Mick Hartley

At MEMRI TV – Palestinian Academics Discuss End of Zionism on U.K. Hiwar TV.

In a November 13, 2025 show on Muslim Brotherhood linked Hiwar TV (U.K.), Palestinian academics and activists discussed what they described as the coming end of Zionism. Hassan Khreisheh, the Hamas-supported deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said that all of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians “from the River to the Sea,” and not only the West Bank and Gaza. U.K.-based academic Azzam Al-Tamimi said that Palestinians are united on eliminating the Zionist enterprise, which he called an anti-human movement. Birzeit University media professor Nashat Aqtash, who had been hired by Hamas as a consultant in 2006, claimed that Zionism was built on an artificial sense of victimhood, asserting that its trigger was an alleged 1932 agreement between Theodor Herzl and Adolf Eichmann in Haifa to stage “Nazi massacres” in order to win global sympathy.

Whoops.

When Al-Tamimi noted that Herzl had died decades earlier, Aqtash attributed the alleged meeting instead to Chaim Weizmann.

Whatever. Maybe it was Golda Meir. Or Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Or Groucho Marx. Just pick any Jewish name…it doesn’t matter. This is Palestinian scholarship: it operates by different rules.

Aqtash added that Israel is only one part of a larger Zionist enterprise that includes the World Bank, the IMF, and the making of world leaders, and cautioned Palestinians to frame their slogans in ways that do not clash with international opinion. Former Al-Jazeera director-general Wadah Khanfar argued that Benjamin Netanyahu has been attacking the institutions of the post-World War II world order – such as the World Bank, IMF, and ICJ – by stating that these were originally created to protect Zionists but now accuse them. Khanfar added that that the unraveling of this world order will ultimately benefit the Palestinians, because other world orders will emerge.

These people are clowns. But, happily for them, their views are widely respected in certain intellectual circles.