Elom Tettey-Tamaklo

Overview

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo participated in physically and verbally assaulting an Israeli student during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest at Harvard University (Harvard) in October 2023.

The assault occurred in the wake of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,400 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped, as well as thousands wounded. Hamas carried out the attacks on October 7, 2023, and the war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings of civilians. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

At the time of the violent incident, Tettey-Tamaklo served as a residential proctor for undergraduate students at Harvard. In November 2023, the Harvard Crimson reported that he was “indefinitely relieved of his duties”…due to his actions at the protest.”

Tettey-Tamaklo was an organizer with the anti-Israel Harvard student group Graduate Students 4 Palestine (GS4P) in April 2023. In October 2023, GS4P co-organized an October 2023 statement blaming Israel for Hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians.

Tettey-Tamaklo also expressed support for Palestinian terrorists in March 2023.

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, Harvard - involved with assaulting Israeli student

Participating in an Assault on an Israeli Student

Tettey-Tamaklo participated in physically and verbally assaulting [00:01:41] an Israeli student during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest at Harvard University (Harvard) in October 2023.

On October 18, 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo reportedly participated [00:01:41] in an anti-Israel “die-in” protest on the Harvard campus. Protesters carried Palestinian flags and held up signs that read: “STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA.”

At the rally, the protesters surrounded an Israeli student, grabbing and shoving him to the ground while covering their faces with keffiyehs. Tettey-Tamaklo was one of the assailants identified [00:01:41] in a video of the incident published by the Washington Free Beacon.

Tettey-Tamaklo and other perpetrators were reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the FBI’s Boston office.

On May 18, 2024, the Harvard Crimson reported that Tettey-Tamaklowas w charged with assault and battery as well as violating the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act. He faced a potential sentence of up to 200 days in jail, with 100 days for each misdemeanor charge.

On November 15, 2024, Tettey Tamaklo was arraigned in the Brighton District Court and pled not guilty.

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, approximately 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 as young as an infant of nine months and as old as 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.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

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.

Hamas is a designated terrorist organization founded in 1987 that is dedicated to destroying Israel and killing Jews. Since 2001, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at Israel and on October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 hostages, including children and the elderly.

Organizer of a Group Blaming Israel for Hamas War Crimes

On October 8, 2023, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) released on Instagram a “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine.”

The statement backed the war crimes, including beheadings of children, perpetrated by the terror group Hamas against Israeli civilians. It read: “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The statement also claimed the atrocities “did not occur in a vacuum” and that “The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation.” The list of student groups that signed on to the statement was later removed following public outrage.

For more information on the complete list of Harvard students involved in signing the statement, see here.

Anti-Israel Activism (GS4P, PSC)

In April 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo had reportedly been an “organizer” for GS4P, which co-organized the October 2023 PSC statement. The other group was Harvard PSC.

PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Support for Palestinian Terrorists

On March 30, 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo published an article through the Institute for Palestine Studies that glorified Palestinian terrorist Fatima Bernawi and paid tribute to terrorist Leila Khaled.

Fatima Bernawi [Fatima Mohammed Bernawi] was a terrorist with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). She was responsible for a 1967 attempted bombing of a crowded Jerusalem movie theater. Bernawi was sentenced to life in prison but was released after 10 years.

Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.

Biographical Information

As of October 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo’s LinkedIn profile said he was studying for a master’s degree in religion, ethics and politics at the Harvard Divinity School, slated to graduate in May 2024.

Also as of October 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo’s LinkedIn said he had been working as a trainer of trainers in “Conflict Management Training for Peacekeepers” at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) since September 2020.

As of the same date, Tetty-Tamaklo’s LinkedIn said he worked as a legal ethics intern for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Amman, Jordan, from May through October 2022.

The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) was created after Israel’s 1948 War of Independence to provide for the humanitarian needs of “Palestinian refugees,” which UNRWA defines as descendants of these displaced individuals worldwide. In late 2022, this number was close to 6 million.

Using its mandate, UNRWA has hired Hamas members as teachers in its schools and provided arms to the terror group. At least 42 UNRWA staff participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, with an estimated 10% of UNRWA’s Gaza staff having affiliation with Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ). UNRWA staff kept hostages for Hamas in their homes, stored Hamas weapons in its facilities and provided electricity for Hamas’s data operations in Gaza tunnels from UNRWA headquarters.

Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, on October 18, 2023, Tettey-Tamaklo’s LinkedIn said he was located in the Palestinian Authority.

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 Student 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.