Ateea Kazi
Overview
Ateea Kazi [Ateea A. Kazi] has promoted incitement and spread hatred of Israel on Twitter. Kazi was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist at the City College of New York (CCNY) in 2021.Kazi has promoted multiple anti-Israel protests organized by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an anti-Israel activist group in New York City founded by Nerdeen Kiswani.
Until February 2018, WOL was known as a branch of SJP, going by the name NYC SJP. WOL’s “Points of Unity” states: “We defend the right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary.”
Kazi attended the annual Muslim American Society (MAS) and Islamic Council of North America (ICNA) convention in 2022.
As of May 2023, Kazi’s LinkedIn page said she has held an internship as a “Software Quality Assurance Engineer” for the Afnan Innovation Lab headquartered in Brooklyn, New York since December 2022.
As of December 2022, Kazi’s LinkedIn said she worked as a “Home Support Unit Specialist” for the New York City Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit since 2021.
As of the same date, Kazi’s LinkedIn said she owned Ateea's Artistry, an event planning business operating out of Ozone Park, Queens, New York. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from CCNY in 2020.
As of May 2023, Kazi’s LinkedIn said she was located in New York, New York.
As of the same date, Kazi used the handle “@cupofateea” on Twitter and Instagram.
Promoting Incitement
On May 10, 2021, Kazi tweeted: “Thanks for reminding us that you speak bs [bulls**t] and your promises to the Muslim community is fake since you kindly forgot the mention that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] has been attacking worshippers in Al Aqsa for how long now
.” Hatred of Israel
Kazi retweeted a May 25, 2021 tweet that promoted an anti-Israel statement titled: “CUNY Community Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”The statement said: “We, members of the City University of New York community, stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine resisting the violence and oppression of Israeli settler colonial and apartheid rule.”
The tweet that Kazi retweeted was written shortly after the end of Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas.
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.
“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.
Anti-Israel Activism (WOL, BDS, SJP)
On July 28, 2021, Kazi tweeted: “
This weekend in Brooklyn! @WOLPalestine.” The tweet included a flyer for a July 31, 2021 WOL rally titled: “Honor the Martyrs of Palestine Memorial and Rally.”At the rally, protestors chanted [00:55:36]: “No justice no peace, Israel out of the Middle East!” One protestor held [00:15:18] a sign that said: “EXPEL ZIONIST OCCUPIERS FROM THE WEST BANK. DEFEND GAZA THE NEW WARSAW GHETTO.”
The Warsaw Ghetto confined over 450,000 Jews during the Holocaust and 80,000 of those Jews died due to the harsh conditions, starvation and dense population.
The protest was part of the CUNY Divest campaign. At the rally, protestors chanted [00:01:17]: “Zionism out of CUNY now,” and [00:04:07] “Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israeli apartheid has to fall!”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
Join us this Friday 5/28 at 3 pm in front of John Jay College in Manhattan (524 W. 59th St.) where we will be mobilizing with SJPs, students, staff, faculty and others to continue to call out@CUNY’s [City University of New York] complicity in Palestinian oppression.”At the protest, WOL founder Nerdeen Kiswani said [00:02:08]: “We have to make sure that wherever there are zionists, they know that there will be people there to oppose their racist ideology.”
Another speaker at the rally said [00:01:04] Israel is the “biggest provider of injustice in the world.” Activists also chanted [00:01:12]: “It is right to rebel, Israel go to hell!” and [00:01:04] “One, two, three, four, occupation no more! Five, six, seven, eight, smash the settler Zionist state!”
In May 2021, Kazi signed [no. 402] an anti-Israel statement created by CUNY4Palestine, a BDS activism organization. The statement was published by the anti-Israel publication Mondoweiss.
The statement committed signatories to: “Initiate, support, and amplify campaigns in solidarity with Palestinian calls for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid…”
The statement accused Israel of “settler colonialism” and demanded “individual campuses, and CUNY as a whole, endorse and support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.”
Kazi retweeted a May 17, 2021, tweet by WOL that said: “
NYC ALL OUT FOR PALESTINETOMORROW 5/18 @ 1:00 PM. ZIONIST MISSION TO THE U.N, MANHATTAN SHARE FAR AS POSSIBLE! #PalestineStrike #SaveSheikhJarrahh #NYCPROTEST.”The tweet included a flyer for a May 18, 2021, WOL rally titled: “Emergency Rally to Defend Palestine.” The rally took place outside of the Israeli consulate in Manhattan. Immediately following the protest, Saadah Masoud, a violent anti-Israel activist, led [00:00:08] a mob [00:00:06] of protestors in physically attacking two men, one of whom held an Israeli flag.
Kazi retweeted a May 17, 2021 WOL tweet that said: “
NYC ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE THIS SATURDAY 5/22 @ 1:00 PM. QUEENS BLVD AND 46TH STREET, SUNNYSIDE QUEENS! #DefendPalestine #SaveSheikhJarrahh.”At the protest, Saadah Masoud could be seen burning an Israeli flag. Other activists at the protest chanted [slide 2]: “Intifada! Intifada! Long Live the Intifada!” and [slide 3] “United Nations at what cost?! Will you stop this Holocaust?!”
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.
The tweet included a link to an article from Palestine Legal titled: “Victory! City University of New York Reinstates Pro-Palestinian Book Event; Apologizes for Canceling.” The CCNY SJP event featured anti-Israel author Miko Peled.
Miko Peled is an anti-Israel activist who has said [00:00:06] the Israeli army is “one of the best trained, best equipped, best fed, terrorist organizations in the world” and claimed [00:00:16] that “their entire purpose is terrorism.” In September 2016, Peled tweeted that US aid to Israel causes people to think that “Jews have a reputation 4being sleazy thieves.”
.” The video was taken at a WOL rally held in support of Ahed Tamimi.During the rally, WOL founder Nerdeen Kiswani led [00:00:01] protesters in chanting: “We don’t want two states! We want ‘48!” and [00:20:35]: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!”
For more information, see the CCNY SJP Chapter Profile.
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.
WOL
Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is a pro-terror activist group in New York City dedicated to Israel’s destruction within the lifetime of its members.Acts of violence and physical confrontations with police have frequently occurred at WOL protests and marches. WOL uses harassment campaigns to target pro-Israel organizations or companies that do business with Israel, making it a part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Multiple activists who have either burned Israeli flags or led chants at WOL rallies were later jailed for violent anti-Semitic hate crimes, including Saadah Masoud and Waseem Awawdeh. In Masoud’s case, he received 18 months in jail for an anti-Semitic assault at an April 2022 WOL rally and two other anti-Semitic assaults in 2021.
WOL promotes “resistance” against Israel “by any means necessary,” calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” spreads incitement and idolizes [00:34:06] Palestinian terrorists like Leila Khaled and others at rallies and online events.
WOL was founded by Nerdeen Kiswani and Dan Cione in 2015. Kiswani is a frequent speaker at WOL rallies where she has promoted terrorism against Israelis and called for the death of Zionists. She has also provided support for Masoud and other activists following their arrests.
WOL began as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP, but changed its name in 2018. The group is not found to be registered in any U.S. state as a nonprofit organization under its official name. Nor is there any listing for WOL under its name on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website for tax-exempt organizations.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ateea.kazi
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