Michael Valentine
Overview
Michael Valentine spread anti-Semitism and banned Zionists from entering his business in March 2024. He also glorified Hamas on October 7, 2023.As of March 2024, Valentine was the owner [00:00:03] of Weathered Waves, a Six Sailor Cider Bar, which is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. That same month, he banned Zionists from entering his establishment.
Valentine’s actions occurred in the wake of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.
The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
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 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Spreading Anti-Semitism and Banning Zionists from His Bar
On March 3, 2024, two days after Valentine’s bar opened, the bar’s Instagram account posted an image that read: “NO ZIONISTS ALLOWED. WE ARE A BUSINESS, BUT WE ARE ALSO HUMAN. WE DON’T MAKE AND SELL CIDER FOR ROBOTS.”Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
The image also read: “WE ARE HORRIFIED BY THE ONGOING GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND ARE EVEN MORE HORRIFIED TO SEE SO MANY AMERICANS IGNORE AND RATIONALIZE ETHNIC CLEANSING. THAT IS WHY WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE WE ARE BANNING ALL ZIONISTS FOREVER FROM OUR ESTABLISHMENTS.”
The image also read: “ZIONISM IS HATE SPEECH, IT IS WHITE SUPREMACY…”
Weathered Waves bar’s Instagram post wrote: “...No Nazis / No Racists / No Zionists.”
The image also read: “ZIONISM IS HATE SPEECH, IT IS WHITE SUPREMACY…”
Weathered Waves bar’s Instagram post wrote: “...No Nazis / No Racists / No Zionists.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.
On March 4, 2024, Valentine posted on Facebook regarding his decision to ban Zionists from his establishment. He claimed he banned them “the exact same way we ban neo-nazis and white supremacists…”
On March 5, 2024, Valentine wrote on Facebook: “Zionists love to pretend that being a racist, genocidal zionist is the same thing as being Jewish. They love to hide behind their religion, their identity and use it to attack others while protecting themselves from any and all criticism. They are narcissistic bullies.”
Valentine’s post continued: “Zionism is not the norm…It is white supremacy. It is eugenics, colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia, genocidal inhumanity, and hate…”
On March 5, 2024, Valentine wrote on Facebook: “Zionists love to pretend that being a racist, genocidal zionist is the same thing as being Jewish. They love to hide behind their religion, their identity and use it to attack others while protecting themselves from any and all criticism. They are narcissistic bullies.”
Valentine’s post continued: “Zionism is not the norm…It is white supremacy. It is eugenics, colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia, genocidal inhumanity, and hate…”
Valentine’s post concluded: “F**k nazis, f**k zionists, f**k white supremacy, f**k imperialism. We forever stand against hate.”
Also on March 5, 2024, Valentine posted a photo on Facebook that read: “IF YOU ARE PRO
TODAY YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN PRO 
IN THE 1930S,” a reference to Nazi Germany.In the same post, Valentine wrote about Israel’s war against Hamas: “No excuse for excusing genocide
.”Also on March 5, 2024, Valentine shared on Facebook a screenshot of tweet that read: “Zionism is not Judaism. / Zionism is Nazism.”
The screenshot featured a photo of graffiti on the wall of an S-Bahn station in Dortmund, Germany, that said: “THE IRONY OF BECOMING WHAT YOU ONCE HATED,” with a large blue and white Star of David merged with a Nazi swastika painted in the middle of the graffiti text.
In the post, Valentine wrote: “All the love to the anti-zionists Jews fighting against zionism…
We love you so much 
”Glorifying Hamas Terrorists on October 7, 2023
On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, Valentine wrote on Instagram: “FREE PALESTINE TODAY AND EVERYDAY.”Valentine’s post continued: “There are no two sides in apartheid and genocide. I forever support and stand with brave Palestinians who are fighting back against the forced segregation, take over of their homelands, and systematic annihilation of their people…”
Valentine’s post included [slide 1] a photo of a man waving a Palestinian flag.
Hamas Atrocities of October 7, 2023
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape.
Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Biographical Information
Valentine is a supporter [photo 4] of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.As of March 2024, Valentine’s LinkedIn profile said he founded Six Sailor Cider in May 2017. His LinkedIn page said: “I'm the owner and operator of a local Utah cidery.”
As of the same date, Valentine’s website said he was an “activist, community organizer…real estate agent…film director…”
In February 2024, Valentine wrote on Facebook that he would “run again for county mayor” in 2024 and for city mayor in the 2027 election in Salt Lake City, Utah, after he lost in 2023.
As of November 2023, Valentine was reportedly a student at the University of Utah (Utah), “studying Film & Media Arts.”
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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.
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Infamous Quotes
“Zionists love to pretend that being a racist, genocidal zionist is the same thing as being Jewish…They are narcissistic bullies…Zionism is not the norm…It is white supremacy. It is eugenics, colonialism, apartheid, xenophobia, genocidal inhumanity, and hate…F**k nazis, f**k zionists, f**k white supremacy, f**k imperialism. We forever stand against hate.”
