On January 8, 2023, a memorial ceremony marking three years since the IRGC shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 was held in Toronto by the Association of Victims’ Families of Flight PS752. At the event, the association’s founder Hamed Esmaeilion, whose wife and daughter had been aboard Flight 752, said that the Islamic Republic is a “mafia gang” and a “tyrannical state that produces nothing but terrorism, repression, and injustice.” He said that the Islamic Republic does not represent the Iranian people, and he spoke about the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini and of protestors killed and executed by the Iranian regime. In addition, he expressed hope that Iran will face justice in the ICJ, and he said that the families of the victims live for a day of freedom and justice in a democratic Iran in which women and girls can decide for themselves what they wear. He added: “We live for a day without the Islamic Republic and [without] the criminals who ruin that beautiful country.” The event was also attended by Mayor of Toronto John Tory, and videos from the ceremony were posted to the association’s YouTube account.

On January 5, 2023, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spoke to Karim Yunis, an Israeli-Arab terrorist and a member of Fatah’s Central Committee who was just released from Israeli prison. Abbas congratulated him on his release and said that Palestinians will not make any concessions regarding the prisoners. The video of the phone call was posted on Abbas’s official Facebook page.On January 19, 2023, Abbas also spoke to Israeli-Arab terrorist Maher Yunis to congratulate him upon his release. Abbas said: “You and Karim are dignitaries of the Palestinian people.” Video of this phone call was posted on the Facebook page of Palestine TV.Karim and Maher Yunis are two cousins from the Israeli town of ‘Ara and were recently released after serving 40 years in prison for murdering an Israeli soldier named Avraham Bromberg in 1980.

Dr. Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, said in a January 23, 2023 interview on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) that that the basis for military resistance is a resistance “culture” and that there can be no martyrs in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq or elsewhere without the wives and mothers who prepare their husbands and sons for martyrdom.

In a January 17, 2023 show on Awda TV (Palestinian Authority), Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muhammad Al-Lahham praised Palestinian terrorists Raad Hazem and Diaa Hamarsheh, as well as the 2001 PFLP assassination of Israel’s Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze’evi. He said that the Palestinians are nearing a stage in which there will be more blood and more confrontation, and he stated that Fatah is capable of retaliating against all of the “occupation’s crimes.” He also said that young Fatah men and women are ready to set out and sacrifice themselves in order to “impose a curfew” on Tel Aviv and in the settlements.

American activist Alison Weir said in an interview with Channel 4 (Iran) that aired on January 14, 2023 that the “the Jewish establishment” in the United States is behind the wars against Iraq and Iran. She said that the Zionist lobby pays congressmen to support Israel, and that these congressmen comply in order to get elected even though they know what they’re doing is wrong.The MEMRI Lantos Project exposes anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East region and Middle Eastern communities in the West with the aim of supporting legislation and educating media and the general public.

A song dedicated to Palestinian terrorist Khairy Alqam, who murdered seven people near a Jerusalem synagogue and wounded two others, titled “Sacred Retaliation” was posted on Alaa Qadouha’s YouTube account on January 29, 2023. The lyrics laud Alqam, stating: “Blessed be your hand.” The lyrics further state: “Make them tremble in fear […] fighting is our hobby […] the beginning is in Jerusalem.” The lead singer is Ramze Alokk (also selled Ramzi Al-Ak), who was sentenced by Israeli authorities to 30 years in prison for his involvement in attempted bombings and in sniper attacks in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, but was released in the 2011 Shalit Deal and banished to Gaza.

On January 27, 2023, hours before the Jerusalem synagogue massacre in which a Palestinian terrorist killed seven Israelis and injured several others (the most lethal terror attack in Israel since 2011), the Palestinian Authority’s official broadcaster Palestine TV aired a Friday sermon delivered in the West Bank village of Khan Al-Ahmar. The imam, whose name was not given, told his audience that Allah has “given them permission” to wage Jihad, that they must live free or die as martyrs, and that the Quran urges Muslims to “kill and be killed” for the sake of Allah.