GIOR REPORT: The Global Sumud Flotilla of 2025: Humanitarian Activism or Islamist Influence Operation?

The Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) is pleased to announce the lat­est in our series of reports, titled “The Glob­al Sumud Flotil­la of 2025: Human­i­tar­i­an Activism or Islamist Influ­ence Oper­a­tion?” The Exec­u­tive Sum­ma­ry begins:

The Glob­al Sumud Flotil­la of 2025 rep­re­sents the cul­mi­na­tion of fif­teen years of mar­itime and land-based efforts to chal­lenge Israel’s block­ade of Gaza—an evo­lu­tion from iso­lat­ed activist voy­ages into a coor­di­nat­ed transna­tion­al move­ment root­ed in Islamist-linked civ­il soci­ety net­works. Framed as a human­i­tar­i­an mis­sion amid the 2023–25 Gaza war, the flotil­la brought togeth­er over forty ves­sels and five hun­dred par­tic­i­pants from forty-four coun­tries, unit­ing West­ern activists, Glob­al South NGOs, and long-stand­ing Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-affil­i­at­ed orga­ni­za­tions under a ban­ner of“steadfastness” (sumud). Israel’s inter­cep­tion of all ves­sels reignit­ed a glob­al debate over whether such actions con­sti­tute civil­ian sol­i­dar­i­ty or polit­i­cal the­ater direct­ed by Hamas’s for­eign apparatus.

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Please note: This report was gen­er­at­ed using Chat­G­PT “Deep Research” and is pre­sent­ed unedit­ed. All claims & links should be ver­i­fied before using, as AI sys­tems can pro­duce so-called “hal­lu­ci­na­tions.”