Drop Site's Terror-Tied Reporter Roster Just Got Longer
CNN cut ties with Abdel Qader Sabbah after his Hamas links were exposed. Drop Site made him one of their main reporters. The pattern here isn't subtle.
When I published my original piece on Drop Site News in January 2025, I noted that the outlet was seeking its own 501(c)(3) status while employing contributors with apparent documented ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Since then, nothing has changed — except that Drop Site has added another name to its roster that makes the pattern even harder to excuse.
That name is Abdel Qader Sabbah. And the twist is that the Soros-funded Drop Site didn’t stumble onto him before anyone knew who he was. They picked him up after CNN already dropped him.
Abdel Qader Sabbah
In July 2024, HonestReporting published an investigation into Sabbah’s social media history that was damning enough to prompt CNN to announce it would no longer use his material. Drop Site’s response, apparently, was to make him one of their main reporters.
The HonestReporting investigation found that Sabbah had photographed himself alongside US Treasury-sanctioned Hamas leader Mahmoud A-Zahar, captioning the image with a reference to A-Zahar as “commander.” He wore the uniform of the General Training Directorate — a Hamas-run body — and produced promotional video content for it.
In 2014, as discovered by Honest Reporting, he praised as a “hero” Hamas’ suicide bomber Izz A-Din Al-Masri, who had blown himself up in a Jerusalem restaurant in 2001, killing 16 people, including children. Sabbah’s praise came as Israel returned the terrorist’s body to the Palestinian Authority 13 years later.
He also shared a Qassam Brigades propaganda video with green and black heart emojis months before October 7th, and circulated Hamas media censorship guidelines during the 2021 conflict — including instructions not to film rocket launch sites.
CNN’s response, after HonestReporting published its findings, was to acknowledge it had been unaware of Sabbah’s posts, call them “highly offensive,” and cut ties with him. Drop Site apparently reached the opposite conclusion. As of April 2026, Sabbah continues writing for the outlet.
His sympathies haven’t changed either. On December 29, 2025, when Hamas announced the death of its spokesman Abu Obeida, Sabbah posted a tribute — an image of a flag-draped coffin accompanied by the Arabic phrase “إلى رحمة الله ورضوانه” (”To the mercy and pleasure of God”) — a traditional Islamic expression used to honor the deceased, deployed here for a man designated as a terrorist by the United States.
CNN fired him. Drop Site made him one of their main reporters. Then again, this is the same outlet whose co-founder Ryan Grim can look at images of an Al Jazeera journalist training with RPGs in an actual Hamas uniform and wave it off without a second thought.
Now, for those of you in need of a refresher, here’s the rest of the Drop Site gang’s reporters who are either tied to terrorist organizations or who love themselves some terrorism, as I previously exposed:
Hossam Shabat
Drop Site ran articles by the now-deceased Hossam Shabat, confirmed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to be a Hamas sniper.
Seeing as the IDF has already confirmed Hossam’s Hamas membership, I will not break down my own findings. However, some of Hossam’s glorification of terror can be found on this thread I previously published.
Mujahed al-Saadi
Another Drop Site contributor, Mujahed also writes for Palestine Today TV, which belongs to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization (as confirmed by the State Department as well).
You can see my full breakdown of Mujahed’s apparently close relationship with Islamic Jihad officials, including the infamous (now deceased) leader Khader Adnan, in this thread I published several months back.
AbuBaker Abed
Despite his baby-face exterior, Abed has expressed support for terrorism, including the October 7th massacre, expressed antisemitic sentiments, and called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”
On X, Abed has posted antisemitic content such as “In Your hands, O Lord, are all matters. O God, bestow Your curse upon the Jews. O God, crush them, burn them, and shake the earth beneath them. O Lord, O Lord, O Lord.”
On the morning of October 7th, Abed posted a video of Hamas terrorists – whom he refers to as “freedom fighters” – invading Israel and wrote “glad tidings are spread around Gaza” (archived link here).
During Operation Epic Fury, he encouraged his followers to violence against Irish pro-Israel activist Rachel Moiselle.
Abubaker Abed@AbubakerAbedWيا الله يا كريم، اللهم انتقم لنساء غزة المظلومات فلا لغة ولا كلام ولا سطور تعبر عن غضبنا. في يدك يا رب الأمور، اللهم أحل على اليهود لعنتك. اللهم اخسف بهم وحرّقهم وزلزل الأرض بهم. يا رب، يا رب، يا رب All what we have after women raped in Gaza is to pray for Allah to revenge8:01 AM · Mar 24, 2024 · 399 Views3 Reposts · 4 Likes
Ahlam Al Nafed al Talouli
Ahlam Al Nafed al Talouli, whom Drop Site acknowledges “was a trusted source, providing detailed reporting, video, and information to Drop Site News and others” before she was killed in January 2025.
On the morning of October 7th, Ahlam posted a video of Hamas terrorists invading Israel and wrote “Deployment of Al-Qassam members inside the occupation’s settlements. May God protect them, and may our Lord be with them, O Lord.”
Ahlam also posted on October 7th that the scenes from the attack are “something we never imagined even in our best dreams.”
Other posts in support of October 7th can be found here and here.
Additional examples of Ahlam’s support for terrorism and violence can be found here.
While the First Amendment is sacred and nonnegotiable, it does not grant outlets the right to employ individuals with ties to terrorism. Similarly, while people are free to express abhorrent ideas—including pro-terror views—this should not be subsidized by American taxpayers.
For these reasons, the U.S. government should deny Drop Site’s application for 501(c)(3) status and revoke its current fiscal sponsorship through the Social Security Works Education Fund.
Beyond that, Congress and the Department of Justice should open a formal investigation into the outlet’s relationships with US-designated terrorist organizations. An outlet that repeatedly and knowingly platforms individuals tied to Hamas and Islamic Jihad — even after those individuals have been rejected by mainstream outlets on exactly those grounds — warrants scrutiny that goes well beyond a denied tax exemption.