Gada Al Herz
Overview
Gada Al Herz has expressed support for violent rioters and spread hatred of Israelis and Israel. Al Herz is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.As of December 2023, Al Herz’s LinkedIn profile said she had been an undergraduate member of the University of Iowa’s (Iowa) chapter of the Muslim Student Association (MSA), Arab Students Association, and the Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya (I.M.A.M.) for the advancement of Shia Muslims in North America.
Also as of December 2023, Al Herz’s LinkedIn said she had served on the Iowa College of Law’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) between 2019 and 2022.
As of December 2023, Al Herz’s LinkedIn said she received a JD from the University of Iowa College of Law (Iowa Law) in 2022. Al Herz graduated from Iowa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2018.
As of the same date, Al Herz’s LinkedIn said she had been an associate at the Jacobson Lopez law firm, since July 2023. The law firm’s offices are located in Washington, D.C. However, her LinkedIn said she was located in Arlington, Virginia.
On July 15, 2020, Al Herz indicated that she was the daughter of Ali Afif Al Herz. He was sentenced in October 2016 to over 28 years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle guns to “Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon, where Ali Afif Al Herz maintains a residence.”
Hezbollah has long been known as an anti-Semitic and genocidal terror organization dedicated to destroying Israel.
On December 12, 2016, three other Al Herz family members were sentenced for their involvement in the gun smuggling scheme. On June 14, 2018, a federal Court of Appeals press release summarized the case and affirmed the sentences for the Al Herz family.
Also as of December 2023, Al Herz went by the username “Eslam (ر)[R]” and used the handle “@jnoubiyi” on Twitter.
Support For Violent Rioters
On May 30, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Literally no Israeli has died in this round of the conflict. There is no one dying in Israel. There’s Israelis killing Palestinians for protesting peacefully.”Hatred of Israelis
On October 16, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “I came to this coffee shop to focus on getting some work done, but of course an Israeli has to be sitting 4 places down from me convincing a woman that Zionism is justified
Someone hold my phone.”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 May 11, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Israelis are so proud of how ‘green’ they’ve made O. [Occupied] Palestine, but cry when they have wildfires because their foreign a**es wanna bring foreign trees with them...”
One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by claiming that Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel.
Hatred of Israel
On October 24, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Israel is an apartheid state that’s ethnically cleansing the indigenous people of the lands it’s occupying. We don’t stan artists who approve of apartheid.”On October 21, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “…3. Judaism and Zionism are not synonymous. 4. Israel as a Zionist state needs to come to an end.”
On October 13, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Do you realize how f**king dumb you sound? Israel’s time is coming to an end. The world has started to open their eyes to the genocide you’re committing, and the clock is ticking.”
Also on October 13, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Invading and occupying land by ethnically cleansing its indigenous people is not resisting. Half of the Israeli population are white Jews. I have ‘Jewish’ ancestry. Where does that leave us now?”
On August 27, 2018, Al Herz tweeted about American singer Lana Del Rey, who was scheduled to perform in Israel. Al Herz wrote: “.@LanaDelRey Your justifications are bs. You’re supporting apartheid and genocide despite whatever ‘vibes’ you’re putting out. Cancel your performance at the Meteor Festival in Israel. Stand with us on the right side of history to create a better world for all. #LanaDontGo”
On July 3, 2017, Al Herz tweeted: “If Israel cared about moral obligation, it wouldn't exist. It's very foundations are built on immorality…”
On May 14, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Idiot, blame Israel for decades of oppressing and ethnically cleansing the native people of Palestine.”
On January 19, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “Israel does the opposite of assuring the rights of minorities; it assures the oppression of minorities for as long as it can.”
On January 2, 2018, Al Herz tweeted: “You can’t be a democracy and an apartheid at the same time... Israel is 100% one of the worst apartheids of our time.”
On December 6, 2017, Al Herz tweeted: “Trump called Israel one of ‘the most successful democracies in the world.’ Israel is an apartheid state. Apartheid’s cannot be a democracy. Israel is not a democracy.”
On October 13, 2016, Al Herz posted on curiouscat: “Do you support Israel
? — Definitely not. Free Palestine! 
.”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.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/gada.herzTwitter:https://twitter.com/jnoubiyi
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/gadaherz/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gada-al-herz/
Curious Cat:https://curiouscat.live/Gada
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