Sarah Daoud

Overview

Sarah Daoud is a licensed social worker in Chicago who ripped down posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas, including women and children, in October 2023. Daoud has also expressed support for terrorism and spread hatred of the police online.

The incident reportedly occurred in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New York, New York.

Hamas kidnapped the civilians, including women and children, during a series of terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023.

The other Hamas war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape and beheadings. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

As of October 24, 2023, Daoud was listed as a scholar for the Point Foundation, “the largest LGBTQ scholarship-granting nonprofit.” However, as of October 29, 2023, Daoud’s page on the Point Foundation website had been deleted.

As of October 2023, Daoud’s Twitter bio said: “queer non-binary therapist, youth worker…”

Sarah Daoud, University of Chicago, Tore Down Posters of Israeli Hostages

Ripping Down Posters of Israeli Civilians Kidnapped by Hamas

On October 22, 2023, Daoud was filmed in New York City ripping down posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza.

Daoud’s accomplice was Ishan Daya, a close personal associate. Daya lost his job as co-CEO at Crafty, a food services company in Chicago, as a result of the incident.

While ripping down the posters, Daoud repeatedly said [00:00:04]: “Kalb [dog].”

Daoud then told two men filming, who were reportedly Jewish [00:00:07]: “F**k you, f**k you and burn in hell.”

Daya and Daoud then left the scene.

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.

Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.

In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.

Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.

Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.

Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis as young as an infant of nine months and as old as 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.

Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.

Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.

The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.

The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.

Support for Terrorism and Hatred of the Police

On February 26, 2022, Daoud tweeted: “the energy y’all have for armed ukrainian resistance? i need to see it for Black and brown militant resistance too.”

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.

In the same thread, Daoud tweeted: “palestinian freedom fighters deserve government issued guns too

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As of October 2023, Daoud’s Twitter bio said: “... here to act foolish, free Palestine, & abolish police. BLM [Black Lives Matter].”

Biographical Information

As of November 2023, Daoud was listed with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation as an “ACTIVE” licensed social worker, with the license number
150105816. The license was issued with its first effective date on 01/07/2022 and was slated to expire on 11/30/2023.

Daoud was also listed as an “ACTIVE” licensed clinical social worker, with the license number 149022220. The license was issued with its first effective date on 05/19/2020 and was slated to expire on 11/30/2023.

As as of November 2023, Daoud was listed online as a “Clinical Social Worker practicing in Chicago, Illinois,” with the National Provider Identifier (NPI) number 1558986166, issued on June 9, 2020.

In November 2021, Daoud was listed as “Manager of Youth Therapy” at Howard Brown Health’s Broadway Youth Center (BYC) in Chicago, Illinois. Daoud also served as BYC’s “Resource Advocate” from February 2015 to June 2017.

As of September 2020, Daoud was slated to start “interning at the Chicago Women’s Health Center, a feminist health care collective.” In 2018, Daoud was reportedly a “Chicago Dyke March Collective organizer.”

Daoud graduated from the University of Chicago (UChicago) with a master’s degree in social work in 2018 and with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and gender studies from Northwestern University (Northwestern) in 2013.

As of October 2023, Daoud’s Twitter bio said Daoud was located in Chicago, Illinois.

As of November 2023, Daoud went by the username “Youssef Es” on Facebook. As of the same date, Daoud reportedly used the name “Lucky.”