Israel turned a Hezbollah vet's Google past against him. He's not happy about it.

Dyab Abou Jahjah, once a gun-toting Hezbollah recruit in Lebanon’s dust, now fancies himself a champion of justice in Europe’s capitals. On Thursday, he stormed onto X with a grievance as rich in irony as it is revealing: Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, he fumed, is “defaming” him. The man who denies Holocaust gas chambers, mourned Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, and hailed the October 7 massacre as resistance, is irked because a Google search of his name no longer flatters. Instead, it’s topped by a ministry article—“Exposing the Hind Rajab Foundation: A Fictitious Front Hiding a Dangerous Agenda”—a digital dagger he claims “hijacked” his identity. The twist? He handed them the blade.

Here’s how it unfolded. Abou Jahjah, born in Hanin, southern Lebanon, cut his teeth with Hezbollah, training to fight Israel before decamping to Belgium. There, he recast himself—a “Malcolm X” of sorts, scribbling for Hezbollah’s Al-Akhbar newspaper and brushing off Nazi atrocities as myth. By September 2024, he’d founded the Hind Rajab Foundation in Brussels, named for a Palestinian girl allegedly killed in Gaza, vowing to “break Israeli impunity.” It sounded noble—until the ministry peeled back the curtain. The foundation, tied to the “March 30” movement of Palestinians in Europe, had been chasing IDF soldiers with lawsuits since the “Iron Swords” war kicked off in October 2023, aiming to drag them before foreign courts.

One soldier, on leave in Brazil in January 2025, felt the sting—a complaint from Hind Rajab’s crew, accusing him of war crimes. Enter the Diaspora Ministry, led by Amichai Chikli, a bulldog against antisemitism. Its research team sniffed out the foundation’s roots; its control center tracked Abou Jahjah’s moves. Then, the campaign unit struck—flooding Google with links that scream the truth: this isn’t humanitarianism, it’s terror support in a suit. By January, they’d quashed the Brazil case, and now, search “Hind Rajab” or “Abou Jahjah,” and the ministry’s expose sits atop the pile—a calculated rewrite of his narrative.

Abou Jahjah’s own words sealed it. After Israel took out Nasrallah, he posted a eulogy on X, reminiscing about a 2001 meet-up. When Yahya Sinwar fell, he called it “testimony” against their killers, a beacon for “millions.” His partner, Karim Hassan, chimed in—sporting a Hezbollah cap, he griped Hamas didn’t nab “500 or 1,000” Israelis on October 7, settling for 200. This is the man now clutching pearls over “defamation,” as if his resume didn’t beg for scrutiny. The ministry didn’t flinch. “We’re proud to unmask these ‘human rights’ fronts,” Chikli said, vowing to hound “Hezbollah and Hamas backers” with every tool in the shed.

The irony cuts deep: Abou Jahjah spent years building a persona—fighter, writer, activist—only to wail when Israel flipped the script, using his own boasts to bury him online. He chased soldiers across borders; now, the ministry chases him across search engines. A single screenshot of his complaint can’t undo the flood—his name, once his shield, now a spotlight on a past he can’t outrun.