An apt description of the ratbag a 'useful idiots' although his ignorance of the actual situation is the reason.
Son of Hamas founder who defected to the US slams pro-Palestine student activists as terror group's 'useful idiots'
The son of a Hamas co-founder has spoken out against pro-Palestine activists in the United States, branding them 'useful idiots.'
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, appeared on 'Dr. Phil Primetime' on April 2 to debate two student advocates from the University of Michigan.
Yousef hails from Ramallah and fought as a Palestinian militant before defecting to Israelin 1997 and working as a spy for the Shin Bet intelligence wing.
'It's very disappointing to see Americans supporting Hamas and thinking that Hamas is a cool thing...while those followers don't know that Hamas would torture them and massacre them with no mercy,' he said.
'They call them useful idiots. They don't know that Hamas is a dark black hole.'
Yousef further claimed those on the pro-Palestine side 'don't know what they're supporting,' deeming Hamas 'a monster that has been hijacking an entire society and endangering the entire Middle East, pushing the world towards a global war.'
The defector, who earned the moniker 'The Green Prince' and was the subject of a 2014 documentary by the same name, said he based his knowledge on time spent in prison with Hamas leaders.
Unlike the students on the show, he continued, 'I was born there, and part of that culture, part of that religion.
'Some people hear about Hamas, or they see an avatar of a Hamas fighter carrying a rifle, a freedom fighter, and they think it's a fancy idea to support such a monster.'
One student accused the former Hamas member of pushing 'colonial rhetoric.'
But Yousef hit back, asserting that the students spoke 'on the authority of Hamas propaganda.'
He pointed to the fact that all three students were wearing the keffiyeh, a traditional black-and-white Palestinian scarf.
'You don't know what Palestine is, actually. In fact, the keffiyeh that you are wearing is just a statement to show that you really lack the authenticity to represent the case,' he professed.
'There is a tribe of Hamas, and there is the tribe of the Islamic Jihad … and each one has different interests, and all of them are conflicted. If they did not have Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other. This is the reality.'
