Nicholas Kattoura

Nicholas Kattoura’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia) and Anti-Israel Activism

Nicholas Kattoura [Nicki Kattoura]was an activist with Students for a Free Palestine (SFP) at Oberlin College (Oberlin) from 2016-2018. SFP is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Nicholas Kattoura participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in April 2024. Kattoura.

Kattoura attended the 2018 National SJP Conference and was reportedly a member of the conference’s Steering Committee.

The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”

As of November 2024, Kattoura was listed as the co-director of Resist.

As of the same date, Kattoura’s Palestine Writes bio said he was a “Philadelphia-based, Palestinian writer, editor, and organizer.”

As of February 2019, Kattoura’s LinkedIn page said that he was slated to graduate Oberlin that year with a bachelor’s degree in Politics and English. As of the same date, his LinkedIn said he was a Student Admissions Intern at Oberlin since June 2017.

As of July 2019, Khattoura indicated on Facebook that he graduated.

As of September 2019, Kattoura was a writer for Mondoweiss.

Also as of September 2019, Kattoura’s LinkedIn page said he was a Student Admissions Intern at Oberlin from “Jun 2017 - Present.”

His LinkedIn page also said he graduated from Oberlin in 2019, with a bachelor's degree in Politics and English.

As of January 31, 2019, Kattoura went by the alias “Nic Holas” and as of February 5, 2019, he used his name, Nicholas Kattoura, on Facebook.

Oberlin SFP Activism

On March 11, 2016, Kattoura spoke as an Oberlin SFP representative at a “Palestine 101” teach-in, during an Anti-Oppression Symposium hosted by Oberlin.

On March 30, 2017, Kattoura shared on Facebook the SFP event titled: “Resistance in Hip Hop.” Kattoura commented: “Panel with Hypno and Shadia Mansour!”

On October 12, 2018, Kattoura posted on Facebook: “dont forget ; ) follow Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine for all the updates” and updated his Facebook cover photo to a group photo of Oberlin SFP members holding up a sign that said: “Free Palestine Divest from Israel.”

On October 30, 2018, Kattoura posted on Facebook: “Thank you Katie for these beautiful posters! Oberlin Students for a Free Palestine” and shared information for the SFP November 6, 2018 event featuring Nyle Fort, titled: “Nyle Fort: Black-Palestinian Solidarity in an Age of Repression.”

Nyle Fort has praised terrorism as an activist with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Fort has spoken at events featuring a terrorist and terror-supporters and participated in a pro-BDS trip to Israel with the anti-Israel organization Dream Defenders (DD).

On November 7, 2018, Kattoura posed for a photo with Fort, adding: “Sorry not sorry. I'm so not over last night. My heart is so full and im ready to mobilize.”

Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference

On November 19, 2018, Kattoura posted to Facebook a group photo taken at the 2018 National SJP Conference. Kattoura commented: “this is the movement! to a free palestine and a world without borders!”

On November 22, 2018, Kattoura posed for a group photo of that year’s National SJP Conference steering committee members.

Participating in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia

On April 19, 2024, BreakThrough News uploaded a video to YouTube featuring [05:23:30]Kattoura at the encampment. In the video, Kattoura can be seen sitting in the crowd with glasses and a beard.

2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence

During the 2018 National SJP conference, anti-Israel activist Mohammed Nabulsi led the attendees in the chant [00:00:52] “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”

Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.

Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”

As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”

The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.

Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.

National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.

On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”

Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.

By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.

2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel

On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.

Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”

Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.

2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”

Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”

2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”

Odeh was a key military operative 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.

Abudayyeh added that he was asked [00:08:45] to talk about Odeh’s case, and praised SJP and SDS students who organized [00:09:15] “absolutely valuable” events on behalf [00:9:11] of Odeh, “as she was fighting to stay in the U.S.”

2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).

Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”

Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”

Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”

2018 National SJP - Excluding Students

The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.

A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”

On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.

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 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.