Ghada Sasa, a board member of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and PhD student at McMaster University, said Hamas wasn’t trying to kill Israelis. Sasa joined Ryan Jespersen’s podcast, Real Talk, where she made unsubstantiated claims about what happened Saturday, October 7 at the music festival where at least 260 people died. She asserted Israeli victims killed by Hamas were actually killed by Israelis. .“I was reading about the rave, and I was reading a lot of the people who were killed were actually killed by Israel,” Sasa said. “Like, I was reading um, accounts from like, the Israelis who were at the rave, saying like yeah, Hamas was not trying to kill us, and then the Israelis were just firing at us, and —.”Jesperson interjected before she could complete her sentence. “I want to say, just on the record, I’ve not seen anywhere any allegation [like that],” he said. “Maybe you can share this with us, we’ll be happy to look into it, that Israeli forces killed anybody at the music festival. I haven’t seen that anywhere.”The talk show host pulled up various news articles with headlines about Hamas killing Israelis at the music festival. “And I’m referencing right now, the Poynter Institute, CBS News, CNN, I mean major American reporting outlets, the AP, the CP, so I haven’t seen that,” he said. “I want to make sure I note, obviously there’s a big audience response to your appearance right now but…”
