A wonderful community member has compiled a bunch of evidence disproving the claim that the Yemeni guy Hasan had on the broadcast is a Houthi rebel. I’m reposting their evidence here in hopes lurkers from the H3 community will let Ethan know he got duped by dummies like Destiny. The timeline of events is below. I will link the tweet (which contains sources and way more info) in the comments.


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November 19th, 2023

The Houthi rebels hijack the Galaxy Leader and take its crew hostage. Their stated reason is to disrupt commercial shipping in order to pressure western powers to stop the genocide in Gaza.

December 6th, 2023

Al Arabiya English reports that the Houthis have turned the Galaxy Leader into a tourist attraction for the Yemeni public. By December 19th, 2023, thousands of Yemenis had visited the ship, according to The New Arab.

January 13th, 2024

19 year old Rashid Al-Haddad goes viral for a TikTok he filmed while onboard the Galaxy, now a tourist attraction. TikTok users who were unaware the Galaxy had been opened to the public thought Rashid was a Houthi hijacker. The internet dubs him “the Hot Houthi” and “Timhouthi Chalomet”.

January 16th, 2024

During Hasan’s daily stream, a chatter asks if he would be interested in talking to the viral “Hot Houthi” of TikTok. Hasan thinks he is a Houthi rebel and wants to ask him about the hijacking. He asks the chatter to set up a call. Another chatter asks Hasan if he is really going to have a Houthi rebel on stream and Hasan says yes. The interview begins, and Hasan immediately asks Rashid if he is a member of Ansarallah. Rashid clarifies that he is just a civilian, and that the ship is open to the public for tourism. Realizing he can’t ask Rashid about the hijacking, Hasan instead asks him about growing up in Yemen, the wars, Palestine, anime, junk food, etc.

January 17th, 2024

The US State Department releases a statement announcing the decision to designate Ansarallah a terror group, effective 30 days from the statement date.

Regarding the hostages:

Rashid has never met the hostages, nor did he claim to have met them.

During the interview, Rashid tells Hasan that the captain of the Galaxy is Chinese, and that he (the captain) was hanging out with the Houthis rebels, chewing khat and dancing to music. Note: Rashid did not say that **he** had hung out with the captain, but that the Houthis had. 

The captain of the Galaxy Leader is, in fact, a white Bulgarian man named Lubomir Chanev. The reason Rashid thought the captain was Chinese is because he saw a viral video that falsely claimed to show the Galaxy captain partying with the Houthis. The video shows an Asian man chewing khat at some kind of party.

The video does not actually show the Galaxy crew or the Houthis. It was a random video of a reception that had been posted on YouTube two years earlier, on March 27, 2022. Remember, the Galaxy was hijacked on November 19th, 2023.

If Rashid had actually met the ship’s captain, he would have known he isn’t Chinese. Rashid’s words were misinterpreted as saying he personally vibed with the captain. What he actually said was that the Houthis were vibing with the captain.

(Source tweet in comments)
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This is all very well, but the purpose of the claims is to attack their enemy. Whether the claims are true is incidental,  they are simply to cause harm.
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I know that is the intention of Destiny and his community, but I’m hoping Ethan and the H3 community can be reached. Maybe I’m being naive…
user
The radicalised middle-aged white guy is stuck on that polarity indefinitely. Transphobes, Nazis, Zionists, whatever. Sad but true.
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