Nethaniel Wallace
Overview
Nathaniel Wallace has demonized Israel and supported anti-Israel agitators on social media. He was the president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Florida State University (FSU) in 2014, supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and is a member of the closed Facebook group “Tallahassee United for Justice in Palestine” since September 5, 2013.Wallace is also a member of the Facebook group “Americans Against Genocide In Gaza (AAGG)” since September 11, 2014.
As of February 8, 2018, Wallace’s LinkedIn listed him as an English Language Arts & Literature Teacher at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, since October 2015.
His LinkedIn also said he graduated from FSU in 2014 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature.
He was also listed as having attended the University of South Carolina-Columbia (SC) in Columbia, South Carolina from 2006-2008 and Presbyterian College (PC) in Clinton, S.C. from 2005-2006.
Demonizing Israel
On January 28, 2017, Wallace tweeted a graphic that depicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with the blood and bodies of Palestinians as bricks and mortar.On February 7, 2017, Wallace posted an interview by anti-Israel activist Miko Peled to Facebook, adding: “Congrats to Miko Peled on a job well done on Tavis Smiley's show. Miko Peled has an amazing story and perspective that are both badly in need of being heard.”
Peled went on [00:02:46] to dismiss the historicity of ancient Jewish Scripture, deny Jewish peoplehood and delegitimize [00:06:07] the idea of a Jewish homeland in Israel.
Abuznaid is a co-founder of Dream Defenders (DD) and the son of Dr. Nabil Abuznaid, a veteran diplomat for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and former advisor to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
That same day, Wallace hosted a free film screening and panel featuring Ahmad Abuznaid and Alison Weir.
Weir is the founder and executive director of the anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK) and president of the anti-Israel Council for the National Interest (CNI). IAK has been condemned for anti-Semitism by both the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the anti-Israel U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
The film’s Facebook event description noted that "On December 16, 2012, IAK placed an ad in the New York Times featuring four maps which show the Palestinians' progressive loss of land to Israel between 1946 and 2010."
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On April 14, 2014, Wallace co-hosted an event featuring Weir discussing IAK.
Supporting Anti-Israel Agitators
Wallace retweeted a December 18, 2017 tweet that said: “#BREAKING! Israeli soldiers broke into the Tamimi home in village of #NabiSaleh at 4am and took their 16 year old daughter, Ahed. Soldiers confiscated the family’s cameras and laptop. #FreeAhedTamimi #NoWayToTreatAChild.”On April 26, 2014, Wallace encouraged his Facebook friends to sign a petition defending New York University (NYU)’s SJP chapter after it slipped mock eviction notices that demonized Israel into student dorm rooms. The petition claimed that “Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Israel/Palestine of its Arab inhabitants in a systematic manner.”
Wallace defended SJP at NYU’s actions and claimed it was “the latest target in a string of SJP's facing absurd criticisms and repression.”
Wallace went on to allege criticism of its actions was “designed to fear people into silence regarding Israel's ethnocratic policies, their callously defiant repeated violations of international law, and most importantly their persistent violation of the basic human rights of Palestinian Arabs!”
Supporting BDS
Wallace has been a member of the Facebook group “Call for Cultural Boycott of Israel (BDS)” since January 18, 2014.On February 6, 2014, Wallace congratulated the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on Facebook for supporting Presbyterian Church USA’s divestment from Israeli companies, adding “#BDS.”
On February 2, 2014, Wallace posted “#BDS” to the Facebook group “FSU CPE.”
On the same day, Wallace posted to Facebook “#BDS now!!!”
On April 7, 2014, Wallace called to defeat anti-BDS resolution SR894 and defended what he labelled “the just #BDSMovement” in a Facebook post.
He also demonized Israel in the post, paraphrasing Ahmad Abuznaid’s claim that “the future for the Palestinian people is beginning to look more and more a mirror image of the genocidal tragedy that was the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans.”
Wallace attached to his post several posters that demonized Israel, calling to support the BDS movement.
One poster said: “stop Apartheid! stop Genocide!” Another declared: “Genocide, Racism & Apartheid: Yes (Israel) No (BDS).” A third read: “Israel is committing genocide and your tax dollars pay for it.”
On April 8, 2014, Wallace posted to Facebook: “We need to organize a mass rally/demonstration a day or two before, and/or the day SR 894 comes up on the floor of State Senate for a full vote!” He also tagged students and invited them to plan opposition during SJP’s general body meeting the following evening.
Florida Senate Resolution 894 expressed opposition to the academic boycott of Israeli universities. The resolution was passed into law on November 2, 2014.
FSU SJP Incitement to Terror
On October 27, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a “PALESTINIAN YOUTH INTERNATIONAL CALL TO SUPPORT THE INTIFADA.”The declaration called for an “international mobilization” of Palestinian youth in exile and their allies to “support the resistance,” and glorified the Knife Intifada terrorists as “heroic.”
FSU SJP Defending the Knife Intifada
On October 5, 2015 — at the beginning of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP shared an article to Facebook claiming a “Palestinian teen” was “executed” as a “death-chanting” mob rejoiced. The teen was Fadi Aloon.Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
On November 5, 2015 — following the first month of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “October. Was. Scary. For. Palestinians. How are things looking for November? How about 2016? ... Something's gotta give!! #BDS.”
On November 7, 2015, FSU SJP shared a photo to Facebook of Dania Irsheid after she was shot, commenting: “Lost for words…”
Dania Irsheid was shot by an Israeli police officer after she attempted to stab him.
On November 24, 2015, FSU SJP shared a video misrepresenting terrorists Hadeel and Nurhan Awad, as having been “executed” by Israel. The video was titled “execution of civilians - what Israeli settlers do best.”|
Hadeel Awad and her cousin Nurhan Awad were shot after they stabbed two people — including a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem — near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Hadeel was shot by police as she was slashing at other Israeli civilians with scissors.
On November 22, 2015, during Israel’s “Knife Intifada,” Ashraqat Taha Qatanani was run over and shot during her attempt to stab an Israeli woman. According to the Donia Al-Watan Palestinian newspaper, Qatanani died as “a Martyr as she wished.”
On November 26, 2015, FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “Brutal military occupation uses violence to quell peaceful resistance. And we wonder why resitance [sic] turns to armed struggle? To knives?"
On April 25, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post defending Dima Al-Wawi, adding “Her face says it all.”
On April 24, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post in defence of Al-Wawi, presenting her arrest as “discrimination against Palestinians.”
On April 13, 2016, FSU SJP defended Al-Wawi on Facebook, claiming: “This is how the Israeli government and illegal settler forces demonize Palestinians and their children.”
12-year-old Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred,” she said.
Jasmine Rashad al-Zaru [Yasmeen Rashad al Zaro] attempted to stab an Israeli Border Policeman before she was shot.
FSU SJP Honoring Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
On April 13, 2017, FSU SJP posted to Facebook several photos of convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh after a court ordered her deportation from the United States. FSU SJP referred to Odeh as a “Palestinian freedom fighter” and added the hashtag #HonorRasmea.FSU SJP Defending Terrorists
On December 12, 2015, FSU SJP commemorated the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, tweeting: “PFLP marks 48th establishment anniversary in Gaza.”On December 13, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook an article reporting the PFLP’s celebration in Gaza. the article added that during the festivities, the PFLP “re-asserted its commitment to the new Palestinian Intifada.”
On March 9, 2017, FSU SJP posted a photo of Leila Khaled to Facebook in honor of International Women’s Day.
On March 14, 2017, FSU SJP posted an illustration of Basel Al Araj to Facebook with the caption “Long Live Basil Al-Araj! Long Live the Resistance! Until Victory.”
On May 27, 2017, FSU SJP celebrated the end of the hunger strike on Facebook, commenting: “Victory to the #DignityStrike!”
FSU SJP Defending the 2017 Shooting Attack at al-Aqsa Mosque
On July 21 2017, FSU SJP claimed on Facebook that the al-Aqsa Mosque was “taken hostage by Israel” and that Israel was “murdering innocent devotees who dared question the seizure.”The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.
The Israeli government removed the detectors on July 25, 2017.
FSU SJP Hosting Hate Speech
In November 2017, FSU’s Student General Assembly (SGA) considered suspending funding for an FSU SJP panel event featuring Nerdeen Kiswani, Noura Farouq and Dan Cione of New York City (NYC) SJP.On November 9, 2017, FSU SJP members sat in at an FSU SGA meeting to protest the proposed defunding.
During the hearing, which FSU SJP posted on its Facebook page, the group’s secretary and treasurer Albert Kishek acknowledged FSU SJP was accused [00:42:45] of hate speech and anti-Semitism.
But Kishek claimed [00:46:00] that Kiswani and Farouk were “feminist organizers” of Palestinian background “who are playing a useful part to the building of the anti-war movement.”
FSU SJP’s post stated the group would “not tolerate infringement upon rights to school funding for our events and ended with the hashtags #RightToResist and #AIPACOutOfFSU.”
SGA voted 24-10 with 4 abstentions to provide funding to FSU SJP for the panel.
On November 16, 2017, during the panel, Kiswani accused Israel of committing [00:08:29] “mass rapes” and claimed that [00:9:08] “to this day there is daily assault and sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Zionists.”
Kiswani’s also stated that [01:45:52] “...we see in Israel, when Ethiopian Jews are trying to integrate themselves into the white settler colonial project of Israel, they put on the uniform and kill Palestinians and then their babies still get stabbed by Israelis and they still don’t see a day of justice in the court.”
Cione noted [00:26:14] that, after the Oslo accords, the U.S. gave the Palestinian Authority “over 32 billion dollars… for state building institutions.” Cione then condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for not funding radicals.
Cione said that [00:24:42] “when they were dumping all this money into Palestine” USAID included a “terror clause, which said that none of this money can go to “anyone that… is a terrorist organization as defined by Israel or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist.”
At the end of the panel, the attendees and panelists chanted [01:48:48] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”
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.
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
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