Banah Khamis

Overview

Banah Khamis [Banah Ali Khamis] is an anti-Israel activist who has expressed support for terrorists, spread anti-Semitism and promoted hatred of Israelis and Israel.

Khamis engaged in anti-Israel activism before and after Hamas terrorist war crimes against Israeli civilians which were executed on October 7, 2023. The atrocities included mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings. The attacks left about 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” 

In October 2023, Khamis wrote that she had “worked in establishing” the Philly Palestine Coalition (PPC), an anti-Israel group that calls itself a “Philly-based Alliance of Palestinian, Black & Indigenous communities working to uplift Palestinian liberation.” 

As of the same date, Khamis was reportedly the head of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Drexel University (Drexel SJP). In 2021, Khamis was reportedly president of Drexel SJP.

As of June 2024, Khamis’s LinkedIn profile said she was studying for a bachelor's degree in global studies at Drexel, slated to graduate in 2025. She went by “Banah K.” on LinkedIn. 

As of the same date, Khamis’s LinkedIn said she was affiliated with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapter at Drexel. She had also been a College of Arts and Sciences student ambassador at Drexel since October 2022. 

As of the same date, Khamis’s LinkedIn said she had worked remotely as an “Al-Bustan News Service Media Fellow” at the anti-Israel group Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from July to December 2023.

Khamis received a grant from the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund for the class of 2023-2024. As of April 2025, the fund's website said Khamis was “born and raised in Amman, Jordan” and “led the annual Nakba Day march in Philadelphia for three consecutive years.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”

In September 2023, Khamis was listed among the “STAFF & VOLUNTEERS”for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival held at The University of Pennsylvania (Penn). The event reportedly “featured several activists who promoted conspiracies about Jewish power and called for violence against Israel.”

As of May 2024, Khamis wrote on Facebook that she “Lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”

Support for Terrorists

On January 24, 2024, Khamis wrote [slide 35] on Instagram Highlights Story titled “64za”: “whatever is said about october 7, the operation that took place was in direct response to the settler regime’s plan to expand the occupation even further…” She also wrote in the post that Israel lacks “any legitimacy” and that “israel is a settler colony…”

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. 
On December 26, 2023, Khamis shared [slide 13] a post in Arabic on Instagram Stories Highlights titled “G4z@” calling for the release of terrorist leader Khalida Jarrar from an Israeli jail.

Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.

On November 25, 2023, Khamis posted [slide 45] a screenshot on Instagram Stories Highlights titled “G%za” of a post celebrating the release of Israa Jaabis from an Israeli prison. Text on the post said: “لا تحلموا بعالم سعيد ما دامت إسرائيل موجودة [Do not dream of a happy world as long as Israel exists].”

In October 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” Israa Jaabis attempted but failed to detonate a car bomb at a military checkpoint after proclaiming: “Allahu Akbar [Allah is the Greatest].”  

On November 17, 2023, Khanis posted [slide 81] a screenshot on Instagram of a now-deleted map covered with inverted red triangles, a symbol of support for Hamas terrorism. The map said “ZONE OF DIRECT ACTIONS” and had triangles over the locations of New York City Jewish and pro-Israel businesses, banks and media outlets.

The inverted red triangle is a symbol showing support for Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. It first appeared in propaganda videos produced by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during its terror attacks of October 7, 2023. The symbol was used by Hamas to signify one of their Israeli targets.

The map was reportedly circulated by the pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL). The map’s text read: “Each of the sites on this map is tied to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the settler-colonization of Palestine. They reflect a network of dispossession, policing, prisons, surveillance, counterinsurgency, war, destruction, imperialism and militarization across the globe, with the mass media complex which manufactures consent for genocide acting as tools of the oppressor.”

The WOL map also said: “May this map serve as a call for every struggle to act in their own interest. As we do so, we uplift one another's struggles and free Palestine from the river to the sea." 

“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.

Spreading Anti-Semitism & Hatred of Israelis and Israel

On January 24, 2024, Khamis wrote [slide 35] on Instagram Highlights Story titled “64za”: “...being pro-palestine IS being anti-israel. purposely. necessarily. you cannot claim to believe in palestinian people’s right to return…while also believing that the settler-regime occupying their land has any legitimacy.”

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.

On January 20, 2024, Khamis shared [slide 17] on Instagram Stories Highlights titled “64za” a tweet in Arabic that said: “...Israel’s thirst for our blood is increasing. The monster is not satisfied with abusing us and will not be satisfied.”

On December 21, 2023, Khamis wrote [slide 35] on Instagram Highlights Story “Gaz%” that Israel was guilty of “ETHNIC CLEANSING,” “A GENOCIDE” and “THE GAZA HOLOCAUST.”


Also on December 21, 2023, Khamis wrote [slide 33] on Instagram Highlights Story titled “Gaz%”: “there are no innocent Israelis. there are no innocent Israeli civilians. every Israeli is a colonial-settler on stolen Palestinian land. every Israeli is an armed combatant on occupied land.”

On December 17, 2023, Khamis wrote [slide 2] on Instagram: “every israeli is a settler on stolen land” against a background photo of graffiti that said: ”ISRAEL TERRORIST STATE.”

On November 3, 2023, Khamis posted [slide 13] on Instagram Stories Highlights titled “Ga£a”: “Israel has ran the Palestinian registry for 50+ years…You know who used to run a registry for Jewish people back in the day? The nazis…”

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 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.

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/bkhamis33 [Deleted]

Twitter:https://twitter.com/banahkhamis [Deleted]

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/6an4h_/ [Deleted]

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/banahkhamis

ResearchGate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Banah-Khamis [Deleted]

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@banahkhamis7824