Carlos Khalil Guzman
Overview
Carlos Khalil Guzman has applauded violence against Israelis, expressed support for terrorists, spread hatred of Israel and promoted the Boycott Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Guzman was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brooklyn College, in 2012 and 2013.
Guzman also fundraised for National SJP (NSJP) conferences in 2012 and 2013.
Guzman was affiliated with Al-Awda — the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, in 2012.
As of June 2019, Guzman’s LinkedIn page said he worked as the “Photography Department Manager” at Dijifi since August 2016 and a “Photographer” since Oct 2008. Guzman’s LinkedIn also said that his work has been featured on CNN, NBC News, the Huffington Post, AlJazeera Arabic, The National - Abu Dhabi.
Guzman’s LinkedIn page also said he was a 2012 graduate of Hunter College (Hunter), part of City University of New York (CUNY), where he majored in Photography and Media Studies. He was also a volunteer at the NYC chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) from “Jun 2013 - Dec 2013.”
PCRF has been financially linked with The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Global Relief Foundation and The International [Islamic] Relief Organization — all of which were shut down by the United States government for funneling donations to terrorist organizations.
Applauding Violence Against Israelis
On June 20, 2018, in response to a tweet that read: “Moroccans beat that f**king Zionist who tries to raise the Israeli flag:” Guzman tweeted: “Beat his a** and burn that zionist flag.” The tweet featured a video of Morrocan soccer fans beating up a fan who was holding an Israeli flag.On December 16, 2017, in response to a tweet that read “An Arab TV channel, is proud that an Arab woman has beaten an Israeli policewoman. Shame. No other word is what they educate from a young age!” Guzman tweeted: “So happy that the zionist occupier got what she deserved for occupying Palestinian land.”
Expressing Support for Terrorists
On March 9, 2012, Guzman promoted an SJP organized event supporting hunger striker, Khader Adnan.Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.
Also participating was Hamas military commander, Abdullah al-Barghouti— who was sentenced to serve 67 life sentences for his significant role in multiple terrorist attacks, including the Sbarro Cafe Bombing of 2001, which murdered 15 people and wounded more than 120.
Another hunger striker was Palestinian terrorist Samer Issawi — who received a 26 year prison sentence for shooting at Hebrew University students and Israeli police in 2002, as well as for manufacturing and distributing pipe bombs.
Also among the 2000 Palestinian hunger strikers was Khader Adnan, a senior member of PIJ. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”
On December 7, 2012, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “#PalHunger -Thanks Carlos Latuff
Thanks for replying to our message I support the Palestinian detainees in the occupation Jails. In solidarity with #PalHunger (Date) - (country) Friends, Waiting for your support, Spread far and wide and upload your photos to show we stand as one !!!”On April 3, 2017, in response to a tweet that read: “Poem dedicated to Rasmea Odeh by Rania Salem” Guzman tweeted: “
”Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On July 8, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “The only divisive entity in the region is the zionist apartheid state of #israhell. So try harder bc the lies are not working, the world knows and supports Palestinian freedom and self determination!”On May 16, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “Of course I agree, the facts on the ground AND history don’t lie, #Israel is an #apartheid state occupying #Palestinian land.”
On May 1, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “Good morning to everyone except every #zionist, racist and sexist out there!
.”On March 4, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “Yeap zionists are known for killing Palestinians.”
On February 7, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “That's cuz real feminists know that Israheli occupation of Palestinian land is real and they know Haley is nothing but a pro zionist pos.”
On February 2, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “1 ‘America’ is a continent not a country 2 Jerusalem is indeed the capital of Palestine 3 the fact that you support the racist zionist apartheid state of israhell says how obtuse your views are! Next.”
On January 22, 2018, Guzman tweeted: “Living in a super racist society like #Israel. It takes courage to stand up and remind racists and #zionists that #Jerusalem is the capital of #Palestine #pence.”
On December 20, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “@nikkihaley you're a piece of s**t like your racist president threatening the world if they vote against the U.S decision to declare #jerusalem the capital of the #Zionist entity.”
On December 19, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “no room for zionists, racists in the internet.”
On December 8, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “Also f**k every single govt who hasn't come out in full support of Palestinians, if it was up to the people around the world, #israel and the zio apparatus would've been dismantled long ago #JerusalemIsPalestine.”
On November 24, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “#israeli aggression as early as the 20's paved the way for the rise of Hamas and Hezbollah. Don't let them fool you w any other nonsense #freepalestine #boycottisrael.”
On October 12, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “Happy that the U.S & #Israel pulled out of #Unesco. The #1 sponsor of #terrorism and the #apartheid regime should not be welcome in it.”
On September 7, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “Israel is the epitome of colonialism and apartheid in the 21 century.”
On August 15, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “You can't be anti racist and pro Israel, different size of the same coin #Freepalestine #BoycottIsrael”
On August 9, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “#israel exercises #democracy by bombin #Gaza.”
On July 25, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “I'll say it again, #zionism and U.S interventions are why there's no peace in the Middle East.”
On November 20, 2016, Guzman tweeted: “Greatest joke ever - #israel is a #democracy #itspalestine #palestine.”
On November 15, 2016, Guzman tweeted: “Nothing is more #antisemitic than #zionism #israel #palestine #freepalestine.”
On August 22, 2016, Guzman tweeted: “Keep #Gaza in your prayers...#Israel tested a gift by the U.S the #f35jetfighter plane on the people of Gaza last night. #FreePalestine.”
On August 18, 2016, Guzman tweeted: “@netanyahu it's only a matter of time #apartheid #Israel #BoycottIsrael #freepalestine.”
On May 21, 2013, Guzman posted on Facebook: “Exposing the truth about israel and zionism - An article about a Conference of Zionists published on July 20, 1899 in the New York Times depicts how the Conference sought to ‘colonize Palestine’”
On November 23, 2012, following Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD), Guzman wrote on Facebook: “We are a broad coalition of people of conscience in New York/New Jersey who strongly condemn the Israeli assault on Gaza. Although a truce has been announced, Gaza still remains under a brutal and crippling siege and occupation.”
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
On November 20, 2012, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “Come to protest Israeli crimes in Gaza as Israel continues to attack Gaza, killing innocent people and destroying infrastructure. TUESDAY, 11/20/2012 - 5:00pm In front of the Israeli Consulate (42nd st and 2nd ave).”
Promoting BDS
On December 28, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “Shut your mouth! You look like a trout! @lorde did the right thing by honoring Palestinian civil society's call to boycott #Israel.”Guzman was responding to a tweet commenting on the New Zealand singer Lorde’s cancellation of her planned concert in Tel Aviv, following protests by BDS activists.
On December 24, 2017, Guzman tweeted: “@lorde thank you for doing the right and moral thing and not play in apartheid Israel!
”On June 1, 2013, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “If you want to see Alicia Keys boycott Israel - all you have to do is send a respectful email to let her know that she's supporting apartheid no different from the Jim Crow South. Email: Jrobinson@mbkentertainment.com He is her manager and we need to MAKE THIS BIG.”
On May 14, 2013, Guzman joined a coalition called “Chicago Divests” at a protest outside Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association- College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) headquarters. The protesters demanded that shareholders “pressure TIAA-CREF to divest from corporations committing human rights abuses in Palestine.” The Facebook event page for the protest listed Guzman as a host of the event.
On the same day, Guzman uploaded to Facebook an album of photos from the protest and wrote: “Thanks to everyone who came out today! the action was a success. Here are a few pics. More pics and a video will be posted in the coming days!” The following day, May 15, 2013, Guzman uploaded more photos from the protest to the Facebook event page.
On February 6, 2013, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “Guys, if you have twitter or instagram, help us spread this image to support BC SJP and academic freedom! Instagram and Twitter THIS IMAGE WITH THE HASHTAG #sjpfree2bds - more info here: http://www.brooklynsjp.com/day-of-action-for-bds-event.html”
The post featured a graphic supporting BDS by urging the use of the hashtag #sjpfree2bds.
On the same day, Guzman urged his Facebook followers to make the image their profile picture.
SJP Activism
On September 12, 2013, Guzman shared a post on Facebook promoting the National SJP conference at Stanford University and encouraged readers to “help support the conference with a donation today!”On March 13, 2013, Guzman wrote on the Facebook page of SJP at Rutgers New Brunswick: “New submissions to the IAW [Israel Apartheid Week] blog from Gaza to Milwaukee! Have photos/videos of your city/campus IAW? Send them to apartheidweekusa@gmail.com”
On March 9, 2013, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “Hey ya'll, IAW NYC is only 2 days away. All events are free and open to the public, so bring your friends and family. Feel free to share the event calendar below:” The post featured a graphic with the schedule of events organized by Brooklyn SJP for IAW.
On September 25, 2012, Guzman shared a post on the wall of the International Socialist Organization (NYC) Facebook group seeking donations to the NSJP 2012 conference
On September 29, 2012, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “For those who want to learn how israel has become an apartheid state and why the Palestinian Struggle is such an important issue when talking about human rights and international law. Come to SJP's film screening Monday Oct 1st at 630 PM in TH111.”
The post linked to the event page organized by SJP of a “Film Screening of ‘Roadmap to Apartheid.’”
On April 15, 2012, Guzman wrote on Facebook: “Guys don't forget: This Tuesday at Columbia University at 8pm with Dr. Mads Gilbert”
Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership.
In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 Gilbert was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.
In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.” In December of 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
Brooklyn SJP - Supporting Terrorism
On April 28, 2016, Brooklyn SJP shared an AJ+ video on Facebook about Dima Al-Wawi.12-year-old Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred,” she said.
The Holy Land Five (HLF5) were five individuals associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) indicted for funneling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid. The men were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.
On October 8, 2015, Brooklyn SJP staged an anti-Israel “die-in.” On Facebook, the group claimed the event was in solidarity with an international Palestinian “Day of Rage” called “In light of... israeli aggression against Palestinians, including the murder of 17-year old Hadeel Al Hashlamoun, and 19-year-old Fadi Alloun in cold blood, execution style.”
Al Hashlamoun (18-years-old) was carrying a knife through a checkpoint and did not respond to orders to step back before she was shot by Israeli soldiers.
Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
The Brooklyn SJP Facebook post featured a photo album of its “die-in” and referred to another “Day of Rage” event on October 6th — co-hosted by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), NYC SJP and others who supported a “Day of Rage” called by “Palestinian forces.”
The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
On October 8, 2015, Brooklyn SJP posted a graphic showing its support for a “third intifada” and called the wave of terror a “spike” in Palestinian “resistance to Israeli oppression.”
Brooklyn SJP - Condemning Interfaith Dialogue
On March 13, 2016, Brooklyn SJP co-organized a panel event titled “Counterproductive Collaborations - The Faithwashing of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” co-sponsored by NYC SJP, Brooklyn SJP and the Muslim American Society.The event featured former New York president of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Brooklyn College graduate Raja Abdulhaq. Abdulhaq has stated that he considers any Muslim group that organizes an interfaith event with a “Zionist” counterpart to be a “betrayal.”
Brooklyn SJP - Demonizing Israel
On November 27, 2015, Brooklyn SJP shared on Facebook a misleading series of maps.The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
The Facebook photo album of Brooklyn SJP’s October 8, 2015 “die-in” featured a placard claiming Israel’s security fence was an “Apartheid Wall” that was “30 times the length of Manhattan!” and “Twice as high as the Berlin wall!”
Brooklyn SJP - Promoting Hate Speech
On November 21, 2014, Brooklyn SJP hosted an event featuring disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita.In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: "You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.” In 2017, Salaita posted to Facebook: “People ask if I would go back in time and change anything. I would not…I will die unapologetic.” In February 2019, Salaita stated that he had become a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C., area.
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.
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.
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