Sami Hamdi, managing director of International Interest, joins the show to dismantle one of the most outrageous propaganda claims circulating in right-wing media: that Muslim mothers have been teaching their children to kill Jews for over a thousand years. This hysterical fiction collapses under the weight of history, as even non-Muslim scholars acknowledge that the only true example of religious coexistence based on justice existed under Muslim rule in places like Andalusia and Jerusalem.
The Great Awakening They Cannot Stop
The hysteria behind these propaganda claims is itself a sign of desperation. For the first time in 75 years, Israel’s chokehold over the narrative has been broken. Social media has allowed Palestinian stories to reach the world unfiltered — the grandfather holding his dead granddaughter, the mothers pulling children from rubble, the resilience of a people who refuse to abandon their faith. Every attempt to dehumanize Palestinians through fabricated stories of beheaded babies and false rape claims has been debunked, and the propagandists are panicking because the world is finally seeing Palestinians as human beings.
The widespread messaging of these hysterical claims is a reaction to what they perceive as a threat — not a military threat from Gaza, but the threat that after 75 years of dehumanization, the world is beginning to see Palestinians as humans.
How Muslims Actually Rescued the Jews
- Muslim Andalusia was universally recognized as the epitome of religious coexistence, where Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in harmony under Islamic governance
- Muslims proactively rescued Jews from anti-Semitic persecution throughout history, a fact documented extensively in Jewish and non-Muslim scholarship
- The Hanbali directive and other Islamic legal traditions required Muslims to give sanctuary to persecuted Jews
- Many Jews entered Islam voluntarily because they saw that Muslim behavior embodied the justice and compassion their own scriptures called for
From Awakening to Islam
Sami Hamdi makes a profound observation: the wave of people entering Islam in the wake of the Gaza crisis is not coincidental. When the wall of propaganda was finally smashed by social media, people who had been searching for purpose saw Palestinians clinging to their faith under the most horrific conditions imaginable and asked themselves: what is this religion that produces such strength? When they investigated sincerely, they found only one truth. The innate sense of justice in every human being — what Islam calls the fitrah — is leading people from awakening to asking questions to embracing Islam.
When finally people read about the issue, when they wanted to understand what was happening, they found that there was only one truth. That innate sense of justice, the fitrah, ultimately leads them to ask questions — and we’ve seen a wave of people entering Islam as a result.
