Rebecca Lopez

Overview

Rebecca Lopez is a professor who whitewashed Hamas terrorist war crimes, trivialized the Holocaust and spread hatred of Israel in a November 2023 class.

The incident occurred following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.

Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron,” which was going on at the time of Lopez’s class.

Whitewashing Hamas and Trivializing the Holocaust in Class

In November 2023, Lopez reportedly devoted a session of the education course: “Cultural Pluralism for Young Children,” to the Israel-Hamas war. She co-taught the class with anti-Israel professor Rebecca Zapien at the University of Arizona (Arizona).

During the class, parts of which were recorded on audio, Lopez and Zapien whitewashed terror group Hamas’ war crimes against Israeli civilians, calling [00:01:13] the organization a “resistance group” that is “choosing to resist through violence.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.  

Lopez and Zapien also denied [00:00:25] officially confirmed reports of Hamas beheading babies during the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israeli Jews.

In their lecture, Lopez and Zapien also trivialized [00:00:20] the Holocaust and accused [00:00:33] Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.

At the end of the class, Lopez and Zapien called [00:00:47] on their students to participate in anti-Israel activism in the U.S. and to support [00:00:28] the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Following the incident, Lopez and Zapien were reportedly “suspended with pay for the rest of the semester,” while the university opened an investigation.

Biographical Information

As of November 15, 2023, Lopez was listed online as the director of Early Childhood Education and a university instructor at Arizona. Lopez has also gone by the name Becka Lopez.
 
Lopez was also listed as a supervisor for a course offered by Arizona’s Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies, in 2020.

As of the same date, Lopez was also listed online as having received a PhD from Arizona in early childhood education and teaching, in 2021.

The University of Arizona is located in Tuscon, Arizona.

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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

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/becka-lopez-547b48148 [Deleted]

Personal Website:https://lopezrebecca.weebly.com/