A Hamas supporter with a £600-a-week cannabis habit has been jailed after calling for Jews to be “burnt alive”.

Zakir Hussain, 29, used the social media site X to write a spate of anti-Semitic posts over a three-month period.

Hussain first posted on November 3 2023, less than a month after the Oct 7 Hamas attacks in which more than 1,000 Israelis were killed. He wrote: “Hezbullah come quick finish them like rodents.”

Later that month, Hussain wrote: “7 October was a beautiful day, Jews stop hiding.”

On December 25 2023, he commented: “October 7 was a beautiful day”, “In the UK, we are hunting them for fun” and “Go on Hamas, finish them and maybe we can find the beheaded urine babies”.

The posting continued into January last year, when Hussain wrote on January 5: “I’m in London, any Jew out there come out and stand up for your religion.”

Four days later he posted: “Wish it was more in that festival slaughter them IDK terrorists, burn them alive” in reference to the Oct 7 attack.

He also wrote: “Long live Hamas, Hezbollah” and “Hamas, Houthi, Hezbollah finish these little rats.”

‘Burn them alive’

His final post came on Jan 10, when he wrote: “Burn them alive, no religion can abuse children the way they do.”

Hussain, of no fixed address, admitted four counts of expressing support for a proscribed organisation and seven counts of stirring up racial hatred between November 3 2023 and January 10 last year.

He was jailed for five years and eight months, with an extended period on licence of three years.

Judge Anthony Leonard KC said a pre-sentence report revealed Hussain was spending £600 a week on cannabis at the time of the offences.

Hussain refused to give his PIN to police but, once they got into his phone, they found still images “indicative of a mindset that was supportive of Hamas”.

“You are not being punished for your sympathy but for what your posts may have garnered in support for a proscribed organisation,” the judge said.

Hussain believed 9/11 was a planned attack that the US government knew about and allowed to happen, the court heard.

Judge Leonard told Hussain he had “focused on hate speech instead of educating yourself”.

Hussain, wearing a green T-shirt, waved to the public gallery as he was led to the cells.