Sarah Wazzi-Moukahal
Overview
Sarah Wazzi-Moukahal has defended terrorism, expressed support for terrorists, demonized Israel and spread hatred of Zionists. Wazzi-Moukahal has also engaged in anti-Israel activism.Wazzi-Moukahal is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of October 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal served as the vice president of communications on the 2021-2022 board of the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians (APAC) in Ottawa, Ontario.
In June 2021, Wazzi served as the spokesperson for CBC Palestine, “a collective of independent community organizers in partnership with multiple Palestinian organizations.” CBC Palestine includes APAC and the Palestinian Students Association (PSA) chapters at the University of Ottawa (uOttowa PSA) and Carleton University (PSA Carleton).
PSA is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). As of October 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal had joined the public Facebook group for uOttawa’s PSA “about 10 years ago.”
Also as of October 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal’s LinkedIn said she was a “Policy Analyst - Women, Peace & Security” at Global Affairs Canada (GAC), a department of the national Canadian government in Ottawa since December 2020.
As of the same date, Wazzi-Moukahal’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Junior Political and Public Affairs Officer” at the Embassy of Canada in Vientiane, Laos from September to December 2019. She was also a “Junior Policy Analyst” at Public Safety Canada in Ottawa from May to August 2019.
Wazzi-Moukahal’s LinkedIn said she was a teacher at SABIS, “a global education network” in Choueifat, Lebanon from January to June 2018.
As of June 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal used the handle “@sxrsar” on Twitter.
Defending Terrorism
On April 25, 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “Let’s clarify - even if he was carrying a gun and posed a threat to the soldiers, his murder would STILL be unjustified and illegal. Occupied people have a right to self defence - including armed resistance. Israel as the occupier and aggressor does not maintain that right.”
Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted in response to a tweet defending a Palestinian who was shot after he joined a group of rioters throwing stones at Israeli security personnel.
Supporting Terrorists
Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted a September 6, 2021 tweet that read: “the 6 palestinian prisoners that escaped are a form of resistance. don’t just support nonviolent resistance, support resistance in all its forms.”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.
Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted a September 8, 2021 tweet by anti-Israel activist Dunia Ghanimah that read: “Still not over #TheGreatEscape
.” The tweet included a visual of a man in formal dress with the text “when the 6 Palestinian prisoners escaped the Israeli prison.”Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted a January 3, 2022 tweet in support of Palestinian prisoner Hesham Abu Hawwash, then on a hunger strike in Israeli prison. Abu Hawwash ended his 141-day hunger strike the following day.
In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.
Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted an April 9, 2022 tweet honoring Ghassan Kanafani. The tweet read: “Ghassan Kanafani would've turned 86 years old today, had he not been assassinated by the Zionists. Rest in power, comrade
☭.”Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
Demonizing Israel
On May 24, 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “So you agree? That Israel’s entire existence relies on the subjugation and dispossession of Palestinians to prop up a supremacist ethno state?”Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted a May 17, 2022 tweet by anti-Israel activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa that read: “Israel's only 74 y.o. It has no history, no heritage. Nothing at all that isn't stolen from Palestinians. When you understand this, it dawns on U why they fly into violent fits when they see the Palestinian flag. It reminds them of what they will never be: Indigenous to the land.”
One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by claiming that Israeli Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel.
Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted an October 22, 2021 tweet that read: “1/6 The Israeli decision to designate six human right and civil society organizations as terrorist organizations is unprecedented attack on human rights defenders who are exposing and resisting the Israeli occupation and its apartheid policies in the West Bank. >>”
On August 7, 2021, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted:” Israel literally exists on genocide and apartheid…”
On June 6, 2021, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “Palestinians fight against murder, torture, apartheid, death, ethnic cleansing, and genocide at the hands of the Israeli state...”
On the same day, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “...Israel is a fascist settler colonial state.There is no ‘both sides.’”
On May 20, 2021, the day before a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “Please please understand that a ceasefire does not mean peace for Palestinians, it means a continuation of the status quo: forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, occupation, a brutal blockade in Gaza, and apartheid.”
In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.
Israel and Egypt implemented a United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.
Hatred of Zionists
.” The tweet linked to the Mapping Project, a BDS Boston campaign targeting Jewish and pro-Israel institutions in Massachusetts.
On May 25, 2021, Wazzi-Moukahal tweeted: “The entire Zionist ideology relies on the ethnic cleansing of our people from their homeland and yet people will frame US as violent if we refuse to hold hands and stand around singing Kumbaya with our oppressor.”
Wazzi-Moukahal retweeted a July 2, 2021 tweet by anti-Israel activist Mohammed El-Kurd that read: “I am deathly interested in the psychology of a Zionist settler—What makes you travel across countries, squat in an indigenous people’s homes terrorize them, & be *proud* of that psychotic & nauseating behavior. Can’t believe such communities exist. Yuck.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On May 14, 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal led a “Nakba 74 Commemoration” rally hosted by APAC in Ottawa, Ontario.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.
A speaker at the rally said [00:00:53]: "We will not surrender until that apartheid regime in Israel is destructed."
On April 23, 2022, Wazzi-Moukahal led [slide 16] an anti-Israel demonstration titled: “Ottawa Justice for Palestine Protest 2022,” which was followed by a march to the U.S. Embassy, then to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Office and then to the Israeli Embassy.
At the rally, Wazzi-Moukahal referred [00:00:01] to a wave of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis and claimed [00:00:13]: “We know these are not clashes. We know that there is a clear aggressor in this situation and a clear oppressed group.”
At the end of March and beginning of April 2022, Palestinian terrorists killed 14 Israelis.
Protesters at the rally held [slide 26] signs that read: “Zionism is Racism” and chanted [slide 30] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
On June 27, 2021, Wazzi-Moukahal organized an anti-Israel protest held in front of the CBC Ottawa Production Centre, hosted by CBC Palestine.
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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