of the party in 1934 frequently quoted Hitler in his public speeches.” He shared Hitler’s “anti-Semitic anxieties” and made no secret of his “fascist leanings.” And let’s not forget Hitler’s meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who declared that they had the same enemies: the ”English and the Jews.” “Dewar Gibb met a number of people to see if links with Germany could be beneficial for Scotland. Among them was the German go-between for the country and Hitler’s Third Reich, Herr Rugg Gunn.” The SNP and Hitler hated the English. Today, the SNP and Hamas hate Israel and its people.

There are innumerable instance of SNP candidates expressing anti-Semitic views, but I’ll leave you with just a few. Comparing Israeli forces to Nazis, in spite of this viewpoint being recognised by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as anti-Semitism. Nicola Sturgeon giving ministerial positions to two Green party members who refuse to accept the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism. The Greens have “voted in favour of a motion that describes Israel as a “racist state“ based on “Jewish supremacy” and calls Zionism a racist endeavour.” An SNP candidate called Israel a “Nazi state.” Another candidate claimed that Israelis raise their kids to “hate and kill.” A quick Internet search is all that’s needed to pull up instances of Jew-hatred from SNP and its members, which might explain why Humza Yousaf is quick and keen to send money to Gaza, but not to the victims of Islamic terrorism in Israel.