Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger

On October 23, 2023, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote an article for The Pittnews, titled: "Rewriting history serves no one."

In the article, Uriagereka-Herburger referred to Hamas terrorists as "militant resistance."

On December 4, 2023, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote an article for The Pittnews, titled: "Pay attention to the language of war."

In the article, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote: "...Israel, a settler colony, is permitted by the international community to have a brutal, highly funded military...If you have a state, your armed citizens are called soldiers. If you are denied a state, your armed — and often unarmed — citizens are called 'terrorists.'"

As of July 2025, Uriagereka-Herburger's Instagram bio contained a link to an October 11, 2023 text from a book publisher that read : "...we recognize the root cause and ongoing perpetrator of violence in Palestine to be Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid, and we stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom."

On December 4, 2023, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote an article for The Pittnews, titled: "Pay attention to the language of war."

In the article, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote that "to much of the world, the US military can be seen as a terrorist organization, the one whose uniforms and tanks and shells are synonymous with unimaginable suffering."

In the same article, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote, referring to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza: "A second Nakba is happening in Palestine..."

In the article, Uriagereka-Herburger also referred to Israel as a "racist settler colonial project set up by the US and the UK in 1948." She also wrote in the article that Israel was responsible for inflicting "ethnonationalism," "racism" and "apartheid."

On April 15, 2024, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote an article for The Pittnews, titled: "Die on every hill you can."

In the article, Uriagereka-Herburger wrote, referring to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza: "When a military does everything to destroy a people…we must recognize that behavior for what it is — a genocidal attempt to eliminate any evidence of life, even ideas."