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Israeli influencer Yoseph Haddad, who is leading a delegation of fellow Israeli Arabs—Muslims, Christians, and Druze—to the U.K. in an effort to confront increasing delegitimization of Israel, took to the London Underground in a video released on Thursday morning to provide passengers with an alternative view of the Jewish state.
Wearing a black jacket with the words “London 2025” printed on the back in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, Haddad, wearing a long yellow ribbon—the symbol of the campaign to free the captives held in Gaza—around his left wrist, began addressing commuters.
Haddad, surrounded by his fellow delegation members, started by asking for people’s attention.
“Usually, you hear anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian messages on the Underground,” he said. “They tell you that Israel is an apartheid state and that it is committing genocide.
“We’re Arabs from Israel, and we’re here to tell you that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hamas murdered and raped Jews and Arabs from Israel. Don’t believe the terrorist sympathizers, and don’t believe Hamas supporters.
“For anyone who tells you that Israel is an apartheid state, we Arabs are here to tell you that they lie. Support our hostages who have been in captivity for 544 days in Gaza. We still have 59 hostages there.”
At the end of his remarks, Haddad, an IDF veteran who was seriously wounded during the Second Lebanon War, cupped his hands to his mouth and began a chant of “Let them go!” referring to the Israeli citizens—alive and dead—who remain in Hamas tunnels.
On Wednesday, Haddad posted on X about a historic event in which “a large delegation of Arabs from Israel, who openly declare that they’re proud to be Arabs and proud to be Israelis, has come to reveal the truth in the British Parliament.
“This is the first time a group of Arab Israelis has come to represent Israel and to project an important, clear voice of absolute support for our country,” he wrote. “This happened despite an attempt to prevent the event from taking place.”
At the end of his post, he warned Britain that it would be next if it did not wake up to the terrorist threat in its midst and entreated it to stand with Israel in the war against terrorism.
The delegation’s main aims are twofold: to provide support for Jewish students who feel increasingly abandoned on their campuses and to extend an invitation to confront uncomfortable truths about the dominant narratives surrounding the Swords of Iron war, Jewish News reported.
The protest, organized by Stop The Hate, Stop The Hate On Campus, and Together—Vouch For Each Other, came to confront those who would shut down debate and who use intimidation tactics to silence Jewish students and their supporters.
In November, Haddad, the CEO of Together—Vouch For Each Other, was part of a quartet of pro-Israel figures—along with British human rights lawyer Natasha Hausdorff, British-Jewish journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti and anti-Hamas activist Mosab Hasan Youssef, who defended the Jewish state in a debate at the Oxford Union, one that descended into chaos and acrimony.
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