An Ireland-based Palestinian journalist who has contributed to outlets including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Drop Site, Middle East Eye, The New Arab and The Electronic Intifada shared posts on his Instagram story encouraging violence against an Irish pro-Israel commentator, Druze Israeli politicians and Israelis generally.

Abubaker Abed had been based in Gaza and was evacuated during the war, ending up in Ireland. He began his career as a soccer reporter and commentator before shifting to focus on the war when it began in October 2023. Press TV, an Iran state-backed media outlet, named him “Journalist of the Year” last year.

According to screenshots of Abed’s Instagram stories shared by others on X, he called for violence against Israelis and against Rachel Moiselle, a popular pro-Israel Irish commentator, in response to Israel’s passage this week of a death penalty law for Palestinian terrorists. The screenshots are no longer active on Abed’s account and could not be independently verified by Jewish Insider. Abed did not respond to a request for comment.

“We need a woman in Ireland to shut this sellout’s mouth,” Abed posted, sharing a screenshot of a post by Moiselle — despite Moiselle, in the post, expressing full-throated opposition to the death penalty law.

Abed also called for executions of Druze Israeli Knesset members who voted for the death penalty bill, saying, “Weed out the traitors. Execute them wherever they are.”

And, sharing a video of Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, celebrating the law’s passage — an action that garnered criticism from many Israeli and pro-Israel observers — Abed called for Israelis to be hunted down and murdered globally.

“Wiping out Israel off the planet is not enough revenge. Israelis mustn’t feel safe anymore,” he said. “Haunt them and go after them where they go. These terrorist parasites must be removed from our planet.”

Moiselle said she fears for her safety after the post.

“I have purposefully never interacted with or commented on this Hamas-affiliated Palestinian journalist based in Dublin, as it is quite clear he is dangerous,” Moiselle said on X. “I have now been subjected to a very explicit post by him inciting violence against me. It is very strange that I have received this due to a post I made unequivocally condemning Israel’s death penalty bill.”

She said that the post about her is a sign of “how toxic and dangerous the anti-Israel climate has become in this country” and of why she doesn’t feel safe in Ireland and plans to move by the end of the year.

Drop Site reporter and co-founder Ryan Grim brushed off the criticisms. Abed published his most recent story for Drop Site on Tuesday, but last previously wrote for the outlet in early 2025, recounting the story of his evacuation from Gaza.

“This is a note to Fox News and all future outlets who ask for comment on whether a tweet or IG reel from one of our contributors represents our editorial position: No, it doesn’t, that’s not how our editorial operation works, but we also are never going to police the language of anyone who survived a genocide,” Grim said on X.

Grim also defended the sentiments expressed by Abed, saying that Holocaust survivors “held views about regular German and Polish people and spoke about them in ways that we would not consider appropriate in polite society but I would absolutely never tell a Holocaust survivor how to talk about Germans or Poles.”