Professor Ma Xiaolin, a senior Chinese academic and former Xinhua bureau chief in Gaza, published a post on WeChat accusing Israel's leadership, military commanders, and soldiers of systematic militarism, genocide, and crimes against humanity. Ma is known for virulent anti-Israel rhetoric since October 7, 2023 and has previously attended a Houthi-organized conference on Palestine.
Ma Xiaolin, a professor and director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at Zhejiang International Studies University, published a post on his WeChat account—China's equivalent of X—excoriating Israel. He wrote that Israeli prime ministers, military leaders, and ordinary soldiers have become 'a system of systematic militarism, genocide, and the destruction of humanity,' and are 'the group of beings least deserving of the title human in the history of the establishment of the State of Israel.'
Ma served for 17 years as a reporter and bureau chief for China's state-run Xinhua News Agency in Gaza, Kuwait, and Iraq. Since October 7, 2023, he has published sharp anti-Israel articles. In March 2025, he participated in the 'Third International Conference for Palestine' organized by the Houthi government in Yemen, alongside other figures hostile to Israel.
Chinese academics are subject to tight party-state oversight. Even if Ma's views do not represent direct government initiative, his public writings and foreign visits signal an environment of official tolerance for such rhetoric, as The Zioneer has noted in its China-related coverage. The development is noteworthy for Israel policy watchers given Beijing's growing Middle East footprint, but the immediate policy impact is limited—this is a single academic's polemic within China's controlled public sphere.
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