Aida Kapica

Overview

Aida Kapica has expressed violent hatred of Israel supporters and spread hatred of Zionists and Israel. Kapica has also promoted hatred of America and engaged in anti-Israel activism.

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

As of June 2024, Kapica’s LinkedIn profile said she had been a “Sales Development Representative” at SHARE Creative since September 2023.

Kapica’s LinkedIn also said she graduated from Pace University (Pace) with a bachelor’s degree in International Business in 2020, and that she was located in the New York City metropolitan area.

As of May 2022, Kapicia went by the username “Ida

” and the handle “@thatgirlida” on Twitter. As of the same date, she went by the username “aida

” and the handle “@hotgirlida” on Instagram,and the username “aida” and handle “@aida.ss8” on Tiktok.

Violent Hatred of Israel Supporters

On May 10, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “wishing every journalist who sides w [with] i*rael a very d*e

.”

Hatred of Zionists

On October 4, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “thanks for proving z*onists are always ugly lol [laughing out loud].”

Kapica was responding to a tweet by Arizona State House Representative, Alma Hernandez, that featured her in a group selfie with a number of American Jews.

On July 31, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “i hate z*onists w every fiber of my being.”

On June 30, 2021, Kapica tweeted that “zionists” would be the third thing she would ban “under my dictatorship.”

On June 10, 2021, Kapica tweeted: ‘it's crazy how both zionists & chetniks are mad ugly inside & out.”

Kapicia referred in her tweet to Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist guerrilla force. The Chetniks became collaborators with Germany’s Nazis and Italy’s fascists. They identified the Jews with the communists, often murdering or turning them over to the German and Italian authorities.

Kapica added to the same thread: “& every time they deny genocide they just get uglier

.”

On June 1, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “ch*tniks & z*onists are rlly [really]gonna be chilling together in hell that's crazy.”

On May 21, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “Hollywood and the entertainment industry is full of zionists.”

Kapica added to the same thread: “and I wish nothing but the worst for them all.”

On May 10, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “why would I argue w [with] zionists when I can just tell them to go to hell? It's effective & likely happening.”

Demonizing Israel

Kapica retweeted a June 13, 2021 tweet by Mohammed Ahmad that read: “new election in isra*l. new terrorist in office.”

On June 3, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “if u wanna talk about t*rrorists look at the idf [Israel Defense Forces], thank u very much

.”

On May 27, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “there's nothing wrong w [with] wanting the idf [Israel Defense Forces] to no longer exist, go cry about it somewhere else.”

On May 25, 2021, during Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW)” against Hamas in Israel, Kapica tweeted: “Israel is literally committing genocide... if you can't say that then stfu [shut the f**k up].”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

On May 19, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “why she not calling Israel & the idf [Israel Defense Forces] terrorists

.”

Kapica was responding to a tweet by U.S. Senator for Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn, that read: “Call Hamas and Hezbollah attacks what they are. Terrorism.”

On May 17, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “hamas this hamas that... stfu [shut the f**k up] and hold the terrorists known as the idf [Israel Defense Forces] accountable & keep it pushing.”

On May 11, 2021, Kapica tweeted, accusingIsrael of “ethnic cleansing.”

On the same day, invoking the “Deadly Exchange” campaign, Kapica tweeted: “american police have trained w [with] the idf [Israel Defense Forces] & they both abuse their powers. Why is it easy for liberals to call one out & support the other? y'all are hypocrites.”

In 2017, JVP launched the “Deadly Exchange (DX)” campaign, which accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses. JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.

Hatred of America

On July 6, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “...Americans aren't real people.”

On July 4, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “americans celebrating their ‘freedom’ while their tax payer money goes towards the oppression of others

.”

On May 31, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “I want Americans to know that we do not give a f**k about the war criminals known as the US military

.”

On the same day, Kapica tweeted: “f**k America, f**k I*rael & f**k S*rbia

.”

Anti-Israel Activism

On May 15, 2021, Kapica tweeted a selfie with American model, Bella Hadid, taken at an anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn, New York.

At the rally, the protesters shouted [00:00:19]: “Free Palestine!” and [00:00:48]: “...The Occupation has got to go!”

The protest was organized by the NY4PALESTINE Coalition on May 15, 2021 and titled: “NAKBA 73 DEFEND PALESTINE!” A hashtag on the Facebook event flyer read #DEFENDSHEIKHJARRAH.”

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.

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

The NY4Palestine coalition is comprised of several New York-based anti-Israel organizations, including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Al-Awda NY and Within Our Lifetime (WOL), which was formerly the city-wide chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in New York City (NYC SJP).

On May 15, 2021, the day of the protest, Kapica tweeted: “put some videos together from today's protest in Brooklyn

..”

Kapica’s tweet included a montage of video clips taken from the protest, overlaid with a music soundtrack.

On May 10, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “Protest tomorrow in NYC [New York City] for anyone who can make it!”

The rally was co-organized by the NY4Palestine coalition.

Kapica’s tweet featured a flyer for an “EMERGENCY RALLY FOR PALESTINE” scheduled for May 11, 2021 at the Israeli Consulate in New York. The flyer also said: “#SaveSheikhJarrah” and “#SaveSilwan.”

Jewish owners who sought to reclaim their property rights to lands in Silwan, a Jerusalem neighborhood also known as Shiloach, have been frequently met with Palestinian violence. Many Jews and Palestinians possess conflicting deeds to the same properties, with Jews holding deeds that pre-date those held by Palestinians.

On May 11, 2021, during the rally, protesters chanted [00:08:15]: “Intifada! Intifada! Long Live the Intifada!” and also[00:08:27]: “From New York to Gaza, globalize the Intifada!”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.

The protesters also chanted [00:04:59]: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” and carried [00:04:52] banners that read: “BDS is the floor, not the ceiling.”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.

Supporting BDS

On May 18, 2021, Kapica tweeted: “every Mediterranean restaurant that labels their food as ‘i*raeli’ should be boycotted for real, get that s**t out of my face.”

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.