On January 1, 2025, Koonings wrote on Instagram: "What I see in 2025...Making Ceos Afraid Again / The Guillotine is back in business...All billionaires onto the submarine / The orcas are taking revenge / 🐬🔻."
The inverted red triangle is a symbol showing support for Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. It first appeared in propaganda videos produced by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during its terror attacks of October 7, 2023. The symbol was used by Hamas to signify one of their Israeli targets.
On January 27, 2025, Koonings shared on Instagram a video, in which she said [00:00:01]: "Meta [Facebook] is deleting videos of the resistance, because the U.S. empire doesn't want us, especially Americans, to humanize them and recognize that they are definitely not the T's [terrorists] here."
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
Koonings then said [00:00:10], referring to masked Hamas terrorists: "The U.S. Zionist empire knows that the entire world is fangirling and fanboying over this! I mean, how could they not? Brave selfless men, standing up for the vulnerable..."
On July 17, 2025, Koonings was featured in an Instagram video speaking about her experience visiting [slide 7] Iran as "part of a 15-member journalist team that has traveled...for the event titled 'Condemnation of Terrorism Against Media,' hosted by the Sobh Media Center, Iran's state broadcaster.
The July 17-21, 2025, event was part of an effort to turn the international opinion against Israel and to "commemorate media martyrs" after Israel's recent twelve-day war against Iran.
On June 13, 2025, Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities after Israeli intelligence stated Iran was "within 15 days" of creating a nuclear bomb.
Israel conducted over 1,500 airstrikes in 12 days, destroying or damaging Iran's nuclear, military and ballistic missile infrastructure. Israel eliminated 11 nuclear scientists, over 30 senior military commanders and hundreds of IRGC members. The war was officially called "Operation Rising Lion."
Iran retaliated with 1,600 missiles and drones, of which Israel intercepted over 95 percent. Iran targeted military sites, civilian apartment buildings and a hospital. 28 Israelis were killed and 3,343 injured.
On June 22, 2025, the U.S. bombed five Iranian nuclear sites with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles, then brokered a June 24, 2025 ceasefire.
Speaking about her experience in Iran, reportedly "in front of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone," Koonings said [00:00:04]: "Prior to coming to Iran...I mean, living in the United States, we're constantly inundated with negative messaging and propaganda about places like Iran and how evil they are, but it's so ridiculous..."
The Axis of Resistance is an informal coalition of Iran-backed paramilitary actors in the Middle East created in the 1980s. The network includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shiite militia groups in Iraq and Syria. Axis members receive arms, military training and financial aid from Tehran. The group participated in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, supported Syria's Assad regime and perpetrated numerous acts of terrorism in the region.
On July 19, 2025, referring to Iranian nuclear scientists involved in the country’s military nuclear program and recently eliminated by Israel, Koonings was featured in an Instagram video praising them for the "honorable precaution" they had knowing the "level of risk" they faced.
