The son of one of the founders of Hamas has blasted the terror group’s student supporters in the United States, accusing them of participating in Hamas’ brutal crimes and declaring they “need to go to a mental asylum.”
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, made the remarks as he appeared on “Dr. Phil Primetime” last week to debate two anti-Israel student activists from the University of Michigan.
“It’s very disappointing to see Americans supporting Hamas and thinking that Hamas is a cool thing, while Hamas does not respect any of those followers,” Yousef said on the April 2 episode.
The Hamas defector said the bloodthirsty terrorists would “torture them and massacre them with no mercy.”
Yousef went on to explain how the militants refer to their American supporters as “useful idiots.”
Yousef, who defected to Israel in 1997 and became a spy for the Shin Bet intelligence agency, insisted that anti-Israel protesters “don’t know what they’re supporting.”
He called Hamas a “monster that has been hijacking an entire society and endangering the entire Middle East, pushing the world toward a global war.”
“What’s happening is insanity,” he continued. “Those pro-Palestine need to go to a mental asylum.”
Yousef said he knew what he was talking about because he spent time in prison with Hamas leaders.
“I was born there and part of that culture, part of that religion,” he explained.
“Some people hear about Hamas or they see an avatar of a Hamas fighter carrying a rifle, a ‘freedom fighter,’ and they think it’s a fancy idea to support such a monster.”
When Yousef then took part in a debate with University of Michigan students Salma and Zaynab, he accused them of wearing keffiyehs — or traditional Palestinian scarves — to distract from the fact that they have no legitimacy to speak on behalf of the cause.
“On what authority do you speak?” he asked, rhetorically. “You only speak on the authority of Hamas propaganda.”
Zaynab then interjected, asking why he believed she was simply reciting Hamas talking points.
“Because if you were a decent human being, you can say that the thousands who were killed on Oct. 7, that was a crime against humanity. It was a genocide,” Yousef shot back.
He went on to say that the student activists are proving that Hamas wants to completely destroy Israel.
“We have the problem with the pro-Palestine [people] who are actually giving Hamas cover. They are participating in the crime,” he told the young women.
“I think enough is enough, and now it’s proven — and you’re helping Hamas prove it to the world — that Palestine depends on the destruction of the state of Israel,” he continued.
“You cannot even condemn Hamas and say what they did on Oct. 7 was an act of a savage group.
“And this is not acceptable, and we are not going to agree to it. And I tell you something: For the next 10 – 20 years, the Palestinian people will pay the bill that Hamas has caused and most likely in blood.”
Even Dr. Phil hit out at the student activists after they refused to say whether they condemned the terrorist attack.
“There are some things that are just fundamental human decency, and when I ask you if what happened on Oct. 7 is something you condemn, and you say, ‘Well you have to look at that by looking at hundreds of years of conflict. No you don’t,” the TV show host said.
“That’s either right or it’s wrong — and I don’t need a hundred years of conflict to know it was wrong,” he said to raucous applause.
“Let me tell you something,” Dr. Phil continued, “when someone comes over a fence and goes into someone’s house and burns their infant in its crib, I don’t give a damn why they did it — it’s wrong.”
