Husband of yellow ribbon cutting PhD student blames ‘Israeli Mossad’ for media storm

The husband of the PhD student furiously condemned for her vandalising of yellow hostage ribbons has claimed that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad are ‘probably’ behind attacks on them, saying they have been “stranded to be killed”. 

As revealed by online investigators @GnasherJew, Mo’min Swaitat took to Instagram on Thursday to reach out to supporters of he and his 36-year old self proclaimed ‘Palestinian-Jewish’ wife, activist Nadia Yahlom.

As revealed by Jewish News, she was interviewed under caution by Metropolitan Police on Wednesday after footage of her deliberately cutting ribbons recalling the plight of Israel’s hostages in Muswell Hill went viral.

Her actions and declaration that the ribbons are “condoning genocide” were met with widespread and nationwide revulsion. Yahlom has since deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Swaitat, a Palestinian actor, film maker and activist born in the West Bank, who moved to London in 2011, also closed his Facebook account and made his Instagram private, both of which had referred to Israel as the “military colonial settler state”.

In the new post, he said: “If I’m not responding to emails or messages I just want to let you know that me and Nadia have been attacked by a group of extremist group [sic] probably working for the Israeli Mossad in our neighbourhood in north London. We have been attacked and stranded to be killed etc. This now has been investigated by the police. I will soon be able to respond to your messages, emails, etc”.

He adds: “There will be a statement release in response to the video and comments that have been circulating in mainstream media across social media and other platforms, about Nadia and myself, by an organised group of people. Just working to get Palestinian sound archive account back.”

@GnasherJew has today flagged links between Swaitat and his cousin, Jamal Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Masharqa, allegedly a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terrorist group, before he was “assassinated by military colonial settler state drone few months ago” in June 2024.

Yahlom is a self described Palestinian-Jewish arts and humanities research council funded student at the University of Westminster’s Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media. The University has failed to condemn her actions.

In a statement from the police, it was confirmed that “a woman has been interviewed under caution following an incident in Muswell Hill. At approximately 16:25hrs on Monday, 6 October, officers were made aware of a video circulating online which appears to show a woman removing ribbons from fence poles in Muswell Hill.

“A 36-year-old woman attended a police station on Tuesday, 7 October, for a voluntary interview in connection with the incident, which is being treated as racially-aggravated criminal damage and a racially-aggravated Section 5 public order offence.

“Officers are continuing to carry out reassurance patrols in the Muswell Hill area.”