Osama Aburumuh

Overview

Osama Aburumuh has spread hatred of Jews and Israel through his Twitter account. He is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Aburumuh is a junior at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

He also works at Sound Master Tint & Alarm in San Antonio. On August 4, 2016, Aburumuh tweeted that he had exploited his work position to discriminate against a pro-Israel customer: "A dude came to the shop wearing a Christians United for Israel Shirt and I charged him triple cause I can."

Jew-Hatred

On January 4, 2014, Aburumuh tweeted: "nah dude they were being Jewish. I went from the drive thru. No napkins, no straw, and no sauce. ”

On July 10, 2013, Aburumuh tweeted: "Yin 3al il yahood [Curse the Jews], he didnt do anything wrong."

On February 7, 2013, Aburumuh tweeted: "@sarahaburumuh quit being a grammar Jew it's just twitter. I will kill you at plain English."

On August 17, 2012, Aburumuh tweeted: "Try me nigga I have Allah on my side, Palestine Ibladna Yahood Iklabna [Palestine is my country and the Jews are our dogs]."

On August 17, 2012, Aburumuh tweeted that Israel is "JEW LAND."

On July 31, 2012, Aburumuh tweeted: "Effing Yahoodi [F**king Jew]."

On July 28, 2012, Aburumuh tweeted: "@JasmineShaath @aayakhalaf JEW GO AWAY."

Hatred of Israel

On June 17, 2016, Aburumuh tweeted: "I don't like it when people wish bad on others. Unless they're Zionist then I don't mind."

On January 6, 2016, Aburumuh tweeted: "Allergies are Zionist scum."

On December 20, 2014, Aburumuh tweeted: "@Israel you are the definition of scum." Aburumuh’s tweet featured a picture of an emergency food package, designed to assist desperately poor families in Israel — and made available through the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

On July 15, 2014, Aburumuh tweeted: "Fvck @Israel."

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.