UNOFFICIAL SELF-DECLARED SPOKESPERSON FOR HAMAS IN DENMARK

WITH SEQUINS ON THE PENCIL CASE & PEN AT THE READY

HAMAS, HERMÈS & HELENA – FROM THE ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY TO THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY AND THE NARRATIVE OF DEATH

Hamas, seen through the lens of Helena Cobban’s new book Understanding Hamas, isn’t just a headline — it’s a study in nuance that challenges clichés and fear. Her voice makes room for nuance – even here at home. Between the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) and the pencil case, between the Glyptotek and Gucci, we shine a spotlight on Western media and reality design.

I’ve swapped silk sketches and styling desks from the Danish Design School for steel structures and welding gloves at DTU. But one thing hasn’t changed: my soul sister Helena Cobban and our joint fight against media clichés about Hamas. With her book Understanding Hamas in my pencil case and a Louis Vuitton bag slung over my shoulder, I dance between Gaza and the Glyptotek, PET and production lines. Satire is my weapon – and reality is my runway.

As a Danish designer turned engineer, I move between worlds — from industrial production to political analysis. Cobban’s voice travels with me, challenging Western narratives and media bias.

While mainstream headlines fuel fear, her pages ask us to pause. To think. To understand.

This is more than a book — it’s a call to rethink what justice means in a post-truth world.

THE LANGUAGE OF FEAR – AND THE BUSINESS OF WAR

While calling for peace, Mette Frederiksen masterfully engineers fear. Her words normalize weapons — not just in rhetoric but in reality. Behind each polished speech lies a powerful agenda: to justify armed action, fuel the weapons industry, and cash in on the chaos. ZLCOPENHAGEN has already exposed how fear becomes fashion, and war becomes wealth. This is the third chapter in that story.

UNMASKING THE NARRATIVE

WHAT THE WEST MISSES ABOUT HAMAS AND THE DANISH CONNECTION

Hamas is not just a militant group labeled in headlines — it is also a symbol of Western fear, media distortion, and unresolved colonial legacies. In her groundbreaking book, Understanding Hamas, Helena Cobban cuts through political noise and shows us the cost of not listening.

For those of us living between identities — Danish-Pakistani, Muslim, post-colonial, global citizens — the gap between how we live and how we’re portrayed is dangerously wide.

In our latest article, The Information War: Hamas, The Charter, and Western Selective Memory, we explore how the Hamas Charter has been weaponized by media to erase Palestinian political evolution and fuel Islamophobic fear campaigns.

But fear is not a strategy.

In When Their Phobia Breeds My Fear, we zoom in on what it feels like when other people’s phobia becomes your daily reality. From surveillance to silent profiling, being Danish-Pakistani in a security-obsessed Europe comes at a personal cost.

WHY IT MATTERS:

Helena Cobban doesn’t excuse Hamas — she contextualizes it.

Denmark’s silence on injustice abroad mirrors its blind spots at home.

Media clichés kill empathy.

As Helena writes:
“You don’t have to agree with Hamas to understand why they exist. You only need to care about justice.”

READ ALSO: USA – The Double Standard Exposed

In Richard Wolff: Why the USA is Called a Terrorist Country, economist Richard D. Wolff turns the lens on America itself.
He reveals how the U.S. has institutionalized economic terrorism, funding regimes, wars, and policies that contradict its own rhetoric on peace and democracy. The result? A global system of domination disguised as “freedom.”

“If a poor country did what the U.S. does abroad, it would be branded a terrorist state. But power protects narrative.” — Richard Wolff