Gretchen Felker-Martin joins a virtual discussion from home. Photo: Screenshot

Gretchen Felker-Martin, an author and film critic who was recently announced as lead writer of the upcoming DC Comics series “Red Hood,” has an extensive history of endorsing terrorist acts and defending the murder of Jews and Israelis, according to a review of the writer’s social media posts. 

In the posts — screenshots of which circulated on X/Twitter and other platforms this week — Felker-Martin appeared to praise Osama bin Laden for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US and expressed support for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.

During the Oct. 7 onslaught, as Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages in the deadliest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Felker-Martin argued that Israeli civilians are “settlers” and an “occupying force whose daily lives serve to grind out the hope, culture, and memory of those they oppress.” She also seemingly defended Hamas’s murdering of Israeli babies, saying that Israel is an “imperialist nightmare” and that Hamas is trying to “survive their rule by any means necessary.”

Hamas is designated by several countries as a terrorist organization.

“You cannot subject human beings to brutal conditions under which no hope for a meaningful future exists and then blame them for violent action taken to correct this state. Free Palestine,” she wrote on Oct. 7. 

Later that month, Felker-Martin wrote that “Zionism is full-fledged Nazism and has accrued mainstream support throughout the west because of that, not in spite of it.”

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As the ensuing war in Gaza continued in the months ahead, Felker-Martin sharpened her criticisms of Israel, condemning Zionists as “crazy” and comparing them to “slime.” The writer also lambasted Neil Druckmann, the Israeli creator of the popular “The Last of Us” video game series, for being a “Zionist.” She encouraged fellow progressives not to support then-US Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, condemning Harris for not “moving an inch on the genocide.” She also falsely accused Israel of inflicting a “famine” in Gaza and repudiated actress Hailee Steinfeld as a “Zionist piece of s**t.” Steinfeld has seemingly not made public statements about Israel but came under fire from leftists after she visited the Jewish state with family in 2019 for a party. 

Felker-Martin separately defended Osama bin Laden’s role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, writing that “blowing up the World Trade Center is probably the most principled and defensible thing he ever did.”

Jewish organizations and antisemitism watchdog groups quickly condemned the remarks. StandWithUs, a nonpartisan pro-Israel organization, urged DC Comics to reconsider hiring Felker-Martin, citing her inflammatory and offensive commentary.

People take part in pro-Hamas protest in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 11, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman

A Belgian hospital has suspended a physician after discovering antisemitic cartoons on his social media accounts, days after defending him for labeling a patient as Jewish in records for no apparent medical reason.

Last week, Dr. Qasim Arkawazy — a radiologist at AZ Zeno Campus Knokke-Heist in the town of Knokke, Belgium — listed “Jewish (Israeli)” as a medical problem in the report of a nine-year-old girl treated for arm pain.

In Belgium, a doctor examined a sick young girl.

In the “medical issues” section, right after allergies, the antisemitic doctor wrote: “Jewish.”

What’s next, refusing to treat Jews?

This is beyond unacceptable. But after this summer, sadly, nothing surprises me anymore. pic.twitter.com/7acuxeEumZ

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 31, 2025

The Jewish Information and Documentation Center (JID), a Belgian nonprofit that combats antisemitism, filed a formal complaint with both law enforcement and the country’s medical authorities, urging a swift response to the incident.

Sparking outrage within Belgium’s Jewish community, this latest controversy reflects a broader wave of antisemitism in health-care settings, raising concern among Jewish patients across Western countries.

Shortly after the incident, the hospital initially defended Arkawazy’s decision to note the patient’s ethnicity “for medical reasons,” later acknowledging it “could be seen as offensive” and confirming that the patient’s digital file had been updated.

However, JID’s complaint prompted an investigation that uncovered several antisemitic posts on Arkawazy’s social media, ultimately leading to his suspension.

According to multiple reports, Arkawazy — a Shi’ite Muslim originally from Baghdad, Iraq — had shared several antisemitic cartoons on Facebook in the months following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.

The posts included a cartoon showing several babies decapitated by the tip of a Star of David, along with an AI-generated image portraying Hasidic Jews as vampires poised to devour a sleeping baby.

SIGNALEMENT : Le Dr. Qasim Arkawazy, radiologue d’origine irakienne exerçant à l’hôpital AZ Zeno dans la station balnéaire de Knokke-Heist, relaie des dizaines de contenus antisémites, islamistes chiites et antisionistes.

Parmi ces publications : un montage ignoble… pic.twitter.com/IDTBYM5j1e

— SwordOfSalomon (@SwordOfSalomon) August 31, 2025

“AZ Zeno immediately launched an internal investigation to carefully map out all the elements; an external investigation is also underway,” the hospital said in a statement.

“The doctor involved was suspended with immediate effect so that the investigation can proceed calmly and thoroughly,” the statement read.

The incident in Belgium comes amid a surge of medical professionals in several Western countries voicing antisemitic sentiments, including outright death threats against Israelis.

Last month, three Dutch hospitals canceled or refused to host lectures by Israeli physician Dr. Amit Frenkel, head of intensive care at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, who was scheduled to speak about treating victims of mass-casualty events, including terrorist attacks.

The hospitals cited “serious concerns” over safety, warning of possible violence from anti-Israel activists.

In Italy, two medical workers filmed themselves at their workplace discarding medicine produced by the Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals in protest against the Jewish state and the war in Gaza.

Meanwhile, a doctor in the UK was allowed to return to work last month after praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during an antisemitic rant and making racist comments about a colleague.

In the UK, other troubling incidents have drawn attention, including one at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), which recently apologized after a patient reported anti-Israel posters displayed at a facility.

The posters — bearing slogans such as “Zionism is Poison,” “Free Palestine,” and accusations that Israel starves and kills Palestinians — left the patient fearing she might receive substandard care if staff learned she was Jewish.

In a separate incident, midwife Fatimah Mohamied, who resigned from her position after her anti-Israel social media posts were exposed, has now filed a claim against Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, alleging a violation of her rights.

In her posts, Mohamied both defended and celebrated the Oct. 7 atrocities and made other antisemitic remarks.

In other Western countries, hostility toward Israel among health-care providers has at times escalated into violent threats.

In the Netherlands, police opened an investigation into nurse Batisma Chayat Sa’id, who allegedly made antisemitic comments and threatened to administer lethal injections to Israeli patients.

The nurse’s alleged threat mirrors a similar incident in Australia, in which video showed two nurses — Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh — posing as doctors and making inflammatory statements.

The widely circulated footage showed Abu Lebdeh declaring she would refuse to treat Israeli patients and instead kill them, while Nadir made a throat-slitting gesture and claimed he had already killed many.

Following the incident, New South Wales authorities in Australia suspended their nursing registrations and banned them from working as nurses nationwide.

They were also charged with federal offenses, including threatening violence against a group and using a carriage service to threaten, menace, and harass.

Udine, Italy, August 13th 2025, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin with Palestinian girl Tala and 9-year old Mohamed from Gaza during the medals ceremony at the UEFA Super Cup match between Paris Saint-Germain (France) and Tottenham Hotspur (England) at Stadium Friuli, Udine, Italy. Photo: Natasa Kupljenik / SPP/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

Aleksander Čeferin, the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), repeated his opposition to banning Israel from international competitions in a new interview with Politico.

The head of European soccer’s governing body made the remarks amid calls to bar Israel from participating in soccer matches around the world, and just as the Spanish soccer team Villarreal caused an uproar among fans for signing Israeli soccer star Manor Solomon.

Čeferin said last month that, in general, he is against banning athletes from competitions. He told Politico the same in relation to Israeli athletes, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, and at the same time condemned what he described as “reckless politicians” for contributing to the “slaughter” of children around the world.

“Look, first of all, what’s happening with civilians there is personally hurting, killing me,” the UEFA president said of Gaza. “From the other point of view, I’m not a supporter of banning the athletes. Because what can an athlete do to their government to stop the war? It’s very, very hard. Now, the ban for Russian teams is, I think, three and a half years. Did the [Ukraine] war stop? It didn’t …  I cannot say what will happen. There are talks about everything, but me personally, I’m against kicking the athletes out.”