Rami Khouri
Overview
Rami Khouri [Rami George Khouri] has demonized Jews, whitewashed terrorism, defended the Knife Intifada and spread incitement. Khouri has also glorified violent protesters, spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories, demonized Israel, as well as supporters of Israel and spread hatred of Israel.Khouri is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Khouri has been a featured speaker at anti-Israel events, including the “Israel Apartheid Week” sponsored by Northeastern University’s (Northeastern) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter in 2013. He has delivered lectures across the world.
As of November 2021, Harvard University’s (Harvard) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Belfer) listed Khouri as a “Senior Fellow” in its Middle East Initiative. The Belfer website also said he was a “Research Associate” at Syracuse University’s (Syracuse) Maxwell School School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
As of November 2021, Khouri was listed by the American University of Beirut (AUB) as its Director of Global Engagement. He was also listed as a Senior Public Policy Fellow and a Professor of Journalism and a Journalist-in-Residence at AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI). The Belfer website named Khouri as the Founding Director of IFI, from 2006 to 2014.
As of November 2019, Northwestern University’s Journalism School in Doha, Qatar (NU-Q) reported that Khouri was a member of NU-Q’s Joint Advisory Board since 2012. NU-Q also said that Khouri was on the international advisory board of the Center for Regional and International Studies at Georgetown University in Doha, Qatar (GU-Q).
As of November 2021, Khouri was listed as an opinion contributor to Al Jazeera English (AJ English), since January 2014. Khouri was also an internationally syndicated columnist at Agence Global, as of November 2021.
As of October 2021, Khouri was listed on the Friends of Sabeel, North America (FOSNA) website as one of its “Palestinian Speakers” especially suited to “tell the story of Palestine.”
As of November 2021, Belfer’s website listed Khouri as a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World. The Belfer website also said that Khouri is a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) in Jerusalem.
As of November 2021, AUB indicated that Khouri served a four year term on the International Committee of the Red Cross's international advisory board, and was a 2006 co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award.
As of January 2016, Khouri was reportedly the editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, and executive editor of the Daily Star from 2003–2005. In November 2013, Al Jazeera reported that Khouri was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard, from 2001-2002. Khouri was also reportedly the Editor-in-Chief of the English-language Jordan Times, from 1975 to 1982.
Khouri received a bachelor's degree in political science from Syracuse in 1970 and a masters degree in Communications from Syracuse in 1998.
Demonizing Jews
On May 26, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “Destroying Palestinian homes has been a pillar of Zionist colonial policy from the late 1940s… The policy is a failure & a big ethical black spot for all Jews.”The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.” Another example listed is: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Twenty-eight European countries, as well as Canada, Australia, Israel and Argentina, have also adopted the definition.
On February 9, 2021, Khouri tweeted: “This is the American South &South Africa in 1930...militant racist brutality that is all the more shocking because it is done by Jews who've suffered from white Europeans the worst racism that humankind has ever known. Apartheid is a crime done by many, and it must end.”
On May 13, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas, Khouri tweeted: “The real tragedy here is that innocent Jews who suffered these fears over centuries of antisemitismin… would inflict the same racist treatment on Palestinians...”
In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.
Whitewashing Terrorism
On December 20, 2015, Khouri was interviewed by BBC Hour, where he said [00:05:01] that Samir Kuntar “joined a Palestinian group in Lebanon called the Palestine Liberation Front [PLF] and in 1979 he was involved in a guerilla operation in Israel which the Israelis called a terrorist operation.”Samir Kuntar belonged to both Hezbollah and the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) and was infamousfor brutally murdering an Israeli father and daughter in April 1979. He was jailed, but released 20 years later in a prisoner exchange. On December 19, 2015, Kuntar was killed by an explosion outside Damascus.
On August 22, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece in IPolitics.ca, where he expressed admiration for Hamas as tragic heroes and criticized Israel’s targeted assasination of Hamas leadership. Khouri also referred to Hamas leadership as “resistance leaders.”
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.
On July 15, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Khouri published an opinion piece, originally published with Agence Global on the Harvard’s Belfer Center website, where he said that Hamas is “heroic” because “their will to resist is indomitable.”
Hamas fired over 4,564 missiles and rockets — including Grad rockets — at Israeli population centers during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July of 2014.
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On January 31, 2009, Khouri wrote an opinion piece with Agence Global, where he labeled Hamas’s “recent armed resistance against Israel,” during Operation Cast Lead (OCL), as a source of their “powerful legitimacy.”
Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.
On January 5, 2009, Khouri wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times where he claimed that Hamas and Hezbollah “are the ideological step-children of the Likud Party.”
Hezbollah has long been known as an anti-Semitic and genocidal terror organization dedicated to destroying Israel.
In the same opinion piece, Khouri also claimed that the strength of Hamas and Hezbollah comes in part due to the attitude of Israelis, “especially those in government” whom he said “seem to feel that they have the right to respond to attacks against them by using indiscriminate violence against Palestinian civilians - but Palestinians do not have the same right to respond when they are attacked by Israel.”
During OCL, Hamas’s extensive use of civilians as human shields and deployment of weaponry from civilian homes in Gaza was documented, both by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and international organizations.
Defending the “Knife Intifada”
On October 21, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global, titled: “Five generations of Palestinians, no surrender in sight.”In his piece, Khouri suggested those committing terrorist attacks against Israel civilians were akin to the ancient Biblical Jews who, for generations, refused to marry Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Amalekites who had “mistreated, cursed, attacked and refused safe passage to the Israelites who trekked to...the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible.”
Khouri also wrote: “The fifth Palestinian generation since 2000 is on the streets of Palestine today, fighting and killing and doing anything it can to end this conflict and achieve its national liberty.”
The Palestinian second intifada, launched in 2000, was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
The month Khouri wrote his piece, October 2015, saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
On November 11, 2015, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global where he said: “[T]he situation is not a symmetrical one.”
Khouri then suggested that both Israelis and Palestinians were equally involved in terror, writing: "Public opinion in both Israel and Palestine has hardened and shifted dangerously towards accepting, advocating, or anticipating violence and death as inevitable for both of them. This is evident in the street murders that both sides continue to carry out."
Khouri added: “Restraining oneself and stopping the killings are useful acts which we should aim for, but they would be almost meaningless if Israel’s existing occupation/colonization/annexation/siege and Apartheid-like policies remain unchanged.”
On November 28, 2015, Khouri published an opinion piece with the Agence Global, where he claimed: “The rising tides of Israeli racist colonialism, alongside mass humiliation and hopelessness among Palestinians, especially the youth who have never known any life other than under Israeli occupation, finally erupted into the current frenzy of mutual killings by the Israeli occupier-colonizer and desperate occupied Palestinians.”
Statistical studies suggest that both higher education and standard of living actually correlate positively with participation in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror attacks. There are multiple examples anectodal evidence that indicate “hopelessness” is not what drives Palestinians to terrorism.
Spreading Incitement
On May 21, 2021, Khouri tweeted in reference to an AJ+ tweet about Sheikh Jarrah: “The apartheid system & ethnic cleansing that Zionism has used to prevail to date in controlling the land of Palestine persists; this is why it must be resisted & fought until justice prevails for all...just like happened in South Africa = Equal rights for Israelis & Palestinians.”In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
On May 11, 2021, Khouri tweeted a video of an interview with him on Al Jazeera where he claimed [00:00:53] that Palestinians “push back, most of them peacefully out on the streets throwing stones or chairs or plastic shoes or whatever they have available…”
Glorifying Violent Protesters
On June 24, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “Israel & all occupying powers fail to grasp the indomitable will and endless creativity of the occupied to find new ways to resist...infiltration, rockets, tunnels, boats, drones, slingshots, kites...and 1000 other means in reserve, from the bottomless arsenal of the human spirit.”On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests,” or the “March of Return.” The march was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the Palestinian demand to “return” to Israel. The “right of return” has since been discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
On September 22, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “The number of injured Palestinians, virtually all unarmed civilians, has reached 20,000 since the weekly protests started earlier this year. 20,000!”
March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire. Agitators also threw Molotov cocktails and firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks.
On October 13, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “The Israeli troops & snipers have maimed some 21,000 young Palestinians who have mostly protested peacefully and persistently at the Gaza frontier in the past six months. 21,000! May God care for both the wounded and the wounders, so neither has to continue suffering like this.”
Media reports confirmed [00:00:20] the March of Return protesters’ breaches and attempted breaches of Israel’s border fence, some by armed Palestinians. On May 15, 2018, senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, said that the Gaza protests were under a pretext of “peaceful resistance.”
On March 28, 2019, Khouri tweeted: “Israel injured 31,000 -- thirty-one thousand -- Palestinians in the past year, most of them unarmed civilians protesting nonviolently. American officials working on the Middle East who care about people's rights need to be less hypocritical and more even-handed to be credible.”
The violent riots during the “March of Return” continued into 2019 and included armed protesters using gunfire, penetrating Israeli territory, launching incendiary kites into Israel and throwing IEDs, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails. Some of the attacks were carried out by Hamas operatives.
Spreading Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories
On November 3, 2007, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) re-published an opinion piece by Khouri, originally published by Al Jazeera, titled: “Rami Khouri: Is the Israel Lobby Pushing the United States?”Authors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's 2007 book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," invokes the conspiracy theory of Israeli and Jewish control over the U.S. government. Proponents of the theory decry the negative effects on American interests, particularly in foreign policy.
In the article, Khouri lauded Walt and Mearsheimer’s accusations as “groundbreaking” and “factually correct.” He also alleged that “personal attacks are how the lobby intimidates and usually silences - politicians, journalists, academics and others — whose views it disagrees with.”
On May 3, 2010, Khouri published a cartoon of then-Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, portrayed as a puny individual with a hulking giant standing behind him, labeled: “Israel Lobby in America.”
The giant was depicted forcing then-US President Barack Obama’s hand in a game of chess, knocking out a piece labeled: “Obama’s Orders for Freezing Settlement.”
On May 30, 2011, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global where he claimed “[E]very American member of Congress lives in absolute fear of being denounced by the pro-Israeli lobbies in the U.S. as unfriendly to Israel, which would immediately result in that congressman or woman losing their seat in the next election.”
Khouri also wrote that the U.S. Congress had become “a captive and manipulated tool in the hands of a foreign power.“
On October 1, 2013, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global, where he alleged that historic U.S. support for Israel was due to “Netanyahu’s proven ability to manipulate so many members of Congress against the American president.”
On November 14, 2015, Khouri featured as a panelist at a Harvard conference titled: “A New Day? Organizing to Change US Policy on Israel and Palestine,” where he accused [00:05:18] Harvard’s former-President Larry Summers of making false accusations of anti-Semitism against him.
Khouri then said [00:05:50] that the accusation of anti-Semitism is “not as effective as it used to be” and claimed that this is “a sign that the Israeli lobby has been flushed out of the shadows, in the last 10 years or so...”
On May 8, 2021, in an interview on Al Jazeera, Khouri claimed [00:14:32] that regardingSheikh Jarrah, there was “very successful Zionist Israeli manupulation of the international media through various mechanisms that they use, lobbying and intimidation etcetera to try to silence the Palestinian voice…”
The assertion that Jews control the media has been traced to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic fabricated text that depicts wealthy Jews conspiring to take over the world.
Demonizing Israel
On May 25, 2021, in a video interview on Al Jazeera, Khouri said: [00:02:01] “if the Israelis… wanted really to negotiate peace, they would let Marwan Barghouti out of jail, he’s a very charismatic leader… who would absolutely win an overwhelming election in Palestine and that’s why the Israelis have him in jail.”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 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 May 21, 2021, Khouri tweeted: “...the Zionist Israeli apartheid ethos says that they can kill and maim at will because they have more and greater rights to life , land and security than any foe. Which is why they have had to keep killing for a century.”
On May 14, 2021, Khouri tweeted that “Israel is powerful, but driven by a misguided colonial mentality that knows how to kill but not how to coexist.”
On February 13, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “The battle between Zionist colonialism & the international rule of law will be won by the rule of law, for most people and governments in the world are law-abiding moderates, not cruel colonialists. This is the battle Israel always wanted to avoid, as did apartheid South Africa.”
On May 14, 2021, Khouri tweeted that “Israel is powerful, but driven by a misguided colonial mentality that knows how to kill but not how to coexist.”
On February 13, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “The battle between Zionist colonialism & the international rule of law will be won by the rule of law, for most people and governments in the world are law-abiding moderates, not cruel colonialists. This is the battle Israel always wanted to avoid, as did apartheid South Africa.”
On July 15, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “It is difficult to keep a straight face when reading about Israel wanting to ‘prevent massacres’ in Syria, given the many dozens of massacres Israeli forces carried out in 1947-48 to drive out Palestinians in order to create a more ethnically pure Jewish state, which succeeded.”
On July 3, 2016, Khouri tweeted: “Palestine looks like Birmingham or Soweto last century. Disgraceful Colonial behavior is a blot on Jewish history.”
On April 12, 2016, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global, where he accused Israel of “colonial settlements, mass incarceration of Palestinians by the thousands, the continuing semi-siege of Gaza, or cold blood killings of Palestinians who are not a clear security threat.”
On January 3, 2015, Khouri tweeted: “Senator Graham paying allegiance to Israel mirrors Islamist radicals paying allegiance to ISIS . Wild men everywhere. Dangers to the world..”
On September 27, 2014, shortly after the end of Israel’s OPE against Hamas, Khouri published an article with Agence Global, titled: “Palestine's Moral Force Needs Diplomatic Power.” In the article, he claimed: “There is a long and deep (and continuing) catalogue of Israeli actions against Palestinians that contravene international humanitarian law (IHL) and various conventions on war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.
On August 24, 2014, Khouri tweeted: “#Israel faces same dilemma as #Apartheid South Africans:massive power & violence fail to subjugate the natives. solution is equality/freedom.”
On July 30, 2014, during OPE, Khouri published an article with Agence Global where he said: “The sophistication of the tunnel system the Israel now seeks to destroy reflects the determination of the Palestinians living under a colonial-style siege in Gaza to fight back and achieve their freedom, even at the risk of death.”
Hamas terror tunnels are intended for mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios against Israeli civiliansand soldiers. They stretch from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
In his July 30, 2014 article, Khouri also alleged: “The intensity and savagery of the Israeli attacks against (mostly) civilians in Gaza are well documented.”
On July 12, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece with the Daily Star where he strongly suggested that Israel was behaving like “French, British and Italian colonial powers” or others who have, historically, “killed, occupied, jailed, slaughtered, and exiled Arabs at will, treating them more like animals than human beings.”
Khouri also wrote: “the savage battles in Palestine-Israel, suggest that the colonial era has never really ended, and that we are still suffering the ugly consequences of White men from the North with powerful guns and fighter planes who feel they can kill thousands of darker people from the South with total impunity – and come back and do it again three years later, and again three years after that.”
On May 21, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece in Agence Global where he commended the formation of unity government between Fatah and Hamas, and condemned “Israel’s colonization and Apartheid-like Jewish supremacist ideology.”
On June 2, 2010, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global where he leveraged the incident of the Mavi Marmara to suggest that “Zionism, and by implication Israel and Judaism, [have] been transformed from a commitment to preserving life to a media-based justification for siege, assault, piracy and murder.”
The Mavi Marmara was the lead ship in the “Freedom Flotilla” that attempted to sail to Gaza in May 2010. Activists aboard the ship agitated for violent confrontation and chanted a slogan glorifying the killing of Jews. When Israeli security forces boarded the Marmara, protesters attacked them with iron bars, metal chairs, knives, stun grenades and firearms, rocks and bottles. A United Nations report found that the flotilla agitators initiated an organized, violent confrontation with Israeli forces, and that the Marmara was carrying no humanitarian aid, only weaponry.
In his article, Khouri went on to accuse Israel of: “aggression, ethnic cleansing, massacres, occupation, siege, collective punishment, low-intensity starvation, colonization, and occasional bouts of barbarism against the Palestinians and other Arabs.”
Khouri also declared: “Israel makes of its historical and permanent victimhood an absolute right to transform any place in the world into a free-fire zone and a killing field where it can run amok.”
Demonizing Supporters of Israel
On March 12, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “Zionismhas been based on building a Jewish state that erases the Palestinians from the land and from history. The Jewish state exists. The 1.5 million Palestinians of 1948 are now over 12 million, and they are not going anywhere except to their recuperated national integrity.”On October 12, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” Khouri tweeted: “@ISMPalestine in the eyes of Zionism,Palestinian kids are VERY provocative, simply by living & going to school in Palestine;so they get shot.”
Khouri was responding to a tweet by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) that said: “#IsraeliForces shooting tear gas at school children in #Hebron - entirely unprovoked. Children run back home.”
On April 1, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global, titled: “Zionism’s Fanatics Face New Landscapes.” In the article, Khouri criticized “rabid Zionists,” “Zionist criminality,” and “Israel’s continued colonization, subjugation and mistreatment of the Palestinian people.”
Khouri also denigrated then-Republican presidential candidates addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), claiming in reference to then-Governor of Ohio John Kasich, then-Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker and then-Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie: “They leaped, howled and virtually stripped naked in proclaiming their endless love for Israel and Zionism, hoping to get hundreds of millions of dollars ...”
Khouri referred to the RJC as “a bank account for wildly pro-Israel candidates.”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
In a July 30, 2014 article, published with Agence Global, Khouri said: “European Jews experienced the genocidal crimes of the Nazis and the pogroms of Central Europeans and Russians, and Palestinians in their own world experienced the ethnic cleansing and colonial domination of the Zionists who came and created the Israeli state.”
On October 14, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” Khouri published an article with Agence Global, where he wrote: ‘It is a crime against rational language and thought to speak of ‘restoring calm’ and ‘reducing the violence’ in a situation like this where the Israelis are the occupiers, tormentors, colonizers and mass killers of mostly defenseless Palestinians.”
Khouri described the “Knife Intifada” terrorists as “killing individual Israeli soldiers, occupiers or settlers mostly, by any available means, usually kitchen knives or cars.”
Forty-one Israeli civilians were killed in terror attacks across Israel between September 2015-March 2016. During that time, there were 203 stabbings and attempted stabbings, 82 shootings and 41 vehicular ramming attacks.
Khouri claimed “The Israelis have tried every possible means of turning the Palestinians into passive and captive invisible people who have no rights, who have no thoughts, who have no lives, who are worth no more than a piece of dirt.”
He also wrote: “But the Zionist-Israelis are stumped, because everything they have tried since the 1940s has not worked — occupation, ethnic cleansing, massacres, curfews, walls, drones, massive military destruction, siege, semi-starvation, forced exile, regular assassinations...Judaizing Jerusalem and other Palestinian places — everything Israel has tried to turn the Palestinians into passive and docile cretins has not worked.”
Khouri then added: “But the heavily armed Israelis keep killing, and killing, and killing, and then they also complain that the Palestinians who resist being killed, exiled and colonized are engaging in incitement, and then they get back to killing some more."
On November 2, 2015, Khouri tweeted an embedded tweet that said: “Israeli narrative totally ignores the existence of a military occupation and a colonial illegal settlements. Only Palestinians killing Jews.”
Khouri commented: “This racist bias is also widely replicated in the usa. Palestinians still have not achieved human form , it seems .”
On November 28, 2015, Khouri published an opinion piece with Agence Global, where he claimed to document “decades of colonization of Palestinian land by the Israeli state” and “rising tides of Israeli racist colonialism.”
He also claimed: “for nearly the past century the Palestine-Israel conflict has been, and remains today, probably the single most destructive, radicalizing, and destabilizing force in the Middle East.”
Speaking on Anti-Israel Panels
On November 14, 2015, Khouri was a panelist at a Harvard conference, titled: “A New Day? Organizing to Change US Policy on Israel and Palestine,” where he described [00:06:17] the U.S. senate as “the last bastion of the fanatic, Pro-Israeli, Right-wing, Zionist, Likud-nik, kind of position.”During the panel, Khouri also likened [00:13:07] Israel to Apartheid South Africa.
On November 24, 2014, during OPE, Khouri moderated a symposium at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at AUB, titled: “Israel's War on Gaza: Political, Moral, and Legal Accountability.”
Khouri claimed [00:02:55]: “[W]e’re focusing on Israel’s actions in Gaza because they were so serious, and so vicious and so relentless against unarmed civilians for the most part.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during OPE — Hamas's deployment of human shields was documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields, to specifically frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Supporting BDS
On June 11, 2021, Khouri tweeted: “Sports/commercial boycotts helped end South African apartheid. They will play a similar role in ending Zionist-Israeli apartheid & settler-colonialism…”
On February 13, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “This is one more small but significant step in the battle that Israel will lose; because the more that Israeli illegal, harsh & colonial/occupation practices are exposed in public or challenged in courts, the less Zionist extremists can influence Western leaders and policies.”
On February 13, 2020, Khouri tweeted: “This is one more small but significant step in the battle that Israel will lose; because the more that Israeli illegal, harsh & colonial/occupation practices are exposed in public or challenged in courts, the less Zionist extremists can influence Western leaders and policies.”
Khouri also embedded a BDS Movement tweet that said: “At last, the UN released a database of companies complicit in Israel's illegal settlement enterprise, despite bullying by Trump and Israel's far-right government. These companies must be held to account, including through strategic boycotts and divestment campaigns.
On August 16, 2019, Khouri tweeted: “All justifications of Israeli acts -real or not- gain global support, like biblical link, self defence, democracy. but BDS is the only growing global movement critical of Israeli actions, so we get this hysterical Zionist reaction to it. All Apartheid everywhere will end.”
On April 20, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “That is probably because those Jews who voted for this are applying authentic Jewish ethical values anchored in justice, untainted by the bludgeoning zealotry of extremist Zionist skinheads and thugs who abound in Israel and the USA .”
Khouri embedded a tweet that said: “One Of The Most Jewish Colleges In The Country Just Voted For BDS By Nearly 2-1 Margin http://jd.fo/jUXi via @jdforward @EliClifton @YousefMunayyer.”
On August 1, 2018, Khouri tweeted: “Drip, drip, drip...the non-violent global drive to isolate the Apartheid-like policies of Israel in occupied Palestinian land keeps making small , steady advances, as it should in a world that values justice.”
Khouri embedded a tweet that said: “The BDS movement just scored a resounding victory, as Adidas pull out of sponsoring Israel's football Association.”
On May 18, 2016, Khouri authored an opinion piece for Agence Global promoting the BDS movement. Khouri added: “Zionists and Israelis howl in protest that BDS is a form of anti-Semitism, and their echo chamber minions like Hillary Clinton and others howl in unison, but to no avail, because they are lying, and the world knows it.”
On September 2, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece in IPolitics.ca titled: “Israel needs to worry about more than Hamas,” where he described the BDS movement as a potentially effective “adversary that Israel cannot bomb, expel, colonize, imprison or occupy.”
On June 25, 2014, Khouri published an opinion piece with The Daily Star, a Lebanese-based newspaper that focuses on “Lebanese and regional news.”
In his piece which was also posted by Harvard’s Belfer Center, Khoury commended the Presbytarian Church for voting to “withdraw its investments in three companies that profit from sales to organizations involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands – Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard.”
Qatar - Terrorism
Qatar is one of the primary state backers of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and has provided funding for Hamas in the past. Qatar facilitates funding to advance extremism around the world, including the West.
Qatar Foundation
In 1995, the then-Emir of Qatar and his wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, created the Qatar Foundation (QF) to “advance education, science, and cultural development.”In 1995, QF was given two billion dollars in resources by the Qatari Government “to address knowledge and capacity deficits” and transform into a “knowledge-based economy.”
QF launched Education City (EC) in 1997, with the stated goal of providing “world-class education to the people of Qatar.”
In 2003, the campus was officially inaugurated.
Qatar Foundation - Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood
In 2007, Yusuf al-Qaradawi announced QF’s establishment of the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) in EC. The QFIS structure was to be created by an advisory committee, chaired by al-Qaradawi.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi [Yousef Al-Qaradhawi] was the founder and, as of April 2020, remained head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. In 2005, The Wall Street Journal reported the council used the anti-Semitic fabricated text, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as a basis for some of its deliberations.
al-Qaradawi said in a statement that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2009: "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews...The last punishment was carried out by Hitler...Allah Willing, the next time will be at the hand of the Believers."
al-Qaradawi has also called for the murder of American civilians, as well as American troops in Iraq, homosexuals and Jews and expressed support for domestic violence against women.
al-Qaradawi said in a statement that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2009: "Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews...The last punishment was carried out by Hitler...Allah Willing, the next time will be at the hand of the Believers."
al-Qaradawi has also called for the murder of American civilians, as well as American troops in Iraq, homosexuals and Jews and expressed support for domestic violence against women.
In 2008, Moza bint Nasser and QF established within QFIS, the al-Qaradawi Centre for Research in Moderate Thought, also known as the “Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal,” in honor of “His Eminence” Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
QFIS described al-Qaradawi as “a pioneer of Islamic moderate thought” and the research center’s “main theorist.”
In January 2012, QF opened the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), “under the guidance of Director Dr. Tariq Ramadan.” In October 2015, Ramadan was listed as the CILE Director.
Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hassan al-Banna and son of senior Brotherhood operative Said Ramadan. Tariq Ramadanis also alleged to be a serial-rapist, as well asa terrorist supporter.
NU-Q - Qatar Foundation
In 2008, QF invited Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois to set up a Qatari satellite campus in EC, Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q), focusing on journalism and communications.
The degree that NU-Q awards students upon graduation would be identical to that earned at NU’s Evanston, IL campus.
The degree that NU-Q awards students upon graduation would be identical to that earned at NU’s Evanston, IL campus.
On July 10, 2009, the Chronicle of Higher Education released an article critical of the academic standards of EC, noting that: "Administrators at several branch campuses of American universities in Qatar acknowledge that they accept students with admissions standards that fall below those expected on their home campuses…"
On April 5, 2014, Everett Dennis, NU-Q’s then-Dean and CEO said [00:12:25] in an interview with Richard Heffner, a former professor of Communications and Public policy at Rutgers University (Rutgers), that QF was “paying the bill” for NU-Q’s building, faculty, research and housing.
In March 2015, Stephen F. Eisenman, President of the Northwestern Faculty Senate, reported to the NU Faculty Senate that Qatari students receive full scholarships from the QF, while non-Qatari students, with some exceptions, must pay full costs. Eisenman also reported that “that five new endowed professorships at NU were recently funded out of QF money.”
In 2016, NU signed a 10-year extension to its agreement with QF, enabling NU-Q to operate through the 2027-2028 school year.
As of November 2019, the United States Department of Education (DoE) reported that Qatar gave NU $323.4 million in contract revenue since January 2013, averaging $49.6 million per year.
As of April 2020, Qatar Foundation’s contract with NU-Q was not available to the public.
As of May 2020, EC hosted six American university satellite campuses, in addition to NU-Q, including Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Texas A&M University.
QF lawyers, according to a January 2016 Washington Post article, petitioned the Texas attorney general in an attempt to keep the operational and financial details confidential.
However, the Washington Post was able to publish the 2012 10-year contract between VCU and QF because it was “disclosed as a matter of public record.” The projected budget included a VCU management fee of $3.6 million dollars for 2013, to rise to $4.1 in 2015.
The Washington Post article added: “The other four U.S. schools involved are private: Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern and Georgetown universities. They all declined Post requests for their Qatar contracts.”
The Washington Post later published the 2014 contract between Texas A&M and QF in a March 2016 article. The contract stated: “Texas A&M is eligible for a management fee for running the branch — an amount set at $8.2 million in fiscal 2014.”
In 2019, the U.S. DoE was reportedly “quietly investigating Georgetown and three other universities — Texas A&M, Cornell and Rutgers — over their funding from Qatar.”
Qatar Foundation - Anti-Israel Campaign
In 2009, the Qatar Foundation hired the U.S. public relations firm, Fenton Communications, to develop “a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign,” using Al Fakhoora, a Qatari-based pro-Palestine initiative.The Fenton plan aimed to delegitimize Israel and generate international support for the Hamas-run Gaza strip, with a reported budget of $120,000.
Al Fakhoora was reportedly launched in 2009, following “the Israeli aggression on Gaza,” in support of promoting and facilitating access to higher education.
Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.
In May 2010, Farook Burney, director of Al Fakhoora, reportedly participated in the Mavi Marmara attempt to “break the siege in Gaza.”
The Mavi Marmara was the lead ship in a “Freedom Flotilla” of six ships that attempted to sail to Gaza in May 2010 to “break the siege.” A 2011 United Nations’ report found that the flotilla activists initiated a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. Following the incident there was no humanitarian aid found onboard the ship, only crude weaponry.
In June 2010, Burney reportedly told students at QFIS that "Al Fakhoora has launched an advocacy campaign to file legal charges against Israel and change the public perception in the West about its actions."
Qatar Foundation -EC Mosque Hosting Anti-Semitic Preachers
In April 2015, QF opened the Education City (EC) Mosque, located in Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) campus, adjacent to NU-Q.Since the opening of the mosque, QF’s newspaper has encouraged readers to “join the QF community for prayer” at the EC Mosque, which has hosted 18 preachers and clerics who have variously spread anti-Semitism, expressed support for terror, spread [00:00:20] a conspiracy theory that radicalized Muslims played no part in 9/11 or the Charlie Hebdo attacks and declared that the Jews use pornographic movies to “destroy the world and control it.”
One preacher, Salman al-Audah, claimed [00:02:48] in a sermon broadcast on a major Gulf media channel in August 2012, that Jews use “human blood” for Passover matzah.
A cleric, Tareq al-Hawas, stated [00:04:11] about Jews "If only Hitler had finished them off, thus relieving humanity of them." Hawas was reportedly a member of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in 2013.
Another cleric, Mohammed al-Arifi, proclaimed in 2012, that “one’s devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah and one’s will to shed blood, smash skulls, and chop off body parts...constitute an honor.”
On March 18, 2016, preacher Mudassir Ahmed spoke at the EC mosque, urging attendees to [00:37:47]: “Kill the infidels... Count them in number and do not spare one.”
On April 1, 2016, preacher Khalid Al-Bakr, who has expressed support for Hamas, spoke at EC’s Mosque, calling [00:36:47] for Allah to “render victorious our brothers the mujahideen...in every place” and to “guide their shooting.”
On October 30, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” al-Hawas used his pulpit at the EC mosque to condemn [00:30:18] “the aggressor Zionists,” adding: “Allah, Help out Islam and Muslims, humiliate the heathens; destroy the foes of the religion.” al Hawas also said: "Protect your house, Al-Aqsa mosque from the hands of the Zionist aggressors."
October 2015 saw a wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” where young Palestinians throughout Israel were stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The upsurge in violence across Israel was incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
NU-Q - Al Jazeera
Since 2008, NU-Q has worked closely with the Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera). In 2013, NU-Q signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with Al Jazeera “which deepens ties between the two organizations.”
Al Jazeera is a multinational multimedia conglomerate and parent company of the Qatari state-funded Al Jazeera. AJMN comprises an entirely state-owned network, chaired by Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar.
AJMN has been repeatedly accused of slanting news reports to promote and advance the agenda of theMuslim Brotherhood (MB), as well as MB’s offshoot, the Hamas terrorist organization.
On March 13, 2013, Qatari-based news site Marhaba reported that NU-Q’s MoU with Al Jazeera aimed to “further facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between the two media organisations.” NU-Q’s announcement of the MoU referred to itself and Al Jazeera as “two of Qatar’s foremost media organisations.”
The MoU was created, in part, so NU faculty would provide consultations to launch Al Jazeera America (AJAM), based on NU’s “expertise in the American Media Industry.”Al Jazeera, for its part, expressed “willingness to support NU-Q students with scholarships as well as training opportunities.”
Al Jazeera launched AJAM, an American news channel, 2013. However, the channel closed in April 2016 due to low viewership and following a crisis in 2015 when CEO Ehab Al Shihabi reportedly stepped down after accusations of sexism and anti-Semitism.
NU-Q’s MoU with Al Jazeera was signed by Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al-Thani, Qatari Minister of Economy and Commerce and Director General of Al Jazeera, as well as Everette Dennis, the Dean and CEO of NU-Q.
Since the MoU, Al Jazeera has maintained a close partnership with NU-Q, including funding NU-Q’s professorial research.
NU-Q Joint Advisory Board
Since NU-Q and Al Jazeera signed their initial MoU in 2013, NU-Q has a Joint Advisory Board (JAB), which consists of ten to eleven people; five or six positions filled by Qatari-connected members and five positions filled by Western members.All eleven of the current or previous Qatari-connected JAB members were directly affiliated with QF, Al Jazeera or the Qatari government.
There is little information available about the role of NU-Q’s JAB. The role of the Texas A&M University, Qatar (TAMUQ) JAB was exposed by the Washington Post in a 2016 article, to include general oversight and close monitoring and review of every aspect of TAMUQ, with QF paying the JAB TAMUQ expenses.
Multiple people associated with the NU-Q’s JAB have whitewashed al-Qaradawi, including the QF CEO and JAB Co-Chair from 2008-2019, Hind bint Hamad Al-Thani, JAB 2019-2020 member and president of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Ahmad Hasnah, as well as JAB 2012 - 2014 member and QF Vice President of education Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani.
Qatari State Minister, NU-Q JAB 2019-2020 member and AJ Vice Chairman Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, reportedly recommended a book that spread anti-semitism and authored an introduction praising the book. Yaser Bishr, 2017-2020 JAB member and Executive Director of digital media at Al Jazeera has demonized Israel.
Professor Rami Khouri was a Western NU-Q JAB member from 2012-2020 and a senior fellow at American University of Beirut (AUB). As of January 2020, Khouri was also an Al Jazeera contributor.
Khouri has legitimized terrorism, defended the “Knife Intifada,” has glorified violent protesters and spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
NU-Q - Hosting Annual Al Jazeera Speaker Series
Since the signing of the MoU in 2013, NU-Q has hosted an annual Al Jazeera Speakers Series. Thirteen of the 17 speakers who participated in the series at NU-Q from 2013-2019 have whitewashed terrorism, demonized Israel or expressed supportfor the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Dima Khatib, managing director of AJ+, spoke at NU-Q as part of the series on November 8, 2016. Khatib has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, defended Hamas terror and whitewashed Hezbollah. She has also glorified a terrorist, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the BDS movement.
Elia Ghorbiah, a journalist at AJ’s immersive storytelling studio Contrast VR [Virtual Reality], spoke at NU-Q on November 8, 2018, as part of the series, helping to launch the NU-Q’s new Media Innovations Lab (MIL).
Ghorbiah has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, exressed support for terrorists, as well as the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and urged the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. She is also a supporter of the BDS movement.
NU-Q - Anti-Israel Middle East Studies Minor
In 2017, NU-Q launched a Middle East Studies minor in their Liberal Arts program. From 2017-2019, four of the seven members of the NU-Q’s Middle East Studies committee included anti-Israel NU-Q professors Justin Martin, Ibraham Abusharif, Khaled Hroub and Sami Hermez.Khaled Hroub, a Professor at NU-Q who taught the 2018 and 2019 course “Islamism & Politics in the Middle East,” has reportedly whitewashed the terror group Hamas.
Sami Hermez, an NU-Q Professor who taught the 2018-2019 NU-Q courses “Anthropology of Palestine” and “Advanced Topics: Violence/Power/Resistance,” has promoted a terrorist and demonized Israel.
All of the required reading for Hermez’s “Anthropology of Palestine” course was authored by anti-Israel professors, eight of whom were activists in or supporters of the BDS movement. One of the authors, Edward Said, has advocated for the “right of return,” a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
Justin Martin, an Associate Professor at NU-Q, has mocked America’s suffering following the 9-11 terror bombings and demonized Israel. Martin has also broadcast his desire for Qatari funding to boost the BDS movement on U.S college campuses.
Ibrahim Abusharif was an editor and Treasurer of the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI) from 1990 to 1998. The QLI “was allegedly part of a large web of organizations and individuals that were funding terrorist groups.”
QLI, along with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and the Islamic Association of Palestine, was found to have funded Hamas militant activities and therefore liable for the death of David Boim, an American citizen killed by Hamas in the West Bank. This was later reversed as it could not be proven the funds were intended to be used to kill Boim.
The minor also required students to attend two guest lectures a year, chosen by the Middle East Studies Committee.
NU-Q - Student Internships in International Media
As of January 2020, third-year NU-Q Journalism and Strategic Communication students were required to intern for ten weeks at media or public relations firms, off-campus.In 2019, students reportedly interned at international communication firms and news outlets in Washington D.C., New York City, London, Berlin, Stockholm and Doha.
As of February 2020, news outlets where NU-Q students have interned included: BBC News, TIME Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Guardian, National Public Radio (NPR), the Boston Globe, USA Today, Vox, the Financial Times, the Huffington Post and VICE
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Students also interned at sports outlets, including: Sports Illustrated and ESPN, as well as fashion outlets Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
NU-Q reported in 2012 that they were able to offer students residencies at prestigious media organizations “because of the high-level contacts that NU-Q faculty and staff have in the international media.”
Students also interned at sports outlets, including: Sports Illustrated and ESPN, as well as fashion outlets Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
NU-Q reported in 2012 that they were able to offer students residencies at prestigious media organizations “because of the high-level contacts that NU-Q faculty and staff have in the international media.”
Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJ English) is a Qatari-owned news channel, part of the Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera), headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Al Jazeera and AJ English are owned by the Qatari government and are financed by Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar.AJ English has come under scrutiny by the U.S. State Department for Qatari “editorial and programmatic control” of AJ English, as Qatar is also the principal financial backer of the terror groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
AJ English has a significant social media following and has used its platforms to spread anti-Semitism, whitewash terrorists and promote anti-Israel propaganda.
AJ English is geared to a Western audience and has been careful to distance itself from controversy involving AJ’s Arabic news channels. When caught minimizing the murder of Jewish Israelis or publishing falsehoods that demonize Israel, AJ English has usually been quick to retract its statements.
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.
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