Left Party MP Spread Hamas Conspiracy - Backed Pride Flag Ban

SWEDEN - Left Party MP Mohamed Ali claimed Mossad, the CIA and MI6 knew about Hamas's October 7 attack in advance - and that Israel wanted to look like a victim. Aftonbladet uncovered the post. Freelance journalist Joakim Lamotte has now shown that the same account also backed a ban on pride flags on government buildings.

The X post went up on 9 October 2023, two days after Hamas murdered about 1,200 Israeli civilians and took hundreds more hostage. Ali wrote that Western intelligence services knew the attack was coming.

"Mossad, CIA and MI6 knew that Hamas attacks would happen. Israel wants to look like a victim ahead of the coming war they have sought," he posted.

Aftonbladet identified a previously unknown X account as belonging to the Left Party lawmaker. The claim implied Israel had allowed the massacre to create a pretext for war. Israeli intelligence had seen documents describing similar attack plans. There is no evidence Israel deliberately let the assault go ahead.

"A hasty post"

Ali was not available for an interview. In a written reply to Aftonbladet he disowned the claim.

"The post was written two days after Hamas's attack on Israel, at a time when uncertainty was high and many speculated about what had happened and what might follow. It was a hasty post that I shortly afterwards realised was inappropriate and lacked foundation," he wrote.

He says he should have deleted it but forgot. The account had been largely inactive for a long time, he added, and the post does not reflect his views today.

Party: three years old, before parliament

Left Party group leader Samuel Gonzalez Westling said the party had spoken with Ali after Aftonbladet's report.

"He has explained that he regrets what he wrote and does not stand behind the content. That is good, because that kind of conspiracy theory does not belong in the Left Party. The post was written three years ago, long before he was elected to parliament," Westling wrote.

So the party's message is that Ali no longer backs the conspiracy. His own explanation for leaving it online is that he missed deleting it.

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"Yes pls" to banning pride flags

After Aftonbladet's scoop, Lamotte dug into another reply from the same account. It was posted on 9 November 2024 - more than a year after the Hamas claim.

The account answered "Yes pls" to a post from @realTrumpNewsX. That account has since been suspended, so the original question was no longer visible on X. Using archived data in the Wayback Machine, Lamotte reconstructed the prompt:

"Do you think that pride flags should be banned from all government buildings? YES or NO?"

The Left Party presents itself as a defender of LGBT rights, and its representatives regularly take part in Pride. Neither Ali nor the party has so far answered Lamotte's findings. The party's statement that Ali has changed his mind covers only the Hamas conspiracy post.