Mainstream Media Lament Deportation of Foreign ‘Journalist’ Who Celebrated Oct 7

ICE on Sunday detained British-born Muslim activist Sami Hamdi over his open support for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel and plans to deport him from the country. Mainstream media outlets from CBS News to CNN to the New York Times have described Hamdi as a "journalist" targeted for criticizing Israel.

Hamdi told a mosque in London to "celebrate the victory" just days after Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel, asking, "How many of you felt the euphoria?" He also accused Israel of manufacturing evidence of Hamas’s sexual violence against Israeli women, saying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu "had to make a lie about rape," according to the Daily Telegraph.