Bechara Khoury

Demonizing Israel and “Zionists”

On August 20, 2017, Khoury tweeted: Don't ever tell me they care about Palestinians. Don't ever tell me about how democratic they are. The only way they can survive is by
getting rid of us. It is a zionist apartheid state that doesn't deserve to exist.”

On August 11, 2017, Khoury responded to an ad for a concert in Israel in October, tweeting: “Palestine Future....It's called Palestine. Israel's an apartheid state.”

On July 22, 2017, in response to a Vice News article that stated “Palestinians and Israelis are killing each other over Jerusalem’s holiest site,” Khoury tweeted: “Get your headline right before you discuss this matter. Israel is killing Palestinians and preventing Muslims from worshipping at Al Aqsa.”

The previous day, 19 year-old Omar al-Abed broke into a Jewish family's home in Halamish and stabbed three family members to death while they were having a Sabbath meal. Before embarking, al-Abed wrote on Facebook: “Take up your weapon and resist, declare war for Allah...I have only a knife, and it will respond to Al-Aqsa's cry...The sons of monkeys and pigs do not open the gates of Al-Aqsa. I hope that men will come after me to strike me with an iron hand… We are all one, we have one blood, one enemy and one Al-Aqsa.”

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda served as the excuse for an upsurge in Palestinian violence that flared in the fall of 2015 and incited Palestinians to attempt mass casualty attacks on Israeli civilians in July of 2016.  

On July 21, 2017,  Khoury tweeted: “I don't think IDF soldiers would even let Jesus walk into a church to pray. I don't think this occupation and bloodshed glorifies God at all.”

On March 11, 2017, commenting on a video entitled “Church of Nativity in Bethlehem...Can’t you tell?”, Khoury tweeted: “Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian Christians and making us invisible. Muslims are mire supportive of our situation than you are.”

On that same video, Khoury then tweeted: “It looks like that today because Israel has wiped out the Christian majority in Palestine and you don't even know about it.”

On November 10, 2016, Khoury tweeted: “It's Palestine. Israel is an apartheid state that illegally occupies our country, builds illegal settlements and destroys innocent lives.”

On May 11, 2015, Khoury tweeted: “They are going to continue to bomb homes, uproot olive trees, which for some families are their ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME. they will continue to assault and rape the women, kill the men in open fire because they were told to, and teach their children from such a young age, that we, as Palestinians, are the enemies, and that we have no business living on the same planet as them. ASK ANY EDUCATED JEW, AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT THEY DO NOT STAND WITH ISRAEL! JUDAISM DOES NOT SUPPORT ZIONISM...THATS FUNNY.”

On July 24, 2014, Khoury tweeted: “Israel already setting up concentration camps....Hmmm....seems familiar no?”

On July 4, 2014, Khoury tweeted: “Nazis treated the jews like scum....Now the Palestinians are in the same position as the jews were..........the REAL Jews.”

On July 4, 2014, Khoury tweeted: “Israel declares "Death To All Arabs!" while Western media whitewashes the Israeli crimes....God help us all.”

On November 19, 2012, Khoury tweeted: “#ifyouarepalestinian you're not supposed to support Obama. Hes STILL sending foreign aid to the modern day nazis aka Israel.”

Hatred of Israel

On August 17, 2017, Khoury tweeted: “But....as always. Long live Palestine. Down with Zionist Israel.”

On January 19, 2017, Khoury tweeted: “Saw an Israeli flag at this campus club fair a few minutes ago, I was so ready to throw hands and go to war.”

On April 8, 2013, Khoury tweeted: “yo dont get me started on wrestlemania with the israeli flag.....mans would snatched that flag and blew my nose with it #raw.”

On January 17, 2013, Khoury tweeted: “@DeviantDiya oooooh ok ok. I understand now......f**king zionists.”

On October 14, 2012, Khoury tweeted: “@AmandaPalestina stupid zionists -__-.”

On August 18, 2012, Khoury tweeted: “#whatmakesmemad zionists.”

On May 15, 2011, Khoury tweeted: “F**K THE ISRAELI FORCES!! BUNCH OF GOOD FOR NOTHING HEARTLESS BASTARDS!! ALWAYS KILLING INNOCENT LIVES, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE SOON #ALNAQBA.”

Anti-American Conspiracy Theories

On November 8, 2016, Khoury tweeted: “No I don't. I also don't condone Hillary arming ISIS and destroying the Middle East either.”

Also on November 8, 2016, Khoury tweeted: “Hillary's best friends with the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, she bows down to Israel and Saudi Arabia....sounds like a great leader.”

On October 4, 2016, Khoury tweeted: “and don't think ISIS is some new thing either....same propaganda, new face. Al Qaeda was a framed American thing too.”

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.