Conner Gibson

Overview

Conner Gibson is an ICU nurse who praised the terror group Hamas and blamed Israel for Hamas war crimes, in October 2023. 

Gibson made these remarks in the wake of a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were carried out on October 7, 2023. 

Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”


On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,200 Israelis, Gibson posted a TikTok video, where Gibson said [00:00:35]: “Who is terrorizing whom?...the terrorist organization in question is the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] backed by American dollars.”

Gibson continued [00:00:43]: “Terrorism happening there is two million Palestinians being held in Gaza under siege and being bombed indiscriminately. Terrorism happening there is an illegal apartheid occupation that treats Palestinians as second-class citizens. Terrorism happening there is the act of ethnic cleansing and genocide of my people.”

The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. 

Gibson then said [00:00:58]: “I do not appreciate this attempt to separate the actions of Hamas from the Palestinian people. I can’t imagine being so entitled as to sit in the United States safe and sound and decide what acts of Palestinian resistance are palatable to you.”

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.