Condemned
“This is hate speech against over 1 billion Muslims.”
Tsurkov characterized the rhetoric in the circulated video as hate speech directed at Muslims collectively.
- Speaker
- Elizabeth Tsurkov
- Capacity
- Researcher and commentator
- Observed
- September 5, 2026
- Published here
- September 5, 2026
- Targets
- Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gad Saad
- Classification rationale
- Calling it hate speech against more than a billion Muslims is an explicit condemnation.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Tsurkov was responding to a video shared in connection with Yousef and Saad.
After the quotation
TRT World included the statement in its roundup of reactions to the summit remarks.
Evidence
Complete source record
Fury as ex-Israeli spy delivers bigoted speech against Muslims, Quran and Prophet Muhammad in US (opens in a new tab)
Reaction roundup quoting Mehdi Hasan, Elizabeth Tsurkov, Ragıp Soylu, and CAIR. Used as secondary evidence where the original social posts were not accessible.