Qatari foreign ministry spokesman celebrated Hamas missile attacks on Israel

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Nov 14, 2025

Majed Al-Ansari. Screengrab via Youtube 

The hostile comments that Majed Al-Ansari, who is now an advisor to the Qatari prime minister and spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, made against Israel should come as no surprise to anyone. His views reflect the official position of the state of Qatar, which is a chief funder of Muslim Brotherhood — of which Hamas is an offshoot.

Qatar continues to house senior Hamas leaders and denounce Israel. Westerners would benefit from focusing on evidence rather than outward appearances that taqiyya operatives have skillfully devised.

“More On Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed Al-Ansari’s Statements Celebrating Hamas Missile Attacks On Israel: The Air-Raid Sirens And The Fear Felt By The Residents Of Tel Aviv Fill Me With Optimism,” MEMRI, November 12, 2025:

In 2014, during the armed conflict that year between Hamas and Israel,[1] Majed Al-Ansari, who is now an adviser to the Prime Minister of Qatar and spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published an article praising Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza for their rocket attacks on the “enemy,” Israel. Writing in his column in the Qatari government daily Al-Arab, Al-Ansari stated that the air-raid sirens constantly going off in the cities of central Israel, and the sight of Tel Aviv residents fearfully rushing to shelters, filled him with optimism. He also sharply criticized Egypt and the Gulf states for their enmity toward Gaza, and slammed media figures in these countries who, he said, had hoped to see Israel eliminate Hamas but now were seeing this dream fade away. Al-Ansari concluded the article by promising that Allah would soon grant the Palestinians victory over Israel.

It should be noted that, during his time as a journalist, Al-Ansari regularly expressed support for an armed struggle against Israel and for the massive rocket attacks on it. Another example of this is an article he published on May 24, 2021 in the Qatari daily Al-Sharq, just days after the conclusion of another round of fighting between Israel and Hamas. In that article he celebrated “the launch of 3,000 rockets within ten days” into Israeli cities. He also stressed that the continued development of the struggle against Israel would eventually lead to “the disappearance of the occupation,” and prayed that he would live to see this Muslim victory and “the liberation of Al-Aqsa Mosque and all the blessed land.”[2]

The following are translated excerpts from Al-Ansari’s July 2014 article.[3]

The Rockets Fired At The Zionist Enemy From Gaza, Lebanon And Syria Spark Optimism

“When the enemy’s aircraft began bombing the Gaza Strip, I decided that my next article would be about Gaza. For, although some of the disasters in the Arab world are far bloodier than what is happening in this steadfast city [Gaza], the centrality of the Palestinian issue in the nation’s liberation program always makes its pains more deeply felt. Another factor may be that this city now faces not only the occupying Zionist enemy, with which it has been contending with for almost a century, but also a large neighbor that is suffocating it [i.e., Egypt], another neighbor that is conspiring against it, and a third that is trading in its [cause]. Moreover, it appears that its enemies among its Arab neighbors are [even] thirstier for its blood than the Jews…

“I decided to write about the optimism that has emerged out of the ruins and the tears of bereavement [in Gaza]… This optimism stems first and foremost from the change that has taken place in the balance [of power] in the confrontation with the Zionist enemy. In the past, Israeli cities enjoyed security, while Palestinian cities were bombed and became targets for invasion and destruction whenever the Israelis wished. But today, the sirens in their cities almost never stop, warning again and again of new rockets launched from Gaza by the Palestinian factions. In the recent days, we have also seen rockets launched from Lebanon and Syria, [a development] that fills the Zionist enemy with a fear it has not known since its wars with the massive Arab armies, which ended in its victory. Even then, the weak Arab regimes granted the enemy a sense of security, for it knew that the [regimes] fighting against it cared far more about consolidating their own rule than about sacrificing for the liberation of Palestine.”…