Suzy Tamimi

Overview

Suzy Tamimi [Suzy Adnan Tamimi] celebrated the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, including praising Hamas and calling for Israel’s destruction as a rally speaker the day after the massacres. At the rally, she represented a chapter of the anti-Israel activist group Al-Awda.

The incidents occurred in the wake of 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 Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

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.

Celebrating Hamas Terrorism on October 7, 2023

On October 7, 2023, Tamimi posted to Instagram: “Our heroes

! Western media has distorted our freedom fighters’ name and have called them ‘terrorists’ ‘barbaric’…These are those same indigenous people standing up like the courageous lions they are and fighting for their own freedom…LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE! LONG LIVE PALESTINE

.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.

Tamimi’s post included a video of an Israeli military jeep filled with Gazan men and boys shouting “Allahu Akbar [God is the greatest]” with their fists raised. In the video, the jeep went down a street in Gaza as bystanders raised their fists and cheered.

Praising Hamas and Calling for Israel’s Destruction

On October 8, 2023, Tamimi spoke [00:45:09] at a pro-Hamas rally on behalf of the Al-Awda chapter in New York, New York (Al-Awda NY). She praised [00:46:03] Hamas terrorists and joined [00:47:16] in a chant calling for Israel’s destruction. Al-Awda NY co-organized the rally in Manhattan, which was titled: “All Out For Palestine.”

Tamimi stood [00:45:09] up in front of the crowd and read out Al-Awda NY’s statement from her phone, saying [00:45:44]: “The Palestinian assembly for liberation at Al-Awda New York send their highest salutations to the Palestinian resistance.”

Tamimi continued [00:46:03]: “The freedom fighters and defenders of the indigenous Palestinian people…the sole defense against escalating Zionist genocide of Palestinians…”

Tamimi’s speech was then interrupted [00:46:47] by protesters chanting: “Free Free Palestine!”

Tamimi attempted [00:47:16] to continue, and then protesters chanted: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” Tamimi joined protesters in these chants.

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.

Also at the rally, Tamimi shouted [00:00:01] to the crowd: “For over 75 years Palestinians have struggled for liberation from Zionist colonization, hatred and torture, bravely resisting bloodthirsty massacres, invasions and expulsion.

The modern State of Israel was founded 75 years earlier, in 1948.

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.

Tamimi then yelled [00:00:23]: “Now more than ever is the moment where all Palestinians and allies globally, to stand proudly, in full support of the brave Palestinian freedom fighters!”

Tamimi concluded [00:00:54]: “All glory to the Palestinian resistance!”

Hamas Terrorist Atrocities of October 7, 2023

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.

Biographical Information

In 2023 and 2022, Tamimi engaged in activism with Al-Awda NY.

As of November 2023, Tamimi’s business website said she was a fashion designer based in New York, New York. Her Facebook page said she was the creative director of the “Suzy Tamimi clothing brand” which she founded in February 2016.

Also as of November 2023, Tamimi’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from the Academy of Art University (AAU) with a bachelor's degree in “Fashion/Textile design.”

AAU is located in San Francisco, California.