US cracks down on Hamas-inspired radical posting threats as Palestinian terror ideology spreads online unchecked.
Federal prosecutors in Maryland have unsealed a disturbing indictment against 27-year-old Arsham Rashidi Dizajgan of Gainesville, Florida, accusing him of broadcasting violent threats online using iconography directly tied to the Hamas terror organization. According to the charges, Dizajgan deployed the infamous upside-down red triangle—Hamas’s digital “kill-mark” symbol—over images of American citizens in a series of TikTok posts published while he lived in Maryland from late 2024 through March 2025.
The indictment outlines six separate threatening posts, each featuring Americans visually tagged as targets, accompanied by language glorifying violence and spewing hate toward non-Muslims. Prosecutors say the content closely mirrored the psychological-warfare tactics Hamas deploys in its information campaigns, raising immediate alarm among federal investigators.
FBI officials warned that such online rhetoric cannot be dismissed as harmless agitation, especially as Palestinian terror groups intensify their global propaganda efforts. “When an individual uses social media to issue violent threats and signals support for a foreign terrorist organization, the FBI will hold that individual accountable,” said Special Agent Jason Carley of the Jacksonville field office. Carley emphasized that extremist online campaigns linked to Hamas have the potential to incite real-world violence if left unchecked.
Dizajgan was arrested Wednesday in Florida following a coordinated, multi-state operation involving the FBI’s Baltimore and Jacksonville field offices alongside local law-enforcement partners. Authorities highlighted the swift takedown as a crucial disruption of a radicalized individual openly mimicking Hamas’s threat-marking techniques—another reminder that the toxic influence of Palestinian terror networks continues to echo far beyond the Middle East.
