Rafiq Alqasem
Overview
Rafiq Alqasem has spread neo-Nazi and other anti-Semitic propaganda on social media. He is the father of Lara Alqasem, an activist in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and the 2016-2017 president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Florida (UF).Alqasem has promoted David Duke and white nationalist propaganda, praised anti-Semite Brother Nathanael, spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power and equated Israel with Nazi Germany.
Alqasem has also justified terrorist violence, promoted anti-Israel terrorism and demonized Israel. He is a supporter of BDS and SJP.
Alqasem’s Canary Mission profile was first published on October 24, 2018. As of October 28, 2018, he deleted his Facebook accounts, including all of his anti-Semitic posts.
However, screenshots of those posts are saved on the independent third-party website archive.org/web/ and are now linked to in this updated profile. All dates for his posts in this profile reflect the Canary Mission screenshots that were live as of first publishing. In some entries, the date for the archive.org screenshot is one day behind these dates.
Alqasem gave $500 to his daughter Lara’s online legal fund after Israel denied her entry in October 2018 due to her BDS activism. After multiple appeals, the Israeli Supreme Court granted her entry to begin studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
As of October 2018, Alqasem’s LinkedIn page said he was a Vice President of HNTB Corporation, located in the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami area. HNTB hired Alqasem in February 2014. HNTB describes itself as “an employee-owned infrastructure solutions firm serving public and private owners and contractors.” Their projects include work on highways, bridges, tunnels and international airport terminals.
Also as of October 2018 Alqasem was listed as a lecturer at both the College of Engineering at the University of Miami (UM) and Florida International University (FIU).
Alqasem’s LinkedIn page also stated that he received a master’s degree in Engineering in Transportation from the University of Florida (UF) in 1986, and a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Management from the University of Leeds in 1981. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) has listed Alqasem as a licensed engineer since 1989.
Promoting David Duke and Neo-Nazi Propaganda
On March 16, 2016, Alqasem shared a link on Facebook from the pro-Hitler site tomatobubble.com, titled: “THE ZIO STEAMROLLER: 30 WHO GOT CRUSHED!”The article listed senators, journalists, actors, academics who were purportedly “crushed” for praising Hitler or being “critical of the ... Jewish Lobby,” or denying the Holocaust.
The term "Zio" is a common derogatory reference to Zionists, as well as an often-used anti-Semitic slur among white supremacists.
The article also defended multiple anti-Semites, including Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke,Holocaust denier David Irving and neo-Nazi publisher, Ernst Zundel.
The article lauded Duke for being an “Outspoken critic of Globalism and Zionist control of America” and for having “Once belonged to Ku Klux Klan.” It also commended Irving since he “began to openly question the facts of ‘The Holocaust’ - finally denying the existence of gas chambers altogether.”
The article praised Zundel for being a “Holocaust researcher” and included a link to the Holocaust denial site Institute for Historical Review (IHR).
On March 5, 2016, Alqasem shared a link on Facebook from the White Nationalist site Metapedia.org, titled: “Jewish supremacism.” The entry promoted Duke’s book “Jewish supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question.”
The Jewish Question [JQ] refers to a debate that originated in 19th-century Europe about what status and treatment Jews should receive as a religious and ethnic minority. The Nazis called their planned mass murder of Jews: “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” Contemporary white nationalists continue to use the term.
On February 18, 2016, Alqasem shared a video on Facebook featuring Duke, titled: “Israel is the Real Terrorist State."
In the video, Duke claimed [00:11:34]: “Israel is the real terrorist state and Israel gets away with all this evil. Why? Because the same supremacist tribe that runs Israel dominates the American and globalist media like the New York Times and Washington Post. Because they control the Federal Reserve, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund…”
Duke also claimed [00:12:54] that “insane Zionist extremists in their bloodlust” are manipulating the U.S. into war with Iran and that [00:04:09] there are “Israeli fingerprints” covering the 9/11 terror attacks.
Praising Anti-Semite Brother Nathanael
On March 2, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook video featuring notorious anti-Semite Brother Nathanael. Alqasem commented: “I love him!!In the video, Nathanael criticized [00:01:26] Hillary Clinton for wanting to “arm the antichrist Jewish state with nukes, jets and subs and the entire world is hostage to Israel’s designs.”
“Brother Nathanael,” an anti-Semite who has said he is a Jewish convert to Christianity, is a Holocaust denier and claimed [00:02:26] that “Judaism is a religion of death.” He has promoted the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and his Youtube channel features many anti-Semitic videos.
On March 4, 2016, Alqasem shared the Brother Nathanael video on Facebook a second time.
Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On March 7, 2016, Alqasem shared a Youtube video on Facebook that featured conspiracy theorist and BDS activist Ken O’Keefe, titled: “israel is a psycho state.”The video Alqasem shared contained dozens [00:28:12] of graphic anti-Semitic images [00:27:15], including many alleging [00:54:44] Jewish control over America and the world.
In the video, O’Keefe said [00:50:45]: “We really only need to solve one thing, and we can solve every other problem you can name. I don’t care what the problem is. All of it becomes possible to solve if you take care of this one issue.”
The host in the interview then asked [00:50:57]: “And the issue being Israel?”
O’Keefe responded [00:50:59]: “Well, Israel and the Jews are primary players in the financial system. But really, actually, I say no. The financial system would be the top priority. If you solve that, trust me, Israel and Palestine will be solved simultaneously.”
On March 19, 2016, Alqasem shared a link on Facebook, titled: “The Israeli stranglehold on CNN” that discussed the “Zionist-Jewish octopus plaguing the American media discourse.” The article said the “Zionist cabal controlling the American media had only one mantra to invoke, one cause to serve, and one goal to achieve, namely Israel.”
On March 20, 2016, Alqasem shared a Youtube link on Facebook titled: “Total Control Of The United States │ The Israeli/Jewish Lobby │Full Documentary.“ The video was from the anti-Semitic Youtube user named ArmyofShaytanExposed. “Shaytan” means “satan” in Arabic.
On March 26, 2016, Alqasem posted to Facebook: “Our media and government are controlled by Zionists called the AIPAC.”
Also on March 26, 2016, Alqasem wrote on Facebook: “Dr. Mads Fredrik Gilbert is a Norwegian physician who has been helping the Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years and living amongst them under the most terrible conditions imaginable. Have we ever heard of him in America? Has CNN listed him as a nominee for one of their CNN Heroes awards? Of course not! Our government like our media is controlled by Zionazis.”
Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership.
In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 Gilbert was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.
In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.” In December of 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
Spreading Anti-Semitism
On February 19, 2016, Alqasem shared a meme from the “Images From Palestine” Facebook page, showing an image of Adolf Hitler with the caption: “We are the master race” and, below it, a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a caption that read: “We are God’s chosen people.”The text from the post Alqasem shared said: “Satan has his chosen people as well.”
On February 27, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook page with a cartoon showing a rocket aimed at Palestinian children. The rocket had an Israeli flag with a swastika in the place of a Star of David.
On March 10, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image showing a young woman with blackened hands covering her mouth and forehead. On the hands were multiple Stars of David and a hook-nosed soldier with razor-sharp teeth. The image was captioned : “ISRAEL WANTS YOUR SILENCE.”
On March 11, 2016, Alqasem posted a Youtube video, titled: “Quotable Quotes From the Chosen Ones, HD.” The video was from the anti-Semitic Youtube user midas617.
On March 19, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post that featured a photo of Hitler. He wrote: “Israel learned a lot from the Nazis and developed their Zionazi means and methods. The oppressed learned so much from the oppressor and is now deploying the same methods to oppress the Palestinian people. Nazis and Zionazis have so much in common.”
The photo showed Hitler with a large Nazi flag in the background and the text: “MAKE THE LIE BIG, MAKE IT SIMPLE, KEEP SAYING IT, AND EVENTUALLY THEY WILL BELIEVE IT. - ADOLPH HITLER.”
The text of the post Alqasem shared said: “Sounds familiar? ? Zionist Lies & propaganda has been blindly excepted by ignorent fools without questioning their evil motives! [sic] ! A true Nature of Nazism comes alive once again through Zionism! !! #wakeupworld #humanity #freedom4allmankind #AllLivesMatter #FreePalestine#Zionistregime”
Justifying Terrorism
On March 19, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook photo of a keffiyeh-masked Palestinian protester, on which he commented: “Palestine will only be free by resistance! The US is biased and the EU is biased and therefore the UN is biased therefore the world will not help the Palestinians. Resistance in any means is legitimate to fight terrorist Israel. Give me liberty or give me death!”On March 5, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image showing a hand holding a large knife. Text in the image justified Palestinian attacks against Israelis, concluding: “DON’T BLAME THE VICTIMS.” The text of the post said: “If I could..I would use a GUN.” The image referred to a wave of violence in Israel known as the “knife intifada.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Honoring Terrorists
On March 13, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook page honoring George Habash, with a photo of Habash and and Yasser Arafat.George Habash, who has been called“the godfather of Middle East terrorism,” founded the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1970, Habash was the mastermind behind the hijacking of four Western airliners known as the Dawson Field hijackings. In 1972, the PFLP collaborated with Japanese Red Army terrorists to massacre 24 people at Israel's Lod International Airport (renamed Ben Gurion International Airport).
Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, a bomb-maker for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was involved in many attacks against Israel. She was killed when a bomb she was preparing in her home for an attack in Tel Aviv accidentally detonated.
On March 1, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook photo honoring terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Alqasem wrote: “God bless you Barghouti. We love you!you are the Nelson Mandela of the Palestinians.”
The photo contained a quote attributed to Barghouti: “...I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated …”
Marwan Barghouti is currently serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings and shooting attacks that killed five Israelis during the second intifada.
Barghouti led the the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He also financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe massacre, where 15 civilians were killed and 130 injured.
On February 29, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post in support of Ahmed Manasra.
Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015, during the Knife Intifada. They critically wounded a 13-year-old boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. The spree ended when police shot Hassan and a passing motorist hit Ahmed. Ahmed was taken to an Israeli hospital. He admitted to investigators: “I went there to stab Jews.” He was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.
On February 27, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post honoring attempted suicide bomber Wafa Al-Biss, a Palestinian Arab resident of Gaza who was permitted to enter Israel for treatment at an Israeli hospital in 2005. She wore a suicide bomb vest, which she attempted to detonate as she crossed into Israel.
Al-Biss was imprisoned for 12 years and released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.
The post Alqasem shared said: “Speaking after her release she said: ‘As long as there is going to be occupation over all of Palestine,martyrs will be there to resist and to fight, and I will be among the first of the strugglers’Wafa Al-Biss vowed to continue fighting and urged others to do the same despite being released..........
#FREEPALESTINE”Demonizing Israel
On March 25, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post alleging a “PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST BY THE ZIONIST TERRORIST.”On March 23, 2016, Alqasem wrote on Facebook: “Israel is a terrorist racist state.”
On March 18, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post alleging: “Israeli Systematic Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing.”
On March 17, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook post with an image associating Israel with Nazi propaganda methods.
The image showed a mural with quote often attributed to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.” The mural also had a little girl crossing out the word “TRUTH” with the word “ISRAEL.”
The quote embodied an anti-Semitic idea known as the “Big Lie,” which was used by Nazi Germany to demonize Jews and to promote the boycott of Jewish businesses."
On March 15, 2016, Alwasem wrote on Facebook: “Zionazis.”
On March 13, 2016, Alqasem posted on Facebook: “Good Jews support Palestine and the Palestinians.”
On March 9, 2016, Alqasem wrote on Facebook: “Israeli terror” along with a link to a hoax photo demonizing Israeli police.
On March 6, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image with a variation of a well-known anti-Israel propaganda map.
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
Supporting BDS and SJP
On March 26, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image supporting the BDS movement.On the same day, Alqasem shared a Facebook image supporting SJP activists.
On March 25, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image supporting the BDS movement.
ON March 22, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image supporting the BDS movement and calling Israel an “apartheid state.”
On March 12, 2016, Alqasem shared a Facebook image promoting the BDS movement.
On March 5, 2016, Alqasem wrote on Facebook: “BDS Movement against apartheid Israel” and shared a video from the official BDS movement Facebook page, urging support for BDS. The video accused [00:00:08] Israel of continuing to “steal land, ethnically cleanse Jerusalem” and called for what is usually termed the “right of return.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate 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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafiq-alqasem-50396212/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100000387311593 [Deleted]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1562821751 [Deleted]
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