Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Overview:
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour , an Egyptian researcher of Jewish and Middle Eastern history and Hebrew literature, is a supporter of the Jewish ethnostate. Mansour is currently the director of the Zionist EMET Program for “Emerging Democratic Voices from the Middle East”.
Mansour routinely spreads false stereotypes about Arab and Muslim “anti-semitism”, becoming a darling among many MENA-focused Zionist institutions.¹

In Egypt

Hussein Aboubakr was born in 1989 in Cairo, Egypt into a Muslim banking family. Mansour claims that by the age of 11, he “became radicalized and yearned for jihadism”.
Taking part in the Arab Spring protests in Egypt, he was imprisoned and after two months, on December 26, 2010, Mansour was released from prison. Following the ouster of Egypt’s former leader Hosni Mubarak, Mansour was engaged in spreading Israeli propaganda, which led to his imprisonment before and during the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power. Soon afterward he sought political asylum in the United States in 2012. His application was granted in 2014 under former US President, Barack Obama. Today Mansour – a self-proclaimed Zionist – has been renounced by his family after Mansour rejected Islam and set up a blog on “anti-Semitism and treatment of Christians and Muslim women”.²

Assisting US Military & Zionist Lobbies

Having left Egypt to become a political refugee in the United States, Mansour became known as a researcher of Jewish and Middle Eastern history and Hebrew literature . Despite the US’ destructive role wreaking havoc in instigating wars across the Arab world, Mansour rushed to act as an instructor for the US Department of Defense’s Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. By the acquisition of U.S. citizenship in 2017 , he later joined the US Army Reserve.
Mansour was then was hired as an instructor and public speaker for StandWithUs, a campus-focused initiative promoting Zionism among university students linked with the Israeli government.
Hussein is currently the director of “Emerging Democratic Voices Coming out of the Middle East” under the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). Founded in 2005, the Endowment is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank and policy center pushing for Israeli foreign policy interests among US decision makers. EMET notably led a campaign to stop American authorities from expelling Mosab Hassan Yousef, an undercover Israeli spy which worked against Hamas.³

Forging Misleading Narratives

Following on a trend echoed by other “Arab Muslim” public relations operatives such as Rawan Osman and Loay Shareef, Mansour spreads false anti-Islamic hysteria about his past life as an “anti-semitic Muslim”.
“On 9/11, my family rejoiced at the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In their view, the infidels were being punished,” he said in an interview, adding that “[Islamic] ideology infuses the narratives of eternal Arab and Muslim victimhood to gain ideological power inside societies,” In addition, Mansour rebukes the international pro-Palestine solidarity campaign for utilizing Arabs as “fuel for moral righteousness and claims to powers in the name of abstract social justice and fake decolonization”.
Mansour points the finger at Islam and its adherents for the spread of “anti-Semitism”. He steps further and claims that Islam has to be “reformed” to suit his Zionist worldview.⁴
Hussein wrote an autobiography, “Minority of One: The Unchaining of the Arab Mind,” about his alleged “life-journey” from “radical Islam” to supporting the Israeli apartheid regime. Mansour’s philo-Zionist articles have appeared in Commentary, Newsweek, the Jewish Journal, JNS.org, Times of Israel, and the Mosaic Magazine.