Salah Hammouri, A native of northern Jerusalem, has gained a reputation as a well-mannered, educated, Palestinian human rights activist that, has never crossed the line into becoming a full-blown murderer in the name of nationalism. His diploma, French mother, and EU citizenship have deceived everyone from Wikipedia editors to the Associated Press, but the facts are that Hammouri could have been the executor of one of the most significant rabbis of the past century, Ovadia Yosef.
Hammouri, born in 1985 in a village just north of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dahyat Al-Barid, grew up in the shadow of the First and Second Intifadas. Being the offspring of a French mother and Palestinian father, he was given EU citizenship at birth and is fluent in French, Arabic, and Hebrew. From a very young age Hammouri took part in all kinds of Palestinian activism, everything from throwing rocks at soldiers as a kid to later joining the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine); a Marxist-secular faction of the PLO that is notoriously perceived as a violent, occasionally suicidal terrorist group.
"Human rights defender"🤦♀️What a bloody liar.
— RealPalestina(א"י)🇮🇱 (@LollllllaJR) December 4, 2022
Salah Hammouri, a PFLP terrorist, was deprived of the "rights" to kill Jews.https://t.co/pQez90BvTV https://t.co/5WbCtIOr8e
Nevertheless, if you read his Wikipedia biography, Salah’s early days and arrests are documented quite differently. “He was first arrested and placed under administrative detention when he was 16 years old, in 2001. He was caught handing out leaflets protesting Israeli colonization and was sentenced to five months in jail for 'anti-Israeli propaganda' or/and for being a member of a student union. On his release, he resumed his studies at the Lyceum, and graduated in June 2003.”
Wikipedia editors decided to exclude his armed resistance to IDF troops as a teen and failed to mention the student union he was a part of had encouraged suicide bombings and “lone-wolf activities against Israeli civilians.” A short time after being released from the Israeli prison system, a plot was exposed to assassinate “The Maran” or Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. All evidence, including multiple testimonies and street cameras showing Hammouri staking out the spiritual leader’s house, point to him being the gunman who was to pull the trigger.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, even after his death in 2013, was a spiritual icon and leader to millions of Jews worldwide. Born in Iraq with time spent in Egypt, Yosef was fluent in Arabic and is considered a Mizrahi Jew. He later became a prominent Israeli figure as Chief Rabbi and the spiritual Leader of the Shas party along with many Mizrahi and Sephardic Israelis. Close to a million followers attended his funeral, with millions more watching through news broadcasts.
The assassination of Yosef, as Hammouri had planned would devastate the entire Jewish world and be seen as terrorism against Judaism and Zionism alike. Naturally, Hammouri was immediately detained by Israeli authorities, only to be released in 2011 during the exchange deal of Gilad Shalit between Hamas and Israel.
Deport his ass. He's a known member of the PFLP terrorist organization. Countries deporting terrorists is a normal thing. Israel is no exception.https://t.co/49pYAZmHCB pic.twitter.com/6W7yxCilnT
— Arty (@LeafsArty10) December 5, 2022
Ever since Hammouri has been on and off the hook of Israeli authorities and is often connected to terrorist activities against the state of Israel. In 2018, after immense pressure from French President Emmanuel Macron, the terrorist holding French citizenship was released from an 18-month incarceration cycle.
On Friday, December 2nd, 2022, Hammouri was released from another arrest due to planning activities against Israel and is expected to be deported to France. After years of legal bureaucracy within the extremely tentative Israeli justice system, the government was finally able to approve his departure. Throughout his latest period in jail, well-respected organizations from all over begged Israel to release him, including the UN.
In a statement released by UN Human Rights Commissioner, it was said: “We are concerned by Israel’s pervasive misuse of administrative and criminal law proceedings and use of secret information against Palestinians, including human rights defenders such as Mr. Hammouri. This is a deliberate measure designed to silence human rights defenders, which has a profound chilling effect on all Palestinian and Israeli civil society actors…”
This past Thursday, when his deportation was announced, global news sites and papers were quick to publish the scoop, without mentioning Hammouri’s lifelong career as a terrorist.
Or this guy, Salah Hammouri, of the terrorist PFLP, who was convicted of plotting to kill a top rabbi and sentenced to prison. Freed in a prisoner swap with Hamas, he then resumed his terror plotting, and Israel arrested him and now is deporting him to France. pic.twitter.com/46gXLgdTUt
— Daniel Margolis (@DanielMargolis_) December 5, 2022
The Associated Press for example, also excluding his past attempt of murdering a rabbi and his countless arrests where terrorist activity had been well documented, wrote: “The decision by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked underscored the fragile status of Jerusalem’s Palestinians, who hold revocable Israeli residency rights but with few exceptions are not citizens. It also threatened to trigger a diplomatic spat with France, which has argued against the deportation.” Despite the dramatic explanation from the often anti-Israel news service, Hammouri’s deportation is not expected to be postponed and no major diplomatic crisis is actually brewing between Israel and France over it.
Salah Hammouri’s global perception as a justice-seeking lawyer is yet another example of how the Palestinian public relations machine, often referred to as “Pallywood” has managed to fool entire political movements and respectable journalists. Due to such extensive all across disinformation about him, the true, unfortunate, story of the terrorist’s livelihood might never be revealed to the masses who are too easily deceived, or in this case willing to be deceived as they hold a negative opinion of Zionistic Jews, by well-organized fake narratives.
