Ahmed Al Fajem

Overview

Ahmed Al Fajem [Ahmed Fajem] has expressed support for Hamas terrorists, spread hatred of Israel and promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Al Fajem was affiliated with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at McMaster University (SPHR McMaster) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 2017. SPHR is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Al Fajem has been listed as a member of SPHR McMaster’s public Facebook group since 2016.

Al Fajem also supported the 2015 Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign at McMaster. For more information, see the SPHR McMaster Chapter Profile.

Al Fajem was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at McMaster (McMaster MSA) in 2017. He was also listed as a member of the Facebook groups McMaster MSA and McMaster MSA - Brotherhood in 2017.

As of August 2023, Al Fajem’s LinkedIn profile said he had been an electrical engineer at The JNE Group of Companies in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, since April 2023. As of the same date, Al Fajem was listed as a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) in Hamilton, Ontario, license number 100549024, issued April 28, 2023.

On June 22, 2021, Al Fajem wrote on Facebook that he started Sama Diamonds, an e-commerce jewelry business.

Al Fajem graduated [p. 7] from McMaster with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 2019. However, as of August 2023, his LinkedIn said he received a bachelor’s degree in “Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician” from McMaster in 2018.

As of August 2023, Al Fajem’s Facebook said he lived in Hamilton, Ontario.

As of August 2023, Al Fajem went by the username “Ahmed Alfajem” on Facebook and used the handle “@Falafel_Fajem” on Twitter.

Support for Hamas Terrorists

On August 5, 2014, Al Fajem posted to Facebook: “والله رجال يشرفو ويرفعو الرأس [I swear men will honor and raise your head].”

Along with the post, Al Fajem shared a photo of a terrorist from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, holding a Ghoul sniper rifle reportedly manufactured by Hamas. The photo was titled: “Qassam sniper killed another Israeli soldiers [sic].”

Al Fajem published the post during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas in Gaza.

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

On August 20, 2014, Al Fajem expressed support on Facebook for Mohammed Deif, then General Commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Al Fajem wrote: “There you go again... They didn't kill the man of the house, they killed his family. What kind of a human heart would accept this cruelty. #wakeupworld.”

Fajem shared another Facebook post attacking Israel for targeting Al-Deif in a “brutal strike,” in which Al-Deif’s family died. The post described Al-Deif as “the one who basically creates all the military strategies which are implemented by Hamas. Every move that Hamas takes, is an order from Al-Deif.”

Mohammed Deif has been the leader of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades since 2002. He announced the launch of Hamas’s terror atrocities and war crimes executed against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, and allegedly began masterminding the attack in May 2021. The terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.

Deif is also credited with creating Hamas’s techniques for launching rockets, deploying suicide bus bombings, kidnapping Israeli soldiers and digging terror tunnels. He is on Israel’s most-wanted list and has survived multiple assassination attempts. In 2015, he was placed on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) for masterminding Hamas’s strategy during Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against the terror group.

Hatred of Israel

On August 31, 2016, Al Fajem posted avideoto Facebook showing anti-Israel activist Miko Peled. In the video, Peled accused [00:42:09] the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of being the “best trained, best equipped, best fed terrorist organizations in the world” whose “entire purpose is terrorism.”

On October 17, 2015, during the Knife Intifada, Al Fajem posted to Facebook: “جاييلكم اليوم اللي هتركعو متل كلاب الشوارع تحت رجولنا اليوم اللي نحرق قلوبكم الناشفة اللي بلا احساس ولا ضمير زي ما حرقتو قلوب اهلنا وناسنا [The day will come when you will get down on your knees like the street dogs, under our feet, on that day we will burn your dry hearts without feeling or conscience as you have burned the hearts of our relatives and men].” Accompanying the post was a video of a mourner’s procession for a youth wrapped in a keffiyeh and a Palestinian flag.

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

The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.

On August 13, 2014, Al Fajem shared to Facebook a cartoon depicting Gaza as the “GAZA STATE PRISON” run by Israel.

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

On August 10, 2014, during OPE, Al Fajem wrote on Facebook: “Our current World now is performing a little act where the oppressive is the oppressed, and the oppressed is the opresive [sic.]. Israel, for example; the hatred, malice, and malignancy they have for the Muslims and Palestinians especially, have made them commit horrible crimes.”

On July 21, 2014, Al Fajem posted to Facebook a letter authored by anti-Israel activist Mads Gilbert, who claimed that the Gaza’s Shifa hospital was treating a “huge numbers of wounded Palestinians of all ages, all civilians, all innocent.”

Hamas fired rockets from Shifa Hospital (Shifa) at Israeli population centers during Operation Protective Edge. Hamas misfires also struck Shifa and the nearby al-Shati refugee camp. Hamas cleanup crews then concealed the evidence of the misfires, as was confirmed by Amnesty International and an independent Italian journalist.

Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership. In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014, Gilbert acted as a propagandist for Hamas.

In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.”

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

On August 11, 2014, Al Fajem shared a picture on Facebook accusing America of perpetrating the 9/11 terror attacks.

On September 13, 2014, Al Fajem posted a video on Facebook and wrote: “This documentary movie is made by Americans indicating the reality and truth of the lie 9/11. Muslims wouldn't have done such an act. Find out the real killers for these victims.”

Anti-Israel Activism (SPHR, BDS)

On March 23, 2015, Al Fajem indicated on Facebook that he “went” to a March 23, 2015 event titled: “Vote Yes to BDS.”

The event was a McMaster Student Union (MSU) General Assembly (GA) meeting where students reportedly voted to pass a BDS motion endorsed by SPHR McMaster and other student groups.

On March 2, 2017, Al Fajem shared a video on Facebook that promoted SPHR McMaster’s 2017 “Israel Apartheid Week (IAW)” on campus. The video accused [00:00:23] Israel of colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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.