Ahmadiyya Officials Warmly Host Israel's President Amid the Gaza War | Ahmadiyya Jalsa Kababir

On September 18, 2026, the Ahmadiyya Jamat held its Jalsa Salana in Kababir, Haifa — and Israeli President Isaac Herzog was among the guests, greeted warmly on stage alongside Indian Ambassador J.P. Singh.



The reception was not a cold, formal handshake. Jamat officials embraced the president, smiling, and by most accounts the mood was celebratory. That's the part that's drawing criticism: this same period has seen one of the worst humanitarian tolls of the Gaza war, and no public objection, acknowledgment, or even a passing word about Gaza was raised on that stage.

A Complicated Local Story


It's worth being precise about who was actually on stage. The Kababir Ahmadi community in Haifa is not simply "Israeli" in a generic sense — it includes Palestinian converts to Ahmadiyya, some of whom were reportedly disowned by their own families in the West Bank after converting. That context cuts against a simple "Ahmadis chose Israel over Palestine" narrative.

But it also sharpens the question rather than answering it: if members of this very community have personal, familial ties to Palestine, the silence on Gaza during a warm public reception for Israel's head of state is arguably more notable, not less.



A Second Inconsistency Worth Naming


This week's Khabar Nama episode also flagged a separate, uncomfortable double standard. Some online critics of the Jamat throw around "Jewish" as an insult toward Ahmadis they disagree with — which is antisemitic on its own terms, full stop. But the irony is hard to miss: the people using that as a slur are criticizing a Jamat whose own officials were the ones literally, warmly embracing Israel's actual president. Both halves of that contradiction deserve scrutiny, not just one.

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