Overview
Jenin Kiswani has spread violent anti-Semitism and homophobia on social media. She has equated Zionists with Nazis, demonized Israel and promoted conspiracy theories. She has also spread incitement and claimed that “Zionism starts where Judaism is destroyed.”
Kiswani is a
supporter of the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of October 2019, Kiswani’s LinkedIn page
said she was the Office Administrator at
Hurtubise Weber Law LLP from “Jul 2019 - Present”
Also as of October 2019, Kiswani’s LinkedIn page
said she was pursuing a “Master of Science” Justice Studies at San Jose State University (SJSU), slated to graduate in 2021.
Kiswani’s LinkedIn page also
said she received a “Bachelor of Arts” from UC Riverside (UCR).
Anti-Jewish Social Media Posts
On November 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “THIS FOOL IS PISSING ME OFF. IMMA PUNCH THIS JEW IN THE FACE.”
On October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Most Israeli Jews forgot that they have gone through the so called ‘holocaust’ #yeahright #FreePalestine.”
Also on October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Most Israeli Jews try 2 justify what they r doing by saying they have been through the holocaust, only they r doing something much worse....”
On October 15, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “I want Roula to say a Jew joke so she can get hate…”
Homophobic Comments
On May 28, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “@CapsCop IM GONNA SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT NIGGA SDTAY OUT OF MY BUSINESS FAGGOT.”
On April 11, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “FAGGOT RATCHET TWITTER APP I HATE YOY.”
On March 22, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “Twitter won't let me rt stuff......faggot.”
Equating Zionists with Nazis
On August 17, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “point our fingers back at them. We don't say the KKK is the face of Christianity that all Germans are Nazis and all Jews are Zionists.”
On the same day, Kiswani
tweeted: “organizations for EVERY religion. For Christians it's the KKK for Jews it's the Zionists people need to understand there is good and bad.”
On July 10, 2014, Kiswani
shared a montage of two images on Instagram — one an
iconic picture of a young Jewish boy surrendering to Nazis in the
Warsaw Ghetto and another of an Israeli soldier standing next to Palestinians. The caption on the montage that read: “a picture work a thousand words: On the left: Nazi Germany, On the right: Apartheid Israel.” Kiswani wrote: “‘Never again’ they chant as another bomb destroys a neighborhood, another child is taken away, and another martyr says his last shahadah under his last breath. How funny it is that they have become what they once feared the most. #FreePalestine #Israhell#PrayForGaza.”
On October 23, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “@kav_14 okay i was saying the most israeli jews are zionists which in turn the same thing as nazis. :) better?”
On October 12, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “The zionist Israelis have taken Hitler's methods and PERFECTED them to use on defenseless Arab men, women and children.” The tweet featured a photo conveying a
fraudulent message,
lying that Israeli children wrote messages of hate on bombs, which were then dropped on children in Palestine. The photo was placed next to a photo of a Nazi youth child.
On the same day, Kiswani
tweeted another two photos of holocaust victims and dead Palestinian, with a caption that read: “They turned into what they feared the most. ZIONIST ISRAEL=NAZI GERMANY Does anybody else see history repeating itself?”
On the same day, Kiswani
tweeted: “They both use chemical weapons on their victims; Hitler used Sarin in Auschwitz, Israel uses White Phosphorus on Gaza.”
Also on October 12, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Both Nazi and Zionist Israel use concentration camps; Hitler had Auschwitz, Gaza is much bigger than Auschwitz though (cont..).”
Demonizing Israel
On January 25, 2017, Kiswani
tweeted: “The only things zionists are good at are using tears as a form of argument, preaching anti Zionism is anti Semitic, and making nasty hummus.” Kiswani
added: “Oh and systematically killing, ethnically cleansing, and illegally settling on Palestinian land.”
On February 1, 2015, Kiswani
tweeted: “I hate israel.”
On July 10, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “I really dont get how people are still so ignorant of the fact that Israel's whole statehood is built on the bones & bodies of Palestinians.”
On August 4, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “BUT I HATE NATALIE PORTMAN BC SHES A FILTHY ZIONIST DOG.”
On June 27, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “@Leenabashir I see humans but no humanity free Palestine defeat Zionism.”
On February 20, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “OMG THEYRE ROBBING AN ISRAELI BANK HAHAHAHAH TAKE THAT YOU CHEAP PIGS.”
On January 23, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “Is this the 2nd Pearl Harbor except with Korea. Is this World war three. I can see the future. ISRAEL YOU GON DIE SOON HAHAHHA YA FEMALE DOG.”
On November 16, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “#NobodyLikes zionists.”
On November 14, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Do you know what else is hot? The roasted bodies of children that are being burned to death because of Israeli terrorism on Gaza. #Pray4Gaza.”
On October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Most Israeli Jews is trending ohmygod. Most Israeli Jews kill and torture poor innocent Palestinians. #FREEPALESTINE.”
Also on October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “Most Israeli Jews don't know that God is watching what they are doing to Palestinians. Their time will come. #FREEPALESTINE.”
On August 29, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted a
fabricatedquote, attributed to Albert Einstein, that read: “‘It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.’ ― Albert Einstein.”
On the same day, Kiswani
tweeted: “In memory of all of my fellow Palestinians that have suffered under more than sixty years of systemic Israeli Fascist like terror.”
On March 14, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “the zionists, aka ‘israelis’ are killing poor Palestinians every second because theyre greedy, selfish, murderous people #FreePalestine <333.”
Conspiracy Theories
On May 29, 2013, Kiswani
tweeted: “@Yasmin_S_ exactly. Theres no running away from these things cause no matter how much you try you cant cause israel rules the freaking world.”
On the same day, Kiswani
tweeted: “@Yasmin_S_ ur not forced to pay taxes u can go to another country if you really wanted to but no matter where you go israel is a superpower.”
Incitement
On October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “@I7ANN Jerusalem is a city located in Palestine where the sacred mosque (house of God) Al-Quds is & most isreali jews tried 2 knock it down.”
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a
traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews
long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such
propaganda served as the excuse for an
upsurge in Palestinian violence that flared in the fall of 2015 and
incited Palestinians to attempt mass casualty attacks on Israeli civilians in July 2016..
Jew-Washing Anti-Zionism
On April 21, 2017, Kiswani
tweeted: “Anybody that calls Israel out on their war crimes are labeled as anti-Semitic. They're terrorists hiding behind a beautiful religion.”
On July 10, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “And I absolutely hate how the Zionists even think they can call themselves Jews... They're tarnishing the reputation of this religion.”
On October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “@kav_14 yes that is very true. Zionists and Jews are completley different :) Zionism starts where Judaism is destroyed.”
On October 12, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “But we do have to remember this: Judaism is NOT Zionism. Zionism starts when Judaism is destroyed.”
Promoting an Anti-Semitic Website
On October 22, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “@bradtenn down syndrome has nothing to do with israel and palestine my friend Here is a website that has all the facts http://ifamericansknew.org/.”
On October 8, 2012, Kiswani
tweeted: “http://ifamericansknew.org/ <----- this is a great website to learn the truth about the palestinian and israeli conflict.”
Weir is the founder and executive director of the anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK). She has reportedly been “a repeat guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show.” The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has exposed Weir’s propagation of numerous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
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.
