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Ronnie Hafez
Ronnie Hafez participated in two anti-Israel events at Stanford University in 2024, including an April 2024 march which was linked to an anti-Israel encampment on campus.
The encampment was one of about 200 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism. They also promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
As of July 2025, Ronnie Hafez’s LinkedIn said he worked as a contract product strategist at Google DeepMind and as a contract project consultant at OpenAI since January 2025.
PSL Compilation of Stanford Protests 2024
View EventOrganizers: PSL
Location: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
On February 9, 2024, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) chapter in the San Francisco Bay Area (PSL Bay Area) posted a video to its Instagram page that promoted anti-Israel activism at Stanford, in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In the video, an activist referred to Israel as the "Zionist regime" and claimed that Israel was committing a "genocide" in its war against Hamas in Gaza. There was also imagery that said: "Free Palestine."
“Free Palestine” is a chant that has been described as a "battle cry for the death of Jews.” In May 2025, two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., were murdered by a gunman shouting “Free Palestine!” In June 2025, one pro-Israel activist was killed and over 25 were injured in Boulder, Colorado, when a man yelling “Free Palestine” firebombed them.
On April 13, 2024, PSL Bay Area posted another Instagram video of anti-Israel activism at Stanford. The video began with a speaker saying: "To be a young person and not be a revolutionary is almost a biological contradiction."
The video showed activists with PSL signs that said: "RESISTANCE TO OCCUPATION IS JUSTIFIED! STAND WITH PALESTINE."
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
