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Katie Huerter
Katie Huerter has promoted “intifada” and expressed support for terrorists. Huerter founded a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Huerter has organized propaganda trips to Israel with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Interfaith Peace-Builders (IFPB). As of October 17, 2017, Huerter’s Facebook page said she was a “Middle East Peacebuilding Associate” at AFSC, as well as a Board Member and Vice President of IFPB.
As of January 2018, Huerter was reportedly a member of the National SJP (NSJP) Organizing Committee.
Huerter attended the NSJP 2015 conference and indicated on Facebook that she “went” to NSJP 2017 and NSJP 2016.
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
As of January 8, 2018, Huerter’s Facebook said that she is a “Professional Public Speaker, Educator, Motivator” at the Midwest Speakers Bureau, as well as a “freelance journalist” at CNN.
Huerter has posted multiple times on social media in support of “intifada,” during periods of terrorist violence and unrest in Israel.
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On October 17, 2015, Huerter posted an image on Instagram of a masked Palestinian with a rock and slingshot. She wrote: “From my friend Nasifa Ali.... Viva Palestine! Viva Resistance!! We are with you in Solidarity my dear friends! #ThirdIntifada #GlobalIntifada #Palestine#Resistance.”
On October 9, 2015, Huerter tweeted: “Over 5 #Palestinian youth have been killed by Israel in the last hour alone...stay safe my beloved friends #ThirdIntifada. #GlobalIntifada.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
On July 16, 2014, during Israel’s war against Hamas, Huerter posted an image on Instagram accusing Israel of “GENOCIDE” and wrote “#GlobalIntifada.” On the same day, she tweeted the same hashtag.
On July 19, 2014, Huerter posted an image on Instagram of an anti-Israel rally and wrote: “#gazaunderattack#gaza #freepalestine #solidarity#globalintifada.”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 25, 2017, Huerter tweeted: “Sign the petition: Release #KhalidaJarrar & #KhitamSaafin! #PoliticalPrisoner #humanrights via @codepink.”
Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin were reportedly arrested “due to the women’s leading roles” in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, the United States and Israel.
On May 3, 2017, Huerter posted support on Instagram for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, most of whom were convicted for acts of terrorism.
On October 11, 2015, Huerter shared an image on Instagram of terrorist Rasmea Odeh from NSJP 2015, and wrote that Odeh was “remarkably inspiring!”
Rasmea Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08] with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
On May 16, 2014, Huerter posted on Facebook a mural of Yasser Arafat appearing on Israel’s security barrier and commented “#PalestinianResistance #inspired #solidarity”
Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: “We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
On January 10, 2017, Huerter promoted a May 2017 IFPB trip to Israel on Facebook. She wrote that the trip will “focus on Incarceration, Detention, and Political Prisoners.”
CODEPINK, an anti-Israel organization whose activists have met with Hamas, co-sponsored the trip. Huwaida Arraf, a co-founder of the pro-terror group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), served as a tour guide for the trip.
On June 15, 2016, Huerter wrote on Facebook that she participated in a joint AFSC—IFPB trip to Israel in May—June 2016 and was the contact person for media inquiries.
Huerter wrote that the delegation was “Focused Specifically on INCARCERATION, DETENTION, & POLITICAL PRISONERS.” She also listed herself as the contact person for future trips and wrote that her delegation met with the Addameer organization.
Addameer is an NGO that advocates on behalf of prisoners held in Israeli jail, including many terrorists such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) recruiters Mohammad Allan and Khader Adnan. Addameer’s senior leadership includes [pp. 29-35] senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists like Khalida Jarrar, whom Addameer also advocates for. In 2021, Israel officially designated Addameer as a terror organization.
On October 6, 2016, Huerter posted another photo from the 2016 trip, and wrote a comment characterizing Israel’s security barrier as an “Apartheid wall.”
On March 18, 2015, Huerter posted an Instagram photo and wrote: “My amazing AFSC colleagues & myself in front of the #Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem.”
On May 16, 2015, Huerter wrote on Instagram that she attended a 2014 “Nakba” rally in Jerusalem.
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
SJP is the leading student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses. The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
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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