South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool boasted last year that he owned a keffiyeh that had been signed by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Rasool posted on Facebook on September 23, 2023 — two weeks before the Hamas terror attacks of October 7:

The story of 3 scarves: on the left is a gift from Yasser Arafat in 1990 when I was a fly on the wall as he & Madhiba reunited in Cairo after 30+ years; in the middle is one given to me by [Islamist] Shaykh Raaid Salah, leader [sic] of the Palestinians in Israel, when I hosted a dinner for him at Leeuwenhof [the governor’s mansion in the Western Cape Province]; and the one on the right is signed by Ismail Haniyyeh, and presented to me as I was part of an ITI programme with Hamas to share strategic wisdom in the face of Arab “normalisation”, further Isr