Club A Hebraica in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, one of the main institutions of the Jewish community in Brazil, will welcome this Saturday evening a very controversial guest, to put it mildly, the Palestinian Mosab Hassan Youssef, the son of no one. than Sheikh Hassan Youssef, one of the seven founders of the extremist group Hamas, which has been waging a bloodthirsty war with Israel in the Gaza Strip for 50 days.
Mosab, 45, will speak to a largely Jewish audience at the invitation of Standwithus Brasil, a nonprofit Jewish organization that says its goal is to “educate about Israel” and that social media has been highlighting the importance of the event and the rare opportunity to community members to personally be with the speaker and hear his story.
Born in Ramallah, the capital of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel, the son of the extremist group’s founder, who will speak this Saturday at one of the holiest sites for Jews in Brazil, has come to take up arms and fight for Hamas. but he repented and left the armed struggle. In addition to breaking with his family and the formidable organization of which his father was one of the founders, Mosab switched sides and between 1997 and 2007 worked as an informant for the Mossad, the Israeli secret service, as he himself suggested in the book “Son of Hamas” and was responsible for the arrest of many Palestinians who carried out or planned attacks against Israel.
As if this were not enough to arouse the hatred of Hamas and the Palestinian world, Mosab abandoned his original religion, Islam, and converted to Christianity. Having pledged his death to Hamas and still receives threats from Palestinians who consider him a traitor to the cause, Mosab Hassan Youssef sought political asylum in the United States in 2010, where he still lives, and says he does not regret his controversial decisions because , he claims, they saved the lives of many people.
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Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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