Ethan Comeriato
Overview
Ethan Comeriato has shown support for terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists and Israel. He has also shown support for an anti-Israel agitator and promoted the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Kent State University (KSU).Comeriato has also shown support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In November 2017, Comeriato was reportedly the co-chair of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) at KSU. The YDSA parent organization — the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — supports the BDS movement.
As of January 2018, Comeriato’s Twitter page said he is slated to graduate from KSU in 2020.
Supporting Terrorists
Comeriato retweeted a December 12, 2017 tweet featuring a video of terrorist Ghassan Kanafani rejecting negotiations as a path to peace.The tweet, written by terror-supporter Maya Cheatani, claimed that Kanafani was “Killed simply because he wrote Palestinian stories shared worldwide, & Zionists feared any mention of Palestinian culture, as Israel's existence is so fragile.”
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.
Comeriato retweeted a March 8, 2018 tweet honoring PFLP terrorists Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh, calling them “resilient freedom fighters.”
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.
Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
Spreading Hatred of Zionists
On November 7, 2017, Comeriato tweeted: “Scabs, Zionists, Racists, Homophobes, Sexists, and Nazis go to hell when they die.”
On December 14, 2017, Comeriato tweeted: “Me: I really feel that bulldozing Palestinian towns and IDF Soldiers shattering Palestinian children's bones with rocks is a horrible imperialist fascist thing. Zionism is dangerous.”
On December 30, 2017, Comeriato tweeted: “‘As Zionists, we're humanitarians. We only use the HARDEST rocks to break children's bones so it's quicker for them.’ #IsraelisaTerroristState #FreePalestine
Comeriato also retweeted a January 19, 2018 tweet that said: “you’re not anti-racist if you’re not anti-Zionist.”
On January 22, 2018, Comeriato tweeted: “You cannot be a Zionist and Feminist.”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
Comeriato retweeted a March 8, 2018 tweet addressed at the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), claiming: “You murder Palestinian women at checkpoints, and then plant knives beside their bodies. You sexually abuse Palestinian women in custody.”Comeriato retweeted a January 8, 2018 tweet referring to Israelis as “fascists” and accusing Israel of “murder” and “executing occupied Palestinians.”
On December 17, 2017, Comeriato tweeted the hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” and photos from an anti-Israel rally. He tweeted the same hashtag four days earlier, along with a photo of a sign at KSU reading “HANDS OFF JERUSALEM.”
The hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” was created to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Comeriato also retweeted a December 14, 2017 tweet featuring a debunked graphic purporting to show the “disappearing” of Palestine. The tweet said: “Here are dozens of countries re-imagined if the state of Israel would have been founded there instead of historic Palestine. #FreePalestine.”
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
Comeriato retweeted a November 13, 2017 tweet about Israeli actress Gal Gadot that accused her of being an “Active participant in the occupation/humiliation of Palestinians daily.”
Supporting an Anti-Israel Agitator
Shortly after Israel detained anti-Israel agitator Ahed Tamimi, Comeriato retweeted a January 4, 2018 tweet that said: “despite being born into oppression under Israeli apartheid, Ahed Tamimi has a long history of being extremely cool.”Promoting SJP and BDS
Comeriato retweeted a February 2, 2018 tweet supporting BDS from the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organization.Comeriato retweeted a January 31, 2018 tweet from SJP KSU that supported Tamimi and had the hashtag “#FreeAhed.” Comeriato retweeted SJP KSU tweets multiple times in the previous three months.
Comeriato retweeted a December 28, 2017 tweet from the “BDSmovement” Twitter account supporting Tamimi.
Comeriato retweeted a November 15, 2017 tweet from an SJP KSU activist celebrating the passing of a BDS resolution at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Comeriato also retweeted a October 19, 2017 tweet from the YDSA chapter at the University of Southern California (YDSA USC), reading: “Don't buy Sabra Hummus on campus! #ApartheidIsntTasty #BDSUSC.”
SJP KSU - Supporting Terrorists
The “Saltwater Challenge” was held in solidarity with over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons — most of whom were convicted for acts of terrorism.
The strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings and shooting attacks during the second intifada. Barghouti led the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Barghouti also financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe massacre, where 15 civilians were killed and 130 injured.
SJP KSU retweeted a May 11, 2017 tweet that said: “Join us at 8527 S. Harlem from 10am to 7pm for #DignityStrikeChi in support of #Palhunger @Addameer @SamidounPP … ”
Addameer’s logo and images of Barghouti and terrorist Ahmad Sa’adat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), appeared in the tweet’s photos.
Addameer organizes and promotes campaigns on behalf of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and has advocated for theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Addammer is reportedly an “affiliate” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terror organization. In September 2019, Israeli forces raided the officers of Addammeer, seizing laptops and memory cards.
SJP KSU also retweeted a May 11, 2017 tweet supporting the “#DignityStrike.”
SJP KSU - Promoting Violence and Spreading Hatred
On January 6, 2018, Subhi Husien — a 2017-2018 SJP KSU activist — tweeted: “BDS is important for weakening the Zionist entity but violent revolution will be the only solution to gain liberation.”
As of January 2018, Lama Abu Amara — an SJP KSU activist in 2017-2018 — wrote in her Twitter profile: “Globalize the Intifada
The term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence, since the early 2000’s.
On August 2, 2014, Abu Amara tweeted: “‘Never again.’-The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. Never again for them, but their descendants think otherwise. #BoycottIsrael #SupportGaza #Gaza.”
On July 12, 2017, Yousef Mousa — a former SJP KSU president — posted a Facebook graphic paraphrasing a quote [00:00:23] by PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani rejecting negotiations as a path to peace.
On December 23, 2017, SJP KSU activist Chance Zurub — the 2018 SJP KSU president — tweeted: “The only Israeli food that they [Israelis] eat is the blood of the Palestinian people.”
SJP KSU - Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory
On October 24, 2016, SJP KSU tweeted an image of a hand controlling a brain via puppet strings, captioned: “ISRAEL PUBLIC RELATION’S WAR IN THE UNITED STATES.”The tweet promoted SJP KSU’s October 27, 2016 screening of the anti-Israel film “The Occupation of the American Mind.”
SJP KSU - Demonizing Israel
On May 10, 2017, SJP KSU tweeted: “Reality: Israel is an illegitimate state that uses systematic war and apartheid to ethnically cleanse an entire population.”
On May 28, 2017, SJP KSU tweeted: “Israel continues ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian pop. as American college students take ‘birthright’ trips, complicit in Israel's crimes.”
Birthright Israel is a free trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from all over the world.
On March 5, 2018, SJP KSU displayed its “mock Israeli apartheid wall” on campus, representing Israel’s security barrier. The wall included a version of debunked anti-Israel propaganda maps. SJP KSU also displayed the “mock Apartheid Wall” in 2017, where it promoted BDS on campus.
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 Students 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.
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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