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Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith [Anthony David Alexander Smith] was imprisoned and banned from teaching for setting a police car on fire during a riot. He also expressed support for Hamas and spread hatred of Israel.
Smith is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2021, Smith was affiliated with Drexel University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.
As of December 2024, Smith was listed as on the “Leadership Team” of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. His bio said he was a “West Philly based organizer and educator” who “has been organizing primarily around addressing police violence and building independent political power for black and brown community members.”
A November 7, 2024 Instagram post by the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction identified Smith as an “Abolition School Instructor.”
As of December 2024, Anthony Smith went by the username “Ant Smith” and used the handle “@onevillageant” on Instagram. As of the same date, Smith’s Instagram featured a Story Highlights titled: ACAB.
On October 29, 2020, Philadelphia Magazine reported that Anthony Smith was charged with arson for setting a police car on fire during a May 31, 2020 protest in Philadelphia following the death of George Floyd.
The indictment, dated October 20, 2020, charged Smith with “arson of property belonging to an agency receiving federal funding, arson affecting interstate commerce, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, and aiding and abetting.”
A motion for pretrial detention, filed November 5, 2020 said the car “was rocked by a large group of people until it was flipped upside down. The car was spray painted and used as a prop by several individuals – including the defendant – for personal pictures.”
The motion continued: “Subsequently, a lit road flare was placed in the vehicle by an unidentified actor, and the defendants, including Smith, then placed combustible materials in the vehicle – literally adding fuel to the fire. Defendant Smith was captured on video and in photographs approaching the car several times to purposefully place combustible materials into this vehicle…”
On September 8, 2023, Smith posted wrote on Facebook that he had been on house arrest since November 2020 and “...Because of this civil disorder conviction, I am now banned from teaching for atleast [sic] 10 years… .”
On November 11, 2023, Philadelphia Magazine published photos of Smith sitting and standing on top of the police car, which had been spray painted with the words: “KILL COPS,” as well as putting paper inside the burning car.
The Philadelphia Magazine also reported that two weeks after his arrest by the FBI, Smith was released to “electronically monitored curfew” house arrest until trial.”
On November 28, 2023, the Associated Press, in an article titled: “Activist who acknowledged helping flip police car during 2020 protest sentenced to 1 year in prison,” reported that Smith had filed a guilty plea on “federal charges of obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder, which included aiding and abetting an arson…” and “acknowledged having helped others flip a vacant Philadelphia police car over.”
The Associated press reported that Smith was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and two years of probation, and that “his felony conviction bars him from teaching for ten years.”
On September 14, 2024, Smith posted on Instagram: “Officially released and home from the halfway house…”
On October 13, 2023, Smith, referring to Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, posted: “...I bought into sensationalized stories of freedom fighters flying through the air with parachutes. (Sounded lit though) / Overall, October 7th was as Malcolm put it ‘The chickens coming home to roost….’”
In the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, numerous terrorists infiltrated into Israel in motorized paragliders. Hamas terrorists descended in gliders on the Nova Music Festival, where they slaughtered over 360 unarmed young men and women. In the wake of the atrocities, images of Hamas militants on paragliders served to symbolize and glorify the deadly attacks.
Smith continued: “I don't have time to condemn Hamas when the conditions that agitate Hamas have not been addressed…Stop waiting for the right time and for squeaky clean struggle to support oppressed people…”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On November 12, 2023, Smith posted on Facebook: “Yemen aint my enemies, Iran aint my enemies…H×mas ain't my enemy. R*dical elements of resistance are not my enemy as long as the elements of oppression exist…people asking for a humanitarian pause instead of immediate ceasefire? Instead of an immediate free Palestine from the River to the Sea?...You are probably my enemy. / A black mayor and her spineless democrat entourage…welcoming zionism? / Sounds like my enemy to me…”
Following the outbreak of Israel’s 2023 war against Hamas, Houthi terrorists attacked commercial ships off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and launched missiles into southern Israel. Like Hamas, the Houthi movement is backed by Iran, and is designated as a terror group by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries.
The Houthi slogan reads: “God is the Greatest / Death to America / Death to Israel / A Curse Upon the Jews / Victory to Islam.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
On December 6, 2023, Smith posted on Instagram: “...I have lost my patience with having to be surgically precise with Palestinian advocacy. Tip-toeing around the actual f*cking slaughter of an entire people. The Black and Brown people of Palestine will be dead by the time we ‘perfect’ our arguments…”
Smith’s post initiated a discussion, and in response to a comment that said: “Israel should concede its land to the Palestinian people? Is that the solution?” Smith wrote: “...A solution for who? Israel and Palestine desire seperate [sic] outcomes. I simply support the outcomes where Palestinians have self-determination. In however that is achieved, by quite literally any means necessary / I have no interest in Israel’s solution…”
Anti-Israel activists use the phrase “By any means necessary” as one of multiple euphemisms for terrorist violence, of which another is “resistance.”
On October 17, 2024, Smith posted on Instagram: “Moments of inspiration captured…Lincoln’s Students for Justice in Palestine’s beautiful wall of expression against zionism and genocide…”
Included in the post is a photo of Smith standing in front of a wall plastered with SJP flyers, some of which read: “YOU DON’T NEED TO BE MUSLIM TO STAND UP FOR GAZA, YOU JUST NEED TO BE HUMAN” and “COLONIALISM IS INDIGENOUS GENOCIDE” and “FREE PALESTINE.”
On January 1, 2024, Smith posted on Facebook: “...I hope that all attacks against Israel intensify. I hope the boycotts and blockades grow to disrupt every fabric of the settlers' lives just as the conduct of Israel disrupts the lives of the Arab and African diaspora all over the planet…” The post included a photo of Smith wearing a keffiyeh around his neck.
The keffiyeh is a Palestinian headdress traditionally worn by men, which has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
On October 27, 2023, Smith posted on Facebook: “...This country loves the Israeli military and dumps money in their pockets. Our police forces exchanges crowd control training with them…A mass shooter in Maine murdered 18 people this week. He was a U.S army veteran. / Israeli soldiers are doing that every hour. / We manufacture, train and economically invest in mass murder…”
The accusation that Israeli law enforcement teaches American police brutal tactics during police exchange programs is used to demonize Israel. Participants in these programs have stated [00:02:14] that the training in Israel focuses [00:13:36] on public policy, counterterrorism and leadership training in the form of lectures and discussions.
On April 28, 2021, “Philly Organizer Ant Smith” was listed as a scheduled speaker for a Drexel University SJP event, discussing “the intersectionality between The Deadly Exchange and policing in the U.S.”
In 2017, anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (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.
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 Student 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.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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