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‘Pro-Palestine’ Activist Spewing Anti-Israel Rhetoric Identified as Hamas-Supporting CEO of US Medical Company

Saiaf Abdallah. Photo: Screenshot

A pro-Palestinian activist who was kicked out of a gym this week and arrested while wearing a shirt that said “Israel Kills Children” has been identified as a Hamas supporter and the head of a health-care company in Arizona.

The antisemitism watchdog group Canary Mission revealed in an Instagram post on Thursday that Saiaf Abdallah is the CEO of Voyage Medical Primary Care in Tempe, Arizona, a company founded in 2017. He has a “background in health care, vaccines, and clinical research,” and “holds a variety of seminars and educational classes to help the community better understand both vaccines and research,” according to the website for the health-care provider. He has been CEO of Voyage Medical since March 2023, according to his LinkedIn page.

According to Canary Mission, less than a month after the Oct. 7, 2023, deadly terrorist attack in Israel that was orchestrated by the Hamas terrorist organization, Abdallah tweeted, “Hamas is eating your b—ch a—s soldiers … Liberation is gonna get shoved down your f—kin throat.”

In November 2023, Abdallah was arrested for disruptive behavior at a pro-Palestinian protest at Arizona State University and banned from the school’s property for one year. He has a bachelor’s degree from ASU and a master’s degree from Grand Canyon University. In December of that same year, he voiced support for Palestinian “resistance” against the Jewish state and violence against Israel.

“I wish we could call on America to send the Palestinians more weapons,” he said. “I want America to send tanks and F-16s to the Palestinians. And rifles and AK-47s. Let them take up arms. That’s the truth. That’s what should be happening … cough up some money and give weapons to the Palestinians. Let them resist.”

Canary Mission shared details about Abdallah in an Instagram post as well as a video about the incident that took place at a gym in Gilbert, Arizona, recently while he wore an anti-Israel shirt. Abdallah responded to the post by Canary Mission, writing, “I’m on Canary? How come no one mentioned it?! I’m gonna get dressed up and celebrate.”

Abdallah shared on social media this week that he was kicked out of the Life Time gym in Gilbert and arrested when he disregarded demands by gym management to leave the facility. During the ordeal, Abdallah was wearing a shirt that said “Israel Kills Children.” He said when he arrived at the gym, a staff member asked him to take off the garment and he refused. Not long afterward, the gym’s manager told Abdullah he must leave the premises for not having “an active membership,” or the gym would call the police. When Abdallah refused, police officers arrived and arrested him for trespassing.

During the incident, he made anti-Israel comments to both the manager of Life Time gym and Gilbert police officers. “There’s a Holocaust going on in Palestine,” he claimed. “There are no more gyms left in Palestine, you guys bombed all of them. Free Palestine.”

The post ‘Pro-Palestine’ Activist Spewing Anti-Israel Rhetoric Identified as Hamas-Supporting CEO of US Medical Company first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

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Italian Port Blocks Arms for Israel as Worker Protests Mount

Illustrative: Demonstrators participate in a pro-Palestinian protest in Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy, on Nov. 23, 2024. Photo: Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect

The Italian Adriatic port of Ravenna on Thursday refused entry to two trucks said to be carrying arms to Israel, as protests mount among Italian dockworkers and other labor groups against the offensive in Gaza.

The center-left mayor of Ravenna, Alessandro Barattoni, told reporters the port authority had accepted the request from him and the regional government to deny access to the lorries carrying explosives en route to the Israeli port of Haifa.

“The Italian state says it has blocked the sale of arms to Israel but it is unacceptable that, thank to bureaucratic loopholes, they can pass through Italy from other countries,” Barattoni said in a statement.

He did not provide details on where the containers had come from or provide evidence of their contents.

Similar action to block arms shipments to Israel has been taken by dockworkers in other European countries such as France, Sweden, and Greece.

Ravenna’s decision reflects growing mobilization in Italy against Israel‘s military campaign and in support of an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to the Palestinians.

A spokesperson from the Israeli embassy in Rome said they did not have sufficiently detailed information about the case and so declined to comment. Israel‘s government sometimes accuses Europea nations of bias against it and swallowing propaganda by the Hamas terrorist group whom it is fighting in Gaza.

On Friday Italy’s largest trade union body, the CGIL, will hold a national half-day strike and marches in Rome and other cities, while on Sept. 22 two other unions will halt work and try to block activity in the large ports of Genoa and Livorno.

“We won’t let a single pin through the port,” said Riccardo Rudino from the Calp dockers’ union in Genoa.

Israel launched its offensive after Hamas-led terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

The CGIL said its protests were aimed at generating pressure on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government “to suspend all commercial and military cooperation agreements with Israel, lift the humanitarian embargo, and recognize the State of Palestine.”

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday Italy would support EU sanctions against violent Israeli settlers and Israeli ministers who have made “unacceptable” comments on Gaza and the West Bank, and was open to considering trade sanctions.

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Israeli Tanks, Infantry Advance in Gaza City Offensive as Enclave Hit by Telecoms Blackout

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes during a military operation, in Gaza City, Sept. 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

Israeli tanks were advancing on Thursday in two Gaza City areas that are gateways to the city center, while internet and phone lines were cut off across the Gaza Strip, a sign that ground operations were likely to further escalate imminently.

Israeli forces control Gaza City’s eastern suburbs and in recent days have been pounding the Sheikh Radwan and Tel Al-Hawa areas, from where they would be positioned to advance on central and western areas where most of the population is sheltering.

In separate developments, Israel attacked Hezbollah military targets in southern Lebanon, while two Israelis were killed at Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, in what the Israeli military called a “terror attack.”

INFANTRY, TANKS, ARTILLERY ADVANCING TOWARDS INNER CITY

Israeli army spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said Israeli forces had been operating in the periphery of Gaza City for several weeks but since the night of Monday to Tuesday large numbers of troops had begun moving towards the inner city.

He said a combination of infantry, tanks, and artillery was advancing, backed up by the air force, and that it was a gradual process that would increase as time went on.

“The strategy right now is to defeat Hamas and apply pressure on Hamas, which can lead to a deal or can lead to rescue missions [to free hostages],” Shoshani told Reuters on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.

A total of 48 hostages captured during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, remain in Gaza and Israeli officials believe around 20 are still alive.

Hostage families have been imploring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the offensive on Gaza and instead negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas to free their loved ones, but Netanyahu says military victory will bring them home.

The armed wing of Hamas said on Thursday the hostages were distributed throughout the neighborhoods of Gaza City.

“The start of this criminal operation and its expansion means you will not receive any captive, alive or dead,” it said in a written statement.

MANY FLEEING AMID TELECOMS BLACKOUT, MANY MORE STAYING PUT

The Palestinian Telecommunications Company said in a statement that its services had been cut off “due to the ongoing aggression and the targeting of the main network routes.”

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled Gaza City since Israel announced on Aug. 10 it intended to take control, but a greater number are staying put, either in battered homes among the ruins or in makeshift tent encampments.

The military has been dropping leaflets urging residents to flee towards a designated “humanitarian zone” in the south of the territory, but aid agencies say conditions there are dire, with insufficient food, medicine, shelter, and basic hygiene.

The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that critical shortages of blood in Gaza hospitals could see key services grind to a halt within days.

FAMILIES WITH BELONGINGS EVACUATE TOWARDS THE SOUTH

Along the coastal road, an unbroken column of every type of vehicle from carts and beaten-up cars to vans designed to carry goods was moving south, heavily laden with mattresses, gas cylinders, and entire families perching on their belongings.

“We are heading to go sleep on the streets towards the beach, like this, barefoot, we don’t know where to go,” said Yasser Saleh, speaking as he stood on the edge of a rickety trailer being pulled by a car.

The war was triggered by the Oct. 7 attacks, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.

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Syria’s Foreign Minister in Washington, a First in 25 Years

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, July 31, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Pool

Syria’s foreign minister arrived in Washington on Thursday, the first official visit at that level in more than 25 years as the US makes a pro-Damascus policy push, lifting sanctions and mediating between the new Islamist rulers and Israel.

Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani will meet US lawmakers to discuss the lifting of remaining US sanctions on his country, Senator Lindsey Graham was quoted as saying by Axios. Two sources familiar with the trip confirmed the visit to Reuters.

It comes after some senior US diplomats focused on Syria were abruptly let go from their posts amid Washington‘s pivot, as the US seeks to integrate its longtime Syrian Kurdish allies with the central administration of President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The United States has also been mediating between Israel and Syria. Sharaa, who is due to visit New York next week for the UN General Assembly, said negotiations to reach a security pact with Israel could yield results “in the coming days.”

The United States had placed crippling sanctions on Syria since 2011 after former President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran and Russia, cracked down protests against him that triggered an almost 14-year civil war.

After he was toppled by Sharaa’s forces in a quick sweep in December, Washington and Damascus have been working to warm up ties, with US President Donald Trump announcing that he would move to lift the sanctions after meeting Sharaa in May.

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