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Emma Herndon
Emma Herndon was arrested for disrupting an event at Dartmouth College (Dartmouth) in 2024. She also co-organized a pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks.
Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Emma Herndon is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2025, Emma Herndon was listed as a "Service Specialist" in the Office of the Registrar at Dartmouth.
As of the same date, Emma Herndon's LinkedIn profile said she graduated from Penn with a bachelor's degree in English language and literature in 2024 and that she was located in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
On October 30, 2024, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, StopAntisemitism posted on X that Emma Herndon and another anti-Israel activist were "arrested after repeatedly interrupting a speech by Senator John Fetterman." The event took place on the Dartmouth campus.
During the disruption, Herndon reportedly waved a Palestinian flag and screamed: "Fetterman, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide."
StopAntisemitism reported that Herndon was charged with "disorderly conduct."
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On April 26, 2024, Emma Herndon spoke [00:01:34] with 6abc Action News as one of student organizers of the pro-Hamas encampment at Penn.
In an April 27, 2024 interview with 6abc Action News, after Penn had ordered the encampment to be dismantled, Herndon said [00:01:00]: "We have three demands. We will not be leaving until those demands are met...Our demands are: disclose the university's endowment, to divest from the Israeli apartheid state and defend the voices of pro-Palestinian students on campus."
On April 25, 2024, anti-Israel activists from Penn, Temple University and Drexel University set up the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the Penn campus to protest Israel's war against Hamas.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
