I Will Not Apologise for Exposing Terrorism
Khaled Hassan | The Grand Strategy | Nov 15, 2026
Khaled Hassan being interviewed on Misgav Istitute. Screengrab via Youtube.
On 10 November 2026, I received an email from Free Press Unlimited, an organisation that describes itself as an international press freedom organisation based in the Netherlands, informing me that it was preparing a report examining what it described as the “delegitimisation” of two Palestinian journalists, Hossam Shabat and Anas al-Sharif, before and after they were killed by Israel.
The organisation informed me that its investigation had identified me as one of the key individuals involved in a network of actors allegedly engaged in discrediting Palestinian journalists and their subsequent assassination by the IDF. It specifically questioned my social media activity, my professional relationships with Israeli institutions and officials, and my meetings with senior members of the Israeli security establishment. It also wanted to know what information I had provided to the IDF about Shabat and al-Sharif, and whether I believed there was a connection between that information and their subsequent deaths.
In other words, an organisation that describes its mission as defending press freedom had decided to investigate my work exposing individuals who were publicly supporting and celebrating Palestinian Islamic terrorism and appears to be suggesting that I am behind their targeting by the IDF.
I found the email particularly revealing, not least because it arrived on 10 November, the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Europe’s Jewish population. Having read its accusations, I decided to respond, despite my profound reservations about the organisation’s approach and the assumptions underpinning its investigation.
What follows is the email I received and my full response to Free Press Unlimited. I am publishing it because I believe the world should be able to judge for itself the nature of the allegations, the evidence surrounding Hossam Shabat, and the questions that organisations claiming to defend press freedom ought to be asking.
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