Shamena Sami

Overview

Shamena Sami advocated for the annihilation of Jews at an anti-Israel rally in late 2023. She also called for the death of a pro-Israel governor and spread hatred of Israel and Zionists online.

The late 2023 incident occurred after Hamas terror atrocities 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 over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

As of November 6, 2023, Sami was listed as having been a client service associate at Lenox Advisors in New York, New York, since July 2021. However, as of November 7, 2023, Sami was reportedly [slide 2] no longer working for Lenox.

Also as of November 6, 2023, Sami was listed as having graduated from Queens College (Queens), part of the City University of New York (CUNY), with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2017, and as having studied at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) 2012-2014.

Advocating for the Annihilation of Jews

On November 3, 2023, less than a month after the Hamas atrocities perpetrated against Israeli civilians, a video of Sami at a recent anti-Israel rally was posted [slide 2] in which she was speaking with an individual who was also filming her.

When the individual filming Sami asked her where the world’s 12 million Jews should go if Hamas takes over Israel, Sami stated [00:00:07]: “[They should] go to hell. That’s the literal slogan.”

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 between the ages of three and 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.

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.

Calling for the Death of a Pro-Israel Governor

On October 20, 2023, Sami tweeted [slide 8], referring to California governor Gavin Newsom: “I hope you die on your journey there.”

Sami’s tweet was in response to Newsom’s tweet on the previous day that said: “I’m on my way to Israel. I’ll be meeting with those impacted by the horrific terrorist attacks…”

Hatred of Israel and Zionists

On October 22, 2023, Sami tweeted [slide 7]: “How many times you gotta repeat this?
F**king terrorist.”

Sami’s tweet was in response to a tweet posted on the same day from U.S. president Joe Biden that said: “Israel has the right to defend itself. We must make sure they have what they need to protect their people today and always…”

Sami retweeted [slide 10] an October 15, 2023 tweet that said: “Genocide

,” which was in response to another tweet that said: “...what is Israel famous for?...”

Sami retweeted [slide 9] an October 15, 2023 tweet that said: “...How you can sit there and make the genocide of Palestinians about you is beyond me. You’re just another filthy z*0n**t [Zionist].”

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.