Dima Al-Khatib

Overview

Dima Al-Khatib has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, opposed Israel’s existence, expressed support for terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists and Israelis. She has also demonized Israel and Zionism and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of December 2021, Al-Khatib’s LinkedIn page said that she was an “undergraduate international student” pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Florida (UF), expected to graduate in 2023. 

Al-Khatib’s LinkedIn also said she was a Content Tutor at the University Athletic Association Inc, located in Gainesville, Florida, since August 2021. 

Also, as of December 2021, Al-Khatib used the screen name “ديما [Dima]” on Twitter and indicated on her Facebook that she was located in Gainesville, Florida.

Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany

On May 7, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “...How do you commemorate Holocaust survivors but not Nakba survivors? How do you selectively recognize some genocides but not others?...”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

Opposing Israel’s Existence

Al-Khatib retweeted a June 9, 2021 tweet that read: “Israel is an illegitimate state with no legal, social, historical, or moral right to exist.” 

On May 26, 2021, Al-Khatib shared a TikTok video from the user “Ahmed Cali Khalifa”to Twitter who claimed [00:00:25] that “that state [Israel]” is “racist to its core,” “supremacist to its core,” “rotten to its core” and “deserves to be overturned.”

Supporting Terrorists

 Al-Khatib retweeted a September 11, 2021 tweet from anti-Israel activist Noura Erakat that read: “Israel has recaptured four of the six Palestinian political prisoners who self-liberated themselves using spoons against nuclear weapons and grotesque racial domination. #PalestinianPrisoners #TheGreatEscape #FreeThemAll.”
 
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.

Al-Khatib retweeted a July 8, 2021 tweet from anti-Israel agitator Mohammed El-Kurd that read: “49 yrs ago, the zionist occupation authorities assassinated author Ghassan Kanafani & his niece Lamees (12) His revolutionary articulations of the Palestinian plight for liberation shook the colonial regime. Yet he is not dead: his ideas remain ever timely & teachable.”

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.  

Al-Khatib retweeted a June 23, 2020 tweet about Ahmad Erakat by his cousin Erakat that read: “Ahmed Erekat, 27, beautiful young man. A son. A brother. Fiancée. My baby cousin. Israeli cowards shot him multiple times, left him to bleed for 1.5 hours and blamed him for his death…”

Ahmad Erekat [Ahmad Moustafa Erekat; Ahmed Erakat] was killed by Israeli security forces after he accelerated and rammed his car into soldiers at a checkpoint. One female soldier was injured. The incident was captured on video.  

Al-Khatib retweeted a June 5, 2021 tweet by Linah Alsaafin that read: “The oldest Jordanian prisoner held by Israel, Abdullah Nuh Abu Jaber, is due to be released after spending 20.5 years behind bars. During that time, Israel only allowed his family to visit him twice.”
 
Abu Jaber reportedly served a “20-year sentence” in Israeli prison “for planting a bomb on an Israeli bus that injured more than a dozen people” in the year 2000, during the second intifada. Abu Jaber, a Palestinian-Jordanian man, reportedly detonated his bomb remotely on a 51 bus in Tel Aviv, on December 28, 2000.

Al-Khatib retweeted a March 30, 2021 tweet that read: “20 years in prison and they re-arrest him [Majd Barbar] one day out because his family celebrated too loudly and his story started to catch media attention. the occupation is so heartless, so soul crushing.”

Majd Barbar was sentenced to “20 years in jail on charges of affiliation” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and for “his role in armed resistance” in 2001. Barbar reportedly formed “an armed resistance group” in Jerusalem, during the Second Intifada.  

Hatred of Zionists and Israelis

On July 4, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “I’ve never hated anyone in my life but zionists and my roommate from last year? My blood BOILS.”

Al-Khatib retweeted a May 22, 2021 tweet from anti-Israel agitator Steven Salaita that read: “The fact that ‘from the river to the sea’ unsettles Zionists is all the more reason to keep saying it. Our language shouldn't be designed to appease the oppressor.”

“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.

On May 22, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “Zionist settlers are the embodiment of the Arabic saying: شحاد وبتشرط. [the beggar who sets conditions].’”

On May 7, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “... I wish I didn’t have to explain to my American friends why it’s bigger than a ‘conflict’ and why Israeli zionists are literal monsters.”

On May 18, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “IOF [Israeli Occupation Forces] on its own makes my blood boil and fills me with rage but these women serving in the IOF? I literally cannot explain the way I feel when I see them.. they are the literal embodiment of white feminism!”

“IOF” stands for Israeli Occupation Forces, a derogatory name used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army in place of its official name, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

On March 10, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “No because if I see another person here wearing f**king idf merch [merchandise] I might lose my mind... like I don’t get how that’s okay.”

Demonizing Israel

On May 20, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “If you are an American Jew you can do so much to stand with Palestinians. You can start by not going to your birthright trip…”

In the same thread, she added: “You are simply contributing to the ongoing apartheid and narrowing down your identity to blind patriotism to a state...”

Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.

On May 15, 2021, Al-Khatib accused Israel of “GenocideinGaza,” “Apartheid” and “Terrorism” on Twitter.
 
Al-Khatib retweeted a May 14, 2021 tweet, during Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW)” against Hamas in Gaza, by El-Kurd that read: “‘Children as human shields’ is propaganda. The Zionist project has relentlessly fabricated nuance to justify war crimes…”


Al-Khatib retweeted a September 25, 2020 tweet that read: “I was 11 when I first watched the footage. Mohamed Dura shielded by his dad from Israeli bullets. One moment they were pleading for their lives, the next they were dead...”

The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, fabricated on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada by a France 2 reporter.  

Demonizing Zionism

On May 7, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “#FreePalestine and #SaveSheikhJarrah and f**k 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 May 18, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “...any argument for Zionism cannot be justified. You cannot justify an ideology that is contingent upon European imperialism,discrimination, and ethnic cleansing.”

Al-Khatib retweeted a June 28, 2021 tweet that included a video of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) “giving historical context on Zionism.” During the video, Ture claimed [00:01:18] that Zionism “is a satanic movement,” “devil,” “racist” and “through terrorism maintains its power.”

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was a black militant leader known for coining the phrase: “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.” Carmichael spread [p. 27] various anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish control of government and media on university campuses and elsewhere.

Supporting BDS

On May 15, 2021, Al-Khatib tweeted: “LISTEN TO PALESTINIANS!!!” and used the hashtag “#BDS”

Al-Khatib retweeted a July 21, 2021 tweet that read: “The Palestinian call for BDS is Palestinian. It can't ‘single out’ Israel. Israel is the single country occupying Palestinian territory. The single country denying Palestinians repatriation. The single country denying Palestinian citizens equality.”

On April 11, 2020, Al-Khatib tweeted: “that was when I found out sabra is Israeli and despised myself for buying it.”

Sabra is partially owned by the Israeli company the Strauss Group.

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:www.facebook.com/100033913900918

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dmaalkhatib

Instagram: www.instagram.com/dimaalkhatiib [Private]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimaalkhatib/

Vsco: https://vsco.co/diimmaaaaa/gallery