(Another) Washington Post Journalist Loves Hamas and Calls Israel an "Illegal State"

Heba Farouk Mahfouz, a reporter/researcher in The Post’s Cairo bureau, has co-authored 13 articles since January 2025 alone. All were about Israel and Gaza.

What more can be said about The Washington Post’s descent into outright villainy that hasn’t already been said? Once a highly respected newspaper, it has since earned the moniker “Al Jazeera on the Potomac,” largely due to its pathological obsession with demonizing Israel, whitewashing the crimes of genocidal terrorist groups like Hamas, and even scolding the families of Israeli hostages for failing to sufficiently denounce casualties in Gaza—casualties that are solely the result of Hamas launching the war with its October 7 massacre.

A newspaper is only as credible as its journalists, and in the case of The Washington Post, it’s clear that at least some of its reporters have allowed their personal biases to bleed into their coverage.

Enter Heba Farouk Mahfouz. A former journalist for Germany’s DW network and a freelancer for The Times, The Guardian, and PBS, Mahfouz has been with The Washington Post since 2016. She’s also described by Wapo as a “researcher” for its team, which means she plays a role in finding the info and sources used in the paper’s pieces.

I only wish I had caught her blatant antisemitism and support for terrorism earlier—it might have spared us years of egregious coverage.

But since this is what you’re all here for, let’s dive into some of Ms. Mahfouz’s greatest hits, shall we?

Source: Wapo

Heba Farouk Mahfouz’s Greatest Hits

Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s wildly inappropriate for a journalist to report on a country she believes is “illegal” and shouldn’t exist.

Source: Mahfouz X

Ms. Mahfouz calling Israel a “colonial, illegal state.” Again. Source: Mahfouz X

Ms. Mahfouz also thinks that Zionism—the belief in the Jewish right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland—is racism. By the way, the UN revoked its infamous 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution in 1991.

In 2004, while inaugurating the first United Nations conference on antisemitism, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan acknowledged the organization's past failures, stating: “Let us acknowledge that the United Nations’ record on anti-Semitism has at times fallen short of our ideals. The General Assembly resolution of 1975, equating Zionism with racism, was an especially unfortunate decision. I am glad that it has since been rescinded.”

Source: Mahfouz X

On Hamas Terrorism

Ms. Mahfouz’s views on Hamas are unsurprising, given that they both share the same goal of Israel not existing anymore.

While she does concede that she “[doesn’t] like Hamas’ social repression of Palestinians,” she finds it in herself to still “always and forever support the resistance as long as it is against the Zionist entity.” Now that’s real devotion.

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She similarly posted that “I am always and forever with the resistance! And with Hamas and Hezbollah too, as long as their weapons are against Israel….”

Source: Mahfouz X

I’d reach out to Ms. Mahfouz to get her response to all of this, but I suspect that, given what she posted on September 11, 2012, she’d probably just tell me to “F*CK OFF & SHUT THE F*CK UP!”

Source: Mahfouz X

Accountability? Yeah, Right.

It’s been roughly nine years since Ms. Mahfouz joined The Washington Post team. Did nobody, during those approximately 3,200 days, notice her burning desire for Israel to cease existing and for Hamas to terrorize it? Not a single editor? Not a single colleague? I doubt it.

Of course, it’s simply inarguable that Ms. Mahfouz should be kept far away from any newsroom covering Israel and the Palestinians.

But with the way The Washington Post has been operating, expect her to be named Middle East Editor by next week.