The leader of a Druze village in the Golan Heights spoke out against the efforts by the world media and the left to dismiss the story of the recent slaughter and raping of his people’s kin in Syria by radical Islamic terrorists and Syrian government forces.
During the Newsmax delegation to Israel, we visited the Ein Qiniyye village on the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, and spoke with Druze mayor Wael Moghrabi about the plight of the Druze people.
Not only did he praise Israel for intervening in Syria to halt the carnage through a bevy of airstrikes, but he emphasized that the attempts by Islamists to exterminate his people underscore why the media and the left whitewashing the story is nothing short of barbaric: “Just like the Nazis in the past, their goal is one: They want to eradicate the Druze community and then they want to eradicate Israel.” He continued, offering up a strong warning to the world media: “They will come with tens of thousands of jihadis to the border with Israel and they will try to eliminate us.”
Moghrabi isn’t alone in calling out the media silence on the attacks on the Druze people. Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation director general Jack Simony wrote in a July 21 op-ed that “[m]uch of the media has ignored the scale of these atrocities — or framed them as tribal clashes, erasing the truth of systematic extermination. This distortion compounds the violence and obscures the urgency of intervention.” British journalist Melanie Phillips also condemned in a July 17 column how “[v]arious media outlets reported these atrocities as ‘tit for tat’ skirmishes between the Druze and Bedouin tribes.”
MRC Business decided to use the opportunity with the Ein Qiniyye mayor to tell the Druze story that the world media was ignoring. Moghrabi highlighted how “the Druze community has been oppressed for centuries. And the Arab world is bashing the Druze just like they did also with the Jews.” What is happening in the city of As Sweida and Jabal al-Druze (also known as “Mountain of the Druze”), said Moghrabi, “they are oppressing the Druze community.”
Moghrabi blasted attempts by media outlets to make Islamist Syrian president Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, out to be some kind of civilian convert after openly leading terrorist organizations like Jabhat al-Nusra and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS). “Suddenly, he’s taking off his Islamist clothes and he puts on a suit and a tie and the entire Western world is hugging him.” He’s right. A litany of media outlets have gone to great lengths to prop up the jihadist al-Jolani as if he had found religion or something, no pun intended.
The BBC ran a ludicrous December 2024 piece headlined, “From Syrian jihadist leader to rebel politician: How Abu Mohammed al-Jolani reinvented himself.”
CNN absurdly framed al-Jolani as a “Syrian rebel leader” whose “goal is to ‘overthrow’ Assad regime” in another December 2024 piece of propaganda. Readers wouldn’t know until the seventh paragraph down that al-Jolani’s HTS was designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
Not to be outdone, a story by the anti-Israel New York Times made al-Jolani out to be some kind of unsung hero against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorial regime: “Leader of Syria’s Resurgent Rebels Lays Out Strategy to Oust Assad.” But it would be his new regime that would be behind wanton slaughter of the Druze people, as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Hussain Abdul-Hussain summarized:
With electricity and internet restored, videos surfaced: hundreds of summary executions, an unarmed Druze man shot by Sharaa’s forces without question, another pleading for his life before being killed for being Druze. Government forces looted shops and homes, desecrated houses of worship and left graffiti vowing to exterminate the Druze and establish an Islamist state.
The massacres are an open indictment upon media organizations that have tried to legitimize al-Jolani, as Moghrabi suggested. “The world does not see the real face of al-Jolani. After he took power, he went to the mosque and in his sermon, he said, ‘We have freed Syria but now we are facing towards Jerusalem. The next goal that we have is to free Jerusalem,” Moghrabi said in warning Americans that al-Jolani’s real mission is jihad against the Jewish State.
As for his people, Moghrabi emphasized that “al-Jolani’s message is very simple: He hates the Druze community. He said that the Druze split off from Islam and that they should be oppressed,” Moghrabi stated. “They regard the Druze as people that betrayed Islam and their faith is to be oppressed.” Al-Jolani, said Moghrabi, “wants to erase all the minorities. He’s trying to eradicate the Druze community and he’s trying to bash Israel.”
The world media should be utterly ashamed of themselves for assisting al-Jolani’s phony attempt to rebrand himself.
