Cindy A. Matthews

Luigi Mangione was charged with second-degree murder in the December 4, 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive Brian Thompson in New York, New York. When arrested, Mangione was carrying a handwritten letter calling healthcare companies "parasitic."

“ACAB” is an acronym that stands for “All cops are bastards.” It is sometimes rendered as “1312,” representing the position of the letters in the English alphabet.

The accusation that Israeli law enforcement teaches American police brutal tactics during police exchange programs is used to demonize Israel. Participants in these programs have stated that the training in Israel focuses on public policy, counterterrorism and leadership training in the form of lectures and discussions.

On February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel preemptively attacked Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons and from expanding its missile capabilities, and to destroy its navy and other security infrastructure. The ensuing conflict lasted 38 days, ending with a ceasefire on April 8, 2026. During that time, Iran fired approximately 650 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing 28 Israeli civilians and foreign nationals and injuring close to 7,800 Israelis.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped 251 and wounded thousands. War crimes included various systematic sexual crimes like gang rape and genital mutilation. Men and women were violated, even after being murdered. Victims who survived that day, including hostages, endured forms of humiliation and torture.

Gazans working in the targeted Israeli villages provided intelligence to Hamas on which families to kill and torture, including long-time employers. Many Palestinian civilians joined in and celebrated the attacks. Hamas livestreamed their crimes on social media, including to victims’ accounts for families to see. To learn more, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

Hamas terrorists murdered Israeli Jewish babies during its October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Some of the babies were beheaded and some were murdered in front of their parents.

Denial of the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, among anti-Israel activists has been likened to Holocaust denial among neo-Nazis.

“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.

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.

Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

On May 3, 2026, pro-BDS advocates signed an anti-Israel letter demanding that The New School defund the school's chapter of the Jewish student group Hillel, known as Hillel at TNS, due to its support for Israel and the IDF.

The letter claimed multiple times that Israel committed a "genocide" in Gaza during its war against Hamas, following the October 7, 2023 terror attacks against Israel. It also accused Israel of "apartheid" and Hillel International of promoting "pro-genocide propaganda on U.S. campuses."

The letter alleged that Hillel at TNS and Hillel International ran "three different programs that send students to volunteer in Israel on military bases to provide logistical support for the Israeli Occupation Forces as it wages a genocide in Gaza." The letter further said that Hillel at TNS members volunteered at an IDF base and "supported four IOF named units as recently as July 2024, nine months into the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza."

Signatories joined the letter after The New School administration refused to defund Hillel at TNS, following a May 1, 2026 vote in The New School's University Student Senate (USS) to pull school funding for Hillel at TNS. Administrators said that USS was "distorting a qualified student organization” and that USS “is using its platform to target fellow students in a misguided attempt to hold those students responsible for the acts of governments.”

There were 44 anti-Israel activist groups and 336 individuals who signed the letter, including chapters and leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

“IOF” means “Israeli Occupation Forces,” a term used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army in place of its real name, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). "IOF" is used to allege that Israel’s existence is illegitimate by accusing Israeli Jews of illegitimately occupying the entire land.

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, thousands of 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.

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.

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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.