Nora Abuhamdeh

Overview

Nora Abuhamdeh has spread hatred of Israel and Zionists, showed support for violent protests and was Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) president at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (John Jay SJP) for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In 2017-2018, Abuhamdeh was the secretary of John Jay SJP. Abuhamdeh was an activist with John Jay SJP as early as December 2016.

In 2020, Abuhamdeh was affiliated with the pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) when she spoke at a rally organized by WOL and John Jay SJP.

Abuhamdeh attended John Jay from 2016 to 2020. John Jay is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), located in New York, New York.

As of April 2024, Abuhamdeh’s Facebook page said she was located in New York, New York.

As of April 2024, Abuhamdeh went by the username “nora” and used the handle “@noraabuxo” on Twitter.

Hatred of Israel

On May 12, 2020, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Israel,” in response to a tweet that said: “What is one thing you wished never existed.”

On March 29, 2020, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “F*ck Zionism.”

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 February 9, 2020, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “I can’t stress this enough... F**k Zionism.”

On January 25, 2020, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “I hate Israel.”

On November 15, 2019, during Israel’s Operation Black Belt, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “If you support Israel or Zionism especially after this week you are cold hearted & disgusting.”

In November 2019, Israel launched Operation Black Belt to stop Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel. The attacks were carried out in response to Israel’s elimination of Baha Abu al-Ata [Bahaa Abu Al-Atta], a senior commander of terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) who was reportedly planning new terror attacks.

On March 7, 2019, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “I am in the most disgusting mood and I have to say I blame Israel.”

On February 3, 2019, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Imagine believing Israel is a legitimate state /:”

On July 11, 2018, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “I still can’t believe that some people actually support Israel yikessss.”

On November 14, 2017, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Long live the Palestinian resistance

.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti- Semitic violence.

Hatred of Zionists

On April 5, 2020, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Normalization with zionists isn’t right there’s no way y’all will never convince me otherwise.”

Proponents of the “anti-normalization” policy seek to police all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians and shut down all conversations and interactions perceived as being ideologically unaligned with their own agenda.

On November 7, 2019, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Reminder if you support Zionism you are trash.”

On February 5, 2019, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “I wonder how much zionists get paid to pretend that they aren’t doing anything wrong.”

On September 19, 2018, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “Good morning I hope everyone except zionists and creepy people on the train has a good day

free

.”

On January 14, 2018, Abuhamdeh tweeted: “The only things that can really get under my skin: Zionists, Israel…”

Support for Violent Protests

On March 28, 2020, Abuhamdeh was featured [slide 1] in a photo posted by John Jay SJP, commemorating the Great March of Return.

On March 30, 2018, about 30,000 Gazans approached Israel’s border fence to join in “Land Day Protests,” which were also called the “March of Return.” The march was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the “right of return,” a policy discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

The post read: “Two years ago on land day, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza gathered by the illegitimate israeli separation fence [security barrier] demanding the right to return to their homeland…”

Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.

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.

The post also said: “Palestinians remain trapped in the most densely populated region in the world, an open-air prison…We demand an end to the blockade in Gaza and an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel…”

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

Anti-Israel Activism (SJP, WOL)

On January 31, 2020, Abuhamdeh was a featured [slide 1] speaker at an anti-Israel rally titled: “Say No to the Steal of the Century / Palestine is Not for Sale.” The protest was organized by WOL, John Jay SJP and other anti-Israel groups and took place in Manhattan, New York.

On January 28, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a peace plan, referred to as the “Deal of the Century,” to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The proposed deal included land concessions by both sides of the conflict.

Abuhamdeh spoke at the rally on behalf of John Jay SJP and said [00:00:13]: “The deal of the century is actually more like the steal of the century. It’s an insult to Palestinians living abroad and to activists living here like us.”

Abuhamdeh continued [00:00:22]: “The United States has never been the fair broker as they claim to be. This deal is going to harm us now but we will continue to resist and continue to fight...”

On March 26, 2017, Abuhamdeh was featured in a group photo posted to John Jay SJP’s Instagram from a rally titled: “The National Rally to Support Palestine in D.C.”

On March 26, 2017, anti-Israel group Al-Awda organized a rally in Washington, D.C., against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Speakers included Holocaust revisionist Ryan Dawson, who incited [00:13:27, 00:14:30] hatred toward Jews and called [00:14:21] AIPAC a “parasite.” Protestors shouted [00:15:27] “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”, which Al-Awda co-founder Abbas Hamideh has confirmed [00:02:52] is a call to eliminate Israel.

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.