Colleen Topping
Overview
Colleen Topping ripped down a poster meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in October 2023.Hamas kidnapped the civilians, including women, children and the elderly, during a series of terror atrocities and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023. Other Hamas war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape and beheadings. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 2023, Topping’s since-deleted LinkedIn said [photo 1] Topping had been working at Montclair Art Museum.
As of January 2024, Topping’s personal website said Topping was a “visual artist based in New Jersey” who “holds a BFA [Bachelor of Fine Arts]” from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), which is located in Richmond, Virginia.
As of November 2023, Topping was listed on the VCU website as having studied for a bachelor’s degree in the “Painting and Printmaking program.” As of the same date, Topping’s Instagram bio indicated [photo 2] that Topping graduated from VCU in 2023.
Ripping Down Posters of Israeli Civilians Kidnapped by Hamas
In November 2023, a few weeks after Hamas terror attacks against Israel, Topping ripped down [00:00:01] a poster meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken forcibly to Gaza as hostages.The incident reportedly occurred [00:00:14] in Montclair, New Jersey.
When Topping was confronted by the person who had put the posters up as to why Topping removed the poster, Topping responded [00:00:03]: “‘Cuz’ it doesn’t need to be there.”
Later, Topping said [00:03:09]: “Can you f**k off, please?!...It’s not your business.”
After the person filming the incident insisted on asking why Topping had removed the poster, Topping said [00:03:43]: “What you are trying to do is to say that I’m doing something disrespectful. I didn’t like the sign…”
Topping concluded [00:04:04] by saying: “You’re gonna put it on the Internet somewhere and you’re gonna f**king claim that you’re the one in the right. And you’re being an a**hole right now…”
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. 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.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
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.
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.
Terrorists 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 forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 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. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape.
Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
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 Joe 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.
Hamas called 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.
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Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/colleenmakesart [Deleted]LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/colleen-topping-79bb15199 [Deleted]
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Personal Website:https://www.colleentopping.com/
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