Former University of Adelaide student magazine editor Habibah Jaghoori seemingly praises Iran’s attacks on Israel

A former uni student magazine editor has made social media posts praising Hezbollah’s deceased leader after seemingly declaring attacks on Israel were “beyond magnificent”.

Former Adelaide University Gaza Solidarity Encampment organiser Habibah Jaghoori has praised fallen Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah,

A former University of Adelaide student magazine editor, who had charges of producing or distributing extremist material dropped earlier this year, has now posted on social media seemingly in praise of Hezbollah’s slain leader and Iran’s attacks on Israel this week.

Habibah Jaghoori, whose X profile page says “My revolutionary children, do not think that the war is over”, on September 21 posted: “The fight for Palestine will free us. The blood of our martyrs will guide us”.

Habibah Jaghoori has posted on social media seemingly in praise of Hezbollah’s slain leader and Iran’s attacks on Israel this week.. Picture Dean Martin

In sharing a post from Iran’s Foreign Minister announcing his nation’s high-speed missile barrages at Israel on Tuesday night, Ms Jaghoori commented on Wednesday: “Take this with a side of cope.”

Ms Jaghoori, who earlier this year was one of the University of Adelaide Gaza solidarity encampment organisers, has reposted images of the Hezbollah flag, as well as the former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in an Israeli air strike on September 27.

On September 20, before he was killed, Ms Jaghoori posted that Nasrallah “speaks with so much power and truth that it makes enemies around the world tremble with fear”.

After The Advertiser contacted Ms Jaghoori via social media, she made all her tweets private.

Ms Jaghoori, who has previously said she is anti-Zionist but not anti-Jewish, did not respond to a request for an interview.

The day after Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, the former On Dit student magazine editor posted she was in “ … so much awe” and that “the total liberation of Palestine will be so sweet”.

On October 8, she posted “it’s beyond magnificent what we are witnessing.”

Ms Jaghoori has also shared other people’s social media posts praying for the second coming of Imam Mahdi. Picture: NCA NewsWire

Ms Jaghoori has also shared other people’s social media posts praying for the second coming of Imam Mahdi, a Quranic mythological figure whose return is said to signal the end of times and ridding the world of evil and injustice in some sects of Islam.

The posts she shared included one in February this year that said the world would be “freed and cleared of the existence of Zionists” on his return.

In March, police prosecutors dropped a charge of producing or distributing extremist material against Ms Jaghoori. The charge related to her pro-Palestine social media posts.

She left the Adelaide Magistrates Court to applause from a crowd of pro-Palestinian supporters.

She held up a sign reading “resistance is a human right” and in a speech on the court steps she claimed the “bogus” charge was a “Zionist and police intimidation tactic”.

In September 2022, Ms Jaghoori stepped down from the editorial team of On Dit after she wrote an article listing incidents of Israeli violence against Palestinians, arguing it was “ethnic cleansing” and ending with the line “Free Palestine and Death to Israel”.

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Habibah Jaghoori - X Posts.

The board of student union YouX removed her as an editor, saying it was not over the article but her subsequent behaviour where she had “numerous opportunities to clarify her position and dispel any misinterpretation”.

Ms Jaghoori’s conduct at the university, and her online posts, were raised in the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s August submission to the federal parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Anti-Semitism at Australian Universities.

The Advertiser has confirmed the former Adelaide student magazine editor in the report, whose named is redacted, is Ms Jaghoori. The report says the institute is monitoring her over her online support for listed terrorist organisation Hezbollah.

The institute says universities need to take Jewish student complaints about anti-Semitism “more seriously” and expresses concern that X had not taken down Ms Jaghoori’s offensive posts.

Australia has designated Hezbollah – a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group backed by Iran – as a terrorist organisation since 2021. Hezbollah functions under the guardianship of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni.

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