Hannah Gann

Gann spoke at a December 3, 2023 protest where she referred [00:01:18] to police officers as “pigs,” accused [00:02:03] Israel of “genocidal terror” and glorified [00:02:44] violence.

The protest was organized by the Philly Palestine Coalition (PPC) and was titled: “Flood Philly for Gaza.” It was held at Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. The name that Hamas gave for its terror attacks on October 7, 2023, was “Al Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the assertion that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque, a pretext for attacks on Jews long before Israel’s founding in 1948.

Several businesses along the route of the march were reportedly graffitied with messages such as “F**k the [Israel Defense Forces]," "Intifada" and "Free Palestine."

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.

At the protest, Gann referred [00:02:42] to youth as possessing “courageous defiance” and then said [00:02:44]: “When a Palestinian child picks up a rock or a slingshot in the face of Israeli tanks or machine guns, we owe them that same energy! We owe them to take it to these streets and f**k the police until Palestine is free!”

Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.

At the rally, activists chanted [00:00:01]: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” and [00:00:02] “Intifada revolution!…Intifada, intifada! Long live the intifada!”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.

During the protest, anti-Israel activist Gabriel Bryant, a featured speaker, said [00:02:47] regarding Israelis: “We are dealing with a people who have no shame!...for the past 60 days, I’m thinking about all the lies that they told! Somebody told a lie! They said that there were beheaded babies! But somebody called the lie!”

Regarding Israel’s war against Hamas, Bryant said [00:04:55]: “I believe right now…the past two months and the past decade of struggle, we are in the last stages of Zionism, you all!”

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. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

As the crowd cheered, Bryant concluded [00:05:12]: “We are in the last stages of Zionism! It will be crushed! It will be crushed! It will be crushed on our watch!”

Protest participants also stood outside a Jewish-owned restaurant called “Goldie” and chanted [00:00:02]: “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!”

Gann expressed support for Hamas terrorists in multiple 2024 Instagram posts, according to a tip submitted to Canary Mission in July 2024.

One of Gann’s 2024 Instagram posts featured a graphic of a pro-Hamas inverted red triangle with a rifle and a bazooka next to it. The graphic’s text said: “‘You will kill ten of us, / we will kill one of you, / but in the end, / you will tire of it first.’ / Ho Chi Minh.”

The inverted red triangle is a symbol showing support for Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. It was first used by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks to signify an Israeli target.

Ho Chi Minh carried out mass killings of civilians both during and after the Vietnam war. He also carried out policies of human mutilations, summary executions and burying people alive.

Another one of Gann’s 2024 Instagram posts featured a graphic with an inverted red triangle with text that read: “you can’t support / palestinian liberation / without supporting / palestinian resistance.” Below this statement was more text that said “reject normalization / support the resistance.” The post also featured an image of men with keffiyehs covering their faces.

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and antisemitic violence.

Proponents of the “anti-normalization” policy seek to police all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians and shut down all conversations and interactions perceived as being ideologically unaligned with their own agenda.

Another one of Gann’s 2024 Instagram posts featured a pro-Hamas graphic titled: “DECOLONIZATION / IS A FORCE OF NATURE.” The graphic showed a hand emerging from underground while holding a weapon in a raised first, alluding to Hamas terror tunnels. The graphic also showed paragliders descending from the air, alluding to the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023.

Hamas terror tunnels are intended for mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios against Israeli civilians and soldiers. They stretch from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

In the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, numerous terrorists infiltrated into Israel in motorized paragliders. Hamas terrorists descended in gliders on the Nova Music Festival, where they slaughtered over 360 unarmed young men and women. In the wake of the atrocities, images of Hamas militants on paragliders served to symbolize and glorify the deadly attacks.

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 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.

Gann celebrated violence in a 2024 Instagram post, according to a tip submitted to Canary Mission in July 2024.

Gann’s post featured an image of the large sign at a McDonald’s restaurant on fire. She captioned the image: “INSPIRING ME TO START A / 2024 VISION BOARD…”

Gann spread hatred of Israel in a 2024 Instagram post, according to a tip submitted to Canary Mission in July 2024.

Gann’s post featured a photo of a banner at an anti-Israel protest that read: “Israel is a Zionist / Terrorist Organization.”

As of December 2023, Gann’s Instagram Stories titled: “ms.gann.on.the.gram” re-posted [slide 8] a post from anti-Israel professor Noura Erakat that said, referring to Israel’s war against Hamas: “...A nuclear power is destroying a people with precision technology, kidnapping children for military trials, unleashing talking drones to porches threatening them w violence, & claiming the mantle of victimhood. #Gaza #Genocide #Freedom.”

Also as of December 2023, Gann’s Instagram Stories titled: “ms.gann.on.the.gram” re-posted [slide 9] a statement from the PPC regarding their December 3, 2023 protest, in which they said they would “continue to protest, Israel's decades long violent colonization of Palestine, the most recent manifestation of which is the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Gann’s shared post also accused [slide 10] Israel of “apartheid” and [slide 12] claimed that “the displacement of Black and Brown people in Philadelphia stems from the same violent institutions that are perpetrating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”

As of December 2023, Gann’s Instagram Stories Highlights titled “RJOC” posted [slide 1] a June 30, 2020 photo of Gann wearing a mask and holding a sign that said: “AmeriKKKa is lucky that all Black folks want is equality, not REVENGE.”

The term “Amerikkka” uses the initials of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a way to demonize America as “fascist or racist.”

As of December 2023, Gann’s Instagram Stories Highlights titled “RJOC” posted [slide 5] a July 25, 2020 photo captioned with lyrics to a song that said: “This ain’t conscious rap, this s**t ignorant, n****, hair trigger. Ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun. When I c*** back, police better run. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, f*** 12…”

“F**k 12,” or “F 12,” is modern slang that means “F**k the police.”

In September 2024, as a PEFP member, Gann gave a presentation where she accused [slide 1 ; 00:00:18] Israel of committing “genocide” and [00:00:40] “apartheid.” Gann also claimed [00:00:48] that “by standing with Palestine, we also stand against white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism and state violence wherever it rears its head.”

Co-led by Gann, RJOC has organized multiple teach-ins for Palestine in 2023 and 2024 in Philadelphia public schools, aimed to promote anti-Israel views on “K-12 teachers and education professionals.” RJOC also provides “Educator Lesson Plans” for teachers and lists as a resource the Teach Palestine Project.

Gann’s activism was part of an antisemitism scandal in SDP detailed below.

In November 2023, after Hamas terrorists murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, SDP offered teachers an anti-Israel professional development course. The curriculum claimed that Israel was carrying out the “colonization of Palestine” and that Israel’s war against Hamas was a “genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.”

The course was titled: “Decolonizing the Curriculum: Brief History of Palestine and the Creation of Israel: Contextualizing the Current Conflict and Genocide.” A summary on the SDP portal said teachers would be “better equipped to have conversations and facilitate lessons with their students” about Israel. The course was listed as "Subject(s): Social Studies/History." After local news sites publicized the course, SDP removed it from the portal.

SDP continued to come under pressure from activist groups to teach anti-Israel material in K-12 classrooms, including groups representing teachers and parents. Two such groups were the Racial Justice Organizing Committee (RJOC) and the Philadelphia Educators for Palestine (PEFP), led by SDP high school teacher Keziah Ridgeway.

RJOC organized anti-Israel “teach-ins” in late 2023 and throughout 2024. RJOC also provided “Educator Lesson Plans” for teachers, listing as a resource the Teach Palestine Project, a pro-terror and anti-Israel teaching resource. In May 2024, PEFP called on SDP to meet six demands. Among them were: “to unequivocally condemn the ongoing genocide waged on the Palestinian people” and “to release a ceasefire resolution [with regard to Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists].”

SDP had been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights since April 2024. In May 2024, a group of over 200 parents filed a complaint against the district. The complaint alleged there was “persistent harassment and bullying of Jewish students” and “inflammatory anti-Jewish and anti-Israel messages on social media and even in the classroom” by teachers and administrators at schools across Philadelphia.

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.

December 3, 2023 - Speaking at a Pro-Hamas Rally

Support for Hamas Terrorism

Glorifying Violence

Hatred of Israel

Hatred of America

Hatred of the Police

Anti-Israel Activism as a Teacher

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)

Social Media and Weblinks