The MEMRI Weekly: February 21-28, 2025
MEMRI REPORTS
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 731 - What Does Öcalan's Announcement Really Mean? February 28, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11858 - Pakistani Columnist: '444 Terrorist Attacks In Which At Least 685 Security Forces Personnel Lost Their Lives, Occurred In [Pakistan] In 2024', February 28, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11861 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas At Fatah Revolutionary Council Session: We Will Not Stop The Payments To The Prisoners And The Martyrs' Families, February 28, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 730 – Whither Public Diplomacy In A New Trump Administration? February 27, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 729 – The 10th Anniversary Of The Murder Of Russian Politician Boris Nemtso, February 27, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 728 – Series Of 'Accidents' Resulting In Destruction Of Undersea Infrastructure Are A Chinese Salami-Slicing Operation, February 27, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11856 - Changes To School Curricula By Syrian Interim Government Spark Criticism For Encouraging Extremism, February 27, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11859 - Senior Saudi Journalist Tariq Al-Homayed Following Hamas Official Musa Abu Marzouk's 'New York Times' Interview: He's The Most Walked-Back Hamas Official, February 27, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11860 - Russian Reactions To U.S. Vice President JD Vance's Speech At The Munich Security Conference: Vance Delivered A 'Public Slap' To Europe's 'Smug Elite', February 27, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11857 - Ahwaz Leader Dr. Aref Al Kaabi: The Regime In Tehran Has No Moral Authority, February 27, 2025
Inquiry and Analysis No. 1816 - The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 8, February 28, 2025, February 27, 2025
Inquiry and Analysis No. 1815 - Amid Widespread LGBTQ+ Support For Palestinians And Even Hamas Since October 7, Extremist Imams In U.S. Express Their Ongoing Support For Islamic Punishments For Homosexuality – Including Throwing From Roofs, Stoning To Death, Chopping Off Body Parts, February 27, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 727 – Rising Israeli Voices Against Qatar And Its Sponsorship Of Islamist Terrorism – Four Challenges For The Trump Administration, February 26, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11855 - Cartoons In Independent Egyptian Daily Present U.S. President Trump As A Nazi, February 26, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11854 - American National Bolshevik And Elected Official Visits Middle East With American Communist Party Chairman Haz Al-Din, Interviews Hamas Leaders And Attends Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah; Al-Din Reportedly Detained By Homeland Security Upon Return, February 25, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11852 - Palestinian Authority Presents Terrorists Killed By Israel As Murdered Civilians, While It Fights Terrorists From The Same Organizations, February 25, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 726 – The U.S. Designation Of Qatar Into The Visa Waiver Program By The Biden Administration In Its Last Months Does Not Meet 'Stringent Security Requirements' As Claimed By Department Of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas And Secretary Of State Blinken – READ THIS VERSION, February 25, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 725 – Kurdistan As An Energy Alternative To Iran, February 25, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11851 - Emirati Columnist: Khamenei's Boasting About A Hamas Victory Over Israel Is A Distortion Of The Facts; Iran Is The One That Should Rebuild Gaza, February 24, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 724 – Qatar-U.S. Law Enforcement Cooperation Agreement, Signed In Biden Administration's Final Months Ostensibly To Enhance The Fight Against Terrorism, Compromises Americans' Rights And Freedoms – While Qatar Still Hosts Terror Headquarters, February 24, 2025
MEMRI Daily Brief No. 723 – Ukraine Marks The Third Anniversary Of The Invasion, February 24, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11849 - Ahwazi State Executive Conference In Germany: 'A Significant Step Toward Internationalizing The Cause And Exposing Iran's Reality', February 21, 2025
Special Dispatch No. 11850 - American National Bolshevik And Face Of White Jihad Movement Jackson Hinkle, Who Has Close Ties To Russia, Takes Middle East Tour, Beginning In Qatar To Meet With Hamas Leadership, Then Lebanon Where He Will Attend Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, February 21, 2025
Inquiry and Analysis No. 1816 - One Day After U.S. Draws 'Red Line' Over Hizbullah Participation In Lebanese Government, Triggering Threats Against It And Its Representative, Lebanon Announces New Government That Includes Hizbullah, And U.S. Gives In And Welcomes It, February 21, 2025
MEMRI TV Monitor Project
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11860 – Fatah Official In Ireland Jihad Jara Slams Qatari Initiative To Integrate Hamas Into The PLO: Qatar Is A Rogue State That Conspires Against The PLO; It Destroyed Gaza With Its Deceitful Al-Jazeera TV; We Cannot Forgive Them, Al-Awda TV (PA)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11859 – Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Official Dyaa Terpstra In NJ Mosque 'Know Your Rights' Workshop: Do Not Speak To The FBI, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11858 – Professor Sami Al-Arian, Deported From The U.S. For Terror Links: Our Goal Is To Dismantle The State Of Israel; October 7 Gave Us Ideas On How This Can Be Done; Israeli Jews Can Go To Muslim Countries From Morocco To Indonesia, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11857 – Hamas TV Tours Supermarkets In The Gaza Strip; Shoppers: 'Everything Is Back To Normal', Stores Are Well Stocked, Prices Better Than Before The War, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11856 – Michigan Imam Hassan Qazwini In Dearborn Heights Friday Sermon: The Martyrdom Of Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah Is Fuel For The Resistance Against Tyrannical Israel; We Are Not Defeated; Thousands Will Join The Fight And Victory Will Follow, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11855 – Fatah Official In Syria Amer Issa: Palestinian Leadership Is Not Terminating 'Pay To Slay' Policy, Is Only Circumventing U.S. Pressure; Payments To Prisoners And Families Of 'Martyrs' Will Continue Via Alternative Methods, Al-Awda TV (PA)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11854 – Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun: Israel's Continued Presence In Lebanon Is Justified Until Hizbullah Surrenders Its Weapons; Hizbullah Should Finance Reconstruction – They Caused The Destruction, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11853 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Reaffirms 'Pay-To-Slay' Policy: If We Have Only A Single Penny Left, It Will Go To The Prisoners And The Martyrs – I Will Not Allow Any Reduction In Our Commitments To Them, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11852 – American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) Official Taher Herzallah In September 2023 Talk In Canadian Mosque: We Should Build Alliances With Anti-Zionist Jews And Call Them To Islam; Palestine Is Not Just A Liberation Project – It's A Dawah Project, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11851 – American Anti-Israel, Pro-Kremlin Activist And Influencer Jackson Hinkle Attends Nasrallah's Funeral, Gives Studio Interview To U.S. Designated Terrorist Hizbullah-Owned Al-Manar TV, Says He Moved To Russia For Fear Of Arrest In U.S., Al-Manar TV (Lebanon), Channel 3 (Iran), Mayadeen TV (Lebanon)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11850 – Hizbullah-Affiliated Academic Sadek Al-Naboulsi: Our Knives Are Not Broken – They Are Sharp And Can Wound The Enemy; Our Arm Can Still Reach Deep Into Israel And America, We Have Sufficient Means To Hurt Them, Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11849 – Deputy IRGC Commander-in-Chief General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi On President Trump: His Leadership Is Divine Retribution For America's Crimes And Injustices; In Iran, Leaders Are Chosen For Their Wisdom And Piety–While In The U.S., It's The Weakest, Most Corrupt Fool, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11848 – New York City Vigil For Slain Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah: Strike Tel-Aviv! Globalize The Intifada! Yemen Make Us Proud, Turn Another Ship Around! Nasrallah Was A Martyr, Guiding Light For Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, And Beyond, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11847 – Former University Of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian, Deported From U.S. Due To Terror Links, In May 2024 Video Address To University Of Chicago Anti-Israel Encampment: The Zionist Lobby Is Entrenched In America, Distorts Facts With This 'Terrorist Nonsense' – Expect Intimidation; This Did Not Start On October 7; Campuses Must Mobilize, Build This Movement Until Victory; Israel Is Shaken – Archival, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11846 – California Pakistani Islamic Scholar Qazi Fazlullah: The Jews Foster Enmity Towards Muslims Due To Their Lust For Power And Wealth; Jews And Christians Are Allies In Their Enmity To Muslims, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11845 – New York Mosque Lecture By Islamic Scholar Hassan Akbar: Muslims Will Become The Global Majority In 75 Years; Liberating Palestine Is Therefore Inevitable; This Is What They Fear – Archival, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11844 – Mohamed Hassaballa In New Jersey Friday Sermon: Christians Are Open Idolaters; The Mujahideen Fight On The Path Of Allah, Do Not Fear The Headlines, What Is Being Plotted Against Them, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11843 – Irving, Texas Mosque Lecture By Imam Raqeeb Abduljabbar: Until Palestine Is Free From The Jews, And America Is Free From Trump And Musk's Political Apartheid, The 'Indigenous Muslims' Of America Will Not Be Free; We Must Spread Islam In America, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11842 – At Chicago Conference, Hizb Ut-Tahrir Activist Dr. Ayman Hameed: Syria Should Declare 'Holy Jihad', A Plan Of Expansion – Immediate, Active, Practical Means To Free Al-Aqsa And Palestine; Afghanistan Made America Flee In Defeat, Showing What Is Possible, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11841 – Savanna, Georgia Sermon At Masjid Jihad: Project 2025 Political Agenda Is Part And Parcel Of The Christian Agenda; Muslims Must Protect Their Freedom Of Religion, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11840 – Hizbullah-Affiliated Academic Sadek Al-Naboulsi: We Have Not Been Defeated – The Killing Of Our Leaders Is Key To Greater Victory, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11839 – Chinese Professor Shen Yi's Bold Vision And Its Global Implications: DeepSeek, The Digital Silk Road, And China's AI Gambit, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11838 – IRGC Aerospace Force Commander General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh: We Will 'Definitely' Launch Another Missile Attack On Israel, Called 'True Promise III'; Cheap Missiles Are Enough To Hit American Targets Near Us, Of Which There Are Many, IRINN TV (Iran)
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11837 Anti-Israel Protesters In Boro Park, Brooklyn Pray: Oh Allah, Annihilate The Criminal Zionists, Kill Them One By One, Do Not Leave A Single One Of Them, Online Platforms
MEMRI TV Clip No. 11836 – Chinese Professor And Social Media Influencer Shen Yi: DeepSeek Combined With Huawei Will Form A Completely Closed Ecosystem Loop, Online Platforms
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