Nourhan Abdellatif

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.

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

The IHRA anti-Semitism definition includes as one possible example: “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.”

Also on May 16, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “American Jews should actively be speaking out against Israel…”

Defending Hamas 

On July 6, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted about Hamas: “...The colonized have a right to resist!

  
On May 11, 2021, during OGW, Abdellatif tweeted: “I’m sorry but I don’t trust anyone who condemns Hamas or calls them a terrorist organization
1)They aren’t. Who do YOU think is going to defend Palestinians? The PA [Palestinian Authority]?”

Abdellatif replied to her own tweet: “I had to get this tweet out before I went to sleep and everyone can ignore it except canary mission bestie who im sure is keeping track of everything I say. I hate you. And I don’t hate Hamas.”



Also on May 11, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “I’m actually going to sleep now promise but here’s a quick poem I wrote :
Hamas isn’t a terrorist organization 
From the River to the Sea isn’t antisemitic 
Israel is an apartheid settler colonial state
Zionists are racist fascists and are morally irredeemable 
-Nourhan.”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.

On May 14, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Hamas aren’t terrorists and Palestine isn’t a lost cause.”

On May 17, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Hamas is the resistance fighting against the occupation forces. Armed resistance is good actually.”

On May 18, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “...I think there are valid criticisms of Hamas but not when it comes to their armed resistance against the IOF [Israel Occupation Forces]. This is the resistance tf [the f**k] do they want. Also settlers can easily leave.”

Celebrating Terrorists

On July 8, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Glory to our martyr and eternal comrade, Ghassan Kanafani…”  

On March 8, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Happy #InternationalWomensDay to Egyptian and Palestinian women who challenged the whole world in opposition to Israeli violence.” Abdellatif’s tweet included a photo of Dalal Mughrabi.

Dalal Mughrabi, a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel. She and other terrorists hijacked a bus in an attack that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, including 13 children.

On February 19, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of Leila Khaled with text reading: “Based Leila Khaled. Zionists stay being threatened by the power of Palestinian women.”

Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.  

On November 24, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “TBT to my presentation for my Hemispheric American class when I wore my keffiyeh and decolonize shirt to protest zoom for silencing Leila Khaled and the racist kid in my class decided to never speak to me again. Jokes on you, motherf**ker, I hated you from the beginning.”

Zoom, the digital video conferencing platform, reportedly refused to stream a panel featuring Khaled, citing her “reported affiliation or membership in a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, and SFSU’s inability to confirm otherwise” a likely violation of Zoom’s Terms of Service.

On September 24, 2020, YouTube also canceled its broadcast of the Khaled event “approximately 23 minutes in,” reportedly when recorded footage showed Khaled urging the right of occupied peoples to fight their occupiers ‘by any means possible, including weapons.’” 

Abdellatif’s tweet included an image of Khaled holding an assault rifle, with text that said: “In honor of Leila Khalid.”

On November 10, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “Presenting on Anzaldúa today and repping Palestine and Laila Khalid Bc zoom is a corrupt Zionist organization.”

On September 24, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “I can’t boycott zoom bc of classes, but I will use my space to advocate for the voices that @zoom_us is silencing. We’re talking about Leila Khaled today.”

Abdellatif’s tweet said: “I dedicate the first section of this PowerPoint to Palestinian activist and icon, Leila Khaled” and included an image of Khaled with text reading: “Her voice and message are echoed in the following slides about the dangers of orientalism and white supremacy.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of Khaled reportedly taken at Beirut International Airport,.with an airplane in the background, and wrote: “Leila Khalid is not a terrorist.” 

The photo of Khaled had reportedly been associated with Khaled’s participation in the armed kidnapping of civilians and the hijacking of an American passenger plane, eventually forced to land in Damascus, Syria, where the plane was blown up. 

Supporting Terrorism

On May 8, 2021, during OGW, Abdellatif tweeted: “Violence from the colonized is anticolonial and necessary for liberation, their violence is the antithesis of the colonizer violence. Intifada is decolonization. Intifada is liberation. Intifada is a rejection of Israeli violence.”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.  

On May 10, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Solidarity with every stone, with every rocket, with every cane used by Palestinians to defend themselves from the illegal violent and treacherous Zionist entity. Freedom is justified by any means necessary. There is no justice for the martyrs..end Israel.”

On May 11, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “These are freedom rockets this is a sign of freedom and resistance. Gaza is fighting back, all of Palestine is fighting back against Israeli settler occupation! Palestine will be free!”

Abdellatif’s tweet included a photo of rockets launched from Gaza and Iron Dome defensive missiles launched to intercept them.

On May 11, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “...Palestinians have a right to resist by any means necessary.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted a video from the reportedly Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency of Palestinians cheering as terrorists launched rockets at Israeli population centers from Gaza. 

Abdellatif wrote: “Gaza is letting Tel Aviv know that they won’t back down.
Despite years and years of being besieged they are still fighting-you cannot kill the spirit of revolution. May god protect them. #Gaza #فلسطين_تنتفض [Palestine rises up]”

Abdellatif replied to her own tweet: “‘BUT HAMAS’ what did you expect them to do? Israel turned Gaza into an open air prison. These people are fighting for liberation.”

On May 12, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted describing Hamas rockets as “Palestinian resistance rockets” that were “launched at Sedrot in defense...” 

Abdellatif’s tweet included photos of the aftermath of a Hamas rocket attack, which killed a five-year-old Israeli boy and wounded several others.

Abdellatif retweeted a May 24, 2021 tweet that said: “every act of resistance from a palestinian, no matter how ‘violent, is justified and praised.”

Abdellatif retweeted a June 7, 2021 tweet that said “Happy pride” and included a meme, from Memri TV and inserted subtitles that said: “Of course, we do support this LGBT movement. That is, ‘Let’s Go Bomb Tel-Aviv.’”

Promoting Incitement

On May 7, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “... Israel enacted its state violence against defenseless Palestinians WHILE THEY WERE PRAYING and LOCKED THEM IN THE MOSQUE as they brutalized them….”  

On May 8, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted referring to clashes at Al Aqsa Mosque: “this is a genocide enacted by an armed military against people who were *praying*. They closed the gates and started shooting. This is a tactical plot. Palestinians can and should have the right to defend themselves through any means necessary.”

On May 9, 2021, Abdellatif retweeted a tweet that claimed: “Israeli settlers getting ready in mobs to storm Al-Aqsa mosque. They really go out of their way to terrorize Palestinians and our holy sites for fun.” The tweet showed photos of Jews at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza.

Abdellatif wrote about the tweet: “Before all the weirdos say ‘this is only a small faction of Israelis they don’t represent all of the population’...pls stop. This type of ethnonationalist violence is *rooted* in zionism since Herzl‘a time. You can’t separate these people from those chanting ‘death to Arabs’.”

Also on May 9, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “... This is the violence Israel is enacting on the Palestinians! Inshallah I quick fall to the Zionist entity! #AlAqsa #AlAqsaUnderAttack #IsraeliAttackonAlAqsa”

Calling for the Destruction of Israel

On May 30, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “‘But what will happen to the Israeli settlers when Palestine is free?’ IDK [I don’t know]. LEAVE.”

Abdellatif then replied to her own tweet: “Like baby, who cares? ‘What will happen to the colonizers once the colony is freed?’ This is the question you are asking and the only answer is : They can go to hell. Or Poland.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted: “Your settlers have dual citizenship to other countries and their Israeli passports allow them access to countries that are allied with your settler state. They’ll be fine…”

Abdellatif’s tweet was in response to another tweet that said if Israel was replaced with Palestine it would not be safe for Israeli Jews.

On May 29, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Inshallah downfall of the illegal settler state and everyone who benefits and supports it soon. Canary mission bestie pls document this one .”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted: “Down with zionism. There can absolutely be no two states, no co-existence with these monsters.”

On May 20, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Glory to the martyrs of Gaza and Palestine. 
May God protect the people of Gaza and grant Palestine liberation from the river to the sea very soon inshallah

Abdellatif replied to her own tweet: “Our fight for a liberated Palestine is not over now. We’ll continue rallying till the Zionist entity and all its supporters fall.”

On May 11, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “inshallah settlers will leave all of Palestine. 
We will see a free Palestine in our life times. ”

On February 22, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Palestinian : posts thread about a family member that was murdered by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]
Zionists : BUT THE PALESTINIANS ARE VIOLENT WHEN THEY PROTEST
Y’all are ruthless and disgusting. The lengths you’d go to justifyethnic cleansing is beyond me. Death to Israel.”

On February 12, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Asking Palestinians to just make peace is ignorant and violent. There cannot be peace untill Palestinians are allowed to return to their rightful land with full autonomy and mobility alongside the downfall of the settler state. Zionists ideas of peace ignore this.” 

The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. 

Abdellatif’s tweet was in response to her own tweet that claimed: “It is easier for Zionists to promote ‘peace’ or ‘solidarity’ because they did not face the negative consequences of creating the Israeli settler colony. Only one side faced violence.”

Spreading Hatred of America

On June 11, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of an Israeli and an American flag being burned at a protest and wrote: “Inshallah [Allah willing] .”

On May 8, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of mock coffins draped in American and Israeli flags being burned at a protest and wrote: “From Palestine to Turtle Island, settler colonialism is a crime. #SaveSheikhJarrah from Israeli settler colonialism and #landback to the indigenous peoples of turtle island. This is our revolution-and our demands must center on indigenous liberation from colonialism.”

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. 

On February 19, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of an Israeli flag and a U.S. flag being burned at a 2017 Al-Quds Day protest in Iran and wrote: “Inshallah [If Allah wills it] death to the settler countries.”

On November 16, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “The United States military is a terrorist organization that functions to eradicate any threat to the empire that is the United States.

This actions are not new, just becoming more accessible to the public. I’ll say it again : The U.S. military is a terrorist organization.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted: “Wait a minute. So you’re telling me no one is supposed to call Amerikkka a white supremacist settler colonial country except people who live in it?”

The term “Amerikkka” uses the initials of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a way to demonize America as “fascist or racist.”  

On November 5, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “All of them including Amerikkka and Isra*l” in response to a tweet that asked: “Ok, I have a question for you: Who do you hate more, the British or the French?”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted: “The way this man hates America ”

On November 3, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “F**k the USA. All my homies hate the USA.”

On September 29, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “...America IS a conservative settler colonial country controlled by majority conservative white supremacists.”

On August 25, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “I sincerely hope that @SecPompeo is ready to be the official National face for settler-colonialism, ethnic genocide, Islamophobia, domestic terrorism, war crimes, open-air prisons, gentrification, cultural appreciation, and Anti-Arab sentiment.”

Abdellatif’s tweet referred to Mike Pompeo, who was then serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

Hatred of Zionists

On July 7, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “no one cheapens antisemtism like zionists…”

Abdellatif’s tweet was in reference to a statement by the United Kingdom’s Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and Warwick University Jewish Society (WarwickJsoc) that said: “UJS and @WarwickJsoc are frustrated and angered by the @warwickuni Assembly for passing a motion to challenge the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. See full statement below.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted regarding the UJS and Warwick J-Soc statement: “pee-pee poo-poo. shut up.”

On July 6, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Absolutely cannot wait to be back in my seminars face to face during the fall so I can bully zionists in person.

They aren’t going to get an ounce of comfort in my presence they don’t deserve it and neither do professors who make classrooms a comfortable place for them.”

On June 7, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “My favorite thing in the world is making zionists uncomfortable in the classroom tbh. Use that discomfort against them.
They don’t deserve an OUNCE of peace.”

On February 28, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “It's almost as if we can see that no one colonizes benevolently...you colonize because you are at your core, a diseased person. You don't colonize to educate or because you love the native population. The best example of this is zionists attacking Palestinians who are in academia.”

On January 6, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted about artist Demi Lovato: “Aren’t you a zionist? Literally shut the f**k up.”

On November 19, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted, referring to a TV show character: “I am simply disregarding everything Rory says because she is a Z*onist.”

On November 5, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted a photo of a keffiyeh and wrote: “Bc I’m pissed at @zoom_us. F**k of you Zionists.”

On November 4, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “I love all the demi hate cause she’s a Z*onist.”

On October 14, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted about Israeli actress Gal Gadot: “She’s an active Zionist and was part of the IDF...the Israeli military. That enough reason to boycott her.”

On October 11, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “The Zionists found my tiktoks and got me shadowbanned. F**k you, you’re all white supremacists.”

On October 12, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “People are really out here like ‘You’re mad because Gal Godot is Israeli!’ I mean...yeah. What the f**k do you want me to do about that?”

On October 2, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “I hate him and Demi. The dumb Zionist b**ch.”

On September 22, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “I f**king hate Zionists.”

On August 5, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “This is what his vision for peace is. And in this case ‘peace’ entails ethnic genocide, neocolonialism, and capital gain based on the suffering of the indigenous Palestinian people. Zionists really are a diseas [sic].” 

Abdellatif’s tweet included a tweet by Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin criticizing then-U.S. President Trump’s proposed peace plan. 

Demonizing Israel

On June 3, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Do NOT white wash Israeli’s anti blackness! 
I’m sure all the settlers from Poland Ukraine and Brooklyn ARE LOVELY and NOT RACIST AT ALL bc THEY DONT COME FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.”

On May 15, 2021, during OGW, Abdellatif tweeted a video from an anti-Israel protest she reportedly attended in Los Angeles that day with demonstrators chanting “free free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea.”

Another video from the protest showed demonstrators calling [00:01:18] for intifada andtrucks with text on them that said [00:00:29]:“END ZIONIST CONTROL #DEFENDTHEHUMANRACE.”

On February 25, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “I cannot believe this tattoo has got every racist a** zionist on this application crying. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!”

Abdellatif’s tweet included a February 20, 2021 tweet with a photo of a tattoo of a map of Israel labeled “Palestine.”

On February 23, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “There a three young Palestinian women getting attacked on this application by zionists. I did not lie when I said that every day ya'll enact more colonial violence and are a represenation of white patriarchical oppression.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted: “This is a good take, actually. Palestinians can't be antisemitic in the same context as anyone else can because they are constantly being told that they deserve to be colonized to make space for Israel that presents itself as the so called Jewish homeland. Zionists stfu.”

Antisemitism refers to hostility, prejudice or discrimination directed against Jews (and not all Semitic people). The term was first used in print in Germany in 1879, as a word to denote Jew-hatred and this has been its common usage since then.  

On February 22, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “اتفو عليكي يا وسخة!!! الله يلعنك و يلعن كل محتل على فلسطين!!!!!!!!! [Spit on you, filth!!! May Allah curse you and curse any occupier of Palestine!!!!!!!!!”

On February 9, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “... israel is a violent settler colonial project built from the start on the genocide of palestinians. palestinians are still fighting today.”

On February 8, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “good morning love <3 i hate israel and thank you”

On February 3, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people and is a violent settler colonial state. You’re also a racist which makes you a perfect representation of Israel.”

On January 13, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “I think ya’ll are terrorists.” Her tweet included a screenshot of two Israeli soldiers with text saying “What do you think about the Israeli army?”

On December 28, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “‘F**k you my child is completely fine’
Your child wants to enroll in the IDF so they can become complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”

On December 21, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted about Israel: “We hate it because of the ethnic cleansing and apartheid.”

On December 20, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “Aren’t ya’ll the ones who have been telling Palestinians that this is the Jewish homeland and ethnically cleansed them on that basis? Maybe part of the problem is the IDF? Maybe part of the problem is your ethnostate functioning as a colonial power?
F**k off.”

On December 10, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “One of Israelis borders is literally an apartheid wall. So yes, that is segregation you absolute Zionist dumba**.”

On November 22, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted, referring to Tel Aviv: “Also known as one of the largest sites of ethnic cleansing due to Zionism. But we’ll just ignore that for your racist aesthetic.”

On the same date, Abdellatif tweeted that “one of Israel’s borders is literally an apartheid wall.”

On November 20, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “What if we visited the Apartheid wall in Israel and watched the IDF bomb the s**t out of Palestinian villages so we can go back home and promote our settler colonial state...

On November 5, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “F**k settler-colonial Israel. All my homies hate settler-colonial Israel.”

On October 30, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “F**k Zionism. F**k settler-colonial Israel.”

On October 29, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted that Israel “functions on genocide, war crimes, and corporate colonialism.”

Supporting BDS

On October 12, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “Oh and just to make myself clear : I fully and wholeheartedly support BDS.”  

On November 19, 2020, Abdellatif tweeted: “The fact that the U.S. has identified BDS as anti-Semitic proves its relevance and importance as a movement thatactively and successfully combats the illegal Israel military occupation of Palestine. Settlers gotta support settlers especially corporate colonialism ;)”

On January 26, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Goodmorning I have nothing good to tweet today except : 

1) F**k Israel that stupid settler imperial puppet state
2)If you are dedicated to Palestinian liberation you must support BDS.
3)Stop making dumb threads about Palestinian liberation for fake woke points.”

On February 3, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “Anyways, if you go to Brown University, Vote YES to BDS. Because BDS is part of Palestinian resistance against settler colonies, Zionists, and is a peaceful and powerful form of resistance. Zionists understand this and are trying to delegitimize Palestiniansovereignty.”

On March 6, 2021, Abdellatif tweeted: “This is a great series of essays tracing solidarity with Palestine and how praxis through BDS is empowering and loud. I have the print version and am reading through it and if you get the time you should read through it as well!”

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