Tech for Palestine to Host Leading Muslim Brotherhood Figure Who Praised Boulder Firebomber
Tech for Palestine will host Ezzeldeen Dwedar on Aug. 20, an alleged leading Muslim Brotherhood figure who praised Mohamed Soliman before the Boulder firebomber pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
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Tech for Palestine, a U.S.-based nonprofit that has developed dozens of anti-Israel tech tools for the broader anti-Israel ecosystem, will host Ezzeldeen Dwedar, an alleged leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, at an August 20 online roundtable titled “Winning the Algorithm Wars.”
Dwedar is the founder and general coordinator of ISNAD, a digital influence network that researchers have linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. He and ISNAD have publicly praised Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who pleaded guilty to the June 2025 murder of 82-year-old Karen Diamond during a pro-Israel hostage-awareness rally in Boulder, Colorado.
The event is scheduled for 7 p.m., according to Tech for Palestine’s official listing. The organization presents Dwedar as an Egyptian-Turkish politician and political-media executive who organized thousands of ISNAD volunteers into a “disciplined digital front” operating in influence, technology and the “information and algorithms war.”
Other announced speakers include Palestinian-American content creator Moath Hamzeh; digital-governance specialist Mona Shtaya; and Taysir Mathlouthi, senior European Union advocacy officer at the alleged PFLP-linked 7amleh.
Praising the Boulder Firebomber
In two X posts at the time, Dwedar reshared a propaganda video Soliman had recorded before the attack and praised him for possessing “rare courage.” In another post, Dwedar said Soliman had not merely recorded a video explaining an idea, but had “embodied” and “proved” it through his actions, concluding: “God is the Greatest.”
ISNAD’s Telegram channel separately amplified Soliman’s pre-attack video, circulating what it described as “the full will of the hero Mohamed Soliman.” The channel also forwarded a statement praising those who followed Soliman’s path and “ignited the flames” beneath Israelis. Jewish Onliner previously documented ISNAD’s response to the attack.
Soliman pleaded guilty to 101 state charges, including first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life without parole plus an additional 2,128 years.
Dwedar’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties and Support for Hamas
Dwedar’s association with the Muslim Brotherhood is documented in his own words and in reporting about the organization’s internal leadership.
In a 2013 interview published by the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website, Dwedar said a film he directed faced criticism because of his Brotherhood affiliation. He stated that he did not deny belonging to the organization and was proud of his membership.
Egyptian newspaper Youm7 subsequently identified Dwedar in 2017 as a leader in the Brotherhood’s General Bureau faction. A 2018 report described him as a fugitive Brotherhood leader residing in Turkey.
When Hamas released a new political document in 2017, Dwedar disputed claims that the organization had never been structurally connected to the Brotherhood. He said Hamas had been represented in the Brotherhood’s International Organization, was organizationally subordinate to the Guidance Bureau and had leaders participating in the Brotherhood’s international coordination structures.
Dwedar added that any person who had belonged to the Brotherhood for at least 15 years could attest that Hamas had been part of the organization “organizationally and ideologically.”
In an April 6, 2026 X post, Dwedar wrote: “I am with Hamas.”
His support predates that declaration. In an April 2025 post about the Hamas assault on Sderot, Dwedar praised what he called the “glory and miracles” created by the “angels of October 7.” The attack was part of the wider October 7, 2023 massacre.
Dwedar has also eulogized Hamas terrorist leaders. In a September 4, 2025 X post, he wrote that Yahya Sinwar was in God’s mercy alongside hundreds of “heroes and leaders.” In December, he published a farewell to former Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida and expressed support for his successor.
Researchers Document Israeli Impersonation Network
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) described ISNAD as a foreign intervention campaign presented as a grassroots movement. Its researchers found that ISNAD volunteers used fabricated Israeli identities, artificial intelligence-generated profile pictures, virtual private networks and prepared Hebrew messages accompanied by Arabic instructions.
An INSS analysis of 538 posts from ten identified accounts during the June 2025 Israel-Iran war found that 46.7% attacked the Israeli government, 32.7% promoted despair or hopelessness and 5.9% focused on fear and anxiety.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) identified more than 100 accounts whose attributes and activities it said resembled ISNAD. Approximately one-third connected through mobile applications or app stores outside Israel. X listed most of the remainder as Israeli-based while warning that they might be using proxies.
FDD also found that the accounts drew from a shared message library and lightly rewrote material before distributing it. Iran-related content increased from less than 5% of their output before the 2026 war to more than 20% after fighting began.
INSS senior researcher David Siman-Tov wrote in The Jerusalem Post that ISNAD included a managerial layer, Hebrew-language specialists, designers and technical personnel. He cited a post threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family that was initially treated as an authentic Israeli message before investigators identified it as foreign activity.
ISNAD Distributes Hamas and Al-Qassam Messaging
ISNAD’s public Telegram repeatedly republishes statements from official Hamas accounts and material produced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The channel has also translated Hamas messaging into Hebrew and instructed followers to place it in Israeli comment sections.
In April 2025, ISNAD’s Telegram channel promoted a fatwa from the Muslim Brotherhood-linked International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) declaring armed jihad against Israel obligatory for Muslims. The ten-point decree called on every capable Muslim in the Islamic world to wage armed jihad, with IUMS’s own English-language version stating that “all Muslims and Muslim nations” were obligated to engage in jihad against the “Zionist entity.”
IUMS was founded and long led by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whom Reuters described as a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
ISNAD Extends Its Messaging Into American Politics
After Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Aug. 4, 2026, MEMRI reported that ISNAD congratulated him and contrasted his victory with the defeat of Haley Stevens, whom it called “the Zionist AIPAC candidate.” ISNAD’s message used the hashtag “Gaza Changed the World” and praised El-Sayed’s positions on Israel and Gaza.
Tech for Palestine’s event listing does not address ISNAD’s Israeli impersonation campaign, its distribution of Hamas and Al-Qassam material, its amplification of a jihad fatwa, its praise for the Boulder attacker or Dwedar’s public statements supporting Hamas.