Essra Karam
Overview
Essra Karam expressed support for Hamas terrorists and their massacre of over 1,400 Israeli Jews in October 2023 at an anti-Israel rally in the Toronto area.Karam’s comments came in the wake of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes that also resulted in hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas carried out the attacks on October 7, 2023. Their war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings of civilians. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Karam has shown support for other terrorists, spread hatred of Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
Karam was affiliated [slide 8] with the activist group Toronto4Palestine in 2021 and 2023. Toronto4Palestine was formerly called the Greater Toronto Area Palestine Movement (GTA Palestine Movement).
Karam was also affiliated with the anti-Israel groups Canadian Defenders for Human Rights (CD4HR) in May 2022 and Global Rise 4 Palestine in July 2021.
Karam is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In July 2023, Karam’s LinkedIn profile said she received a diploma in advertising and graphic design from Humber College (Humber) in Ontario, Canada. Karam’s LinkedIn also said she had been an installation technician and project manager at Convenience Group Inc. since June 2022.
As of October 2023, Karam’s Facebook page said she lived in Mississauga, Ontario.
As of October 2023, Karam went by the username “Essra Kare” and the handle “@karessra” on Facebook. She also went by the username “Kᴀʀᴇ” and the handle “@beyondkare” on Instagram. As of July 2023, she used the handle “@EssraKare” on Twitter.
Supporting the Hamas Massacre of Over 1,400 Jews
On October 14, 2023, one week after the massacre of 1,400 Israeli Jews, Karam spoke to a reporter at an anti-Israel protest in Mississauga.Karam said [00:00:08]: “Hamas is not a terrorist group, it is a resistance.” She continued [00:00:26]: “Every single thing they have done is justified.” During the interview, she wore earrings in the shape of assault rifles.
During the same interview, Karam said [00:00:08]: "I’m a Palestinian. I have no f**king problem saying I support Hamas because they are the true fighters of Palestine and they're going to bring back Palestine.” She concluded: “[00:01:48]: “I gave you my information: Essra Karam, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, Alhamdullilah [praise God], free, free Palestine from the river to the sea, I hope they all f**king burn in hell.”
“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 Saturday, October 7, 2023, an estimated 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, torture, kidnappings and desecration of bodies. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ social media for families to see.
As of October 29, 2023, over 1,400 Israelis, the vast majority being civilians, had reportedly been murdered during the attacks three weeks earlier. Details are below. Hamas kidnapped an estimated 230 Israelis, including 30 children. Over 3,000 were wounded, many severely. As of the same date, over 8,000 missiles had been fired from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack.
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.
The 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. They also 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 between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 260 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.
Forensic analysis of dead bodies showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off victims’ legs and raping corpses. 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 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 broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ social media for families to see.
As of October 29, 2023, over 1,400 Israelis, the vast majority being civilians, had reportedly been murdered during the attacks three weeks earlier. Details are below. Hamas kidnapped an estimated 230 Israelis, including 30 children. Over 3,000 were wounded, many severely. As of the same date, over 8,000 missiles had been fired from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack.
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.
The 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. They also 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 between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 260 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.
Forensic analysis of dead bodies showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off victims’ legs and raping corpses. 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 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.
In addition, Hamas called the 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 has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
In the same interview, the reporter informed Karam that there were children murdered and babies beheaded in the massacre. Karam alleged [00:00:46] that news of these atrocities was “fake” and claimed [00:01:06]: “Hamas is a Muslim group, they would never do that because it’s against Islam.”
On October 14, 2023, multiple anti-Israel groups in the Toronto area held a protest in Mississauga, Ontario, where protesters chanted [00:06:09]: “Zionists, no more!”
Protesters also chanted [00:00:20]: “Be-ruh, be-dam, nifdik, ya Azaبروح ودم نفديك يااقصى [With spirit, with blood, we will redeem you, Gaza]!” Other chants included [00:06:13]: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” which is a call for the destruction of Israel. They also called for violence, chanting [00:02:05]: “Intifada!” and [00:07:02]: “When people are occupied, resistance is justified!” Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to nationalistic terror and to glorify anti-Semitic violence.
Support for Terrorists
On July 4, 2023, Karam posted [slide 2] an Instagram story from Resistance News Network (RNN) showing a Palestinian armed with a rifle and text that said: “GRAVEYARD FOR INVADERS.”The original post by RNN said: “With light weapons and locally-made explosives, no more than 300 fighters face the elite of the defeated zionist army. 2,000 soldiers, dozens of drones, helicopters, tanks, bulldozers, and hundreds of armored jeeps are no match for our ferocious fighters determined to liberate their homeland and defend their camp.”
On October 30, 2021, Karam participated in an event in Toronto in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel who were on a hunger strike.
In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.
On October 23, 2021, Karam featured [slide 8] in an Instagram video of Toronto4Palestine activists announcing their participation in a hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian terrorists. Karam commented on the video: “Beautiful movement, May Allah liberate our sisters and brothers
.”Karam also reportedly designed the banners for a banner drop over a bridge held by Toronto4Palestine in solidarity with the six terrorists on October 11, 2021.
Hatred of Israel
As of July 2023, Karam’s Twitter bio said: “FREE PALESTINE. END 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 September 5, 2022, Karam featured in a video posted on Instagram in which anti-Israel activists demonized Israel.
In the video, the activists accused [00:00:07] Israel of “inhumane crimes against Palestinian…civilians on their own soil,” of deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists because [00:00:27] they posed “a threat to your reputation by exposing your war crimes” and [00:01:50] of “heinous crimes against humanity.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On April 15, 2023, Karam participated [slide 4; 00:00:08] in an Al Quds Day rally in Toronto.The Iranian government initiated International Quds Day in 1979, as an annual protest against Israel’s existence. The protest has historically been a platform for anti-Semitism.
At the rally, protesters chanted: “Viva, viva, intifada!” and “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!”
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
Protesters also chanted: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
A banner displayed at the protest said [00:00:18]: “RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED.” Protesters also held a sign that said [00:00:07]: “ONE HOLOCAUST DOES NOT JUSTIFY ANOTHER.” On another poster, which said: “WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW RESISTANCE BECOMES DUTY,” the Star of David was equated with a swastika.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.
On May 29, 2022, Karam reportedly marshaled a protest in Toronto planned by CD4HR with the aim of disrupting a pro-Israel event organized by the UJA [United Jewish Appeal] Federation of Greater Toronto. A flyer for the protest said: “Walk against Apartheid ‘israel’ as thousands walk with ‘israel’ to celebrate the occupation of holy Palestine…”
A video from the protest showed [00:00:19] a sign that said: “APARTHEID ZIONIST CHILD KILLERS,” and which featured an image of the Israeli flag with blood dripping down it.
On April 30, 2022, Karam participated [slide 2] in Toronto’s annual Al Quds Day rally.
At the protest, one activist held [00:04:02] a sign implying that “Zionist [sic] collaborated” with ISIS and that “humanity [is] devastated.” Multiple signs called for [00:09:23] the boycott [slides 2, 3, 9] of Israel and accused [slides 2, 3] the United States of “funding genocide.” In addition, a banner was unfurled that read [00:08:38]: “Stop Palestinian Genocide: End Zionist Apartheid.”
One photo showed a protester holding [slide 2] a sign that said: “A state built on the ashes of the Holocaust, is now committing a holocaust against Palestinians in Gaza…”
On July 4, 2021, Karam participated in a BDS protest [slide 2] in Mississauga organized by Global Rise 4 Palestine.
Protesters blocked trucks and entrances at a Walmart distribution center, because of Walmart’s alleged support for Israel. Protesters held signs that said [slide 7]: “AL-AQSA NOT YOURS TO TAKE” and [slide 1] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
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 Web Links
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/karessraTwitter:https://twitter.com/EssraKare
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/beyondkare/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/essra-karam-47432b185/ [Deleted]
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondkare
Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com.mx/Essxkare/
All Poetry:https://allpoetry.com/Beyond_Kare
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Infamous Quotes
“Hamas is not a terrorist group, it is a resistance…everything that they do is justified, every single thing they have done is justified.”
“Essra Karam, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, Alhamdullilah [praise God], free, free Palestine from the river to the sea, I hope they all f**king burn in hell."
"I’m a Palestinian. I have no f**king problem saying I support Hamas because they are the true fighters of Palestine and they're going to bring back Palestine…”