Rami Kablawi
Overview
Rami Kablawi has promoted terrorists, spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories and glorified violence. Kablawi also demonized Israel and promoted hatred of Zionists.
Kablawi is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2019, Kablawi received a grant from the Foundation for the Advancement of Anthropology and History (FAAH) to travel to Ramallah to study “Politics and Place in Neoliberal Ramallah.” The “Foundation” appears to be affiliated with The Division of the Social Sciences within UofC’s Anthropology Department. As of February 2, 2021, FAAH did not appear on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s list of Tax-Exempt organizations.
As of February 2021, Kablawi’s LinkedIn page indicated that he was an undergraduate student at UofC, slated to graduate in 2020, where he reportedly majored in Anthropology.
Also as of February 2021, Kablawi indicated on an August 2020 Academe blog and petition that he was a student at U of C’s Center for Middle East Studies, slated to graduate in 2022.
Promoting Terrorists
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the PFLP during the terrorist organization’s early years.
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.
After the structure was demolished, the dealer reportedly claimed that the structure had been built to serve as a “center for conducting coronavirus tests.”
After the structure was demolished, the dealer reportedly claimed that the structure had been built to serve as a “center for conducting coronavirus tests.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organizationby the European Union since 2001, Canada since 2002, Australia since 2003, the United States since 1997 and Israel since 1989.
On April 10, 2020, Kablawi tweeted a photo of Kheffiyeh-masked Palestinian menthrowing stones, and added: “this and a blunt.”
On February 16, 2021, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Kablawi tweeted: “What drives me crazy is how nuanced people are willing to get around the equitability of the vaccine rollout in the US, and will then go ‘well if you look at Israel…’ What? If you look at Israel you see sytemic murder through negligence.”
On July 13, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “israelis be like ‘we invented cherry tomatoes so shut the f**k up about ethnic cleansing.’”
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern political Zionist movement. His 1896 book, “The Jewish State” envisioned the founding of an independent Jewish state within the next century. The First Zionist Congress was held in 1897. Herzl’s vision culminated in the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.
On July 29, 2019, Kablawi co-led [Slide 1] a virtual tour of Nablus, posted to SJP Chicago’s Instagram Stories in a series of photos and videos. Kablawi’s co-presenter was SJP Chicago board member Mona Zubi.
On August 23, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “my camera roll will be like: *a*** *a*** *80's PFLP poster* *meme* *a*** *picture of darwish* *twitter screenshot*.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a designated terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Australia.
On July 9, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “broke: reading Peter Beinart's article on the one-state solution. woke: honoring the memory of Ghassan Kanafani on the day of his assasination by engaging with his (prolific) body of work.”
Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On May 22, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “we need a disney princess who is leila khaled.”
On March 28, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “Read Laila Khaled’s Autobiography!” in response to the tweet: “send me some recs of palestinian women writers plz.”
Spreading Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories
On August 29, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “My heart breaks for Gaza everyday. Israel is weaponizing COVID. Again and again we get proof that this seige is an ethnic cleansing.”
On July 22, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “Purposefully denying Palestinians access to COVID relief is biological warfare. Enabling higher infection rates in Palestinian communities is an act of ethnic cleansing. The zionist state will let COVID commit genocide, and reap its violent rewards.”
Kablawi also suggested that Israel waged “biological warfare” against Palestinians,and claimed that Israel destroyed a COVID-19 testing center in Hebron.
On July 21, 2020, Israel reportedly demolished an unlicensed car dealership located on land outside of Hebron, under Israel’s jurisdiction. Two weeks prior, Israel’s civil administration had reportedly warned the owner to stop the construction of the structure.
Glorifying Violence
On March 4, 2021, Kablawi tweeted photos of Palestinian rioters, some of whom were wearing Hamas headbands, while another photo showed violent protestors next to a PFLP flag, using slingshots and throwing rocks. Kablawi added: “me and my homies after we get the vaccine:”
Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.
On April 10, 2020, Kablawi tweeted a photo of Kheffiyeh-masked Palestinian menthrowing stones, and added: “this and a blunt.”
Demonizing Israel
As of March 2021, Kablawi displayed a pinned February 26, 2021 tweet at the top of his Twitter feed, where he wrote: “Israel is an Apartheid State."
On March 4, 2021, Kablawi tweeted: “what is israel, if not colonialism perservering?”
In the same Twitter thread, Kablawi also tweeted: “People around the world continue to look at Israel as a model for vaccine distribution, as if restrictions on the Palestinian coronavirus response are ancillary to their own. But apartheid *is* Israel's vaccine distribution model.”
Under the Oslo Accords [p. 5], the Palestinian Authority (PA) is responsible for providing health services to Palestinians under its jurisdiction. In December 2020, PA officials reportedly contacted Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) department to request the vaccine, which Israel agreed to provide.
On January 27, 2021, Kablawi tweeted: “Apartheid is not an ‘analogy’ applied to Israel's treatment of Palestinians. It is an accurate descriptor of only *some* of the policies of the Zionist project, which has *always* employed practices of segregation as a means toward complete territorial control over Palestine.”
On November 18, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “The term ‘Israeli Apartheid’ is not a criticism of Israel, designed to make the state ‘look bad’ by comparing it to South Africa. Apartheid is its own legal framework in international law, and Israel *actively* meets the criteria for that definition.”
Kablawi tweeted in the same thread: “Apartheid is not a catch-all term to describe the zionist colonization ofPalestine. It's framework is particularly useful for describing the legal/political subjugation of Palestinians today. There are many other war crimes to try Israel for!”
On August 28, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “zionists on this app are like: ‘you cant call the Nakba a genocide because it didnt work as well as they planned!’"
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On July 13, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “israelis be like ‘we invented cherry tomatoes so shut the f**k up about ethnic cleansing.’”
Hatred of Zionists
On January 19, 2021, Kablawi tweeted a meme criticizing “American Zionists who had a good time on birthright.”
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
The meme likened Birthright attendees to blind person unable to notice “boundless documentary evidence of a racial caste system in Israel.”
On December 10, 2020, Kablawi replied to a now-deleted tweet, stating: “gonna start tagging Hamas under zionists' posts sksksksk.”
On November 29, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “theodor herzl writing ‘the jewish state’ in 1896” and added a meme of a woman stating: “I am going to create an ethnostate that is so colonialist.”
Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern political Zionist movement. His 1896 book, “The Jewish State” envisioned the founding of an independent Jewish state within the next century. The First Zionist Congress was held in 1897. Herzl’s vision culminated in the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.
On August 16, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “I'm a journalist looking to interview liberal Zionists who do not support Black Lives Matter because of their stance on BDS. The article is about living with worms for brains.”
On March 28, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “checking my temperature lately” and added an illustration of a person taking their temperature, with the thermometer reading: “still think zionism is racism.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On July 20, 2019, Kablawi was featured leading a virtual tour of the Israeli cities of Akko and Haifa, in footage posted to SJP Chicago’s Instagram stories as a series of videos and photos, titled “Haifa and Akka.”
The tour Kablawi read was part of SJP Chicago’s “Explore Palestine” Instagram series, posted to Instagram on July 18, 2019. SJP Chicago posted to their Instagram inviting students to “Explore Palestine with SJP Chicago stories.”
In one video [Slide 3] in the “Haifa Akka” Instagram story series, Kablawi accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in 1948.
In the same “Haifa Akka” Instagram story series, SJP Chicago posted [Slide 6] a photo of Kablawi sitting on the beach, captioned: “Blocking out colonizers at the beach.”
On July 22, 2019, Kablawi featured in a video [Slide 3] posted by SJP Chicago to their Instagram stories, leading a virtual tour of “Ofer prison.”
A photo posted [Slide 7] to the “Ofer Prison” story series, showed a caption claiming: “The trees around the prison are planted to block people’s view of the human rights abuses that occur inside.”
Another video showed [Slide 8] Kablawi throwing a stone in the direction of the prison, with the caption: “throwing rocks at Ofar prison...lock me the f**k up Israel why don’t you.”
BDS Support
On February 26, 2021, Kablawi tweeted: “In all seriousness, please uphold the Palestinian call to BDS and stop purchasing Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. Their contract with supermarkets in West Bank settlements ensures that they directly profit off of the theft of Palestinian land.”
On October 30, 2020, Kablawi tweeted a 12 part thread on the topic of: “Debunking claims about antisemitism in the BDS movement.”
In the thread, Kablawi tweeted: “The Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement seeks to place international pressure on Israel to conform to human rights standards in its occupation of Palestinian territory. There is currently no framework by which Israel is held responsible for its regular violations.”
Kablawi also tweeted: “BDS is not an organization — it's a tactic by which citizens, organizations, and states can pressure Israel to commit to the standards of international law. It seeks to create an economic incentive for Israel to treat Palestinians with dignity, since it will not do so otherwise.”
Kablawi also claimed: “Israel has made a political-economic investment in the maintenance and suppression of the Palestinian population, to secure Jewish supremacy in the Jewish state.
He then stated in the same thread: “Think of the alternatives to a demographic superiority maintained in violence — that's what BDS is advocating for. A future equality for Palestinians, a world without segregarion and apartheid.”
On August 19, 2020, Kablawi tweeted: “Okay I know this summer has been tough but it just dawned on me that birthright was cancelled... COVID is on some BDS s**t.”
Attending the 2019 National SJP 2019
On November 3, 2019, SJP Chicago posted a photo of Kablawi and other SJP Chicago activists to their Instagram page, taken at the National SJP Conference.
SJP Chicago added: “Some of our beautiful SJP Chicago members repping their universities at the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference! Shoutout to the wonderful NSJP team for hosting another great conference ♥️✊🏼”
The 2019 National SJP Conference was held at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities (UMN), from November 1-3. The Conference themes centered on support for BDS as well as the rejection of Israel and Zionism.
The Conference partnered with numerous anti-Israel organizations and conducted their event in a clandestine manner.
During the Conference, National SJP speakers reportedly “noted the success of past divestment campaigns at the University [UMN], which ultimately resulted in the passing of a campus-wide [BDS] referendum in 2018.”
The UMN resolution passed in 2018 by a margin of 3.4 percent of those students who voted, translating to approval by 6.18% of all eligible voters. Less than 13% of the eligible voters actually voted on UMN’s BDS referendum.
The website clarified that “the Palestinian struggle against Zionism, extends beyond the confines of 1967, and well before the Nakba,” and was based on the rejection of Jewish national self-determination in Israel.
Nakba is an Arabic term for “catastrophe” and refers to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel.
Keynote speakers included Loubna Qutami, Chair of PYM, as well as Taher Herzallah of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Other speakers included Miko Peled, Sandra Tamari, Suhad Katib, Chris Gazaleh, Clarissa Bitar, Tariq Luthun, Maytha Alhassen and Sima Shakhsari.
The Conference partnered with numerous anti-Israel organizations and conducted their event in a clandestine manner.
2019 National SJP - Supporting BDS
The Conference website called to capitalize on shifts in the political climate, represented by the elections to the U.S. Congress of Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who both support BDS. National SJP speakers also reportedly drew attention to Rep. Omar’s support for the BDS movement as the Representative for UMN’s Congressional district.During the Conference, National SJP speakers reportedly “noted the success of past divestment campaigns at the University [UMN], which ultimately resulted in the passing of a campus-wide [BDS] referendum in 2018.”
The UMN resolution passed in 2018 by a margin of 3.4 percent of those students who voted, translating to approval by 6.18% of all eligible voters. Less than 13% of the eligible voters actually voted on UMN’s BDS referendum.
2019 National SJP - Rejecting Israel and Zionism
The 2019 National SJP Conference website indicated that the goal of their “solidarity movement” was to push for policies that “demanded the end of” the state of Israel, referred to as “the Israeli occupation.”The website clarified that “the Palestinian struggle against Zionism, extends beyond the confines of 1967, and well before the Nakba,” and was based on the rejection of Jewish national self-determination in Israel.
Nakba is an Arabic term for “catastrophe” and refers to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel.
2019 National SJP - Heightened Secrecy
The 2019 National SJP Conference required attendees to be “verified and vouched for” by an SJP chapter to which they belonged and required each chapter to register as a group. The conference also required each group to be verified by a “reference––someone who is NOT going to this conference but who is or has recently been a part of your SJP.”Members of allied student groups could register only as part of an SJP chapter delegation which, in turn, needed to be “vouched for by their campus’s SJP” for “security culture and accountability reasons.”
The Conference also restricted media access to journalists “registered and confirmed by our Media Committee in advance to attend the conference. Absolutely no exceptions will be made.”
During the Conference, National SJPreportedly covered the windows of the conference hall.
2019 National SJP - Partnering Organizations
National SJP partnered with other anti-Israel organizations to table, sell merchandise and lead workshops, including CODEPINK, Palestine Youth Movement (PYM), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Palestine Legal, Watan Palestine and the Adalah Justice Project.Keynote speakers included Loubna Qutami, Chair of PYM, as well as Taher Herzallah of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Other speakers included Miko Peled, Sandra Tamari, Suhad Katib, Chris Gazaleh, Clarissa Bitar, Tariq Luthun, Maytha Alhassen and Sima Shakhsari.
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 Student 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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/k.ablawi/ [Deleted]
Videos
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Infamous Quotes
“israelis be like ‘we invented cherry tomatoes so shut the f**k up about ethnic cleansing.’”
“broke: reading Peter Beinart's article on the one-state solution. woke: honoring the memory of Ghassan Kanafani on the day of his assasination by engaging with his (prolific) body of work.”
“we need a disney princess who is leila khaled.”
“Enabling higher infection rates in Palestinian communities is an act of ethnic cleansing. The zionist state will let COVID commit genocide, and reap its violent rewards.”
“Israel is an Apartheid State.”
“I'm a journalist looking to interview liberal Zionists who do not support Black Lives Matter because of their stance on BDS. The article is about living with worms for brains.”
“throwing rocks at Ofar prison...lock me the f**k up Israel why don’t you.”
