14-07-2025
At NYC MAS Youth Center, Activist Mosaab Sadeia: Israel 'Shouldn't, Wouldn't, Couldn't, and Won't Exist'; For MEMRI – That's Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky, Not Me
In a May 8, 2025 lecture at the Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center in New York, Mosaab Sadeia, a New York City activist with Tamkeen, said that the Zionist movement and its leaders were not 'God's gift to earth' in terms of brilliance, intelligence, eloquence, or planning. He said Israel is a state 'that shouldn't, wouldn't, couldn't, and won't exist.'
Chiding MEMRI, which he claimed 'love to listen to Sheikh Mohammed [Badawy],' Sadeia said that it wasn't he who made these statements, but Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, whom he mistakenly identified as the head of the Irgun. He went on to misattribute a quote to Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whom he referred to as 'Jacob Jacovitsy,' and incorrectly claimed that Jabotinsky's 1923 essay The Iron Wall was written in 1987. Citing the essay, Sadeia claimed Jabotinsky said: 'If I was Palestinian, I would resist Israel.'
Sadeia added that Jabotinsky understood the root of the Zionist project to be the denial of Palestine as a land and of Islam as a 'civilizing force for good.'
Mosaab Sadeia is affiliated with MAS PACE (Public Affairs and Civic Engagement) in Staten Island, was formerly the outreach director of Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York, and he served as senior community liaison for the New York State Assembly.
