Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, who has now relocated to Ireland, has repeatedly compared the Gaza War to the Holocaust on social media
September 4, 2025 11:14
A witness testifying before Jeremy Corbyn’s “Gaza Tribunal” has claimed that membership of Hamas is “the same” as that of the Labour or Conservative parties in the UK.
Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed was testifying before the unofficial inquiry into “Britain’s role in Israeli war crimes in Gaza”, which was established by Corbyn’s Project for Peace and Justice after his private member’s bill calling for a full national inquiry was denied by Parliament.
Abed, who recently relocated to Ireland according to his X page, appeared to suggest that there was nothing wrong with his fellow journalists in Gaza being members of Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK.
Discussing the deaths of several journalists in Israeli strikes, including those the IDF has accused of being terrorist operatives, he said: “The targeted assassination of journalists has been clear.
"Journalists in Gaza did not have time to do this so-called ‘secret terrorism’...Israel just wants to make up excuses to target journalists.”
He specifically cited the case of Anas al-Sharif, an Al-Jazeera reporter who was killed by Israel last month. Following the strike, Israel released photos of al-Sharif embracing senior Hamas leaders, as well as internal Hamas documents recovered from Gaza showing him listed on personnel and salary lists, claiming that he was the leader of a terrorist cell.
Abed continued: “No journalist in Gaza has anything to do with Hamas.
"Hamas in an elected government in the end, so it’s a government we should work. [sic]
"Here, we wouldn’t kill journalists for belonging to the Labour Party, we wouldn’t kill journalists for belonging to the Tory party or whatever, so it’s the same.”
The sports reporter turned war correspondent also has a history of vocal criticism of Israel on social media, including multiple instances of comparing the Gaza War to the Holocaust.
Earlier today, commenting on images of the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes, he wrote on X: “If this is not a holocaust, what’s a holocaust?”
And, in a separate post yesterday, he referred to the war as “the holocaust of our time”.
The inquiry is being chaired by Corbyn himself, Israeli-born academic Neve Gordon and international legal scholar Dr Shahd Hammouri, all of whom made statements accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza before any evidence was delivered.
Less than 10 minutes into the tribunal’s first session, Gordon appeared to make a direct comparison between the Gaza War and the Holocaust, referring to a quotation from Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt as she reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel – the man often known as the architect of the Holocaust.
He said: “Our judgement, however, must not be limited to the immediate perpetrators, but also the wider system of complicity that enables the perpetrators to carry out crimes.
“[Arendt] argued that responsibility is more complex than simply blaming the person who pulls the trigger, or signs the extermination order.
"The entire system of political conformity aids and abets the monstrous acts, and is therefore culpable.”
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