Brice Patterson

Overview

Brice Patterson [Brice Armond Patterson] spoke at a rally supporting the Hamas terror group after it committed war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, on October 7, 2023.

In 2022, Patterson threatened a motorist with violence and intentionally blocked traffic while participating in an anti-Israel rally.

Patterson has also called to dismantle Israel, glorified a terrorist, expressed support for violent resistance, and spread hatred of Israel, America and the West.

In August 2022, Patterson was affiliated with the anti-Israel campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Temple University (Temple SJP) and was an activist with the Philadelphia branch of the Workers World Party (WWP Philly).

As of December 2023, Patterson’s LinkedIn profile said Patterson had been an “On-site” and part-time “Peer Outreach Specialist” at Courage Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since May 2023. Patterson’s LinkedIn said: “Skills: Wound Care · Medical outreach · Sexual health · Infection Control · Substance abuse disorder support.”

As of November 2023, Patterson’s LinkedIn bio said Patterson was an information service technology specialist, a community activist and a freelance artist.

As of the same date, Patterson’s LinkedIn said Patterson had been a “Lead Illustrator” at a talent agency and production company from July 2018 to September 2023, and had been an extracurricular teacher through SpiralQ from June 2021to September 2023.

Also as of November 2023, Patterson’s Instagram bio said Patterson was a “Freelance illustrator.” As of August 2022, Patterson’s website marketed “Art-Prints - Clothing - Accessories - Services.”

As of November 2023, Patterson’s LinkedIn said Patterson graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with a bachelor’s degree in “Game and Interactive Media Design” in 2014.

As of November 2023, Patterson indicated on LinkedIn that Patterson was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Also as of November 2023, Patterson went by the username “ComradeBB” on Twitter and Instagram. As of the same date, Patterson used the handle “@Sanctumhaze” on Twitter and “@sanctumhazeart” on Instagram. Patterson went by the username “The Frustrated Black Leftist” and the handle “@sanctumrelic” on TikTok.

10/8/2023 - Supporting Hamas Terrorism at a Rally

On October 8, 2023,the day after the Hamas massacre, Patterson spoke [01:51:06] on behalf of WWP Philly at an anti-Israel rally and march organized by the Philly Palestine Coalition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in support of Hamas.

At the rally, Patterson said [01:52:24]: “...The settler colonial project that we are seeing in real-time in the occupied territory of Palestine is something that has happened all across this globe.”

Patterson also said [01:53:51]: “But guess what, nothing changes with being peaceful and nice. Nothing changes without us actually taking up arms and fighting."

Patterson also said [01:55:48]: “So I will not shame the resistance fighters who stand up. I will not talk about them as if they are lesser. As if they are monsters…”

Patterson continued [01:56:32]: “So it is important for every time the Palestinians or any other oppressed people resist, that we support them. We show up, we stand up. We tell them we understand them. We tell them that they are not monsters, they are not terrorists. They are the ones fighting against terror.”

Patterson concluded [01:56:55]: “Long live the intifada! Free Palestine!”

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.

On October 8, 2023, the Philly Palestine Coalition and other local anti-Israel groups held an “Emergency Solidarity Rally” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The rally was in support of the previous day’s Hamas terrorist war crimes.

Michael C. Wilson of the Workers’ World Party saluted [00:10:19] Hamas for what he called [00:15:23] “a job well done.” He called for [00:14:17] the murder of more Israeli civilians, yelling: “F**k ‘em! Kill 250 more today!”

Other speakers praised [00:15:58] Hamas for being a “resistance front” and claimed [01:25:56] Hamas war crimes were part of them fighting “for their freedom.” Protesters joined [00:28:08] in chants calling for “intifada,” a term showing support for terrorism, and other chants alleging [00:27:41] that Israel is a “terrorist state.”

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, an estimated 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, torture, kidnappings and desecration of bodies. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ social media for families to see.

As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority being civilians, had reportedly been murdered during the attacks three weeks earlier. Details are below. Hamas kidnapped an estimated 230 Israelis, including 30 children. Over 3,000 were wounded, many severely. As of the same date, over 8,000 missiles had been fired from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack.

Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.

The terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. They also beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.

Over 260 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded. Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends.

Forensic analysis of dead bodies showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off victims’ legs and raping corpses. Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.

The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.

The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In addition, Hamas called the the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.

August 10, 2022 - Participating in an Anti-Israel Rally

Threatening Violence

Patterson marched with the protesters and intentionally blocked traffic at an anti-Israel rally in Philadelphia. Patterson slammed a hand on one of the cars, and when the driver tried to move past the protesters, Patterson threatened the driver: “Don’t do it, do not do it! I will break that f**king window and beat the f**k out of you! Don’t you dare!”

The rally was titled “Philly Stands with Gaza,” and took place at Philadelphia City Hall. It was organized in response to Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn (OBD) against PIJ. Protestors marched in support of the Philadelphia Coalition for Palestine, a network of anti-Israel organizations including Temple SJP, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Philadelphia chapter and IfNotNow (INN) Philadelphia chapter.

In August 2022, the terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) threatened attacks on Israeli civilians. Israel preemptively launched OBD. Both PIJ’s northern and southern senior commanders in Gaza, Tayseer al-Jabari and Khaled Mansour, were killed in targeted Israeli airstrikes. PIJ responded by launching more than 1,000 rockets toward Israeli cities.

Patterson also spoke at the rally. Patterson was introduced [00:16:26] by Nada El-Hillal, an anti-Israel activist and one of the protest leaders. Pattersonbegan [00:17:06] his remarks by saying: “…I have grown tired, so tired, of the violence used by this state [America] and its imperial vassal, the apartheid state of Israel.”

Demonizing Israel and America

Patterson continued [00:18:38] the speech at the rally: “...even at home, the United States can starve its own citizens, throw them from their homes and do it with police trained by the very violent techniques used by the apartheid state of Israel with their official brand of being field-tested.”

Patterson also said [00:19:05]: “And that’s their [Israel’s] vile secret. Before such violence is imported here to our very own streets to brutalize our children and our families, they are used against our siblings in places like Gaza. They are used on areas full of schools, communities, farms, hospitals.”

Patterson continued [00:19:28]: “We don’t have to go far to see the kind of violence inflicted by Israel, for it is happening right here in our city, our home. From the very immigrant population that is made up by displaced people to the endless gentrification driving houselessness all over our city, our home, from the tactics that these police use to help destroy the encampment of UC [University City] Townhomes.”

Spreading Anti-Semitism

Toward the end of the rally, Ahmed Shaat, a protest leader holding a bullhorn, threw [01:28:01] two Israeli flags on the pavement. Other protesters then proceeded to trample on the flags.

Mohammad Omaren, another leader, burned [01:28:20] the flags while Shaat led [01:28:26] protesters in the chant: “Allahu Akbar [God is the greatest]!” Shaat and others led [01:28:32] protestors in the chants: “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The Occupation has gotta go!”

Shaat then yelled [01:28:57]: “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The yahoodi [Jew] must go!”

Omaren then trampled [01:30:30] on the Israeli flag repeatedly.

While the Israeli flag burned, Johara Shamaa, another protest leader, could be heard [01:29:38] leading the chant: “Israel, Israel, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!”

Another protester at the rally held a sign that read: “Stop Israeli Holocaust against Palestinians.”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.

Hatred of Israel

Toward the end of the rally, Nada El-Hillal led [00:00:12] the chants: “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has to fall!” and [00:00:40]: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!”, while Johara Shamaa led [01:30:07] the chant: “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes!”

Photos posted on the Temple SJP Instagram page the day following the rally featured [slide 5] a sign claiming Israel was a “TERRORIST STATE.” Another sign accused [slide 4] America and Israel: “THERE IS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.”

May 15, 2022 - Speaking at an Anti-Israel Rally

Patterson called to dismantle Israel, and demonized Israel and America, at an anti-Israel rally at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Patterson blamed Israel for violence against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S. and abroad.

The stated purpose of the rally, titled “Nakba 74: Philly for Palestine Rally + Protest,” was to “Fight back against Zionism, settler colonialism, apartheid, and ongoing Palestinian displacement.“ It was co-sponsored by multiple anti-Israel organizations including SJP, INN, JVP and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Calling to Dismantle the State of Israel

Patterson said [00:06:51]: “There is no freedom, not of Turtle Island, not of Canada, not of New Zealand, not of Ireland, not of Australia, not of Hawaii, not of Puerto Rico until there is a free Palestine from the river to the mother f**king 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.

Demonizing Israel and America

Patterson reportedly began “by acknowledging the people who have been martyred in Palestine since the beginning of 2022 saying: ‘Reading through the lists of names’ evokes a ‘sensation similar to when I hear the endless names of Black and Brown people killed by militarized police in the U.S., many trained by Israeli forces.’”

Patterson claimed [00:00:23]: “The United States uses the apartheid state of Israel to subjugate endless scores of people to [unintelligible] militarized violence overseas, in order to uphold its hegemony and to destabilize communities...”

Patterson also said [00:00:46]: “...the apartheid state of Israel trains our very own unjust police system, so that our communities and homes can be violated, violently suppressed by the same techniques that they have been harmed through decades of violence and murder against Palestinians.”

Patterson went on to equate [00:01:34] a property dispute in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah with the dismantling by Philadelphia police of an encampment set up by protesters objecting to the upcoming closure of an affordable housing complex.

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Patterson said [00:01:34]: “...that we have no right to our own homes, we see mirrored not only in places like Sheikh Jarrah, or recently in Jenin, but literally blocks away in our own neighborhoods like members of the UC Townhomes [in West Philadelphia].”

Glorifying a Terrorist

On April 18, 2022, Patterson posted to Instagram Patterson's illustration of terrorist Leila Khaled. Patterson wrote that Khaled represents “a fierce will to never be erased” and called her an “advocate for the defense of ones self determination and human rights.”

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.

Patterson glorified Khaled’s participation in the 1969 and 1970 terrorist hijackings, writing: “What Khaled represented in those moments were resistance by any means necessary.”

In the same Instagram post, Patterson also wrote about Khaled: “The West and Apartheid State brand her as a terrorist but to many in the revolutionary community Khaled represents the face of resistance in the face of colonization, erasure, ethnic cleansing and state violence at the level of boldness and spectacle the Imperial Powers of the West and their Vassals could understand.”

Supporting Violent Resistance

On May 10, 2022, Patterson re-posted [slide 15] on Instagram Stories Highlights titled “Be critical 11,” a graphic that said: “Political Change always has and always will occur through violence. The only question is who the violence is being inflicted upon…” Patterson posted [slide 4] the same graphic on Instagram on December 3, 2020.

On April 3, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “Intifada explicitly means ‘resistance of oppression.’ I support the resistance of the oppression of Palestinians by the Apartheid state globally; as I believe all people should object and resist the occupations colonialism, erasure, and ethnic cleaning of indigenous peoples.

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 April 2, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “I don’t judge the colonized and subjugate for the means of their resistance in any capacity. Colonial empires such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and etc. have no right to the peaceful acceptance or cooperation from indigenous populations.”

Hatred of Israel and the West

On August 12, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “The west is legitimately a death cult.”

On May 15, 2022, Patterson wrote on Instagram that Zionism was “a Eurocentric and White Supremacist settler colonial project.”

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.

Patterson also wrote: “This project of displacement, ethnic cleansing, and erasure is not new or unique to the apartheid state of, Israel. It is not unique to the occupied Palestine. It happens here in the states.”

On May 13, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “The apartheid state is grotesque and I have no patience or respect for anyone that supports it.”

On April 12, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “When it comes to identiarian politics this must be said; No there is no such thing as ‘innocent’ Westerners. There are no innocent

people, there are no innocent Canadians, United States, Australian, South African, Israeli, Central, South American, or New Zealand Colonists.”

On April 3, 2022, Patterson tweeted: “3,000 Palestinians were killed during the second intifada. The vast majority were civilian protestors. They were killed by state violence. I’m not finna to brand them with a Mujahideen tactic of suicide bombing which was quite literally written and taught by the United States.”

The second intifada took place from 2000 to 2005 where Palestinian terrorists carried out over 130 suicide bombings, murdering over 1,000 Israeli civilians and soldiers. Terrorists targeted city buses, shopping centers, dance clubs and cafes. Palestinian leadership encouraged children to carry out “martyrdom” operations against Israel.

On July 18, 2021, Patterson posted a video on TikTok where Patterson claimed [00:02:35] Israel was an “apartheid state” that was “focusing on a settler colonial project…committing ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people…the people in Gaza [are] in the largest open air-prison in the entire world.”

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

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.