Shafira Khan

Overview

Shafira Khan expressed support for Hamas terrorism, called for intifada and spread hatred of Israel and America.

Khan is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Khan posts [slide 2] on Instagram indicated that she participated in protests organized by the pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in 2023 and 2024. In December 2023, Khan posted [slide 2] on Instagram, indicating that she disrupted Christmas celebrations at a WOL-organized protest.

In April 2024, Khan posts [slide 1] on Instagram indicated that she participated in an unlawful anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University (Columbia).

Khan’s anti-Israel activism and social media posts occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” Israel launched the war after 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 approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.

As of June 2024, Khan’s Twitter bio said she was a “NYC photographer, creative director, social media manager…founder of @brukoutmedia,” a media and production company representing “the Caribbean and Latinx community.”

Also as of June 2024, Khan’s Facebook page said: “nyc based photographer specializing in engagement and family shoots. / also available for portraits.”

Support for Hamas Terrorism

On October 9, 2023, two days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, Khan shared [slide 1] on Instagram Stories an image with text that read: “if your response to indigenous resistance against an ongoing 76 year long multi billion dollar ethnic cleansing project is to support the entity that is responsible for said project // which is the israeli government backed by the US government…”

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 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.

The modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.

Khan added to the post a caption that read [slide 1]: “...someone said it best when they said ‘if we start history started yesterday [October 7, 2023] then it’s not complicated at all’ but that isn’t the case. everyone deserves freedom from oppression and when denied, the right to fight for it.”

On March 9, 2024, Khan shared on Instagram a video that showed WOL leader Nerdeen Kiswani during a protest calling [00:00:01] activists to “embody resistance.” The clip that showed Kiswani contained images superimposed over it. One showed a woman throwing [00:00:03] rocks during a protest.

Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence. 

As of July 2024, Khan’s Instagram bio said: “...…”

The watermelon is a symbol of support for the Palestinian cause. It has been depicted in art, used on flags at protests and posted online.

The inverted red triangle is a symbol showing support for Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. It first appeared in propaganda videos produced by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during its terror attacks of October 7, 2023. The symbol was used by Hamas to signify one of their Israeli targets.

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, approximately 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.

Calling for Intifada (Violent Uprising)

On May 30, 2024, Khan posted on Instagram: “April 30th, 2024 marked the dismantling of CUNY [City University of New York] and Columbia’s encampment by their oppressive administrations. / At this point all NYC encampments have been swept but the spirit of it all lingers heavily in the air. Everyone who experienced one of the campus’ energies knows that it was a place for real community building…Long live the student intifada .”

Khan’s post included [slide 2] photos and videos from CUNY’s anti-Israel encampment protests. 

The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.

The encampment was one of about 140 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.

On April 8, 2024, Khan shared [slide 5] on Instagram a photo captioned: “PERPETUAL REVOLUTION IS PERPETUAL PROPHECY.” The photo appeared to be a woman holding a firearm. 

On October 29, 2023, Khan posted on TikTok a video that showed anti-Israel activists during an anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn, New York. Khan captioned the video: “even the birds joined us in Brooklyn long live the intifada .”    

Hatred of Israel and America

On October 21, 2023, Khan shared [slide 7] on Instagram a video that showed an anti-Israel activist leading the chant: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.

On November 23, 2023, Khan shared [slide 7] on Instagram a photo of a group of indigenous people riding horses. The photo was captioned with the words: “Each passing Thanksgiving brings us closer to the fall of the US empire; a cause most worthy of your efforts.”

Khan wrote on the post: “...Would we celebrate a holiday commemorating the take over of Gaza in the way we are witnessing right now?...As we watch a new settler colonist project before our eyes we have to be able to say genocide then, genocide now…”

On May 27, 2024, Khan posted on Instagram, referring to the U.S.: “If Memorial Day were true to its name we would be remembering every person this empire has taken from the world. & we’d be doing everything we could from stopping it from continuing to be an agency of death and destruction.”

WOL

Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is a pro-terror activist group in New York City dedicated to Israel’s destruction within the lifetime of its members. 

Acts of violence and physical confrontations with police have frequently occurred at WOL protests and marches. WOL uses harassment campaigns to target pro-Israel organizations or companies that do business with Israel, making it a part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

Multiple activists who have either burned Israeli flags or led chants at WOL rallies were later jailed for violent anti-Semitic hate crimes, including Saadah Masoud and Waseem Awawdeh. In Masoud’s case, he received 18 months in jail for an anti-Semitic assault at an April 2022 WOL rally and two other anti-Semitic assaults in 2021.

WOL promotes “resistance” against Israel “by any means necessary,” calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” spreads incitement and idolizes [00:34:06] Palestinian terrorists like Leila Khaled and others at rallies and online events.

WOL was founded by Nerdeen Kiswani and Dan Cione in 2015. Kiswani is a frequent speaker at WOL rallies where she has promoted terrorism against Israelis and called for the death of Zionists. She has also provided support for Masoud and other activists following their arrests. 

WOL began as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP, but changed its name in 2018. The group is not found to be registered in any U.S. state as a nonprofit organization under its official name. Nor is there any listing for WOL under its name on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website for tax-exempt organizations.

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.

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