‘The People Talking to You About Palestinian Human Rights Will Be the Ones to Take Away Your Rights’

Khaled Hassan is a native of Egypt who now lives in the U.K. For the past 14 years, he has worked as a national security and foreign policy researcher on jihad violence, propaganda, and Middle Eastern geopolitics. He was born a Muslim, and now, most amazingly, he is a convert to Judaism. He has just delivered on social media words of warning about Islam and its threat to the entire West, words we would do well to heed. More on the remarkable Khaled Hassan can be found here: “‘Antisemitism stems from Egypt, fuels hatred across the Arab world’ – interview,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2025:

“The people talking to you about Palestinian human rights will be the ones to take away your rights, along with your head if you object,” wrote Egyptian-born researcher and activist Khaled Hassan on his X/Twitter account on Monday.

His post discussed an incident a few days ago when Hassan joined an English-speaking Space on X that was held by Egyptians, Jordanians, and Palestinians, including Gazans, about the war in Gaza. The group then started an Arabic-speaking Space, which Hassan wrote “quickly turned into a verbal October 7.”

“They laughed and joked while telling me how they’d rape and slaughter me and every member of my family,” he added.

“October 7 is, to millions of people from these societies, one of the greatest days in their modern history,” he said, warning that if nothing is done, “it won’t be long before the West meets its October 7.”

Hassan – who converted to Judaism and now lives in the UK – echoed these sentiments in his conversation with The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

He explained that he does not normally join Arabic-speaking Spaces unless they are from the Gulf countries, but this X Space was in English, and they were seemingly discussing the Abraham Accords. He quickly noted, however, what he refers to as an “Arabic dictatorship mindset,” where no arguments can be made, and nothing is up for debate.

“It was challenging to finish a sentence because you get muted, and then there was violence and threats.” Nevertheless, Hassan told The Post that by “Arab standards, the English-speaking space was not too bad.”

This changed when he entered the Arabic-language Space: “The moment I joined, it became extremely abusive, the nastiest stuff you can imagine.” This included rape threats against Hassan’s wife and other threats.

Hassan told The Post that this type of behavior is more pronounced with Egyptians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Palestinians. “The Saudis would never use this kind of violence. They would never swear at a man and threaten to rape his family,” he said.

In Hassan’s view, “Egypt is the root of all problems when it comes to antisemitism [in the Arab world] when it comes to hatred, and people need to know that.” He explained that Egypt dominates in fields such as Arabic-language TV, media, and so forth.

With 110 million people, Egypt is by far the most populous Arab nation, and the site of the Islamic world’s important Muslim seminary, Al-Azhar University. Egyptian journalists dominate the Arab media. Even though Egypt lacks the resources of the rich oil-and-gas states of the Gulf — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar — it remains the center of what passes for intellectual life in the Arab Muslim world.

Tens of millions of Muslims have now been allowed to settle within European countries, where their growing numbers translates into political power. And as their numbers grow, through both immigration and much higher fertility rates for Muslim women as compared to that of the indigenous non-Muslims, that power will only increase. It is only those on what is incorrectly called the political “far right” — Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom, Alice Weidel’s Alternative für Deutschland, France’s National Rally — who have grasped the nettle, and openly declared that Muslim migration must be halted, and ways found to deport Muslims back to their countries of origin, starting with all those convicted of a crime.

On the political left and in the center, politicians still seem willing to sleepwalk while the Muslim menace grows. Besides, these politicians see Muslims as a source of votes whom they do not wish to antagonize. Thus it becomes ever easier for these politicians to abandon Israel and embrace the notion of a Palestinian state. And they refuse to recognize the Muslim menace; for the sake of gaining, or remaining in, power, they are endangering the indigenous people, and the civilization, of the West.

Khaled Hassan has an insider’s view, as a native Arabic speaker and a former Muslim, of how Muslims think. The hysteria and hate he experienced from other Arabs when he joined an Arabic-language X Space, the threats to rape and murder his family members, reinforced his dismal view of Arab, and Muslim, political discourse.

Nevertheless, Hassan told the Post that he thinks the “tide is turning,” especially in Britain. “You see people waving the British flag again. People have had enough,” he said.

Waving the British flag, once considered too “right-wing,” is part of what defines a growing popular movement to embrace “Englishness” and to reject the Muslim invaders and their willing collaborators among the political and media elites. It’s a good start.

For the Arab world, there is also hope, Hassan argued. “Saudi Arabia and the UAE are redefining Islam,” he said.

“There will be actual change, and it is already redefining the Middle East.”

Here one would like to learn more from Khaled Hassan: how, and why, he thinks that the UAE and Saudi Arabia are “redefining Islam.” What does that mean? Have these oil states set up rival seminaries to dilute the influence of Al-Azhar in Cairo? Have they been supporting Muslim scholars to put more emphasis on the milder Meccan suras and to end the practice of “naskh,” or abrogation, by which the more severe Medinan suras would cancel the Meccan suras? Are they building mosques and employing imams around the world whose message will be more tolerant of Infidels?

As for Egypt being the most important promoter of antisemitism in the Arab world, how does Khaled Hassan think the West can change Egyptian practices? Could the United States, and perhaps other Western countries too, stop all aid to Egypt, or even impose economic sanctions on the country, until it cleans up the antisemitic hate it disseminates throughout the Arab world? Khaled Hassan has ripped the veil off of “moderate Egypt” to disclose the fanatical hate beneath. Now it’s up to the West to react, and not just for the well-being of Israel and the Jews, but for the entire Western world, that must understand the significance of the well-known Arabic menace “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.” What starts with Israel will not end with Israel. Listen to Khaled Hassan.