Herbert Daughtry

Daughtry also said [01:04:42]: “...my church became one of the housing for material support when Palestine was– had an embargo about ten years ago…”

Daughtry also spoke [00:58:25] at an anti-Israel ceremony organized by “The People’s Grad for Palestine” on May 16, 2024. 

The event, titled: “The People’s Graduation,” was planned by “an independent group of faculty [who] wanted to create a graduation ceremony for their students who have been excluded from campus for peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza [at the Columbia encampment].” 

The ceremony was organized “following the cancellation of [Columbia’s] Universitywide Commencement ceremonies and in the aftermath of the April 18 and April 30 police sweeps of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ and occupied Hamilton [Hall].”

The encampment was also in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Columbia is located in New York, New York.

Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University

On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up a pro-Hamas “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university's main lawn. Many participants were arrested and the encampment featured multiple violent incidents, including taking over a campus building and taking a university worker hostage.

Activists protested Israel’s war against Hamas and demanded that Columbia “divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation…”

The action had reportedly been planned for months and was organized by the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition. The encampment was also organized by Columbia’s banned pro-Hamas activist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the university chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Activists reportedly received training from National SJP and other anti-Israel organizations.

Among the encampment leaders was Columbia student Khymani James who had said [00:00:25]: “Zionists…They are nazis!... They’re supporters of genocide! Why would we want people who are supporters of genocide to live?... Be glad, be grateful that I am not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Aidan Parisi, another encampment leader, responded to Columbia’s demand to disband the encampment by declaring online that: “COLUMBIA WILL BURN.”

The encampment was forcibly dismantled at the directive of Columbia’s president and administration. The NYPD [New York Police Department] entered the area, cleared the encampment and arrested more than 100 protestors, approximately 80 of whom were Columbia students. The students were charged with trespassing and suspended from Columbia indefinitely.

The next day, activists created a new encampment. When divestment negotiations with Columbia failed, protesters illegally forced their way into the university’s Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024. They smashed [00:00:55] through a glass-paneled door, broke security cameras, threw university property out of the windows and unfurled [00:00:01] a banner in the building’s wall that read: “INTIFADA,” a term in Arabic for uprising or insurrection that carries the connotation of violence.

While barricading themselves in the building, agitators kept three Columbia custodians hostage and stopped them from leaving. When the NYPD raided and dismantled the encampment a second time, they arrested more than 100 students, nearly half of whom were reportedly not affiliated with Columbia.

NYPD shared on Twitter photos of objects the police found in Hamilton Hall. These included knives, hammers, gas masks, ropes and a pamphlet that read [video 1]: “...DISRUPT/RECLAIM/DESTROY zionist business interests everywhere! DEATH TO ISRAELI REAL STATE! DEATH TO AMERICA!...LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA!”

Just outside the encampment area, Jewish students were called [slide 2]: “Uncultured a** b**ches!” and were told to “Go back to Europe!” Activists also said [slide 3] to them: “Yahoodim [Jews], yahoodi [Jew], f**k you!” and “Stop killing children!” as they walked from campus to their dorm rooms.

Also just outside the encampment area, anti-Israel activists chanted [slide 5]: “Ya Hamas, ya habib, odrob, odrob Tel Aviv! [Oh Hamas, oh loved one, strike, strike Tel Aviv!]”, a chant that celebrates Hamas rocket attacks against Israel.

An activist just outside the encampment area held [photo 4] a sign that said, referring to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing: “AL-QASAM’S NEXT TARGETS.” Her sign contained an arrow pointing to a pro-Israel crowd.

On May 31, 2024, Columbia SJP announced that its activists had set up a third encampment at the university. At the encampment, protesters reportedly displayed on a big screen a video that portrayed Hamas as a peace-seeking organization and made a sign that contained an inverted red triangle, a symbol in support of Hamas.

Background on Pro-Hamas Encampments

The encampment was one of over 140 pro-Hamas and anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 more globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. The encampments were unofficially known as the “student intifada,” borrowing a term associated with terrorist violence.  

Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. They occupied campus grounds, in many cases illegally, caused property damage, violently took over buildings, celebrated terrorism and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

Activists set up encampments to oppose Israel’s right to wage war against the Hamas terror group following October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 people, including 32 American and 8 Canadian citizens. Hamas also kidnapped 252 people, including 11 Americans and the bodies of 2 murdered Canadians. As of May 26, 2024, 125 hostages remained in Hamas captivity.

Herbert Daughtry’s Anti-Semitism 

In 1991, Daughtry spoke at demonstrations that were part of the August 19-21 riots by Black residents against the Hasidic Jewish community in Crown Heights, New York. The Crown Heights Riots were sparked after a car accident involving the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s motorcade that resulted in the death of a child, Gavin Cato, the son of Guyanese immigrants.

On August 20, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Daughtry said “without an arrest, the car accident ‘will be one more example of the Hasidic community getting away with murder.’” Daughtry was also quoted as saying: “The Hasidic community had been the precipitators…The Hasidic group in Crown Heights during that time acted like the KKK. They treated people like the KKK. Disrespected people like the KKK.” 

Also on August 20, 2021, the New York Post reported that Daughtry spoke against Hasidic Jews at a vigil for Cato and said: “If you’re ten percent of the community and you get 90 percent of the goods and services, that’s an Apartheid situation…The situation in Crown Heights has always been about power.”

According to the National Review, Daughtry had previously written in a letter in Black News: “We are charging the Hassidic Jews, in collusion with the City of New York, with violating the Human Rights of Black people in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.”

On April 22, 2016, Daughtry posted in his church newsletter an article titled: “Whom Should We Fear? Donald Trump or the Media?” Daughtry wrote about the Satmar Hasidim in Brooklyn: “...they [Satmar Hasidim] were a very powerful group who were in collusion with the city government and other powerful elements. They had used their power in violent, discriminatory, and oppressive ways…in the South, when this was done by hate groups like the KKK, the Federal government would intercede…”

In the same article, Daughtry wrote: “I want to return to the events of Crown Heights in 1978. I admit to deliberately using provocative language. I did say: ‘When weorganize our patrol, when men meet men, we will see what the people in the long Black coats will do.’” Daughtry also wrote: “Next time the Hasidim touch one of our children, we are gonna tear this community up.”

On September 9, 2016, Daughtry posted in his church newsletter an article titled: “Crown Heights.” Written 25 years after the 1991 Crown Heights Riots, Daughtry wrote:“...Blacks end up with cordialities, and the Hassidim owning and controlling. Blacks end up smiling, and the Hassidim end up conniving…” In a section titled: “III. The Hasidim Violence” Daughtry also claimed: “The Hasidim has a long history of attacking men, women, and youth…”

Herbert Daughtry’s Criminal Background and Work

In 2006, Historymakers.org reported that Daughtry joined the army in 1950 and was discharged one year later for heroin use, and that he was imprisoned for armed robbery and assault charges in 1953. 

Caribbean Life reported that in 2012, Daughtry was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after attempting to block a Manhattan office of the Administration for Social Services during a protest.

As of September 2024, Daughtry’s House of the Lord Churches (HOLC) newsletter reported that Daughtry had served as its national presiding minister from 1959 to 2019. HOLC is located in Brooklyn, New York. 

As of the same date, the HOLC newsletter reported that Daughtry has served as the pastor of the HOLC’s Jersey City branch since 2010.   

As of September 2024, Daughtry’s X account bio lists him as the founder and president of Herbert Daughtry Global Ministries. As of the same date, one of Daughtry’s two Facebook accounts for HDGlobaMinistries is active, while the website domain for hdgministries.org is “not connected to a website.” 

As of September 2024, Daughtry’s X bio said he was located in Brooklyn, New York. As of the same date, public records databases show a Herbert D. Daughtry, Sr., age 93, located in Teaneck, New Jersey.