Qatari journalist Abdullah Al Ahmadi, who is a former advisor to the Qatari Education Minister, regularly publishes antisemitic content and incites violence against Jews, both in the Arabic language media and on social media.
By Rachel Avraham
According to a recent report published by MEMRI, “Prominent Qatari journalist Abdullah Al-Amadi, former advisor to the Qatari education minister and former deputy editor of the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, frequently publishes antisemitic content and incitement to terrorism and violence against Jews and Israelis in his column in Al-Sharq and on his X account.”
As MEMRI noted, “For example, on May 22, 2025, the day after the terror attack at a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. in which two Israeli Embassy staffers were murdered, he posted on his X account encouragement for more such attacks in Arab countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Israel: “Imagine, where would the Zionists be if there emerged an Egyptian Rodriguez, a Jordanian, an Emirati too, a fourth from Bahrain, and a fifth from Morocco?” The post was removed shortly after it appeared.”
Following MEMRI’s publication of the above report quoting Al-Amadi’s X post, on May 25 he clarified on X, “I am accused of always inciting hatred of Jews,” arguing that the accusation is baseless and he is being slandered because his statements are only “directed against Zionist Jews whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent people in Gaza.”
According to MEMRI, “His denials notwithstanding, over the years MEMRI has monitored, and published, numerous statements and columns by Al-Amadi in Al-Sharq and on X that are replete with blatantly antisemitic content and incitement to violence against Jews and Israelis, and that praise the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and express hope for Israel’s demise.”
As MEMRI noted, “In one of his columns, Al-Amadi asserted that there is no difference between Zionists and Jews, and to anyone who argued that Muslims have no quarrel with the Jews, he answered, “Yes, we do.” In another column, he stated that according to the Quran, the Jews are hostile to the Muslims and will remain so until Judgement Day, and in yet another he claimed that resentment and hatred are ingrained in the cunning, deceitful Jews who are violators of agreements.”
“With regard to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel – in which some 1,200 people were murdered and 251 were taken hostage – he wrote that this was the day when Allah humiliated Israel, adding that Israel’s end was nigh,” MEMRI noted. “Labelling the attack an historic turning point that had saved the honor of the Muslim nation, which he said is in perpetual conflict with Western civilization, he argued that it is only by means of more such attacks that Israel would be restrained, and called to liberate “all of Palestine from the Zionist-Crusader enterprise and to purge its territory of all the filth and contamination of the sons of Zion.””
MEMRI concluded, “It is notable that in an Al-Sharq column in early May, Al-Amadi, who also opposes the normalization between Israel and several Arab countries, called for banning all “pro-Zionist Jews” from entering any Arab and Muslim country. He added that any such Jew found living in any of these countries must be made to feel constant fear for his life.”
