BLM activist ‘furious’ after ‘dear brother’ Hamas leader killed

Left-wing activist Shaun King is “furious” after his “dear brother” Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas , was killed on Tuesday night.

King voiced his outrage in a series of posts on Telegram on Wednesday and further proclaimed his support for Hamas’s violent “resistance to the Zionist war criminals” in response to the assassination of Haniyeh.

“These genocidal monsters think that this weakens Hamas, or weakens the resistance, but it does neither,” King said. “It will only strengthen both.”

King accused the United States of being involved in the assassination. However, a military official told Fox News that the U.S. did not have any involvement. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did not confirm if Israel was behind the strike that took out Haniyeh when asked by reporters, as the U.S. was ostensibly not given notice of the attack.

Drawing from Nelson Mandela’s previous statements, King endorsed the idea that Palestinians “have the right to armed resistance” against what he characterizes as Israeli “apartheid,” and when nonviolent methods of “liberation” fail, “we must pursue liberation with violence — AS ALL FREE PEOPLE DO.”

The “armed resistance,” or “intifada,” being carried out by Hamas has included numerous attacks against innocent civilians over the last several decades, with the deadliest attack coming on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists killed, raped, and tortured more than 1,200 Jewish and Israeli people, including women, children, and the elderly, and took more than 240 hostages.

The word “intifada” relates to violent attacks, or “uprisings,” against Israel that killed civilians and soldiers alike. Hamas was founded during the first intifada in 1987, and its charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews.

"I stand by every word I said," King told the Washington Examiner. "I say what I mean and mean what I say."

He explained that just expressing grief over the main Palestinian ceasefire negotiator being killed "does not mean I agree with every decision he made," however "I openly support" armed resistance "from all oppressed people around the world. Especially Palestinians.

"The worst leader of Hamas, on their worst day, is a better human being than Netanyahu on his best day," King said. "He’s killed more children in the WEST BANK than were killed on October 7th.

"I see him as a genocidal monster," he added. "An evil war criminal. I see him as the single most evil human being on the planet. He has killed more Palestinian CHILDREN since October 7th than the total number of Israelis killed in the past 30 years combined."

King also mentioned that "most of the ethnic countries of the world" do not see Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis as terrorist groups, despite their designation as such by the U.S. State Department. "Half of the world," he said, "sees them as official government agencies. And welcomes their leaders."

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King rose to fame as a prominent Black Lives Matter activist. While his mother is white and the man listed as his father on his birth certificate is white, according to King, his mother told him that his birth father was a light-skinned black man.

The controversial activist additionally posted Hamas’s response to the assassination on his Telegram channel and forwarded statements from other anti-Israel entities.