Pam Africa [Jeanette Knighton] expressed support for Hamas terrorism and spoke at a pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, launched after the October 7, 2023 terror attacks.
Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
As of April 2024, Africa said [00:06:31] she was a "minister of confrontation" at MOVE.
As of May 2025, Africa was listed as the leader of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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On October 7, 2023, Africa shared on Facebook a flyer promoting an anti-Israel rally in Pennsylvania. The poster included an image of Hamas terrorists using a bulldozer to break down a security fence into Israel earlier that day.
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.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On November 25, 2023, Africa shared a graphic that said: "Stop the Palestinian Holocaust!"
Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
On August 21, 2024, Africa shared on Facebook a photo of a woman wearing a keffiyeh over her face and holding a slingshot used to throw rocks. The caption read: "I'm with her."
On April 26, 2024, Pam Africa spoke at the pro-Hamas encampment at Penn.
In her speech, Africa referred [00:06:59] to Israel as a "terror state."
On April 25, 2024, anti-Israel activists from Penn, Temple University and Drexel University set up the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the Penn campus to protest Israel's war against Hamas. The encampment was part of the BDS movement.
The encampment was one of about 200 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism. They also promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
