Mohammad Alian had been one of 1,150 terrorists released in the 1985 Jibril deal in exchange for three IDF soldiers.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
In a first, the Israeli Bar Association (IBA) permanently disbarred a lawyer Sunday for publicly supporting Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion and massacre.
As Hamas terrorists filmed and posted their killings on Simchat Torah morning, Mohammad Alian wrote on Facebook: “This is a ray of hope that destroys the shadows of the immense darkness, and there is no harm in being very optimistic.”
The post received hundreds of likes and supportive comments, which Alian “liked” in return.
He posted twice more that day: “The First Lesson: We can if we want,” and, “The Second Lesson: This tiger is a paper tiger,” referring to Israel. Both drew positive reactions.
This led to his arrest and a subsequent plea deal in which he was sentenced to one year in prison on six counts of supporting terrorism and identifying with a terrorist organization.
The human rights organization Betzalmo quickly filed a complaint with the association’s Ethics Office demanding Alian’s disbarment, calling it “incomprehensible” that he could still serve as a lawyer after such incitement.
Betzalmo CEO Shai Glick told World Israel News that the case was even more “delusional” because Alian had once been sentenced to life in prison before his release in what was then Israel’s largest terrorists-for-soldiers swap.
In May 1985, Israel exchanged three IDF soldiers captured in the First Lebanon War and held by Ahmed Jibril’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command for 1,150 Palestinian terrorists.
Besides a young Alian, among those released terrorists was the eventual spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
“Terrorists receive life sentences for murder or abetting murder,” he pointed out, yet Alian had received special permission from the IBA to practice law in 2006.
There was more proof since then that Alian has continued sympathizing with terrorism.
In October 2015, Alian’s son, Bahaa, and an accomplice murdered three Jews on a Jerusalem bus before Border Police killed Bahaa and seriously wounded his partner.
Afterward, Alian lectured extensively in Arab schools about his son’s “legacy.”
He was exposed by the Lech Yerushalayim organization, which filed a police complaint accusing him of incitement and raising money to rebuild homes of terrorists destroyed by security forces.
In its decision to permanently remove his license to practice law, the association cited “public interest,” due to Alian’s “lack of remorse” and “the exceptional circumstances of supporting the enemy during wartime,” as well as “the enormous risk involved in his public statement … his public status and the large number of followers” – reportedly over 30,000 on various social media.
Glick welcomed the decision and urged the IBA “to expel any attorney who incites or supports the Oct. 7 massacre.”
“The Chamber has a large number of complaints on its desk about attorneys who supported the massacre, and some of them have been charged with extremely serious offenses,” he added, and none of them should be above the law.
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