Dalida Alhaddad

In May 2021, violent clashes broke out between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa compound following claims the Al-Aqsa Mosque was in danger. The subsequent incitement was a leading factor in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel later that month. Israel responded by launching “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza. Allegations of Jews “threatening” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque have been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews predating the State of Israel.

In May 2021, calls to “save” Sheikh Jarrah, a Jerusalem neighborhood at the center of a property dispute, led to violence against Israelis and were one of the leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel that month.

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.  

Hatred of Israel

On September 6, 2021, Alhaddad shared on Instagram a video about boycotting Israeli products. The video called a boycott “a…simple and effective way to support Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and ethnic crimes against human beings.” It called Israel “the Zionist entity” and those boycotting Israeli products “People of good conscience.”

On June 17, 2021, Alhaddad posted [slide 50] on Instagram Stories Highlights a graphic that said: “The World Stopped NAZISM / The World Stopped APARTHEID / The World Must Stop ZIONISM.”

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.

On June 1, 2021, Alhaddad posted on Instagram a graphic titled: “THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE.” She wrote: “Read and understand…#freepalestine / #Gaza / #alaqsa / #defundisrael / #stop_israeli_terrorism / #stopfundingisrael / #humanrights / #indigenous.”

On May 27, 2021, Alhaddad posted [slide 15] a graphic on Instagram Stories Highlights that said: “شركات علمية تدعم اسرائيل [global companies support Israel]” and featured an image of an Israeli flag and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking at a pile of $100 bills.

Anti-Israel Activism (SJP, Samidoun, Masar Badil)

On April 30, 2023, Alhaddad posted a video on Instagram from the May Day liberation march showing activists marching and chanting in Arabic: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine belongs to the Arabs, Muslim and Christians, one Arab nation,” as well as chanting for “intifada and victory.”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.  

The May Day Liberation March was co-sponsored by anti-Israel organizations Samidoun and Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil). 

Khaled Barakat, the co-founder of Masar Badil and a Samidoun leader, led protesters at the march in chanting [00:00:02]: “Long live the intifada, long live Palestinian resistance.” Barakat also said [00:04:46] that “we salute” the armed wings of Hamas, PIJ and the PFLP. He later called [00:05:32] for “one united Palestinian and Arab resistance,” and said [00:06:16]: “The resistance is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”

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.  

Also on April 30, 2023, Alhaddad posted on Instagram a video from the May Day march of a performer singing: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

“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.

In April 2023, Alhaddad posted on her LinkedIn promoting a “Liberation Conference,” organized by Masar Badil and held in Ottawa, Canada, April 28-30, 2023.

After the conference, Masar Badil issued the “Ottawa Declaration,” which called for “dismantling the racist Zionist settler entity (‘Israel’) and sweeping away this project from the land of Palestine.” It also lauded the “heroicarmed forces, and…the forces of the ‘Lion’s Den’...the struggling prisoners’ movement and the revolutionary youth of the intifada,” called to “escalate the struggle at all levels” and reaffirmed “the right of the Palestinian people to practice all forms of struggle for the liberation of Palestine, first and foremost of which is the revolutionary armed struggle.”

The “Lions’ Den” [عرين الأسود]is an independent “armed group” with operatives hailing from various other Palestinian terrorist organizations. The group reportedly emerged from Nablus in August 2022. The Lions’ Den has claimed responsibility for the death of Israeli soldiers. They also targeted Israeli civilians in multiple terror attacks in October and November 2022.

The declaration also pledged to “strengthen its [the movement’s] presence among our people, especially students, youth, women and workers, in universities, secondary schools, and labour unions,” and to “strengthen international popular support for the resistance.”

In October 2021, Alhaddad was the “Events Coordinator” for an SJP chapter, according to the “Volunteer Experience” section on her LinkedIn profile in August 2023.

On June 16, 2021, Alhaddad promoted on Instagram an anti-Israel protest in Ottawa. She wrote that the protest was “against the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians!”

On May 24, 2021, Alhaddad posted a photo on Instagram from an anti-Israel protest she attended in Ottawa.

Alhaddad wrote: “...الزلازل قادمة يا @b.netanyahu
الرعب الذي ألقيناه في قلبك؟ لم يكُن سوا البداية. فلتبقِ ثياب زائدة في مكتبك، او ابقَ في الحمام -ليكرم القارئ إلا أنت- ستتبلل كثيرًا… [Earthquakes are on their way, @b.netanyahu. The horror we've instilled in you? It was simply the start]...”

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.