Mohammed Nijim

Overview

Mohammed Nijim [Muhammed F. Nijim] has spread anti-Semitism and incitement, expressed support for Hamas and other terrorists, and engaged in anti-Israel activism.

Nijim reportedly was a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Carleton University (SJP Carleton) in 2022.

As of December 2023, Nijim’s LinkedIn said he was studying for a PhD in sociology at Carleton, due to graduate in 2025, and that he had graduated from the University of Manitoba (UM) with a master’s degree in sociology and criminology in 2020.

As of the same date, Nijim’s LinkedIn profile said he worked as a graduate teaching assistant since September 2021 and as a research assistant since December 2021 at Carleton in Ottawa, Ontario.

Also as of the same date, Nijim’s LinkedIn “About” section said: “...My broad research interests lie in genocide studies… My intended Ph.D. research will compare settler-colonial projects in historic Palestine and Canada.”

As of December 2023, Nijim’s LinkedIn said he was located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

As of the same date, Nijim went by the username “Muhammed F. Nijim” and the handle “M.F.Nijem” on Facebook; went by the username “Mohammed Nijim” and the handle “@MohammedNijim8” on Twitter; and went by the username “Muhammed Nijim” and the handle “@halabi_star” on Instagram.

Anti-Semitism

On July 5, 2020, Nijim submitted his thesis titled “Genocide in Gaza: Physical Destruction and Beyond” to the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UM.

In the thesis, Nijim wrote [p. 2] that “Criticisms of Israel are usually too costly because of the latter’s significant influence in political centers around the globe. Mearsheimer and Stephen (2006) demonstrate the role of Jewish lobby groups – especially the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – and its impact on US foreign policy.”


Nijim continued [p. 3] by citing anti-Israel professor Richard Falk, who “describes the siege in Gaza as a prelude to genocide that ‘should remind the world of the famous post-Nazi pledge of ‘never again’” and wrote that Falk warned “of a Palestinian holocaust in the making.”

The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. 

Nijim also wrote [p. 41-42]: “Genocides are oftentimes preceded by racial categorization through which colonists create racial patterns that later facilitate the extermination of a people. That was evident in Nazi Germany against Jews… Similarly, settler-colonialism in Palestine was the motivating driver behind the elimination of indigenous populations…”

Nijim went on to cite [p. 44] Abdel Wahab el-Messiri, an Egyptian sociologist, who said that “Zionism, to a great extent, resembles Nazism in most of its practices. Zionism, like Nazism which believed in the Volk or pure German state, believes in the supremacy of one race; the Jewish. Zionists have strong beliefs that they are the chosen people and that other races should work for their service…Zionism is rested on the destruction of Palestinians and the occupation of land, a norm that existed in Nazism…”

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.

Nijim also interpreted the response of a Gazan student in the U.S. he interviewed for the thesis, writing [p. 86]: “Ibrahim described what is happening in Gaza as a ‘sociological experiment,’ but he was not able to elaborate on that. I believe he means that Israel has transformed Gaza to a huge space of exception reminiscent of the Nazi extermination camps. It has become an experimental lab…”

Spreading Incitement

On May 16, 2021, Nijim wrote on Facebook accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Sheikh Jarrah and “Israeli settlers” of an “invasion” that “usually targets the al-Aqsa mosque.” He also claimed that “the [Israeli] police were attacking worshippers who were praying and trying to protect the mosque from any settler vandalism.”