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Susan Abulhawa
Susan Abulhawa expressed support for terrorism while leading a rally in celebration of Hamas terrorist war crimes against Israeli civilians in October 2023.
The rally took place one day after a series of terror atrocities, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings. The attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Abulhawa has spread antisemitism, expressed support for terrorists, equated Israel with Nazi Germany and promoted incitement. She has also denied Jewish history, called for intifada and spread hatred of Israel and Zionists.
Abulhawa is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2020, Abulhawa was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of March 2023, Abulhawa’s LinkedIn page said she was a writer and the founder and director of Playgrounds for Palestine (PfP).
As of the same date, Abulhawa’s website said was a co-chair of “Palestine Writes,” the first North American Palestinian literature festival.
Abulhawa is the author of a 2010 novel, “Mornings in Jenin” (originally published in the United States in 2006 under the title “The Scar of David”), and other fiction which demonizes Israel and Israelis.
Abulhawa is the mother of anti-Israel activist Natalie Abulhawa, who was an organizer with the SJP chapter at Temple University (Temple SJP) in 2016.
Abulhawa was denied entry into Israel in 2015 and 2018.
As of March 2023, Abulhawa was located in Morrisville, Pennsylvania.
As of the same date, Abulhawa went by “@sjabulhawa” on Twitter.
On October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas massacre, Abulhawa led [00:29:24] an anti-Israel rally and march in Philadelphia in support of the Hamas terrorist attacks one day earlier. Philly Palestine Coalition reportedly organized the event.
As protesters marched to Philadelphia’s City Hall, Abulhawa rode [00:21:08] in a flatbed truck with other activists, waving a Palestinian flag, chanting [00:29:00]: “Long live the intifada! Long live the intifada! Intifada! Intifada! Long live the intifada!”
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.
Abulhawa instructed [00:29:24] protesters: “When we say ‘decolonize,’ you say ‘Palestine,’” and then proceeded to lead the chant.
On June 24, 2025, Abulhawa posted on X: “y'all know the old chant: khaibar, khaibar, yayahood…” Abulhawa’s post came during the 2025 Israel-Iran war and included a video of Iran shooting a “‘Kheibar missile at Israel.”'
“Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud [Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning]” is a chant recalling the early seventh-century Battle of Khaybar. At Khaybar, Muhammad and his followers massacred the Jews of that town and enslaved the surviving women as “wives.” The chant is often heard at anti-Israel rallies in the United States.
On May 22, 2025, Abulhawa celebrated the antisemitic murder of two Israeli diplomats in Washington D.C, referring to the victims as "genocide cheerleaders" and "human garbage."
Abulhawa ended the tweet: "It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a false flag to focus on manufactured antisemitism instead of the actual holocaust being committed by Jewish supremacists."
On December 9, 2024, Abulhawa was featured in a video posted on X. In the video, Abulhawa said [00:00:01]: “[U.S. secretary of state] Antony Blinken is a Zionist…I believe his first loyalty is actually to Israel like so many Zionists who have gotten themselves and planted themselves in positions of power throughout this administration, previous administrations, throughout Congress, throughout the media, throughout Hollywood...I do not believe for one second that their loyalty is to the United States. It’s not even a dual loyalty. It is a single loyalty to Israel.”
Popular anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claim Jews control the world’s finance, media and governments. Some anti-Semites use the term “Zionists” as a euphemism for “Jews” to express supposed Jewish global power.
The concept of “dual loyalty” is an anti-Semitic accusation that alleges Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own nations.
On October 12, 2023, Abulhawa wrote an article in support of Hamas for the anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada (EI). Abulhawa wrote: “Palestinian fighters finally broke free on 7 October 2023 in a spectacular moment that shocked the world.”
Abulhawa went on to say: “In a stunning display of low-tech guerilla warfare, a few dozen sparsely armed commandos disabled Israeli watchtowers and paraglided over the electrified fences…These brave Palestinian fighters overtook Israeli colonies built on their ancestral villages, seeing their stolen lands for the first time in their lives…”
Abulhawa also wrote: “...those few freedom fighters inspired not only the whole of Palestine, but the oppressed masses worldwide, to imagine what freedom looks like; what resistance is possible; and what life is attainable.”
As of April 2023, Abulhawa’s photo on her website’s contact page showed her sitting at her desk, along with multiple photos on the wall, including terrorist leaders Dalal Mughrabi [center] and Ghassan Kanafani [bottom left].
Dalal Mughrabi, a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel. She and other terrorists hijacked a bus in an attack that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, including 13 children.
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.
On January 14, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “I love being next to [Ghassan] Kanafani,” along with a photo of one of her books next to one of Kanafani’s books.
On November 1, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “...Long live Palestinian resistance.” Her tweet included an image of three armed men, one of whom was wearing a headband with the Fatah emblem and text that said: “Fatah movement. The refugee camp of Nablus.”
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 and encourage 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.
Fatah is the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which has historically favored armed conflict against Israel. The group’s armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, has been listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. Department of State since March 2002 and was responsible for multiple suicide bombings during the second intifada.
On June 11, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “I hope a Hamas rocket lands on the homes of these terrorists who are systematically crushing Palestinian children.”
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 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
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.
On March 1, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “...Khalida [Jarrar] has spent all her life in defense of her people. When Palestine is finally free, it will be because of people like her…”
Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. In 2019, she was arrested for her role as the leader of the PFLP in the West Bank, which had carried out a deadly 2018 bombing and was reportedly “planning additional attacks.” She was among 50 PFLP operatives arrested.
On September 17, 2020, Abulhawa tweeted: “lil white kid interviewed because he was on one of the planes hijacked by Leila Khaled. This kid rules and so do Palestinian guerrilla fighters.”
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
On May 24, 2017, Abulhawa tweeted that Rasmea Odeh was among a list of women who “showed us what feminine power looks like.”
Rasmea Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08] with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
On October 11, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “Recently uncovered interview w Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic literary and guerilla figure. Amazing to see the…”
On February 25, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “Calling Israel a Nazi state doesn’t quite capture the depths of their malevolence.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.
On February 19, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “This is your daily reminder that Zionism is the contemporary face of Nazism and white supremacy. The fairytales of Israel’s benevolence, democracy, etc are promulgated by an intensely funded global propaganda machine.”
On September 25, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “Israel’s always inventing ways to outdo Nazi sadism without rousing too much international outcry.”
On August 23, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “...Zionists are to Palestinians as Nazis are to Jews. The horrors of Zionism, past and present, will someday be just as well known as the horrors of Nazism.”
On June 30, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “These motherfu@kers brought Nazi Germany to Palestine. That’s all Israel is—an ironic transplant of Europe’s Nazi supremacist ideology.”
On May 14, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “Israel is a Nazi state.”
On November 23, 2019, Abulhawa tweeted: “y’all can call me whatever names you want. Israel is not so different than Nazi Germany, nor are Israelis different than Germans of Nazi Germany.”
On August 31, 2018, Abulhawa tweeted: “I’ve been saying for a long time that Israel is a fascist, Nazi state. Here’s the natural progression of those ideologies.”
On April 28, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “We need all these folks to show up like this when settlers break into Al Aqsa.”
Palestinians and anti-Israel activists have historically described visits by Jews to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as “incursions” during which Jews purportedly “storm” the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinians have also frequently used the mosque to stockpile stone slabs, fireworks and rocks, with which they attack Israeli security officers and non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount.
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
On April 20, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “We call on the international community to stop Israel’s colonial policies that displace Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and neighborhoods of occupied #Jerusalem. / #SaveSheikhJarrah Sign this petition
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In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
On April 20, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “...In the Silwan neighborhood of Al -Bustan, 105 houses, representing 1550 Palestinians, are facing home demolition as soon as May 11th to make way for King David Park tourist site. Sign this petition No Forced Expulsion…”
On July 18, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “As Israelis try to seize Al Aqsa as the site of the Temple Mount, it is worth reminding that there is literally zero forensic/archeological evidence the Temple ever existed on that site, despite over 5 decades of Israel digging under the compound to find proof. Facts Matter.”
“Temple Denial” is a form of historical revisionism and is part of a broader political effort to deny the Jewish historical connection to Israel. Its purpose is to portray Jews as foreign to the Land of Israel as well as to delegitimize Israel and Jewish sovereignty. Jerusalem’s two ancient Jewish Temples were the center of Jewish life for nearly one thousand years.
On October 12, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “Yalla [Let’s go] intifada! Yalla thawra [revolution]! Yalla the end of Zionist colonialism and apartheid! Yalla…”
On February 26, 2017, Abulhawa tweeted: “A bit of history. Women instigated the the First Intifada. Palestinian women have always been at the forefront…”
The first intifada lasted from 1987 to 1991 and resulted in over 120 Israeli civilian casualties. Palestinian terrorists hijacked multiple buses and carried out shooting, stabbing and bombing attacks against Israelis, including the bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.
On July 26, 2025, Abulhawa posted on X: “Israel will not exist in two years. Let us prepare for liberated Palestine.”
On February 26, 2025, Abulhawa posted on X: “zionists are baby killers, baby terrorizers, pedophiles, body snatchers, rapists, genociders...literally the worst of humanity.”
On February 26, 2025, Abulhawa posted on X: “Looks like zionists run this account, along w the media, congress, the White House, Hollywood, academia, banking…”
The assertion that Jews control the media has been traced to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic fabricated text that depicts wealthy Jews conspiring to take over the world.
On February 24, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “when mansplaining meets zionism (a melange of racism, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and colonialism).”
On February 23, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “For the Arab normalizers: y’all keep feeding this imperial zionist monster, it’ll keep growing until it comes to swallow you.”
Proponents of the “anti-normalization” policy seek to police all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians and shut down all conversations and interactions perceived as being ideologically unaligned with their own agenda.
On February 18, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “Israelis have been stealing from Palestinians since they were invented in that Zionist abomination of a state.”
On January 29, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted about Israel: “Someday we will demolish this racist colonial zionist military ‘state.’ And the world will be a better place for it.”
On January 12, 2023, Abulhawa tweeted: “...Israel is a heap of lies built on genocide of Palestinians.”
On November 14, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “There are no bounds to zionist sadism.”
On October 21, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “Zionism, like all racist ideologies, is a moral plague.”
On August 17, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “...zionism is racism, and Israel is a blight.”
On June 27, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “few things are more vile or cruel than zionism or the state it birthed.”
On June 23, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “The Boston Mapping Project connects the dots between these apartheid monsters and the US funders and corporations that enable them. @BDSmovement should applaud them.”
On June 3, 2022, BDS Boston released the “Mapping Project,” an anonymous initiative which created an online, interactive map that plots the names and addresses of most of the pro-Israel and Jewish institutions in Massachusetts. The project’s stated goal is to “dismantle” both the local entities and the supposed “networks” colluding with them. The project was strongly denounced by public officials as antisemitic and condemned for its explicit targeting of Jewish organizations.
On February 20, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted: “...Israel is an apartheid state. It is also a colonial project; an ethnic cleansing settler movement. Say it…”
On January 27, 2022, Abulhawa tweeted about Israeli police: “Terrorist soldiers deserve more than snow balls and stones to be thrown at them.”
Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.
On July 29, 2021, Abulhawa tweeted: “spread far and wide. Expose Israeli apartheid. Fight Israeli apartheid. End Israeli apartheid.”
SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.
The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Student Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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