Hamas Blasts Efforts To Interfere With Hamas Efforts To Interfere With UK Elections

“Corbyn is our friend, after all, and not just on Facebook.”

Gaza City, December 10 – Members of the Islamist militant group that governs this coastal territory criticized today attempts to compromise the work of the organization’s unit to manipulate public opinion in Britain in favor of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, calling those attempts a malign enterprise to corrupt the group’s enterprise to corrupt upcoming British parliamentary elections.

A spokesman for Hamas’s UK election social media task force told reporters Tuesday the movement condemns efforts to mischaracterize or disrupt its use of Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to defend Labour and Corbyn from allegations of antisemitism, in particular by Jews, with the overall Hamas aim of securing as many British votes as possible for Labour and Corbyn.

“It is unconscionable that we cannot conduct these online operations in peace,” stated Fawzi Barhoum. “Our enemies are trying to interfere in our attempts to interfere with the elections, and the world must stand against such behavior.”

Barhoum explained that the unit’s various teams had for months – in some cases years – run Corbyn-friendly, English-language Facebook pages out of Gaza to counter or drown out reports, allegations, and documentation of the Labour Party’s institutional antisemitism and its at-best-token efforts to address the problem. “We’ve had to masquerade as Britons concerned for the truth,” he recalled. “Our operatives facilitated numerous cases of ‘voters worried about the libelous accusations against Jeremy’ calling the allegations smears and, of course, blaming the Jews for stoking antisemitism. It was going pretty smoothly until someone of the wrong sort noticed who’s been running those pages and accounts.”

He also described the team’s activities on Twitter, where Hamas-run accounts would “dog-pile” users who dared present evidence of, or concerns about, Labour antisemitism. “Unless we silence this criticism, Corbyn may not come close to forming a government, and that would present us with quite a setback,” observed Barhoum. “He is our friend, after all, and not just on Facebook. But now various people and groups are trying to expose our activities, and that constitutes interference in our interference. It’s unacceptable.”

Another member of the Hamas support-Corbyn team noted that recent rocket attacks on Israeli civilians formed an important part of the unit’s work. “We knew some Israelis were trying to interfere in our interference,” the operative stated, “and trying to kill as many Jews as we could might help reduce the number of them trying to call attention to our trying to call attention to arguments in favor of Labour. Next time we’ll need more rockets for it to work. If Labour does win, that part will be easier.”

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