Overview
Shireen Kiswani has spread hatred of Israel and promoted incitement on social media.
In August 2016, Kiswani’s
tweets indicated she was a student at Hillsborough Community College (HCC), in Brandon, FL.
Hatred of Israel
On April 18, 2016, Kiswani
tweeted: “Israel doesnt exist bye.”
On January 11, 2015, Kiswani
tweeted: “Yin3an israel w abu Israel [Curse Israel and the fathers of Israel].”
On August 4, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “72 hr cease fire is an opportunity to drain israel of their weapons & put an end to it but ofc the u.s replenished their stock. #dumbassses.”
On July 18, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “If israel put down their guns there'd be no more war. If palestine put down their rocks, there'd be no more palestine.” Kiswani’s tweet distorted a
line spoken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before the Israeli Parliament at the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: “The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.”
On July 13, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted a
fabricated quote attributed to Israel first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion that read: “‘@CMCL1979: This is what Israel is all about; from former Israeli Prime Minister’ bastard.”
Promoting Incitement
On November 8, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “‘ Palestinians puncture hole in Israel's apartheid wall http://www.worldbulletin.net/palestine/147954/palestinians-have-drilled-a-hole-in-the-apartheid-wall … #Palestine #FreePalestine’ ooooooo.” Kiswani’s tweet featured a photo purporting to represent masked Palestinian militants breaking a hole and entering through Israel’s security barrier.
On August 4, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “‘@iFalasteen: This is what occupation forces did to masjed AlAqsa today… #PalestineUnderAttack #Palestine’ smh.”
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a
traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews
long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such
propaganda served as the excuse for an
upsurge in Palestinian violence that flared in the fall of 2015 and
incited Palestinians to attempt mass casualty attacks on Israeli civilians in July 2016..
On July 12, 2014, Kiswani
tweeted: “@T_Sharp4 compare the 2, israeli kids writing ‘from israel with love’ on the weapon that kill hundreds of innocentppl.” The tweet featured a photo conveying a
fraudulent message,
lying that Israeli children wrote messages of hate on bombs, which were then dropped on children in 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
