Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

Sheikh Izz ad-Din Abd al-Qadr Mustafa Yusuf al-Qassam (Arabic: عزّ الدين القسّام; 1881 or 19 December 1882 – 20 November 1935) was a Syrian Muslim jihadi who led a local struggle against Italian, French and British rule in the Levant and founded militant terror "resistance" organizations against the Zionist immigration to Israel in Mandatory Palestine. He was eliminated by the British.

He was part of a Jihadist struggle to rid the region of anything that challenged Islamist supremacy. His goal was an Islamic state, and living in Haifa his target were the Jews. He preached his hatred to poorer local families and began to recruit for his Black Hand terror gang from amongst them.^[1]

"Al-Qassam became one of the first Muslim religious leaders personally prepared to give up his life in jihad." ^[2]

The military wing of Islamic terror organization Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is named after him,^[3] as are the Qassam rockets fired at Israeli towns around the Gaza Strip.

References

↑ The Long Black Hand of October 7.By David Collier. '"Jewish Press. 14 Shevat 5785 – February 12, 2025.

The Black Hand.
These attacks were being carried out by a terrorist band called the Black Hand. It had its roots in the 1929 massacres, but its base of power was in the north rather than around Jerusalem or Hebron. It was a Jihadist terror group that consisted of several hundred men. They were split into small cells, were often unaware of each other and operated independently.
The goal was eliminationist – to eradicate the Jews from holy Muslim soil – and then to set up a pure Islamic state in the region. These men were hand-picked, paid, and armed by an extremist hate-preacher based in Haifa. His name was Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was not a Palestinian. He was born in the Ottoman district of Jableh, a Mediterranean coastal town in the north of Syria in 1882. His father and grandfather were religious notables, and his grandfather had moved to Syria from Iraq.
As a young man al-Qassam immersed himself in extremist Islamic ideology in Egypt. His Islamic ideology was Jihadist, violent and eliminationist. Upon his return to Syria he actively fought the French – until they sought his arrest for murder. Seeking somewhere to hide – there was no better place than the new British Mandate of Palestine – with its porous borders. He did what many Arabs did at the time – and moved there – his descendants are now all considered ‘indigenous Palestinians’.
al-Qassam opposed all forms of secularism and Arab nationalism in Palestinian Arab society. He was part of a Jihadist struggle to rid the region of anything that challenged Islamist supremacy. His goal was an Islamic state, and living in Haifa his target were the Jews. He preached his hatred to poorer local families and began to recruit for his Black Hand terror gang from amongst them.
The 1935 ending.
And so it went on. Until in November 1935 a British Jewish police officer, Moshe Rosenfeld went out to chase a gang who had been stealing citrus from a local grove. Rosenfeld’s local family history pre-dated the mandate. He had been born in Menahemia while the area was still under Ottoman rule, and his grandfather had helped found Rosh Pina in the early 1880s.
He was murdered by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and his gang. His body was found near a cave at the foot of Mount Gilboa. He had been shot three times.
A week later, the British tracked and surrounded the terrorist gang – killing four in the shootout – including the leader, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Qassamiyun and the Kaffiyeh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was a violent Jihadist – a terrorist extremist – and in life was a failure. He managed to raise terror for a while, killed a few Jews, and was then eliminated. But his message of Jihad was set to continue. Because of the timing of his death – a year before the great Arab revolt – there was a need of heroes for the new Jihad. The Arab paper ‘Falastin’ reported that the last words of al-Qassam were a call for a fight to the death and religious Jihad. Al-Qassam told his men not to surrender and to die as martyrs. A myth was being born.
In 1936 when the violent Arab revolt began, many of the terrorists began to identify themselves as ‘Qassamiyun’, or ‘Qassamites’. And to shield their identity, these terrorists began to wear a symbolic scarf covering – the Keffiyeh.
It is therefore no surprise that when the Jihadist movement Hamas was created, with its fundamental eliminationist ideology, the name given to those who set out to kill the Jews was the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades’. This is the name of the Hamas ‘military arm’. When they developed rockets to randomly fire at Jewish civilians – they called them ‘Qassam rockets’.
It was their choice to name themselves after a man who set out to randomly kill Jews as part of his Jihad, and Hamas is simply following in his footsteps. His goal is their goal. This Jihad has nothing to do with human rights, or even Palestinian self-determination, that is all a front to con the west into supporting genocide. Their goal is all about Islamic purity and killing Jews. Just as it was in 1931.
↑ Rubenstein, R. L. (2010). Jihad and Genocide. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p.67
↑ Alexander, Y. (2021). Palestinian Religious Terrorism: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Netherlands: Brill. [1]

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."

[1] The Long Black Hand of October 7.By David Collier. '"Jewish Press. 14 Shevat 5785 – February 12, 2025.

The Black Hand.
These attacks were being carried out by a terrorist band called the Black Hand. It had its roots in the 1929 massacres, but its base of power was in the north rather than around Jerusalem or Hebron. It was a Jihadist terror group that consisted of several hundred men. They were split into small cells, were often unaware of each other and operated independently.
The goal was eliminationist – to eradicate the Jews from holy Muslim soil – and then to set up a pure Islamic state in the region. These men were hand-picked, paid, and armed by an extremist hate-preacher based in Haifa. His name was Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was not a Palestinian. He was born in the Ottoman district of Jableh, a Mediterranean coastal town in the north of Syria in 1882. His father and grandfather were religious notables, and his grandfather had moved to Syria from Iraq.
As a young man al-Qassam immersed himself in extremist Islamic ideology in Egypt. His Islamic ideology was Jihadist, violent and eliminationist. Upon his return to Syria he actively fought the French – until they sought his arrest for murder. Seeking somewhere to hide – there was no better place than the new British Mandate of Palestine – with its porous borders. He did what many Arabs did at the time – and moved there – his descendants are now all considered ‘indigenous Palestinians’.
al-Qassam opposed all forms of secularism and Arab nationalism in Palestinian Arab society. He was part of a Jihadist struggle to rid the region of anything that challenged Islamist supremacy. His goal was an Islamic state, and living in Haifa his target were the Jews. He preached his hatred to poorer local families and began to recruit for his Black Hand terror gang from amongst them.
The 1935 ending.
And so it went on. Until in November 1935 a British Jewish police officer, Moshe Rosenfeld went out to chase a gang who had been stealing citrus from a local grove. Rosenfeld’s local family history pre-dated the mandate. He had been born in Menahemia while the area was still under Ottoman rule, and his grandfather had helped found Rosh Pina in the early 1880s.
He was murdered by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and his gang. His body was found near a cave at the foot of Mount Gilboa. He had been shot three times.
A week later, the British tracked and surrounded the terrorist gang – killing four in the shootout – including the leader, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam.
Qassamiyun and the Kaffiyeh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was a violent Jihadist – a terrorist extremist – and in life was a failure. He managed to raise terror for a while, killed a few Jews, and was then eliminated. But his message of Jihad was set to continue. Because of the timing of his death – a year before the great Arab revolt – there was a need of heroes for the new Jihad. The Arab paper ‘Falastin’ reported that the last words of al-Qassam were a call for a fight to the death and religious Jihad. Al-Qassam told his men not to surrender and to die as martyrs. A myth was being born.
In 1936 when the violent Arab revolt began, many of the terrorists began to identify themselves as ‘Qassamiyun’, or ‘Qassamites’. And to shield their identity, these terrorists began to wear a symbolic scarf covering – the Keffiyeh.
It is therefore no surprise that when the Jihadist movement Hamas was created, with its fundamental eliminationist ideology, the name given to those who set out to kill the Jews was the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades’. This is the name of the Hamas ‘military arm’. When they developed rockets to randomly fire at Jewish civilians – they called them ‘Qassam rockets’.
It was their choice to name themselves after a man who set out to randomly kill Jews as part of his Jihad, and Hamas is simply following in his footsteps. His goal is their goal. This Jihad has nothing to do with human rights, or even Palestinian self-determination, that is all a front to con the west into supporting genocide. Their goal is all about Islamic purity and killing Jews. Just as it was in 1931.

[2] Rubenstein, R. L. (2010). Jihad and Genocide. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p.67

[3] Alexander, Y. (2021). Palestinian Religious Terrorism: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Netherlands: Brill. [1]

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