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Nader Ihmoud
Nader Ihmoud has called for Israel’s destruction, spread antisemitism, shown support for terrorists and promoted incitement. He has also expressed hatred of Israelis, Israel supporters and Zionists and demonized Israel and Zionism.
Ihmoud is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of November 2024, Ihmoud’s LinkedIn profile said he served as a media intern for the anti-Israel organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) in 2014. He also promoted the Student for Justice in Palestine (SJP) 2016 Midwest Conference on Twitter.
In 2021, Ihmoud expressed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”
As of November 2024, Ihmoud’s LinkedIn said he was the founder of the online and quarterly print magazine Palestine in America (PiA) since August 2014. Ihmoud’s Facebook said he was PiA’s president and editor-in-chief.
Also as of November 2024, Ihmoud’s Facebook said he was a “Licensed Insurance agent in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Arizona” specializing “in Commercial, Auto, Home and Life products and have access to over 200 providers.” According to an August 2022 tweet, Ihmoud was also a licensed insurance agent in Florida and Wisconsin.
As of June 2024, Ihmoud was a member [00:00:03] of the Palestinian National baseball team.
As of November 2024, Ihmoud’s LinkedIn said he had been a “Play by play” freelance announcer at the sports betting platform Outlier since April 2021.
As of the same date, Ihmoud’s LinkedIn said had been an adjunct professor at Computer Systems Institute since April 2016.
Ihmoud’s LinkedIn said he graduated from Columbia College Chicago (Columbia College) with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism in 2014.
As of November 2024, Ihmoud’s LinkedIn said he was located in the Greater Chicago Area, Illinois.
On May 11, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Pray for Israel to spontaneously combust*.”
On May 10, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Israel doesn’t have any rights to exist. Hard Stop.”
On May 4, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Israel is full of psychopaths. If you think that colony needs to exist, you are also a psychopath. From the river to the sea, back to the river again just to make sure every piece of land has been returned. #FREEPALESTINE - 2021.”
“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 January 28, 2020, Ihmoud tweeted: “Go ahead and advertise your apartheid plan all you want, Palestinians will continue to resist until freedom and 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 May 22, 2024, Ihmoud posted on X: “How defiant was the nazi regime during their final breaths? As defiant as these 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 January 28, 2015, Ihmoud tweeted: “SJP Chicago is hosting a fundraiser for Rasmea Odeh on Feb. 3rd make sure you purchase tickets and attend!…”
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.
On May 22, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “...Happy birthday to the queen” with a photo of Rasmea Odeh.
On September 6, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Really life prison break went down in Palestine today. God bless and protect those political prisoners who were able to escape through a tunnel.”
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.
On August 6, 2022, Ihmoud tweeted: “Free Ahmad Mansara / Free all Palestinian prisoners / Free Palestine from the river to the sea / God bless the Palestinians who are on the front lines.”
Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015, during the Knife Intifada. The pair critically wounded a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. Manasra later admitted to investigators: “I went there to stab Jews,” and was convicted on two counts of attempted murder.
On May 9, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “To defend themselves from a racist evil army that occupies their land, ya dumb f**k.”
Ihmoud tweet was in response to a May 8, 2021 tweet that showed rocks stockpiled in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa compound and said: “Why are they stashing rocks at a #AlAqsaMosque and what are they planning to do with them?”
During OGW in May 2021, Palestinian worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa compound stockpiled stone slabs, fireworks and rocks, which they have historically used to attack Israeli security officers and non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount.
On May 7-10, 2021, violent clashes broke out between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa compound, following claims that Al-Aqsa Mosque was in danger. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy Al-Aqsa has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.
On November 2, 2024, Ihmoud posted on X: “Zionists, white supremacist and or Nazis (whatever you call them) shouldn’t be welcomed anywhere.”
On August 24, 2022, after his Canary Mission profile was released, Ihmoud tweeted: “I will continue to brag about hating zionists and all other racists and my jobs will continue to welcome me with open arms. From the river to the sea, B**CH.”
On April 21, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted, referring to Deni Avdija, an Israeli NBA player on the Washington Wizards basketball team, who reportedly sustained a hairline fracture injury: “That Zionist on the wizards is the first and only sports injury that is deserved and was prayed upon...”
On May 29, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted to his followers about a professor at his alma mater Columbia College of Chicago who blocked him on Twitter: “... You’re b**ch a** Zionist…”
On April 23, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “You know what the stupidest term is ‘liberal zionist’ Y’all ever heard of a liberal KKK [Klu Klux Klan] member?...”
On March 24, 2019, Ihmoud tweeted: “Zionists are the ugliest liars. They live for smear campaigns.”
On August 6, 2022, Ihmoud tweeted: “F**k everyone who has enabled Israel’s b**ch a**. F**k everyone that normalizes it’s existence.”
On May 22, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “100% I would hate Israelis if they were Muslim Buddhist Christian atheist...”
On May 9, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “You lose me anytime I see, ‘I’m an Israeli Jew…’ you’re not doing enough. You’re still a colonizer....”
On April 23, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Hundreds of Israelis. Hard stop. Stop adding ‘extremist’ or ‘far right’ There isn’t an Israeli on this planet that isn’t an extremist or far right human.”
On July 13, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “Have y’all contacted your elected officials about Palestine today? Ethnic cleansing is ongoing using US tax dollar.”
On June 25, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “It can’t be an Israeli fossil if Israel was created (through ethnic cleansing and genocide) less than 75 years ago."
On May 13, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted: “ Zionism/y’all have been monsters dating back to AT LEAST 1948 (The Nakba).”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On April 2, 2019, Ihmoud tweeted: “...Zionism is racism no matter how you try to twist your own words.”
On January 8, 2019, Ihmoud tweeted: “Good for you, but supporting Israel even 1% means you support apartheid and murder
.”
On August 27, 2017, Ihmoud tweeted: “White supremacy and Zionism go hand in hand…”
On April 15, 2019, Ihmoud shared an open letter to his Twitter and commented: “Open Letter From SJP West and PYM [Palestinian Youth Movement] to the UC [University of California] Presidential Task Force…” The letter demonized Israel, promoted BDS and explicitly advocated for the Palestinian “right of return.”
On September 4, 2018, Ihmoud tweeted: “Is AMP going to bring the same speakers to its conference every year? I feel like it’s the same line up since I was an intern 
.”
On March 4, 2016, Ihmoud tweeted: “Help send SJP Midwest members to Indianapolis - Fundraising Video…”
On November 27, 2014, Ihmoud tweeted: “...I need that shape up before the
@AMPConference can't look like a bum at work :/.”
On June 26, 2021, Ihmoud tweeted about Chicago Sky basketball star Candace Parker: “Now all she needs to do is drop her deal with @Sabra and endorse #BDS.”
Sabra Hummus is partially owned by an Israeli company, the Strauss Group.
On May 14, 2019, Ihmoud tweeted an article by anti-Israel activist Steven Salaita, titled “BDS is a Picket Line - And crossing it makes you a scab.”
On November 21, 2017, Ihmoud tweeted: “‘Why I, A Palestinian, Want Young Jews to Boycott Birthright…” with a link to an article bearing the same title by BDS activist Sandra Tamari.
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
On January 23, 2015, Ihmoud tweeted: “San Diego State University, its time to Divest @sdsu_sjp #SDSUDivest #BDS…”
In December 2021, Ihmoud expressed solidarity with Mashayekh who was [00:11:08] embroiled in a national controversy over antisemitism she spread on social media that year.
In October 2021, Mashayekh was listed as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering (Viterbi). In May 2021, she tweeted: “I want to f**king kill every motherf**king Zionist.” She also tweeted: “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews]
.”
Mashayekh has also spread violent hatred of Israeli Jews, called for the destruction of Israel and America, expressed support for Hamas and glorified terrorists.
Mashayekh was condemned after Canary Mission exposed her antisemitic tweets.
On December 2, 2021, Ihmoud conducted a podcast interview on his PiA Youtube channel with Mashayekh, providing her with a platform to defend her antisemitism.
In the interview, Ihmoud spoke approvingly of the ambush and murder of a Western Wall tour guide and former IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldier, Eliyahu David Kay. A Hamas gunman shot Kay and others on November 21, 2021 at point-blank range, as they were walking not far from the Western Wall, dressed in prayer shawls and phylacteries.
Ihmoud said [00:12:08]: “...He was an IDF soldier, and he was on stolen land, then that makes you a target… Palestinians have a right to resist in any way that they see fit, whether it’s violence or peaceful [resistance]...”
Ihmoud retweeted a Dec 15, 2021 tweet by Mashayekh that said: “Anything I said was NOT hateful or antisemitic. The language I use is language of resistance. Deal with it.”
Ihmoud retweeted a Dec 15, 2021 tweet that said: “...Resisting colonialism is not antisemitic, and this university [USC] should be remembered for its cowardice.”
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.
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 Student 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.
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian as a vehicle to generate mainstream support in the United States for the Palestinian national cause.
On its website, the organization lists Bazian as the chairman of its national board and describes itself as “a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused AMP of promoting “extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans” about Palestinians. The ADL further stated that AMP is directly involved in campus-based anti-Israel activity through Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Prior to founding the AMP in 2006, Dr. Bazian created SJP together with fellow UC Berkeley Professor Snehal Shingavi in 2001. The close working relationship between AMP and SJP has been documented several times over the years by several organizations, including NGO Monitor and StandWithUs.
In addition to providing financial, public relations and legal assistance to SJP, AMP has also been accused of having connections to Hamas. The AMP national board includes former members of both the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation (HLF), both of which were found liable for aiding and abetting Hamas. The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas.
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