Of all the unlikely characters to make waves during the Hamas-Israel crisis—Senator John Fetterman, Harvard president Claudine Gay, billionaire businessman Bill Ackman—none is more curious than Shaun King, a 44-year-old Black Lives Matter activist with a history of dubious claims and an even more dubious money trail.
There he was almost immediately after Hamas’s attack, blasting Israeli “apartheid” and “war crimes” to his millions of followers on Instagram, X, and YouTube followers. There he was in late October, claiming to have helped free a pair of Israeli hostages. And there he was in mid-December, in Doha of all places, speaking on a panel about human rights during wartime at the Qatar National Convention Centre.
