Rafael Justo
Overview
Rafael Justo expressed support for a terror group in 2017 and attended a pro-Hamas rally in 2023, one day after Hamas terrorists massacred about 1,200 Israelis. As of that same month, Justo was an organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, New York.The 2023 rally occurred one day after Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left about 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Support for the PFLP Terror Group
On December 14, 2017, Justo was featured in the middle of a group photo of anti-Israel activists celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In the group photo, he stood in front of a large PFLP flag.The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.
PFLP leader Leila Khaled spoke in a recorded video at the event, which was hosted by Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun). The group published an article on its website about the event titled: “New York event marks 50th anniversary of the PFLP and the Palestinian revolutionary Left.” Justo contributed three photos to the article.
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.
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun) is an anti-Israel NGO whose activism spreads awareness of terrorists. At least three senior Samidoun activists are members [pp. 22-28] of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group. In February 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Justice declared Samidoun to be a “terror organization,” accusing [p. 2] the NGO of operating “as an arm” of the PFLP.
In October 2023, Germany announced it would disband Samidoun's German wing, saying: “the international network works under the guise of a solidarity group for prisoners to spread anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda.”
10/8/2023 - Attending a Rally in Support of Hamas War Crimes
Justo attended [00:15:25] a rally [00:11:48] in New York City in support of Hamas, titled: “All Out For Palestine.” He appeared [00:37:20] in the front of the right side of a video wearing a black hat and a black Adidas tracksuit with white stripes.On October 8, 2023, anti-Israel groups Al-Awda and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) joined other pro-Palestinian groups in a New York City rally in support of the previous day’s Hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians.
One representative celebrated [00:20:45] the massive rocketing of Israeli cities, justifying the hostage-taking [00:27:27] of soldiers and civilians and leading [00:17:43] calls for the violent destruction of Israel.
Rally participants also stamped on [00:00:01] one Israeli flag and burned [00:00:21] another. They mocked [00:00:10, 00:00:23, 00:00:35] pro-Israel participants counterprotesting the previous day’s mass murder, kidnappings, beheadings and rape of Israelis.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape.
Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Biographical Information
In December 2017, Justo was affiliated with Samidoun.As of October 2023, Justo indicated on Instagram that he was an activist with the SEIU, specifically the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. According to the Center for Union Facts, he had been a salaried SEIU employee as early as 2013.
Also as of October 2023, Justo used the handle “@neworg1199seiu” on Twitter where he described himself as a “Labor Union Organizer” and “Community Activist.” He also used the Instagram handle “@domraf_sid” and the Facebook handle “@domraf1234.”
As of January 2024, Justo’s Twitter account said he was located in New York, New York.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/domraf1234Twitter:https://twitter.com/neworg1199seiu
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/domraf_sid
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