Khaled Hroub

On March 25, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook, in Arabic: “Dear friends, let us participate in the campaign to defend the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem by all possible means. The settlers, with official support from the colonial state, want to expel dozens of Palestinian families and seize their homes within as partof the broader plan to Judaize Jerusalem and strip it of everything Arab.”

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. 

On May 9, 2021, Hroub published an article to the Palestine Forum titled: “درس القدس: الشعب هو القوة التي تقلب المعادلات [The People are the Force that Overturn Inequality].”

In the article, Hroub praised, in Arabic, the then-ongoing riots in Jerusalem surrounding Sheikh Jarrah and added “The Jerusalem intifada must expand and move towards all the cancerous settlements that have devoured the Palestinian land.”

Hroub also expressed support for the ongoing violent rioting, referring to it as “popular resistance, stating: “[a]ny Palestinian political strategy… must be systematically based on agitating for, embracing, and supporting the popular resistance, and a constant search for how to maintain its flame.”

On May 11, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook: “ربط القدس بغزة وبكل فلسطين هو الطريق الأمثل لتوحيد البوصلة على رافعة المقاومة المشرفة [Connecting Jerusalem to Gaza and all of Palestine is the best way to calibrate the compass on the lever of the honorable resistance].”

That same day, violent Arab riots broke out in Lod, an Israeli city with a large Arab population. The rioters in Lod reportedly raised Hamas flags and attacked Israeli civilians with slabs and rocks, as well as firebombs and metal rods. Rioters also torched synagogues, cars and businesses, and vandalized hospital medical equipment, schools and government buildings.

On May 14, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook: “في ذكرى النكبة: تتوحد فلسطين على رافعة المقاومة [On the anniversary of the Nakba: Palestine unites on the level of resistance].”

Hroub also linked to a Palestine Forum Editorial Team statement, in Arabic, which glorified violent riots taking place at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Sheikh Jarrah and in cities across Israel.

Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.

The statement called for “steadfastness and valiant resistance by all means and commitment to the promise of liberation and return” adding that “confronting the Zionist project and not yielding to it is the destiny of the Palestinians, and that resistance to this project is continuous and will continue by all means.”

On May 15, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook an article he published on the Palestine Forum titled : “هبة القدس وسيفها تحطم "جدار الحديد"، والاستقرار الوهمي، والأسرلة، والتطبيع خالد الحروب [‘The Jerusalem uprisingand its sword is destroying the “Iron Wall,” the illusion of stability, the Israelization [of Israeli Arabs], and normalization]’”

In his article, Hroub celebrated the violence in Jerusalem, writing: “Palestine has united as it has never been in recent decades, and on the level of resistance and the radical rejection of the racist settler colonial project.”

On May 18, 2020, Hroub posted in Arabic to Facebook titled: “The struggle against colonialism is not a joke, but the making of history.”

Hroub called for long-term commitment to “resistance,” writing: “Our war with Zionism and its colonization is long, prolonged, expensive and not easy, because this criminal project enjoys the support of the criminal West” and requires the “sacrifices of the martyrs, the wounded and the prisoners.”

Glorifying Terrorism

On May 13, 2021, Hroub posted a poem in Arabic to Facebook glorifying Gazan terrorists’ use of arson balloons.

In August 2020, Israel launched retaliatory strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, after Hamas terrorists launched firebombs and arson balloons into southern Israel, starting thousands of fires.

On May 3, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook a poem he wrote glorifying terrorist Fahima Al-Hroub, where he wrote: وداعا يا ابنة خالتي ... نزفك الى السماء بالدمع والاصرار.والاصرار. [Farewell my cousin... we bleed you to the sky with tears and determination].”

On May 2, 2021, terrorist Fahima Al-Hroub attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction, before she was shot dead.

On April 5, 2021, Hroub posted to Facebook: “نخجل من دمعك الساخن يا امنا نخجل من صمود ابنك النخيل … البطل الأسير الفلسطيني رشدي ابو مخ يتحرر من السجان المجرم بعد ٣٥ سنة من الشموخ تحتضنه مريم فلسطين بعد سنوات الغياب …[We are ashamed of your hot tears - oh our nation! We are embarrassed by the steadfast perseverance of your glorious son. The hero prisoner Rushdi Abu Mukh is being released from the criminal jail after 35 years of lofty standing. Mary of Palestine [His mother] embraces him after years of absence].”

Hroub added a video of Abu Mukh embracing his mother, following Abu Mukh’s release from prison.

In 1986, Rushdi Abu Mukh was sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering Moshe Tamam, an Israeli soldier.  

On July 24, 2020, Hroub shared to his Facebook page a poster calling for “Freedom for Nael Barghoti The Longest Serving Political Prisoner in the World 40 Years of Imprisonment.”

Nael Barghouti is serving a life sentence for kidnapping and killing an Israeli soldier, and stabbing a bus driver to death. Barghouti was a member of Fatah, but joined Hamas while in jail.

On November 20, 2019, Hroub posted to his Facebook page a photo of Sami Abu Diak, with a caption of a letter Diak wrote in jail, and the hashtag “#سامي_أبو_دياك [#Sami_Abu_Diak].”

Sami Abu Diyak was reportedly convicted for the 2002 murder of three Israelis during the second intifada. 

On November 23, 2018, Hroub posted  to Facebook a photo of himself posing with Yasser Arafat.

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 October 16, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook photos of himself at an event glorifying Ghassan Kanafani. Hroub was a panelist at the event.

On July 7, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook a photo and post glorifying Palestinian Christian terrorist John Wiliam Qaqish, who was sentenced for carrying out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. Hroub added: “هذه فلسطيننا النقية بمسيحييها ومسلميها [that's Palestine, both its Muslims and Christians:)].”

In May 2015, John Wiliam Qaqish stabbed two Israeli teenagers in Jerusalem and was later sentenced to nine years in prison.

On February 6, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook, in Arabic: “Do not betray the glory of the martyr Ahmed Jarrar, Do not betray his ferocity ...by publishing his picture covered with blood and dirt. This photo was disseminated by Israel… For the sake of the blood of the martyrs, let the image of the hero Ahmad covered with his blood be deleted, and let his wonderful photos spread over every part of Palestine…”

Ahmad Jarrar, the son of a senior Hamas commander Nasser Jarrar, was reportedly the head operative behind the drive-by shooting murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, in January 2018. 

On February 4, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook: “لتحفظك حدقات عيون الغزالة [To preserve the eyes of the Gazelle]” and added a photo of Jarrar with captions glorifying him as“majestic” and a “martyr.”
 
On January 18, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook a photo of Jarrar, with the caption: “The martyr of Jenin is Ahmad Isma'il Jarrar. Glory to the Resistance.”

Whitewashing Hamas

In a January 25, 2019 article Hroub for Foreign Policy, Hroub trivialized Hamas’s network of terror tunnels, referring to themas “Hamas’s niggling tunnels.” 

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

In the same article, Hroub also characterized Hamas rocket attacks as “occasional rockets hitting Israeli cities.”

In November 2018, terrorists launched hundreds of rockets and mortars, firing indiscriminately from Hamas-controlled Gaza at Jewish communities in Southern Israel and hitting civilian targets. 

Hamas also fired over 4,564 missiles and rocketsin July 2014.
 
On October 2, 2014, The Conversation’s Australian edition published an article titled: “Why the Hamas charter isn’t a key obstacle to peace with Israel,” that quoted Hroub saying that Hamas’s founding charter “should be viewed as a historical rather than a policy document.”


On February 28, 2010, Hroub was [00:48:16] a panelist at a conference organized by the University of London’s School of African Studies (SOAS) Palestine Society, titled: “The Left in Palestine/The Palestinian Left.” 
 
Other panelists at the conference included PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled, Jamal Juma, coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign and anti-Israel historian, Ilan Pappé.
 

Khaled is a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau.

Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.

The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister. 

During Hroub’s presentation, titled: “The Decline of Secular Nationalist and the Rise of Political Islam,” Hroub said [1:23:00] “ And in maintaining at least this stream of resistance within the wider Palestinian national movement I think Hamas is doing good for the Palestinians.”
 
On December 19, 2006, Hroub reportedly characterized Hamas suicide bombings against civilian targets during the second Intifada as “military operations,” while testifying in defense of Palestinian-American Mohammad Salah. Salah was then on trial for federal racketeering charges alleging he served as a U.S.-based military leader of Hamas.

The second intifada (2000-2005) was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.

In 2007, Salah was acquitted of terrorism charges, but was convicted and jailed for obstruction of justice and lying to the court in a civil law suit about his involvement with Hamas.

Spreading Hatred of America

On October 28, 2020, Hroub posted to Facebook, in Arabic: “Palestine, Palestinians and Arabs face neither an ordinary enemy, nor traditional colonialism - Israel. Rather, they have faced and are still facing superpowers that are the organic extension and supporter of the Zionist project since its inception. America today is the most important, strongest, fiercest and unabashed breeding ground of this project and of Arab tyranny, the natural ally of Zionism.”

On May 15, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook: “السفلة في سفارة العنصرية الامريكية في القدس داعشيون متعصبون بربطات عنق ليس إلا. [The bastards at the American racist embassy in Jerusalem are ISIS fanatics [the only difference is that] they wear ties].”

The Islamic State, or ISIS, is a radical Muslim terrorist group.

On March 29, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook equating the United States and Israel with ISIS, writing in Arabic: “The difference between American ISIS and Al-Baghdadi's ISIS is that the former is more intelligent and has a bright appearance and its leaders wear shiny suits, ties, and clean beards. The American ISIS and its allies, like Israel today with its silent massacre of Gaza, adopt slow killing and quiet suffocation without noise as a basic strategy and without the explosion of blood on the screens.”

Promoting Violent Rioters

On March 30, 2018, Hroub posted in support of the “March of Return” on Facebook.

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The violent demonstrations were instigated by Hamas on the Israeli-Gaza border. Participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”

March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Rioters also made numerous attempts to breach Israel’s border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respon d with live fire.

Agitators also threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.

On April 8, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook an excerpt of an article he published in Al Hayat to Facebook, titled: “«الكاوتشوك الفلسطيني» ... وضوح الرؤية وسط الدخان [Palestinian rubber... clarity of vision in the midst of smoke].

Hroub wrote, in Arabic: “ ... Gaza, its people, and its uprising have written an astonishing chapter of resistance in front of the tyrannic might of the brutal enemy’s military machine].”

On May 18, 2018, Hroub posted to Facebook: “تصريح البردويل ان صح وفيه ان 50 من الشهداء هم من حماس تصريح نذل ومدمر وأفاد العدو لا غير [Al-Bardawil's statement, if true, that 50 of the martyrs are from Hamas, is a despicable and destructive statement that only benefits the enemy].”
 
Salah al-Bardawil, a Hamas senior official, stated on May 16, 2018, that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gazaet 6 border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed three killed at the same protest.

Demonizing Israel

Hroub was a May 2021 signatory on a NU-Q Faculty members “Statement on Palestine” that accused Israel of “perpetrating apartheid and persecution” and declared: “we commit to not engaging in any activities that would support or legitimize crimes against the Palestinian people.”

On November 21, 2020, the Financial Times (FT) reported that Hroub resigned from the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), of which he had been a founding member. The winner of IPAF receives $50,000 and the six shortlisted authors receive $10,000 each, sponsored by the United Arab Emirate (UAE).

Hroub resigned from IPAF in protest of the UAE’s decision to normalize relations with Israel.

On August 13, 2020, the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed to a joint statement referred to as the “Abraham Accords” in which the UAE consented to formally normalize its relationship with Israel. 

Hroub reportedly stated that the peace deal between the UAE and Israel was a “shocking and sad trade-off.” Hroub reportedly added: “What would you learn culturally, educationally or artistically from a state that colonises and suppresses an entire people by force?”

On November 29, 2020, Hroub signed a letter of “122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals” published to the Guardian, titled: “Palestinian rights and the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism.” 
 
The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Twenty-eight European countries, as well as Canada, Australia, Israel and Argentina, have also adopted the definition.

The letter claimed that Israel was “an oppressive and predatory state” and that “the self-determination of a Jewish population in Palestine/Israel has been implemented in the form of an ethnic exclusivist” state.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

In 2019, Hroub wrote an article in Qantra.de in which he alleged that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was an “excuse for Israel to carry on with its own agenda of occupation in Palestine.” Hroub also wrote: “Under cover of the peace process Israeli achievements accumulated: the territory of the future Palestinian state.”

On October 4, 2018, Hroub gave a lecture to students and professors at Birzeit University on “the impact of colonial powers on Palestinian statehood and the historic plan to delegitimize the Palestinian quest for independence.”

A university description of Hroubs’ talk said he “presented the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel and the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel “as two examples of international peace agreements where the intention was not to establish just and fair policies and apply them, but to ensure that Palestinians would never achieve statehood …”.

In a May 3, 2016 article Hroub published in World Politics Review, he wrote that the land, sea and air blockades imposed by Israel and Egypt “have led to one of the harshest regimes of collective punishment in modern times…”
 
Israel and Egypt implemented a United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.
On September 11, 2011, Hroub wrote an article for Open Democracy, titled: “Israel: the cost of arrogance.”
 
In his article, Hroub said: “There is a long list of Israeli political and military actions over the years that go beyond any conventional definition of ‘deterrence’ to reach the heights of presumption, conceit and arrogance.”

NU-Q Courses

As of July 15, 2021, Hroub taught a course in the Spring of 2021 titled “Advanced Topics in Political Theory: Islamism & Politics Mid East.”

The course description said: “This course focuses on the dynamics of politics and religion in the Middle East either by states or by non‐ state actors as from the turn of 20th century,” including “‘moderate’ parties such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the Tunisian El‐Nahda and the Turkish AKP, ‘resistance’ movements such as Hamas and Hizbuallah; and ‘Jihadist’ groups like Al‐Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS).”

As of Summer 2021, Hroub taught a course in the Fall of 2020 titled “Special Topics: Media & Politics in Arab World. [sic]”

The course description said: “A considerable space and discussion is also devoted to transnational broadcasting media pioneered by Al-Jazeera in 1996. A similar focus is given to the emergence of social media along with youth activism in relation with raising the ceiling of free speech and creating spaces for political debates and criticism in the region.”  

In Spring 2020, Hroub taught a course titled “Topics in Political Science: Palestine & Arab-Israeli Conflict.”

The course description said: “The course examines the various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict with specific focus on Palestine and the Palestinians. It starts with looking at the history of Zionism and the idea of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine; then moves to discuss the consequences of the implementation of this idea within colonial and postcolonial contexts.” 

During the 2018-2019 academic year, Hroub taught a course titled “Islamism & Politics in the Middle East.” 

The course description said: “The course surveys a wide spectrum of Islamism, from ‘moderate’ and nonviolent movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood organizations and the Justice and Development Party in Turkey to ‘radical’ and violent movements such as Al‐Qaeda and Hizbullah.”

Also during the summers of 2017 and 2018, Hroub taught a course, titled “Media & Politics in Arab World.” 

The course description said: “...A considerable space and discussion is also devoted to transnational broadcasting media that was pioneered by Al-Jazeera in 1996, followed by the rise of social media.” 

Qatar - Terrorism  

Founded in Egypt 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist organization, listed as a terrorist organization in at least six countries, including Egypt, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Hamas, a terrorist group dedicated to Israel’s destruction, is listed as one of the Brotherhood’s offshoots.
Hamas has been designated aterrorist organizationby the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.The Hamas founding charter has called for the murder of Jews, and Hamas has hosted “summer camps,” that taught children how to wage war.

Qatar Foundation

In 1995, the then-Emir of Qatar and his wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, created the Qatar Foundation (QF) to “advance education, science, and cultural development.” 

In 1995, QF was given two billion dollars in resources by the Qatari Government “to address knowledge and capacity deficits” and transform into a “knowledge-based economy.”

Qatar Foundation - Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood  

NU-Q - Qatar Foundation  

Qatar Foundation - Anti-Israel Campaign  

In 2009, the Qatar Foundation hired the U.S. public relations firm, Fenton Communications, to develop “a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign,” using Al Fakhoora, a Qatari-based pro-Palestine initiative.

Qatar Foundation -EC Mosque Hosting Anti-Semitic Preachers  

In April 2015, QF opened the Education City (EC) Mosque, located in Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) campus, adjacent to NU-Q.

Since the opening of the mosque, QF’s newspaper has encouraged readers to “join the QF community for prayer” at the EC Mosque, which has hosted 18 preachers and clerics who have variously spread anti-Semitism, expressed support for terror, spread [00:00:20] a conspiracy theory that radicalized Muslims played no part in 9/11 or the Charlie Hebdo attacks and declared that the Jews use pornographic movies to “destroy the world and control it.” 

One preacher, Salman al-Audah, claimed [00:02:48] in a sermon broadcast on a major Gulf media channel in August 2012, that Jews use “human blood” for Passover matzah. 

A cleric, Tareq al-Hawas, stated [00:04:11] about Jews "If only Hitler had finished them off, thus relieving humanity of them." Hawas was reportedly a member of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in 2013.
 
Another cleric, Mohammed al-Arifi, proclaimed in 2012, that “one’s devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah and one’s will to shed blood, smash skulls, and chop off body parts...constitute an honor.”

NU-Q - Al Jazeera  

NU-Q Joint Advisory Board  

Since NU-Q and Al Jazeera signed their initial MoU in 2013, NU-Q has a Joint Advisory Board (JAB), which consists of ten to eleven people; five or six positions filled by Qatari-connected members and five positions filled by Western members. 

All eleven of the current or previous Qatari-connected JAB members were directly affiliated with QF, Al Jazeera or the Qatari government.

There is little information available about the role of NU-Q’s JAB. The role of the Texas A&M University, Qatar (TAMUQ) JAB was exposed by the Washington Post in a 2016 article, to include general oversight and close monitoring and review of every aspect of TAMUQ, with QF paying the JAB TAMUQ expenses.

NU-Q - Hosting Annual Al Jazeera Speaker Series  

Since the signing of the MoU in 2013, NU-Q has hosted an annual Al Jazeera Speakers Series. Thirteen of the 17 speakers who participated in the series at NU-Q from 2013-2019 have whitewashed terrorism, demonized Israel or expressed supportfor the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

NU-Q - Anti-Israel Middle East Studies Minor  

In 2017, NU-Q launched a Middle East Studies minor in their Liberal Arts program. From 2017-2019, four of the seven members of the NU-Q’s Middle East Studies committee included anti-Israel NU-Q professors Justin Martin, Ibraham Abusharif, Khaled Hroub and Sami Hermez.

Khaled Hroub, a Professor at NU-Q who taught the 2018 and 2019 course “Islamism & Politics in the Middle East,” has reportedly whitewashed the terror group Hamas.

Sami Hermez, an NU-Q Professor who taught the 2018-2019 NU-Q courses “Anthropology of Palestine” and “Advanced Topics: Violence/Power/Resistance,” has promoted a terrorist and demonized Israel.

All of the required reading for Hermez’s “Anthropology of Palestine” course was authored by anti-Israel professors, eight of whom were activists in or supporters of the BDS movement. One of the authors, Edward Said, has advocated for the “right of return,” a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

NU-Q - Student Internships in International Media  

As of January 2020, third-year NU-Q Journalism and Strategic Communication students were required to intern for ten weeks at media or public relations firms, off-campus.

Social Media and Weblinks

Twitter:https://twitter.com/hroubco