Ajit Singh

Overview

Ajit Singh [Aparajito Singh] has expressed support for terrorist organizations and spread hatred of Israel and America. Singh is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Singh was affiliated with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at McMaster University (McMaster) in 2016 and 2017. SPHR is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). For more information see the SPHR McMaster Chapter Profile.

Singh was an activist with the Young Communist League (YCL-LJC) chapter in Hamilton, Ontario, and McMaster in 2016 and 2017

As of August 2023, Singh’s MRonline.org bio said he was an investigative journalist for the No Cold War project. As of the same date, Singh was an editor at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

As of August 2023, Singh was listed as a research associate at the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG). Singh’s GERG bio said he was a lawyer and graduate student in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba (UManitoba) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Singh reportedly received a JD from the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law (Western Law) in 2014.

In 2018, Singh used the handle “@ajitbirsingh” on Twitter. In 2017, Singh went by the username “HandsOFF 🇸🇾🇻🇪🇰🇵” and used the handle “@aparajito_.”

In 2017, Singh went by the username “Aparajito Singh” and used the handle “@aparajito.bs” on Facebook.

Support for Terrorists (PFLP, Hezbollah)

On December 12, 2017, Singh tweeted: “Hezbollah calls on all resistance factions in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the region to come together and unite for confrontation with Israel to win back #Jerusalem.”

Hezbollah has long been known as an anti-Semitic and genocidal terror organization dedicated to destroying Israel. 

Singh retweeted a May 23, 2017 tweet that read: “A message from Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades to Trump!” The Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades is the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.

The tweet that Singh retweeted was about a May 22, 2017 visit by then-United States President Donald Trump to Israel. The tweet embedded a photo of two PFLP terrorists aiming assault rifles at a bound effigy of Trump, standing behind a sign that read: “Resistance is not terrorism.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.  

On May 15, 2017, Singh tweeted: “Statement of the PFLP on the 69th commemoration of al-Nakba.” Singh linked to a PFLP statement which accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and called for the “right of return.”

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.


The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.


The PFLP statement also endorsed Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jail then on hunger strike and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling for the “economic, academic and cultural boycott of the Zionist enemy.”

The “Dignity Strike” was a hunger strike initiated on April 16, 2017, by Marwan Barghouti, the terrorist who financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike, most of whom were also incarcerated for acts of terrorism.  

Singh retweeted a May 15, 2017 tweet that read: “Spent #NakbaDay listening to a lecture by Palestinian Liberation icon #RasmeaOdeh + Professor Nadine Naber! #Justice4Rasmea ♥️🇵🇸

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 May 6, 2017, Singh retweeted a PFLP tweet that read: “Comrade Leila Khaled launches hunger strike in support with the hunger strikers of #DignityStrike in occupation jails.”

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 11, 2017, Singh tweeted: “Making buttons for Israeli Apartheid Week, and anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, send me ideas pls.” Singh embedded photos of the buttons that featured the PFLP logo and photos of PFLP terrorists Leila Khaled and Ghassan Kanafani.

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.  


Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented internationally as a “series of events that seeks to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people.” One of its goals is to build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. IAW has been renamed Palestine Awareness Week.

On April 8, 2017, Singh tweeted: “...Living in imperialist countries, we would do well to listen to Arab revolutionaries such as the PFLP.” Singh embedded a quote by Dr. Yousef Abdulhaq, a Palestinian academic reportedly affiliated with the PFLP.

On March 13, 2017, Singh tweeted: “Made Hezbollah and Nasrallah buttons and a Lebanese student saw it and took them home for her mom♥️✨

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, declared in 2019: “In a future war, all of occupied Palestine will be struck by our rockets.” In 2017, Nasrallah called on on Jews living in Israel “to leave Palestine and go back to the countries from which they came.” In 1998, he said Israel was “the state of the grandsons of apes and pigs – the Zionist Jews.”  

Hatred of Israel

On May 17, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), Singh tweeted a quote from anti-Israel activist Norman Finkelstein, who said: "’If [Palestinians] don't have rockets, nobody gives a damn about them. What are they supposed to do, just lay down and die? You're not going to get me to condemn it. I am HAPPY that they're fighting back. They give dignity to what it means to be a human being’...”

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.

Norman Finkelstein has compared [00:08:52] Israel to Nazi Germany and suggested [00:09:05] that Gaza is a Nazi concentration camp. Finkelstein also accused [00:11:42] Israel of “poisoning one million children.” He has expressed [00:00:03] “solidarity with” the Hezbollah terrorist organization and excused [00:41:33] the use of rockets against Israeli civilians by the terror group Hamas.  

Singh retweeted a May 29, 2017 tweet which read: “Let me tell you one thing - For as long as the apartheid state of Israel exists, there will never be coexistence or peace.”

Hatred of America

On June 11, 2020, Singh tweeted: “The US military does to the world, what US police do at home: terrorize with impunity.”

On April 8, 2020, Singh tweeted: “The United States is an unfathomably racist entity.”

On May 10, 2017, Singh tweeted: “‘Russian hacking’ propaganda diverts people’s focus away from what is truly responsible for global terror: white supremacist US capitalism."

On April 19, 2017, Singh tweeted: “United States out of existence.”

Anti-Israel Activism 

On May 12, 2017, Singh attended a rally hosted by the anti-Israel organization Samidoun to support the “Dignity Strike” titled: “Protest to support the ‘week of outrage’ and stop HP.”

The Facebook event page demanded that Israel release “all 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners” and called for a boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP) “over its support for Israeli crimes.”  

The Facebook event page also said: “Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.


On March 26, 2017, Singh attended an anti-Israel rally co-organized by the ANSWER Coalition and Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition in Washington, D.C. 

On March 26, 2017, anti-Israel group Al-Awda organized a rally in Washington, D.C., against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Speakers included Holocaust revisionist Ryan Dawson, who incited [00:13:27, 00:14:30] hatred toward Jews and called [00:14:21] AIPAC a “parasite.” Protestors shouted [00:15:27] “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”, which Al-Awda co-founder Abbas Hamideh has confirmed [00:02:52] is a call to eliminate Israel.

Singh attended multiple SPHR McMaster Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) events during in 2016 and 2017.

On March 13, 2017, Singh tweeted: “Made buttons with comrades today for Israeli Apartheid Week and the discussion panel on colonialism and imperialism this Thursday!” 

On March 9, 2016, Singh attendedan event titled: “Apartheid, Live!” as part of IAW 2016. The event showcased a poster that said “Gaza: An Open Air Prison” and referred to Israeli defensive operations as “attacks.” The event displayed multiple maps popular among anti-Israel activists. The event alsofeatured a “mock apartheid wall.” 

The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.


The “mock apartheid wall” is a series of panels meant to represent Israel's security barrier, which was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks and in response to Palestinian sniper attacks. Panels feature misleading information and graphics intended to demonize Israel. The “mock apartheid wall” is often featured at Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) events organized annually by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters on many North American university campuses.

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.



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