Dima Khatib
Overview
Dima Khatib has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and defended the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Khatib has also glorified terrorists, promoted violence, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.As of November 2021, Khatib’s LinkedIn said that, since 2015, she was the Managing Director of AJ+, an online news channel run by Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera), in Doha, Qatar and San Francisco.
In 2016, Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) reported that Khatib spoke at NU-Q as part of the Al Jazeera Speaker Series.
In 2013, NU-Q signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with AJ “which deepens ties between the two organizations.” The MoU launched an Al Jazeera speakers series at NU-Q, along with joint research and special studies projects, internships, training workshops and scholarships.
From 1998 to 2003, Khatib was a broadcast journalist and news producer for Al Jazeera in Qatar.
Spreading Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On July 22, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “[U.S. Secretary of State John] Kerry now claims Israel is under siege by Hamas. And your administration Mr. Kerry isn't ‘under siege’ by America's pro Israel lobby AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee]?”Authors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's 2007 book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," invokes the conspiracy theory of Israeli and Jewish control over the U.S. government. Proponents of the theory decry the negative effects on American interests, particularly in foreign policy.
The stated mission of AIPAC is to “strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.”
On April 28, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “There is a Jewish lobby my friend :)”
On December 18, 2010, Khatib tweeted: “Detrás del apoyo de EEUU a Israel hay enorme lobby sionista con poder económico y mediático [Behind U.S. support for Israel there is a huge Zionist lobby with economic and media power].”
On December 14, 2010, Khatib tweeted: “@MEINDOL y no existe unPUEBLO JUDÍO. Alguna vez has escuchado habar de un pueblo cristiano o pueblo musulmán o pueblo budista? [And there is no JEWISH PEOPLE. Have you ever heard of a Christian people or Muslim people or Buddhist people?]”
On December 18, 2010, Khatib tweeted: “Detrás del apoyo de EEUU a Israel hay enorme lobby sionista con poder económico y mediático [Behind U.S. support for Israel there is a huge Zionist lobby with economic and media power].”
On December 14, 2010, Khatib tweeted: “@MEINDOL y no existe unPUEBLO JUDÍO. Alguna vez has escuchado habar de un pueblo cristiano o pueblo musulmán o pueblo budista? [And there is no JEWISH PEOPLE. Have you ever heard of a Christian people or Muslim people or Buddhist people?]”
Defending Hamas
On May 16, 2021, Khatib tweeted, in Spanish: “Don't be fooled by the Hamas vs Israel narrative… That conflict is asymmetrical between an occupying force and a repressed occupied Palestinian people. When they try to defend themselves from a very powerful army they call them terrorists.”In May 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades website publicized some of its long-range missile capabilities, known to include a variety of deadly rockets. The rockets have killed and injured civilians, and damaged homes.
On July 31, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “oh I am no lover of Hamas as a political ideology. But I stand by the Palestinian people's rights to resist in any form.”
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.
On July 10, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Dealing with Hamas on equal bases as Israel is unreasonable. Israel occupies Palestine, Israel practises terrorism every day.”
That same day, Khatib tweeted: “I presonally wish Hamas would have stayed just a resistance movement, not gone into politics.”
Khatib also repeatedly denied that Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers at a bus stop on June 12, 2014.
On July 29, 2014, she tweeted: “Israeli officials already acknowledged publicly that the investigation showed Hamas did not kidnap nor kill the teens. Hello?”
On the same day, she tweeted: “check the news. Israel said two or 3 days ago that Hamas didn't do it, that it was a lone group or sthing. No kidding.”
On July 27, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “How that Hamas has been proven innocent of the kidnapping of the 3 teenagers, can some of you start considering the root causes of this war?”
On the same day, she shared an article and tweeted: “In case you missed it : Hamas did not kidnap the Israeli teens after all !”
The bodies of the abducted boys were found buried in Palestinian-controlled territory on June 30, 2014.
On August 21, 2014, Hamas announced responsibility for the kidnapping and murder of the teenagers. The Hamas commander claiming responsibility described the crime as a "heroic operation" with the broader goal of sparking a new Palestinian uprising.
On August 3, 2014, Khatib tweeted a satirical critique of Israel’s response to Hamas rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians:
“LOL...
1- Khamass
2- Human shields
3- Its right to defend itself
4- surgical airstrikes
5- more Khamass”
On July 19, 2014, Khatib tweeted an article by anti-Israel journalist Ben White, titled: “Israel, not Hamas, turns Palestinians into ‘human shields.’”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.
On October 23, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “Let us remember Hamas won free elections in 2007 but the world's democracies didn't like it.. So they stepped over the elections.”
On December 27, 2010, she tweeted: “Israel atacó a Gaza para supuestamente eliminar a Hamas, un movimiento que ganó elecciones palestinas transparentes y democráticas #Gaza2 [Israel attacked Gaza to allegedly eliminate Hamas, a movement that won transparent and democratic Palestinian elections #Gaza2].”
Defending Hezbollah
On July 19, 2012, Khatib tweeted in regards to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: “Nasrallah was always one of my heroes. I said once that he was the only ‘man’ in the Arab World.”Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared in 2019, that “In a future war, all of occupied Palestine will be struck by our rockets.” Nasrallah also called on Jews living in Israel, in 2017, “to leave Palestine and go back to the countries from which they came.”
In 2013, Nasrallah referred [00:00:19] to Israel as a cancerous tumor and in 2002,
Nasrallah said: “If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” He also declared: “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.”
Nasrallah also said in 1998 that Israel was: “‘the state of the grandsons of apes and pigs - the Zionist Jews.”
On October 24, 2011, she tweeted a quote from Nasrallah: “Nasrallah: first threat in the region in the zionist entity.”
On April 19, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “Te pido respeto con el uso de la palabra ‘terrorista’ ! Sabes, en Venezuela Hizbullah no es una organización ‘terrorista’ [I ask you for respect with the use of the word ‘terrorist’! You know, in Venezuela Hizbullah is not a ‘terrorist’ organization].”
On January 1, 2011, she tweeted: “Al mismo tiempo está Hizbullah, un verdadero bastión de resistencia nacional y símbolo para el mundo árabe [At the same time is Hizbullah, a true bastion of national resistance and symbol for the Arab world].”
Glorifying Terrorists
On March 18, 2017, Khatib tweeted: “21 طلقة في صدرهولا رصاصة في ظهره #باسل_الأعرج #فلسطين[21 shots in the chest Not a single bullet from the back Basil Al-Araj a symbol of the Palestine that lives and breeds inside us] #باسل_الأعرج [#Basil_AlAraj].”
Also on March 18, 2017, Khatib tweeted the same message in English.
Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.
In the March 18, 2017 twitter thread, Khatib tweeted: “ويسأل ابني: ماما كان يمكن أن يقتلوه برصاصتين أو برصاصة؟ لماذا 21؟قلت: لأنهم هم من خافوا منه حين لم يخف منهم.#باسل_الأعرج [- Mum, why didn't they kill Basil Al-Araj with 1 or 2 bullets? Why 21?- Because they got scared of him when he showed no fear! #باسل_الأعرج [#Basil_AlAraj].” She also tweeted the message in English in the same thread.
On July 17, 2013, Khatib published a poem on her blog glorifying Samer Issawi, a Palestinian terrorist who was then on a hunger strike.
Issawi received a 26 year prison sentence in 2002 for shooting at Hebrew University students and Israeli police, manufacturing and distributing pipe bombs and being a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
He was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange, but barred from leaving the Jerusalem area. Issawi was re-arrested in 2012 for violating the terms of his release, travelling to the West Bank, part of what his “continued involvement in attempting to establish terror cells.”
In December 2013, Israel’s Hadash Party posted on its official Facebook page an interview where Issawi called for the kidnapping of Israelis: “We want the release of the prisoners. The prisoners' release will be brought about by kidnapping and [prisoner] exchanges. Nothing will happen without that.”
On April 30, 2013, Khatib tweeted “We never run out of heroes in Palestine :) #AymanAbuDaoud.”
Ayman AbuDaoud was a Palestinian terrorist involved in shooting attacks against Israelis during the second intifada. He was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange and re-arrested in February 2012 for violating the terms of his release.
On July 23, 2012, Khatib tweeted “Wow mabrouk! :) ‘@intifada: Akram Rikhawi ends 102-day hunger strike as Israel agrees to early release… #PalHunger.’”
Palestinian terrorist Akram Rikhawi served a nine-year sentence after he was convicted in 2004 for transporting suicide bombers, planting explosives and targeting Israeli troops.
On March 20, 2012, Khatib wrote a Facebook post supporting Hana Shalabi: “Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman detained in an Israeli jail without a trial, under administrative detendion [sic], has been taken to a hospital after her health deteriorated on the 33rd day of her heroic hunger strike ! What an iron lady !”
Hana Shalabi is reportedly a supporter of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Shalabi was arrested in 2012 for alleged “involvement in planned attacks” by PIJ.
On March 19, 2012, Khatib tweeted: “#YouKnowYoureArabWhen people like Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi make you proud.”
Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.
Supporting Violence
On May 19, 2021, during OGW, Khatib tweeted: “My interview yesterday with Mexican journalists @alvaro_delgado @paezvarela where I said that the only option Palestinians are left with is RESISTANCE in all forms and shapes.”Khatib’s tweet included a video of the interview.
On May 16, 2021, Khatib wrote in a Facebook post, in Arabic: “If you were among those who were against the resistance, including the armed resistance, that’s fine, you have a chance to change your mind today. We will not blame anyone for previous positions. We don't have time for that. What’s important is that everyone realizes that this is the only real option for the Palestinians to get out of the tunnel they were put in, and to stand with us #Palestine_resists].”
On May 12, 2021, Khatib posted a video on Instagram with scenes of violent riots by Arabs in the Israeli city of Lod. Khatib wrote: “This is what Palestinians mean when they say No to Occupation No to Settler Colonialism No to Apartheid No to Injustice
#FreePalestine.”
On May 11, 2021, during OGW, violent Arab riots broke out in Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod and in other Israeli cities with large Arab populations. The Lod rioters reportedly raised Hamas and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flags, and attacked Israeli civilians with slabs and rocks, firebombs and metal rods. Rioters also torched synagogues, cars and businesses, and vandalized hospital medical equipment, schools and government buildings.
Incitement
On May 9, 2021, Khatib posted a video on Instagram with text claiming that: “Israeli soldiers brutally attacked the Al Aqsa Mosque.”Khatib added, in Arabic: “The world is watching idle as usual during massacres and genocide. It is a battle between defenseless worshippers and soldiers armed with the world's most advanced weapons. Cowards, they are afraid of those who pray and those who defend their dignity, even with shoes or a defiant smile...”
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.
On May 15, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “Ethnic cleansing live .. you can watch Nakba live after 73 years.” Khatib’s tweet referred to another tweet of hers about Israel dispersing violent protesters in Sheikh Jarrah.
In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Also on May 15, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “Right-wing mobs are marking the doors of Palestinian homes in Israeli cities.
Can you guess why?
To identify them at night and attack them, protected by the police in an Apartheid State.
Reminds me of Nazism!
Nakba continues..
#FreePalestine.”
On May 21, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “Here we go again
Israel forces throw tear gas into Al Aqsa Mosque
Repression is in their blood
I am guessing they can’t bear to see the Palestinian flags and hear pro-resistance chants
#Palestine.”
After a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached on May 21, 2021, Palestinian rioters at Al Aqsa displayed Hamas flags and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli officers outside the mosque.
The letter, dated June 9, 2021, accused the news industry of obscuring “Israel’s military occupation and its system of apartheid.” The letter went on to claim that “Israeli forces violently attacked worshippers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound” and criticized that “Journalists didn’t call this an ‘attack’ or ‘assault’ on Palestinians, but rather a ‘clash.’”
On May 24, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “It is not Hamas/Israel fighting!!!!... This framing… serves the self-defence narrative of the oppressor
PS You may use .ethnic cleansing.’”
Khatib’s tweet was in response to a tweet by actor Mark Ruffalo apologizing for posts he described as inaccurate and inflammatory that he had written “during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing ‘genocide.’”
On July 28, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Khatib tweeted: “Entire families in Gaza have now vanished from life. 20 or more families. Entire families. Why does this remind me of the word Holocaust?”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 24, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “You don't get it do u? Israel is not bombing Hamas. Israel is bombing people, civilians, hospitals, homes, mosques, schools, beach.”
That same day, Khatib tweeted: “Israel says ‘We don't target civilians’. It means: ‘we don't target civilians’ just in their homes. We target them wherever they run to too!”
On July 19, 2014, Khatib compared Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, tweeting: “Just because there is a bigger genocide, it doesn't make smaller genocides less genocidal. 22 entire Palestinian families killed.”
That same day, referring to the Nazi Holocaust, Khatib tweeted: “Criticise Erdogan as much as you like. But Israel is practising what was practised on Jews, modern soft way, to keep its looks!”
On July 18, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Cut the crap Israel u target civilians. The biggest threat to u is the mere existence of the Palestinian people. They're the truth u despise.”
On July 16, 2014, she tweeted: “We have no problem with Jews who are from Palestine. We are cousins. But not those who came from Europe & elsewhere.”
On July 16, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation by Israel any time, without any excuses or circumstances.”
That same day, Khatib tweeted: “On the basis of retaliation Israel started first when it deprived Palestinians of their homeland in 1948.”
On July 10, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Palestine is not just Hamas. Gaza is not just Hamas. Israel uses Hamas but ultimately kills, terrorises innocent Palestinians.”
On November 19, 2012, Khatib tweeted: “Reading u one would think it is all about Hamas. It is about Palestine. Israel has been murdering Palestinianes for 64 years.”
On December 13, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “#IsraelKills Palestinian children, men, women, elderly, young, old.. but it won't kill Palestine.”
On December 8, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “RT @irevolt: Palestine, we salute you; long live the intifada!”
Reminds me of Nazism!
Nakba continues..
#FreePalestine.”
On May 21, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “Here we go again
Israel forces throw tear gas into Al Aqsa Mosque
Repression is in their blood
I am guessing they can’t bear to see the Palestinian flags and hear pro-resistance chants
#Palestine.”
After a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached on May 21, 2021, Palestinian rioters at Al Aqsa displayed Hamas flags and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli officers outside the mosque.
Demonizing Israel
On June 10, 2021, Khatib tweeted “An open letter on U.S. media coverage of Palestine” by journalists that she reportedly signed.The letter, dated June 9, 2021, accused the news industry of obscuring “Israel’s military occupation and its system of apartheid.” The letter went on to claim that “Israeli forces violently attacked worshippers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound” and criticized that “Journalists didn’t call this an ‘attack’ or ‘assault’ on Palestinians, but rather a ‘clash.’”
On May 24, 2021, Khatib tweeted: “It is not Hamas/Israel fighting!!!!... This framing… serves the self-defence narrative of the oppressor
PS You may use .ethnic cleansing.’”
Khatib’s tweet was in response to a tweet by actor Mark Ruffalo apologizing for posts he described as inaccurate and inflammatory that he had written “during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing ‘genocide.’”
On July 28, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Khatib tweeted: “Entire families in Gaza have now vanished from life. 20 or more families. Entire families. Why does this remind me of the word Holocaust?”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 24, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “You don't get it do u? Israel is not bombing Hamas. Israel is bombing people, civilians, hospitals, homes, mosques, schools, beach.”
That same day, Khatib tweeted: “Israel says ‘We don't target civilians’. It means: ‘we don't target civilians’ just in their homes. We target them wherever they run to too!”
On July 19, 2014, Khatib compared Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide, tweeting: “Just because there is a bigger genocide, it doesn't make smaller genocides less genocidal. 22 entire Palestinian families killed.”
That same day, referring to the Nazi Holocaust, Khatib tweeted: “Criticise Erdogan as much as you like. But Israel is practising what was practised on Jews, modern soft way, to keep its looks!”
On July 18, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Cut the crap Israel u target civilians. The biggest threat to u is the mere existence of the Palestinian people. They're the truth u despise.”
On July 16, 2014, she tweeted: “We have no problem with Jews who are from Palestine. We are cousins. But not those who came from Europe & elsewhere.”
On July 16, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation by Israel any time, without any excuses or circumstances.”
That same day, Khatib tweeted: “On the basis of retaliation Israel started first when it deprived Palestinians of their homeland in 1948.”
On July 10, 2014, Khatib tweeted: “Palestine is not just Hamas. Gaza is not just Hamas. Israel uses Hamas but ultimately kills, terrorises innocent Palestinians.”
On November 19, 2012, Khatib tweeted: “Reading u one would think it is all about Hamas. It is about Palestine. Israel has been murdering Palestinianes for 64 years.”
On December 13, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “#IsraelKills Palestinian children, men, women, elderly, young, old.. but it won't kill Palestine.”
On December 8, 2011, Khatib tweeted: “RT @irevolt: Palestine, we salute you; long live the intifada!”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
Supporting BDS
On December 12, 2015, Khatib tweeted: “Just a couple of years ago BDS movement was seen as ‘dreamy’. Well, dreams do come true. Help BDS dream further.”Khatib included a link to an Al Jazeera video promoting BDS and a post on the Palestinian BDS National Committee website, describing BDS as “the broadest coalition of Palestinian parties, unions and networks that leads and supports the global BDS movement.”
The post claimed: “This year has seen the start of an uprising, led mostly by Palestinian youth who are confronting Israel’s occupation and apartheid and asserting the Palestinian right to self-determination and freedom.”
The “uprising” referred to an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders that started in October 2015. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
On July 16, 2015, Khatib promoted on Facebook a conference calling for BDS against Israel’s “genocidal apartheid in Palestine,” writing: “Don’t miss it if you are in Caracas.”
On July 24, 2014, she tweeted: “I've been boycotting STARBUCKS for about 10 years … A proof that #Starbucks support israel.”
AJ+
AJ+ is an online news channel run by Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera) that produces videos and other content in English, Arabic, Spanish and French.AJ+ has pushed anti-Semitic propaganda, promoted terrorists’ social media campaigns and whitewashed terrorists. The channel has also defended violent protesters, demonized Israel and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
AJ+ has attempted to leverage intersectional politics in its videos, in order to demonize Israeli law enforcement and has promoted calls for the defunding of the U.S. police force.
Qatar - Terrorism
Qatar is one of the primary state backers of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and has provided funding for Hamas in the past. Qatar facilitates funding to advance extremism around the world, including the West.
Qatar Foundation
In 1995, the then-Emir of Qatar and his wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, created the Qatar Foundation (QF) to “advance education, science, and cultural development.”In 1995, QF was given two billion dollars in resources by the Qatari Government “to address knowledge and capacity deficits” and transform into a “knowledge-based economy.”
QF launched Education City (EC) in 1997, with the stated goal of providing “world-class education to the people of Qatar.”
In 2003, the campus was officially inaugurated.
Qatar Foundation - Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood
In 2007, Yusuf al-Qaradawi announced QF’s establishment of the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) in EC. The QFIS structure was to be created by an advisory committee, chaired by al-Qaradawi.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi [Yousef Al-Qaradhawi] was the founder and, as of April 2020, remained head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. In 2005, The Wall Street Journal reported the council used the anti-Semitic fabricated text, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as a basis for some of its deliberations.
al-Qaradawi said in a statement that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2009: "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews...The last punishment was carried out by Hitler...Allah Willing, the next time will be at the hand of the Believers."
al-Qaradawi has also called for the murder of American civilians, as well as American troops in Iraq, homosexuals and Jews and expressed support for domestic violence against women.
al-Qaradawi said in a statement that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2009: "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews...The last punishment was carried out by Hitler...Allah Willing, the next time will be at the hand of the Believers."
al-Qaradawi has also called for the murder of American civilians, as well as American troops in Iraq, homosexuals and Jews and expressed support for domestic violence against women.
In 2008, Moza bint Nasser and QF established within QFIS, the al-Qaradawi Centre for Research in Moderate Thought, also known as the “Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal,” in honor of “His Eminence” Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
QFIS described al-Qaradawi as “a pioneer of Islamic moderate thought” and the research center’s “main theorist.”
In January 2012, QF opened the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), “under the guidance of Director Dr. Tariq Ramadan.” In October 2015, Ramadan was listed as the CILE Director.
Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hassan al-Banna and son of senior Brotherhood operative Said Ramadan. Tariq Ramadanis also alleged to be a serial-rapist, as well asa terrorist supporter.
NU-Q - Qatar Foundation
In 2008, QF invited Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois to set up a Qatari satellite campus in EC, Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q), focusing on journalism and communications.
The degree that NU-Q awards students upon graduation would be identical to that earned at NU’s Evanston, IL campus.
The degree that NU-Q awards students upon graduation would be identical to that earned at NU’s Evanston, IL campus.
On July 10, 2009, the Chronicle of Higher Education released an article critical of the academic standards of EC, noting that: "Administrators at several branch campuses of American universities in Qatar acknowledge that they accept students with admissions standards that fall below those expected on their home campuses…"
On April 5, 2014, Everett Dennis, NU-Q’s then-Dean and CEO said [00:12:25] in an interview with Richard Heffner, a former professor of Communications and Public policy at Rutgers University (Rutgers), that QF was “paying the bill” for NU-Q’s building, faculty, research and housing.
In March 2015, Stephen F. Eisenman, President of the Northwestern Faculty Senate, reported to the NU Faculty Senate that Qatari students receive full scholarships from the QF, while non-Qatari students, with some exceptions, must pay full costs. Eisenman also reported that “that five new endowed professorships at NU were recently funded out of QF money.”
In 2016, NU signed a 10-year extension to its agreement with QF, enabling NU-Q to operate through the 2027-2028 school year.
As of November 2019, the United States Department of Education (DoE) reported that Qatar gave NU $323.4 million in contract revenue since January 2013, averaging $49.6 million per year.
As of April 2020, Qatar Foundation’s contract with NU-Q was not available to the public.
As of May 2020, EC hosted six American university satellite campuses, in addition to NU-Q, including Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Texas A&M University.
QF lawyers, according to a January 2016 Washington Post article, petitioned the Texas attorney general in an attempt to keep the operational and financial details confidential.
However, the Washington Post was able to publish the 2012 10-year contract between VCU and QF because it was “disclosed as a matter of public record.” The projected budget included a VCU management fee of $3.6 million dollars for 2013, to rise to $4.1 in 2015.
The Washington Post article added: “The other four U.S. schools involved are private: Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern and Georgetown universities. They all declined Post requests for their Qatar contracts.”
The Washington Post later published the 2014 contract between Texas A&M and QF in a March 2016 article. The contract stated: “Texas A&M is eligible for a management fee for running the branch — an amount set at $8.2 million in fiscal 2014.”
In 2019, the U.S. DoE was reportedly “quietly investigating Georgetown and three other universities — Texas A&M, Cornell and Rutgers — over their funding from Qatar.”
Qatar Foundation - Anti-Israel Campaign
In 2009, the Qatar Foundation hired the U.S. public relations firm, Fenton Communications, to develop “a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign,” using Al Fakhoora, a Qatari-based pro-Palestine initiative.The Fenton plan aimed to delegitimize Israel and generate international support for the Hamas-run Gaza strip, with a reported budget of $120,000.
Al Fakhoora was reportedly launched in 2009, following “the Israeli aggression on Gaza,” in support of promoting and facilitating access to higher education.
Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.
In May 2010, Farook Burney, director of Al Fakhoora, reportedly participated in the Mavi Marmara attempt to “break the siege in Gaza.”
The Mavi Marmara was the lead ship in a “Freedom Flotilla” of six ships that attempted to sail to Gaza in May 2010 to “break the siege.” A 2011 United Nations’ report found that the flotilla activists initiated a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. Following the incident there was no humanitarian aid found onboard the ship, only crude weaponry.
In June 2010, Burney reportedly told students at QFIS that "Al Fakhoora has launched an advocacy campaign to file legal charges against Israel and change the public perception in the West about its actions."
Qatar Foundation -EC Mosque Hosting Anti-Semitic Preachers
In April 2015, QF opened the Education City (EC) Mosque, located in Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) campus, adjacent to NU-Q.Since the opening of the mosque, QF’s newspaper has encouraged readers to “join the QF community for prayer” at the EC Mosque, which has hosted 18 preachers and clerics who have variously spread anti-Semitism, expressed support for terror, spread [00:00:20] a conspiracy theory that radicalized Muslims played no part in 9/11 or the Charlie Hebdo attacks and declared that the Jews use pornographic movies to “destroy the world and control it.”
One preacher, Salman al-Audah, claimed [00:02:48] in a sermon broadcast on a major Gulf media channel in August 2012, that Jews use “human blood” for Passover matzah.
A cleric, Tareq al-Hawas, stated [00:04:11] about Jews "If only Hitler had finished them off, thus relieving humanity of them." Hawas was reportedly a member of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in 2013.
Another cleric, Mohammed al-Arifi, proclaimed in 2012, that “one’s devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah and one’s will to shed blood, smash skulls, and chop off body parts...constitute an honor.”
On March 18, 2016, preacher Mudassir Ahmed spoke at the EC mosque, urging attendees to [00:37:47]: “Kill the infidels... Count them in number and do not spare one.”
On April 1, 2016, preacher Khalid Al-Bakr, who has expressed support for Hamas, spoke at EC’s Mosque, calling [00:36:47] for Allah to “render victorious our brothers the mujahideen...in every place” and to “guide their shooting.”
On October 30, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” al-Hawas used his pulpit at the EC mosque to condemn [00:30:18] “the aggressor Zionists,” adding: “Allah, Help out Islam and Muslims, humiliate the heathens; destroy the foes of the religion.” al Hawas also said: "Protect your house, Al-Aqsa mosque from the hands of the Zionist aggressors."
October 2015 saw a wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” where young Palestinians throughout Israel were stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The upsurge in violence across Israel was incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
NU-Q - Al Jazeera
Since 2008, NU-Q has worked closely with the Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera). In 2013, NU-Q signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with Al Jazeera “which deepens ties between the two organizations.”
Al Jazeera is a multinational multimedia conglomerate and parent company of the Qatari state-funded Al Jazeera. AJMN comprises an entirely state-owned network, chaired by Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar.
AJMN has been repeatedly accused of slanting news reports to promote and advance the agenda of theMuslim Brotherhood (MB), as well as MB’s offshoot, the Hamas terrorist organization.
On March 13, 2013, Qatari-based news site Marhaba reported that NU-Q’s MoU with Al Jazeera aimed to “further facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between the two media organisations.” NU-Q’s announcement of the MoU referred to itself and Al Jazeera as “two of Qatar’s foremost media organisations.”
The MoU was created, in part, so NU faculty would provide consultations to launch Al Jazeera America (AJAM), based on NU’s “expertise in the American Media Industry.”Al Jazeera, for its part, expressed “willingness to support NU-Q students with scholarships as well as training opportunities.”
Al Jazeera launched AJAM, an American news channel, 2013. However, the channel closed in April 2016 due to low viewership and following a crisis in 2015 when CEO Ehab Al Shihabi reportedly stepped down after accusations of sexism and anti-Semitism.
NU-Q’s MoU with Al Jazeera was signed by Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al-Thani, Qatari Minister of Economy and Commerce and Director General of Al Jazeera, as well as Everette Dennis, the Dean and CEO of NU-Q.
Since the MoU, Al Jazeera has maintained a close partnership with NU-Q, including funding NU-Q’s professorial research.
NU-Q Joint Advisory Board
Since NU-Q and Al Jazeera signed their initial MoU in 2013, NU-Q has a Joint Advisory Board (JAB), which consists of ten to eleven people; five or six positions filled by Qatari-connected members and five positions filled by Western members.All eleven of the current or previous Qatari-connected JAB members were directly affiliated with QF, Al Jazeera or the Qatari government.
There is little information available about the role of NU-Q’s JAB. The role of the Texas A&M University, Qatar (TAMUQ) JAB was exposed by the Washington Post in a 2016 article, to include general oversight and close monitoring and review of every aspect of TAMUQ, with QF paying the JAB TAMUQ expenses.
Multiple people associated with the NU-Q’s JAB have whitewashed al-Qaradawi, including the QF CEO and JAB Co-Chair from 2008-2019, Hind bint Hamad Al-Thani, JAB 2019-2020 member and president of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Ahmad Hasnah, as well as JAB 2012 - 2014 member and QF Vice President of education Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani.
Qatari State Minister, NU-Q JAB 2019-2020 member and AJ Vice Chairman Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, reportedly recommended a book that spread anti-semitism and authored an introduction praising the book. Yaser Bishr, 2017-2020 JAB member and Executive Director of digital media at Al Jazeera has demonized Israel.
Professor Rami Khouri was a Western NU-Q JAB member from 2012-2020 and a senior fellow at American University of Beirut (AUB). As of January 2020, Khouri was also an Al Jazeera contributor.
Khouri has legitimized terrorism, defended the “Knife Intifada,” has glorified violent protesters and spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
NU-Q - Hosting Annual Al Jazeera Speaker Series
Since the signing of the MoU in 2013, NU-Q has hosted an annual Al Jazeera Speakers Series. Thirteen of the 17 speakers who participated in the series at NU-Q from 2013-2019 have whitewashed terrorism, demonized Israel or expressed supportfor the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Dima Khatib, managing director of AJ+, spoke at NU-Q as part of the series on November 8, 2016. Khatib has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, defended Hamas terror and whitewashed Hezbollah. She has also glorified a terrorist, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the BDS movement.
Elia Ghorbiah, a journalist at AJ’s immersive storytelling studio Contrast VR [Virtual Reality], spoke at NU-Q on November 8, 2018, as part of the series, helping to launch the NU-Q’s new Media Innovations Lab (MIL).
Ghorbiah has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, exressed support for terrorists, as well as the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and urged the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. She is also a supporter of the BDS movement.
NU-Q - Anti-Israel Middle East Studies Minor
In 2017, NU-Q launched a Middle East Studies minor in their Liberal Arts program. From 2017-2019, four of the seven members of the NU-Q’s Middle East Studies committee included anti-Israel NU-Q professors Justin Martin, Ibraham Abusharif, Khaled Hroub and Sami Hermez.Khaled Hroub, a Professor at NU-Q who taught the 2018 and 2019 course “Islamism & Politics in the Middle East,” has reportedly whitewashed the terror group Hamas.
Sami Hermez, an NU-Q Professor who taught the 2018-2019 NU-Q courses “Anthropology of Palestine” and “Advanced Topics: Violence/Power/Resistance,” has promoted a terrorist and demonized Israel.
All of the required reading for Hermez’s “Anthropology of Palestine” course was authored by anti-Israel professors, eight of whom were activists in or supporters of the BDS movement. One of the authors, Edward Said, has advocated for the “right of return,” a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
Justin Martin, an Associate Professor at NU-Q, has mocked America’s suffering following the 9-11 terror bombings and demonized Israel. Martin has also broadcast his desire for Qatari funding to boost the BDS movement on U.S college campuses.
Ibrahim Abusharif was an editor and Treasurer of the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI) from 1990 to 1998. The QLI “was allegedly part of a large web of organizations and individuals that were funding terrorist groups.”
QLI, along with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and the Islamic Association of Palestine, was found to have funded Hamas militant activities and therefore liable for the death of David Boim, an American citizen killed by Hamas in the West Bank. This was later reversed as it could not be proven the funds were intended to be used to kill Boim.
The minor also required students to attend two guest lectures a year, chosen by the Middle East Studies Committee.
NU-Q - Student Internships in International Media
As of January 2020, third-year NU-Q Journalism and Strategic Communication students were required to intern for ten weeks at media or public relations firms, off-campus.In 2019, students reportedly interned at international communication firms and news outlets in Washington D.C., New York City, London, Berlin, Stockholm and Doha.
As of February 2020, news outlets where NU-Q students have interned included: BBC News, TIME Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Guardian, National Public Radio (NPR), the Boston Globe, USA Today, Vox, the Financial Times, the Huffington Post and VICE
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Students also interned at sports outlets, including: Sports Illustrated and ESPN, as well as fashion outlets Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
NU-Q reported in 2012 that they were able to offer students residencies at prestigious media organizations “because of the high-level contacts that NU-Q faculty and staff have in the international media.”
Students also interned at sports outlets, including: Sports Illustrated and ESPN, as well as fashion outlets Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
NU-Q reported in 2012 that they were able to offer students residencies at prestigious media organizations “because of the high-level contacts that NU-Q faculty and staff have in the international media.”
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.
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