Rawan Muhanna

Overview

Rawan Muhanna has spread anti-Semitism, supported a terrorist and defended the terror organization Hamas. Muhanna has also spread hatred of Israel and America online.

Muhanna has promoted the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of February 2018, Muhanna’s LinkedIn page said that she is an Analytical Chemist at Authentix, as well as a 2015 graduate of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.

Anti-Semitism

On December 20, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Y'all thought Israel would actually give Lebanon the $850 million? They're cheap ass Jews, what do you expect.”

On October 18, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Palestinian leader calls crowds of Jewish visitors at Jerusalem holy site "herd of cattle." Damn Abbas, hating on cattle like this.”

On July 10, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Why do 90% of Israeli new sites that I've seen need paid subscriptions?! Jews are so cheap omg.”

Support for Terrorist

On November 11, 2013, Muhanna tweeted a photo of Yassar Arafat with the caption: “Allah yir7amak ya Abo Ammar [May Allah have mercy upon him Arafat].”

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."

Defending Hamas

On June 23, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “If someone really did kidnap those dumb ass Israeli teens, they would've taken credit by now. This is all a show.”

Hamas was responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers from a bus stop on June 12, 2014. The abducted boys were murdered by their captors, and their bodies were found buried in Palestinian-controlled territory on June 30, 2014.

On August 1, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Can you imagine if Hamas militants invaded Israel and were captured, would the media be saying they were "kidnapped" and demand release?”

On August 2, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Israel knew that soldier was dead, they used him as an excuse to murder 100s of Palestinians. They even gave his parents false hope.”

Muhanna’s tweets were written during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE).

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On June 16, 2015, Muhanna tweeted: “Sorry Israel #suckstosuck.”

On August 1, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Israel lies about captured soldier. Uses the lie to break ceasefire. Masacres an entire city. Lather, rinse, repeat.”

On July 14, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “he's a Zionist shit, I hate him.”

On July 4, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Hide your kids, hide your wives, settlers trying to kidnap everyone out there... Israeli settlers are the worst kinds of human beings.”

On July 2, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “#Israel starting to show it's true colors. A racist, barbaric, terrorist state.”

On June 30, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “Israel you terrorist little s**ts.”

On May 4, 2013, Muhanna tweeted: “Israel does not engage in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as Hitler once did with the Jews?”

Spreading Hatred of America

On November 8, 2016, Muhanna tweeted: “F**ck you, America.”

On December 9, 2015, Muhanna tweeted: “America: slaughters hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians for no reason
America: wonders why people in the Middle East hate us.”

On October 7, 2015, Muhanna tweeted: “"If you live in America you have to adopt our culture" ...Bitch you have no culture. Keep your casseroles. #sorrynotsorry.”

On September 12, 2015, Muhanna tweeted: “If Europeans are so pissed about the refugee crisis, the next time America decides to bomb the shit out of a country for no reason, they can stand up and say "no."

On September 3, 2013, Muhanna tweeted: “Chemical weapons are NEVER ok...unless you're Israel...or America.”

BDS Support

On August 8, 2014, Muhanna tweeted: “People who still boycot Starbucks even after they denied supporting Israel obviously don't get the point of BDS.”

On August 5, 2014 Muhanna tweeted: “ I agree, if the ceasefire holds up InshaAllah I think the focus of the next one should be BDS.”

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.