Mohammad Jehad Ahmad
Overview
Mohammad Jehad Ahmad is a New York City high school teacher who expressed support for Hamas after it committed a series of terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023.Ahmad has also spread anti-Semitism and promoted hatred of Zionists and Israel. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Ahmad was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) from 2010 to 2015.
As of October 2023, Ahmad’s LinkedIn profile said he had been working as a teacher at Gotham Tech High School in Queens, New York, since July 2023.
In February 2023, Ahmad tweeted that he would be “starting the Urban Education doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center in the fall.”
Support for Hamas Terrorism
In October 2023, days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, some by paragliding into the country, Ahmad updated his Facebook cover photo to an image of a paraglider with the flag of Palestine attached to the parachute and text that read: “I STAND WITH PALESTINE.”Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ social media for families to see.
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority being civilians, had reportedly been murdered during the attacks three weeks earlier. Details are below. Hamas kidnapped an estimated 230 Israelis, including 30 children. Over 3,000 were wounded, many severely. As of the same date, over 8,000 missiles had been fired from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack.
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.
The 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. They also 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 to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 260 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.
Forensic analysis of dead bodies showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off victims’ legs and raping corpses. 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 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.
In addition, Hamas called the 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.
The tweet Ahmad retweeted was in response to another tweet that said: “Yall be condemning Palestinian freedom fighters because they are trying to free their country by force. How do you want them to free Palestine 𓂆?...”
On October 21, 2023, Ahmad tweeted in reference to the Hamas attack: “...I stand by everything I said…”
On October 15, 2023, Ahmad tweeted a screenshot of a conversation between him and a FoxNews reporter in which he claimed that international law gave “the oppressed people of Palestine have a right to armed resistance against their oppressor.”
Ahamad, in his conversation with the reporter, also referred to the Hamas atrocities as a “successful military campaign.”
On October 12, 2023, Ahmad tweeted a screenshot of his own post where he wrote that he was experiencing “feelings of pride at a successful military campaign against a genocidal oppressor on stolen land.”
Anti-Semitism
On December 8, 2022, Ahmad tweeted: “It’s not enough to support Palestine and Palestinians. You must be anti-so-called ‘Israel’. As we are anti-racist, anti-Nazi… we must be anti-‘Israel’...”Hatred of Zionists
Ahmad retweeted an October 22, 2023 tweet that said: “...F**k Israel and every Zionist occupier.”On October 21, 2023, Ahmad tweeted: “I have no room for Zionists. I make no space for genocidal white supremacists...”
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.
On October 15, 2023, Ahmad tweeted: “...Zionism is a white-Jewish-supremacist ideology. Zionism is terrorism… all Zionists are racists…”
Also on October 15, 2023, Ahmad tweeted: “Zionism ≠ Judaism...Zionism is racism. Zionism is terrorism. We have a moral obligation to resist Zionism.”
Hatred of Israel
On October 21, 2023, Ahmad tweeted: “...So-called ‘Israel’ is a terrorist state اللهم نجعلك في نحورهم و نعوذ بك من شرورهم. [Oh God… We seek refuge in You from their evils].”On the same thread, Ahmad tweeted: “...From the river to the sea, from one of the globe to the other, free Palestine…”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.
On October 15, 2023, Ahmad tweeted: “...So-called ‘Israel’ is a settler colony that was invented and only continues to exist through terrorism, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and ongoing incremental genocide. To support ‘Israel’ is to support white supremacist terror.”
In November 2022, Ahmad posted on LinkedIn promoting the idea of “Nakba” and referring to Israel as a “catastrophe.”
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.
SJP
SJP is a 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. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
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
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