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Meredith Aby-Keirstead
Meredith Aby-Keirstead was arrested twice for criminal trespass and has expressed support for anti-Israel terrorists.
Aby-Keirstead's anti-Israel activism took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Meredith Aby-Keirstead is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2025, Aby-Keirstead was listed as the lead spokeswoman for the anti-Israel group Minnesota Anti-War Committee (MAWC).
As of the same date, Aby-Keirstead was listed as a social studies teacher at Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Minnesota.
As of May 2025, Aby-Keirstead's LinkedIn profile said she graduated from Macalester College (Macalester) with a bachelor's degree in "History, Women and Gender Studies, Spanish" in 1995, and that she was located in the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota.
On November 2, 2023, CrimeWatchMpls posted on X: "...Meredith Aby-Keirstead, and her 14-year-old daughter were both arrested at the protest at Betty McCollum's office last week. / 'Minnesota teacher called for Israel’s eradication at socialist rally...'"
The post linked an article that reported that Aby-Keirstead and her daughter were "arrested for trespassing at an anti-Israel rally held at Rep. Betty McCollum’s (D., Minn.) office."
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Aby-Keirstead was "twice convicted of criminal trespass in 2002 and 2010."
On October 21, 2023, Aby-Keirstead reportedly spoke at the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) panel, where she praised the "wins of Palestinian freedom fighters" about Hamas. She also said: "When I hear people calling for a complete ceasefire [between Israel and Hamas], I think, 'No, that's not quite right'... Because we only want one side [Israel] to stop fighting."
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On October 14, 2023, Aby-Keirstead was featured in a TikTok video speaking at an anti-Israel protest in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In the video, Aby-Keirstead led protesters in chanting [00:03:58]: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!"
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On December 23, 2013, Aby-Keirstead wrote an article expressing support for Rasmea Odeh.
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.
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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