Top Qatari advisor and foreign ministry spokesman praised Palestinian attacks on Israel before taking current role

Israeli analyst Eitan Fischberger recently drew renewed attention to past social media posts by Majed al-Ansari – now a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman and advisor to the prime minister – in which al-Ansari expressed praise for the Hamas terror organization before assuming his current roles.

In the posts, al-Ansari praised the suicide bombings and rocket attacks against Israel, as well as the 2015 ISIS attack that killed 130 people in Paris, France. 

The posts on al-Ansari’s account were particularly disturbing, considering he is one of the more public-facing officials in the Qatari government as the Foreign Ministry spokesman. 

Breaking: I've uncovered a series of posts in which @majedalansari — advisor to the Qatari PM and Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry — openly called for Tel Aviv to burn and praised suicide bombings.

This was posted on the night terrorists fired +100 rockets into Istael🧵 pic.twitter.com/N2GeMxsGOQ

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 27, 2025

“Whenever morale weakens, strength fails, the [Muslim] nation becomes divided, and its enemies become more emboldened, until victory becomes a distant dream, Palestine comes to remind this nation of its glory and the greatness of its message, and that victory lies in Allah's hands alone,” al-Ansari wrote in May 2021. The hashtag on the tweet reads: “Tel Aviv is burning.” 

[Ummah (nation) in Arabic often refers to the entire Muslim population.] 

“Praise be to Allah for His good tidings,” the tweet concluded. 

Al-Ansari also praised ethnic violence between Jews and Arabs in mixed cities in Israel, including the city of Lod. 

“Jerusalem, the interior, the West Bank, Gaza. Decades and successive projects to dismantle and isolate them collapse, only for them all to rise with one voice against the occupier. This unity is what terrifies the enemy the most. Oh Allah, unite their word and guide their aim.” 

The posts on 𝕏, which al-Ansari deleted after Jewish Insider published the story, were not the only platform for his anti-Israel sentiment. Al-Ansari was head of the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies at the time he wrote the tweets. He also maintained a blog, where he posted blogs about the events in Israel and often glorified Palestinian violence against Israelis. 

In these blogs, al-Ansari often overstated the situation. In one post he falsely claimed, “For the first time since 1966, the city of Lod has completely lost control, forcing the occupation forces to withdraw from it, a major psychological defeat for the Zionists.” 

While Lod is a mixed city, with a Jewish and Arab population, despite several incidents of ethnic violence, it was never abandoned by the Jewish population. 

In another blog post, al-Ansari said he was inspired by the First Intifada in 1987. 

“When we were young, we saw how the children threw stones with bare chests, [heads] covered with their keffiyehs and armed with stones, and this led to the [Second] Intifada,” he wrote.

He also claimed that the Second Intifada, between 2000 and 2005, forced Israel to withdraw from Gaza:  “One of its results was the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, making it the first Palestinian land liberated from the occupier.” 

He also declared that Palestinians would soon have “the reward of liberating Al-Aqsa Mosque and the entire blessed land.” 

The blog posts were deleted following an inquiry to the Qatari Foreign Ministry by Jewish Insider. 

Fischberger also exposed that the current Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman had previously slammed fellow countrymen for working with U.S. President Donald Trump, calling the future president a “racist.” 

During his first campaign in 2015, al-Ansari urged Qatar Airways to “cut ties with Trump and his racist empire.”