Abraham Greenhouse

Abraham Greenhouse [Abe Greenhouse] was reportedly arrested for acts of violence and charged with possession of a weapon. He has also expressed support for terrorists, demonized Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism.

Greenhouse is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of June 2023, Greenhouse’s LinkedIn profile said he worked at Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as the director of technology from 2013 to 2014.

Greenhouse attended the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) National conferences in 2011, 2012 and 2014. 

In 2016, Greenhouse was a steering committee member of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), formerly known as the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO).

Greenhouse was also a writer for the anti-Israel website, Electronic Intifada, from 2007 until 2016.

In October 2014, Greenhouse was listed as the founder of the now-defunct Palestine Freedom Project (PFP), an online database “dedicated to providing resources and logistical support” to anti-Israel activists, which he launched in 2005.

As of the same date, PFP’s website said he was a “national organizer” with the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) and an “active” member of Adalah-NY.

Adalah is a BDS advocacy group that defines itself as “The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel.”

As of May 2023, Greenhouse’s LinkedIn said he had been a senior director of technology at an unidentified “Large Nonprofit” since October 2022. 

Also as of the same date, Greenhouse’s LinkedIn said he was the founder of AG Digital, LLC established in 2009, and of Hasten established in 2017.

Greenhouse’s LinkedIn said that he graduated from Rutgers University (Rutgers) with a bachelor’s degree in history in 2004 and that he was located in New York City.

Also as of May 2023, Greenhouse used the handle “@grinhoyz” on Twitter and on Instagram and went by the name “Abraham G.” on LinkedIn.

Acts of Violence

In July 2007, Greenhouse was reportedly arrestedand charged with possession of a weapon, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct after assaulting a couple at a rally in New Jersey.

In 2003, Rutgers police reportedly charged Greenhouse with disorderly conduct after he threw a pie in Natan Sharansky’s face, during a lecture at Rutgers. At the time, Sharansky was an Israeli minister. 

Greenhouse was reportedly found guilty of a disorderly persons offense. He was fined $200, as well as was ordered to pay $155 in court fees and penalties.

Terror Support (PFLP, DFLP, PIJ)

On November 10, 2014, Greenhouse tweeted: “...#Justice4Rasmea [Odeh].”

Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.

On April 9, 2014, Greenhouse tweeted: “Happy 70th birthday, Leila Khaled. I’d tweet the photo we took together if I wasn’t in an airport right now.”

Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.  

On March 14, 2013, Greenhouse tweeted his support for “Palestinian hunger-striker Samer Issawi.”

Samer Issawi is a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who received a 26-year prison sentence in 2002. During the second intifada, Issawi manufactured and distributed pipe bombs and, in several incidents, fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles.

On February 14, 2012, Greenhouse tweeted: “...Support hunger striker Khader Adnan…” The tweet included a link to a video in support of Adnan.

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ is reportedly backed by Iran and has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks. In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

Demonizing Israel

On February 11, 2014, Greenhouse tweeted: “Palestinians ‘have hardly begun to exercise their options’ to hold Israel accountable for their oppression…”

On November 18, 2012, Greenhouse tweeted: “...Dear Wolf Blitzer: It’s Hamas, not Khhamas. You dumb f**king AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] chump. #GazaUnderAttack.”

Wolf Blitzer is an American journalist and TV anchor. He is the host of “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” a political show on CNN.

On October 7, 2012, Greenhouse tweeted: “...Israel’s Jewish majority exists as a result of ethnic cleansing, continued policies of discrimination.”

Also on October 7, 2012, Greenhouse tweeted: “..There’s not just an Israel lobby, there’s a lobby out there working to fight right of Americans to criticize it…”

The “Israel Lobby” is a conspiracy theory alleging Israeli and Jewish control over the U.S. government. Proponents of the theory decry the negative effects on American interests, particularly in foreign policy.

On October 6, 2012, Greenhouse tweeted: “...The Nakba did not stop in 1948…”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

According to Greenhouse's former website, PFM, Greenhouse co-produced an an anti-Israel parody music video about the Freedom Flotilla. On August 11, 2010, the video was published on YouTube and titled: “Gaza flotilla video mashup: Internet Killed Israeli PR.”

The “Free Gaza Movement” [Gaza Freedom Movement] has organized boats to Gaza meant to “break the siege,” including a May 2010, “Freedom Flotilla.” Activists on board the lead ship, the Mavi Marmara, were found to be carrying crude weapons and initiated an organized, violent confrontation with Israeli forces.  

JVP

JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.

JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).

Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.” 

JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish value.”

The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans  comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”

According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”

SJP

SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.

The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.

SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.

SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.

SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.

Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.

Social Media and Web Links

Twitter:https://twitter.com/grinhoyz 

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grinhoyz/ [Deleted]

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/abrahamgreenhouse/