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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claims ‘Netanyahu runs Hamas’
The far-right broadcaster alleged that the terrorist group is Israel’s ‘perfect false flag’
August 27, 2025 11:30
The far-right broadcaster alleged that the terrorist group is Israel’s ‘perfect false flag’
August 27, 2025 11:30A notorious American conspiracy theorist has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running Hamas to give the IDF an excuse to annex Gaza.
In a furious rant posted on his social media platforms, Alex Jones alleged, without evidence, that "Israel created Hamas" and that Netanyahu “is the head of Hamas” adding that “Israel created Hamas and he stabilises it through his leadership. He funds them billions a year."
Jones went on to claim that “Mossad is Hamas” and that “the idiot, low-level, low-IQ, inbred Hamas members... they don't know.
As justification for the theory, Jones cited what he called the "perfect timing" of the release of the video of hostage Evyatar David digging his own grave.
He claimed that, just as the world was focusing on the "starving children" in Gaza, “Hamas thought ‘We have got a starving Jew. We are not going to feed him’”.
Jones claimed that this was too counterproductive for the terrorist group not to have been an Israeli decision and said it was "the worst, perfect thing they could put out".
"Starving kids dying by the dozens a day, hundreds of thousands by malnutrition, let us just roll out a Jewish guy in a Hamas tunnel groping around with his shirt off," Jones said, mimicking Hamas.
He continued: "I've got an idea; everybody is totally turning against Israel in this war, let us find one of our starving hostages and put him on TV and show how we are starving people."
Israel's intention, according to Jones, was to install a terrorist leadership in Palestine so that it could justify destroying the territory and taking it for itself.
"How is Israel going to get all that land? They are going to put Al Qaeda and Isis people in charge and, when you forget a year or two later, they will blow them up and take over the country.”
Jones, who has previously been banned from numerous social media platforms after spreading conspiracy theories about 9/11, the Sandy Hook shooting and global warming.
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