Trump Shares Goldstein Critique Of Hamas Propaganda

NEW YORK (VINnews) — President Donald Trump on Thursday amplified a social media post by attorney and activist Brooke Goldstein that accused much of the news media of repeating Hamas messaging on Gaza and of faulting White House envoy Jared Kushner for the slow pace of reconstruction.

Goldstein, executive director of The Lawfare Project and a leader of the End Jew Hatred campaign, later thanked Trump for circulating the post. She said the president was refusing to let “terrorists and their sympathizers rewrite the truth,” language she directed at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America.

The original Goldstein post, which Trump republished on his account, argued that years of international support had allowed Hamas to entrench itself among civilians in Gaza and use them as human shields. She wrote that large parts of the press then amplified the group’s narrative, and she defended Kushner after a reporter pressed him over conditions in the enclave.

Trump added a brief comment of his own, praising what he called a “classic answer” by Kushner to a “hostile” reporter.

Goldstein’s follow-up post, published Thursday afternoon, framed the presidential share as a public rebuke of Hamas propaganda. She said Mamdani and the DSA “should take note.”

Mamdani, a Democrat and DSA member who took office Jan. 1, has been a frequent target of Goldstein and other Jewish activists over his record on Israel and antisemitism. Goldstein helped organize a large protest outside Gracie Mansion in May and has accused City Hall of failing to treat Jewish New Yorkers’ civil rights as nonnegotiable.

The mayor’s office did not immediately comment on Goldstein’s latest remarks.

Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a lead U.S. envoy on Gaza, has spent recent weeks trying to advance a stalled plan to demilitarize the strip and begin reconstruction. Speaking in Kyiv on Sunday, he said Washington was “now starting to understand the scope of the militarization of Gaza,” adding that the scale was “beyond your comprehension.” He also said Israeli politics ahead of October elections had made Jerusalem “a little irrational” on the file — comments that drew sharp pushback from Israeli officials and pro-Israel commentators.

Goldstein’s post treated that media questioning of Kushner as misplaced. In her telling, the core problem is Hamas’s use of civilians and the willingness of some outlets to recycle the group’s claims.

Hamas, which the United States designates as a terrorist organization, carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and triggered the war in Gaza. Disarmament of the group remains the central unresolved issue in U.S.-backed talks.

Goldstein is a human-rights lawyer who has represented Jewish plaintiffs in campus discrimination cases and has long argued that Hamas and its allies wage a dual campaign of violence and information warfare. Trump’s decision to share her post gives that argument a White House megaphone in the days before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.