Ahmad Hamdan

Overview

Ahmad Hamdan has spread anti-Semitism and celebrated anti-Semitic violence on social media. He has also spread demonization and hatred of Israel.

In 2014 - 2015, Hamdan was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), at Brooklyn College.

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

Hamdan is affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and affiliated with the Muslim American Society (MAS).

As of August 2017, Hamdan’s LinkedIn page said that he graduated from Brooklyn College in 2016, with an undergraduate degree in Business Administration.

In December of 2016, Hamdan started work at Bay Ridge Hyundai, Brooklyn, NY, as a salesperson.

Anti-Semitic Social Media Posts

On January 7, 2016, Hamdan tweeted: “Syrians aren't even getting a food supply to try and live. It's because even if they don't get killed by the war, zionists want them dead.”

On January 6, 2016, Hamdan tweeted: “@aalyx__ Zionism is about world domination not just about Palestine. When it comes to money they want to kill the dollar.And destroy economy.”

On December 7, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “My customers argued over a monthly payment of 404 to make it 399 but they pay 8 grand a month for an apartment in Central Park west yahood [Jews]!!”

On September 29, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “@oshmeezy what a yahoodi [Jew].”

Supporting Anti-Jewish Violence

On October 19, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “Felt so good to rip off an Israeli flag off a car and tear it up 😁”

On October 18, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “I just wanna crack a Zionist and call it a night lol”

On October 13, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “Long live the intifada.”

October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab scores of Israeli civilians.

On October 15, 2015, Hamdan tweeted a photo of masked Palestinian militants with rocks and a slingshot. Hamdan wrote: “This is what I call goals.”

On October 6, 2015, Hamdan tweeted a drawing of a Palestinian militant holding a lit molotov cocktail. Hamdan wrote: “🔥🔥🔥”

On May 26, 2015 — the day a rocket fired from Gaza exploded near the Israeli port city of Ashdod — Hamdan tweeted: “@Dernier_Ciel hey buddy just know Hamas or the people of gaza has the right to resist occupation it's stated in international law.”

Demonizing Israel

On May 19, 2015, Hamdan tweeted a picture of Muhammad Al-Durah.

The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, which was fabricated during a riot in the Gaza Strip, on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada. A France 2 report — filmed by a Palestinian cameraman and narrated by France 2's editor, who was not at the scene — purported to show Jamal Al-Durah and his 12-year-old son, Muhammad, crouching behind a concrete cylinder, shot by Israeli forces.

Subsequent review of the raw footage revealed that France 2 had edited out the final scenes captured by the Palestinian cameraman — which showed the boy peeking at the camera from beneath his raised arm. Film of the father and son from other news networks — indicating that the entire scene was staged — was also uncovered. The physical evidence also showed it highly likely that the gunfire directed at the pair came from Palestinian gunmen situated behind the France 2 cameraman — and was in all ways inconsistent with shots coming from the IDF position.

On March 18, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “’@bassem_masri: #Netanyahu wins and keeps his presidency of the United States ” and still the president of the U.S”

Hatred of Israel

On September 14, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “F**K ISRAEL”

On April 12, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “@aaliyvh_ May the Saudia stop bombing Yemen and being Israel's B*tch”

On March 18, 2015, Hamdan tweeted: “If Israel wanted a state for Palestinians it would have happened already. #Netanyahu#ScumBag.”

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.

MSA

The MSA was  established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations." 

The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.

The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.