Samah Fadil

Overview

Samah Fadil has spread hatred of Zionists, whitewashed Hamas terrorism, glorified terrorists and demonized Israel. She has also promoted incitement, expressed hatred of America and the police and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In 2021, Fadil expressed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”

Fadil was affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in June 2021.

As of January 2022, Fadil’s LinkedIn page said she was a “Copy editor and translator” since November 2018 and a Social Media Manager at L'artisan délices sans gluten et sans lait since September 2018. 

Also, as of January 2022, Fadil’s LinkedIn said she graduated from Concordia University (Concordia) with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 2012 and was located in Montreal, Canada. 

As of January 2022, Fadil was an author for the “Politics and Poetry” section of Medium, a writer’s online platform. 

As of January 2022, Fadil went by the screen name “says f*ck your 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 سماح [Samah]” on Twitter. As of the same date, Fadil used the pen name “Sa Maa,” on Instagram.

Hatred of Zionists

On January 10, 2022, Fadil tweeted: “Racist a** zionists please keep engaging with my tweets so I know who to block.”

On December 28, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “I'll tell a Z*onist to f**k off quick don't try me.”

On December 19, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Zionism is a crime.”

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.

On November 14, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Anti-Zionism is anti-racism.”

On November 8, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Still trying to understand what the f**k Zionists were talking about when they said they wanted to ‘make the desert bloom’ cuz all y'all are doing is creating havoc, stealing our land and cultures, and participating in apartheid.”

On October 27, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Zionists have the intellectual honesty of a peanut.”

On September 29, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “I'm not about to write poems with my oppressor lmao can you imagine‘roses are red, Zionists are blue, you killed Falafel & hummus, please don't murder my people too’.”

Whitewashing Hamas Terrorism

On June 16, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Now they are blaming....balloons? Israel could literally use the word ‘Hamas’ in any context to justifybombing a city of 2 million people and the media will run with it without question.”

Following a May 2021 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Palestinians on the Gaza border sent incendiary balloons towards Israel, causing multiple fires and significant damage to Israeli agricultural produce and fields.

In June 2021, Israel launched retaliatory strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza in response to Hamas arson balloon attacks, which reportedly scorched more than 10,400 acres of land in Israel since 2018.

On May 20, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Gaza city, an open air prison under Israeli apartheid, is just swarming with Hamas and ‘other terrorist groups’? Has the White House started designating the 50% children population as terrorists? They said Disabled? Terrorist. Old grandma refusing to give up her land? Terrorist.”

Gaza has been ruled by the terrorist group Hamas since 2007, when it ousted the ruling Fatah faction and cemented its parliamentary victory with a violent takeover.

Glorifying Terrorists

On September 26, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Today, after her liberation, Khalida Jarrar poses beside freed Palestinian prisoners Mays Abu Gosh, Layan Kayed, Samah Jaradat, Layan Nasir and Elia Abu Hijleh. Long live the resistance of Palestinian women!”



Fadil retweeted a September 10, 2021 tweet that read: “2 of the 6 Palestinian political prisoners who broke their way to freedom have just been rearrested in Nazareth. Their names Mohammad al Ardah & Yaqoub al Kadri. May god protect them.”

On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.

On June 8, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Abdullah Abu Jaber spent half his life in an Israeli prison and was offered visitation only twice in 20 years. Now free, he says ‘resistance is the only path to liberation from the Zionist enemy’. I love how they're wiping his sweat off like he's in a boxing match.”

Abu Jaber reportedly served a “20-year sentence” in Israeli prison “for planting a bomb on an Israeli bus that injured more than a dozen people” in the year 2000, during the second intifada. Abu Jaber, a Palestinian-Jordanian man, reportedly detonated his bomb remotely on a 51 bus in Tel Aviv, on December 28, 2000.

The second intifada (2000-2005) was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.

Demonizing Israel

On December 2, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “50% of Palestinians in Silwan have received orders to demolish their own homes and will be expelled off of their own land…This is ethnic cleansing. Israel is an apartheid state.”



On November 22, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “If it's ACAB [all cops are bastards], then that applies to the ‘IDF’ [Israel Defense Forces] in its entirety. All puppets of settler colonialism, genocide and apartheid.”

On August 18, 2021, invoking the “Deadly Exchange” narrative promoted by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Fadil wrote a blog post titled: “From Invisible to Emoji: The Palestinian Flag and #BLM [Black Lives Matter] as Quick Activism.”

In 2017, JVP launched the “Deadly Exchange (DX)” campaign, which accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses. JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.

In her blog post, Alami suggested a connection between military tactics used in Israel’s 2014 “Operation Protective Edge (OPE)” against Hamas in Gaza and U.S. police methods employed during the August 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, following the death of Michael Brown. Anti-Israel media outlets and anti-Israel activists leveraged the Ferguson riots as an opportunity to blame Israel for police brutality in the U.S.

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

In her post, Fadil wrote: “People began to notice the timing of such events and began linking the military tactics, abuse of force, and weapons used against Palestinians in Gaza and protestors in Ferguson. It was too similar to be a coincidence.”

Promoting Incitement

On September 7, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Palestinians go through constant Nakba to this day (as we are seeing in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan)...It's free Palestine until Palestine is FREE!!!”

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. 

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

On May 24, 2021, Samah tweeted: “...Sheikh Jarrah is only one example of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine and it's people. This is exactly what happened to my parents and grandparents. Forced out of their homes and land and never allowed to return. The Israeli government will not stop.”

On May 15, 2021, Samah tweeted:“Every Israeli city was once Sheikh Jarrah.”

Hatred of America

On November 19, 2021, Fadil tweeted, accusing the U.S. of being “built on genocide and enslavement.”

On November 14, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “I've never seen such an egregious display of pot calling the kettle black than when the U.S tries to tell us who they consider terrorists.”

On September 22, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Unsurprising, but the U.S. does not give a single f**k what international law it violates.”

Hatred of the Police

On October 4, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Ppl [people] really out here deciding they want to become dregs for maintaining a ruling class that doesn't care for them to the point they would kill mercilessly for this position. I think they call it ‘police’. Y'all really be wanting to become police?.”

On September 18, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Black people in the U.S are surrounded by the most hostile gang on earth - the police.”

Solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh

In November 2021, Fadil tweeted in support of Yasmeen Mashayekh who was [00:11:08] in the middle of a national controversy over anti-Semitism she spread on social media that year.

In October 2021, Mashayekh was listed as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering (Viterbi). In May 2021, she tweeted: “I want to f**king kill every motherf**king Zionist.” She also tweeted: “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews].” 

Mashayekh has also spread violent hatred of Israeli Jews, called for the destruction of Israel and America, expressed support for Hamas and glorified terrorists.

Mashayekh was condemned after Canary Mission exposed her anti-Semitic tweets.

On November 25, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “If you consider yourself an ally to the Palestinian cause, I urge you to stand in solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayek, who is a student at @USCViterbi being targeted by a Zionist-led harassment campaign. Make a tweet tagging @USCViterbi and let them know you support Yasmeen!”

On December 2, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “‘Zionophobia’ lmao [laughing my a**off] f**k off.” 

Fadil’s post included a tweet by Canary Mission that read: “An Open Letter to @USC& @USCViterbi signed by 64 professors including Andrew Viterbi himself! ‘We, the undersigned faculty, wish to register our dismay about ongoing open expressions of anti-Semitism and Zionophobia on our campus that go unrebuked.’”

Fadil also retweeted a December 2, 2021 tweet that included a link to an interview Mashayekh gave to Palestine in America (PiA), in which she said [00:01:04]: “I still don’t feel any pressure to change any stances or to apologize for anything at all…”

Anti-Israel Activism

On June 18, 2021, Fadil featured [00:53:36] in a Zoom webinar posted to YouTube and titled: “A Black Lens on Palestinian Liberation.” The webinar was hosted by the JVP BIJOCSM Network, presented as “An anti-Zionist Network of Black Jews, Indigenous Jews, Non-Black Jews of Color, Sephardim and Mizrahim Jews.”

On June 15, 2021, Fadil featured in a “Woke or Whateva” podcast posted to YouTube titled: “Centering Afro Palestinian voice.” 

In the podcast, Fadil accused [00:03:33] Israel of ongoing ethnic cleansing and claimed [00:05:37]: “Jerusalem has always been the capital of Palestine.” Fadil also alleged [01:07:17] that weapons and military tactics surveillance systems are tested on Palestinians before they make their way to the U.S.

Supporting BDS

On December 28, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “Divest from Israel. Invest in Black Americans.”

That same day, Fadil tweeted: “I know my daily ‘divest from Israel/ invest in Black Americans’tweet is getting some traction when the racist Zionists start coming out to defend apartheid and say funding ethnic cleansing actually DOES help Black people somehow.”

Fadil retweeted a December 26, 2021 tweet that read: “If you're an artist, performer, musician, writer, creative etc sign this open letter demanding @sydney_festivaldrop its partnership with apartheid Israel.” 

The Sydney Festival “a celebration of art, performance and big ideas” was scheduled for January 6-30, 2022 in Sydney, Australia.

The tweet included a link to an Open Letter titled: “Artists Against Apartheid: Sydney Festival, Drop Israeli Regime Partnership.” The letter called on artists and performers to boycott the Sydney Festivalbecause the event accepted funding from the Israeli Embassy.

On December 6, 2021, Fadil tweeted: “They are trying to criminalize the BDS movement, not because it doesn't work, but because it does. Boycotting, divesting and sanctioning gets results. As more people pledge to these kinds of social and political movements, we will see an increase in our collective power too.”

JVP

JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.

JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).

Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.” 

JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish value.”

The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans  comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”

According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”

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

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