Lia Tarachansky
Overview
Lia Tarachansky has expressed support for a terrorist, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.In 2021 and 2020, Tarachansky was listed by the Toronto-based anti-Israel group Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) as one of its members. She moderated several IJV online events during the same period.
As of September 2022, Tarachansky served as the Education Director of the Morris Winchevsky School, where she has used her position to demonize Israel.
In 2019, Tarachansky was affiliated with Students Against Apartheid Israel (SAIA) at York University (YU). In 2017, she was affiliated with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at Queen’s University. SAIA and SPHR are alternative names for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of September 2022, Tarachansky’s LinkedIn said she was an “Augmented Reality Researcher” at York University (YU), since 2020. Her LinkedIn page said she was pursuing a Ph.D. in Cinema & Media Studies at YU, “researching the decolonial uses of Augmented Reality in Israel/Palestine and other colonial contexts.”
Tarachansky’s LinkedIn page also said she was a Documentary Filmmaker at Naretiv Productions, since 2009.
In 2013, Tarachansky was the creator and director of the anti-Israel Naretiv film On the Side of the Road, which was about “Israelis’ collective amnesia of the fateful events of 1948 when the state of Israel was born and most of the Palestinians became refugees.”
Supporting a Terrorist
On March 7, 2021, Tarachansky posted to Facebook a video she made that promoted Khalid Jarrar, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group. Tarachansky wrote in her post: “The imprisonment of Khalida Jarrar this week is just one more example of the criminality of holding an entire population hostage.”The U.S. State Department has listed the PFLP as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) since 1997, given its history of attacks against civilians, airplane hijackings and suicide bombings.
On March 4, 2021, Tarachansky posted on Facebook in opposition to Jarrar’s arrest, writing: “This is a disgrace. Every aspect of this is a disgrace. I have no other words for it.”
Tarachansky’s post included a video of an interview she conducted with Jarrar in 2011, where Jarrar said that [00:00:43] Palestinians should “continue refusing the occupation by a mass resistance against the occupation, because the Palestinians should continue their popular resistance.”
Demonizing Israel
Tarachansky retweeted a May 10, 2021 tweet that claimed: “Israeli police are raiding #AlAqsaMosque once again…”On February 17, 2021, Tarachansky said [00:10:07] in a Youtube video: “Israel is … a flagrant settler-colonial state that is engaged in … apartheid in an attempt to expel and exclude and gerrymander various ways in order to minimize the non-Jewish population of the country. And COVID is just another one of those examples.”
In the same video, Tarachansky also accused [00:10:50] Israel of withholding the COVID vaccine from Palestinians for “cynical, political reasons.”
On December 7, 2020, Tarachansky said [00:30:21] in a Youtube video: “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine has started in the beginning of the 20th Century, it’s still going on. Nothing in that regard has changed.”
Tarachansky also said [00:31:58] there was an “apartheid system” in Israel and then said [00:32:08] that “you have a constant destruction of any opportunity for Palestinians to recreate the peace movements of the first intifada.”
On May 1, 2020, Tarachansky claimed [00:33:55] that “periodically, Israel bombs the Gaza Strip and carpet bombs the Gaza Strip, and carpet bombs entire neighborhoods.”
Israel commenced Operations Cast Lead (OCL), Pillar of Defense (OPD) and Protective Edge (OPE) in 2008-09, 2012 and 2014, respectively, in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians.
On November 24, 2019, Tarachansky posted on Facebook that as the Education Director of the Morris Winchevsky School, she directs teachers to use the Zochrot curriculum “to teach the Nakba” to their “secular Jewish students.” Zochrot is an Israeli NGO that promotes the idea “that peace will come only after the country has been decolonized.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
On January 26, 2019, Tarachansky wrote a Facebook post accusing Israel of “indiscriminate bombardment” during Operation Protective Edge (OPE).
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
During OPE, Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.
On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
On September 7, 2016, Tarachansky tweeted her support for the “Right of Return.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
On June 5, 2015, Tarachansky said in an interview that “the so-called Security Wall, or Segregation Wall has not helped in preventing suicide attacks, as the Israeli government claims, because if anyone can just sneak in, so can terrorists. This goes to prove that the Wall is indeed used to cement Israel’s land grab…”
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Since construction of the barrier began, Israel saw a significant decrease in suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian terrorists.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lia.tarachanskyTwitter: https://twitter.com/liatarachansky
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/liatarachansky/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lia_tarachansky/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FreewebsLeichik/videos
Website: http://www.liatarachansky.com/
Website 2: https://liatarachansky.wixsite.com/lia-tarachansky/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/76834835@N08/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user3370405
Soundcloud 2: https://soundcloud.com/liatarachansky-com
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Facebook Video Khalida Jarrar Mar 7 2021Facebook Video Khalida Jarrar Interview Mar 4 2021
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