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Hazami Barmada
Hazami Barmada is an anti-Israel activist who has harassed a public official's family, justified Hamas terrorism, equated Israel with Nazi Germany and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
She has also participated in multiple anti-Israel protests and disrupted public hearings in the U.S. Congress and Senate, including a speech given by then-U.S. President Joe Biden.
In May 2024, Barmada was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a rabbi whose public prayer service held outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. was disrupted by Barmada and other anti-Israel activists.
Barmada's activism and social media posts took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war, called called “Swords of Iron,” after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings.
The atrocities were executed on October 7, 2023, and left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
On February 16, 2025, TMJ News Network reported [00:00:10] that Barmada was a member of the anti-Israel group "Die-In For Humanity," which is based in the Washington, D.C. area.
As of September 2024, Barmada was active with the anti-Israel group CODEPINK: Women For Peace. She is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of February 2025, Barmada's LinkedIn profile said she was the founder and chairperson of the Humanity Lab Foundation, as well as the host and executive producer of the Finding Humanity Podcast.
Also as of February 2025, Barmada's LinkedIn said she graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Harvard) with a master's degree in management, leadership, global governance/social impact in 2018.
As of the same date, Barmada's LinkedIn also said she was located in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Area.
On February 16, 2024, Politico magazine reported that Barmada harassed then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his family during an anti-Israel protest. Barmada threw [photo 1] "fake blood" next to a car carrying Blinken's two children.
During the same protest, anti-Israel protesters screamed: "Your father is a baby killer!" One of the activists held [photo 2] a sign with a photo of Blinken and his family stained with red ink.
On December 18, 2024, Countercurrents reported that "Barmada and crew set up their camp across the road from his [Blinken's] house in January, calling it 'Kibbutz Blinken.'"
The article also stated that "Barmada and company lived at Kibbutz Blinken from January through July (2024)...Finally, in late July, the state of Virginia decided it was illegal for them to 'block the road'...and police...cleared them out..."
In a July 2024 interview with TRT World, Barmada said [00:00:53]: "I know we were the first encampment for Gaza in the world. Quite a few leaders of different student campuses...spent time with us." She also said [00:01:03]: "We also released a guide on how to host an encampment that we know a lot of nonprofits also circulated to different members."
Close to 200 anti-Israel college encampments were set up in North America in the spring of 2024. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities, sed anti-Semitic language in their activism, promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas.
On October 7, 2023, Barmada posted on Facebook: "...Violence is...often the response to something deeper. In this case, decades of...apartheid, displacement, humiliation and complete disregard for human life of Palestinians at the hands of a brutal military occupation and ethic [sic] cleansing by Israel..."
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 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 of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On October 12, 2023, Barmada posted on Facebook: "...now with the annihilation of Gaza, it’s genocide. / A holocaust, if you will. / Plain and simple."
Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
Barmada's post also read: "...the dismantling of the system of Apartheid, the racist structure within which Palestinians are placed, the dehumanization and campaign of discrimination being framed by language we’ve heard from Nazis and others..."
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 February 4, 2024, Barmada shared on Instagram a photo of herself during an anti-Israel protest outside the White House, her face painted green and dressed in a green "Statue of Liberty" costume. She was tied in chains held by anti-Israel activists dressed as Israeli soldiers.
The assertion that Jews secretly control the Western governments through banking and finance is traced to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated anti-Semitic text that portrays wealthy Jews as conspiring to take over the world. This anti-Semitic conspiracy theory has often employed the imagery from Nazi cartoons that depict Jews as octopuses encircling the globe.
During the protest, anti-Israel activists held a banner that read [00:00:57]: "PRIME MINISTER OF GENOCIDE." The banner contained a drawing of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a bloody hand. Another sign read [00:01:17]: "ISRAEL KILLS," printed across an Israeli flag dripping with "blood" red paint.
Protesters chanted [00:02:04]: "One, two, three, four! Colonization no more! Five, six, seven, eight! Israel is a racist state! Five, six, seven, eight! Israel is an apartheid state!"
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 other countries have adopted the definition as well.
Barmada was a named defendant in a lawsuit filed on May 1, 2024, by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld. The complaint was based on an incident that occurred on March 22, 2024, when Barmada led [00:00:08] the disruption of a prayer service in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., by blaring sirens and bullhorns.
The rabbi and a group of his congregants assembled on a Jewish holy day in order to pray for the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
The complaint alleged (p. 1) that the "physical attack consisted of using speakers, sirens, and other sound-emitting devices to produce siren-like sounds in the range of 95-100 decibels—more than 1,000 times the noise level permitted under D.C. law— with the purpose and intent to injure Rabbi Herzfeld."
Barmada was charged (p.3) with "assault, battery, outrage, and other violations." The complaint claimed (p.9) that "Rabbi Herzfeld suffered acute acoustic trauma at the time of the incident, as well as injury from the cumulative effects such trauma has on premature and permanent hearing loss."
The complaint claimed (p. 11) that "Herzfeld was subjected to acts of intimidation and harassment, and he was the victim of violence directed against his person...motivated by religious and/or ethnic animosity, and/or by animosity with respect to political affiliation."
On February 23, 2025, VINnews reported that Barmada and another anti-Israel activist were ordered to pay $182,000 in legal fees to the same rabbi in another case where the activists had initially "sought a restraining order against" the rabbi accusing him of "stalking" them. The judge "determined that the activists’ legal action lacked merit."
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.
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