Tara Alami
Overview
Tara Alami [Tara El-Alami] has called for Israelis to die, celebrated the death of Israelis, expressed support for terrorists and promoted a violent hatred of Zionists. Alami has also glorified leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group.
Alami has called [00:12:42] for Israel’s destruction, demonized [slide 5] Israeli Jews, defended the Hamas terror group and expressed [slide 70] support for other terrorists. She has also spread [slide 33] incitement and promoted [slide 30] hatred of Israel and Zionists.
In 2021, Alami showed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”
As of October 2021, Alami was an activist [00:00:54] with the McGill University (McGill) chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of October 2021, Alami was also an activist [00:08:42] with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and a member [00:01:33] of the Spring Socialist Network.
Alami has called [00:12:42] for Israel’s destruction, demonized [slide 5] Israeli Jews, defended the Hamas terror group and expressed [slide 70] support for other terrorists. She has also spread [slide 33] incitement and promoted [slide 30] hatred of Israel and Zionists.
In 2021, Alami showed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”
As of October 2021, Alami was an activist [00:00:54] with the McGill University (McGill) chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of October 2021, Alami was also an activist [00:08:42] with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and a member [00:01:33] of the Spring Socialist Network.
In 2022, Alami was affiliated with the anti-Israel Al-Haq organization, which was designated as a terror group by the Israeli government in 2021 for its ties to the PFLP.
Alami is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn profile said she had been a “Research Trainee” at the “Centre universitaire de santé McGill,” the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), in Montreal, Quebec, since September 2021.
As of the same date, Alami’s LinkedIn said she was pursuing a master’s degree in experimental medicine in the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology at McGill, slated to graduate in 2023. Also according to Alami’s LinkedIn, she graduated from McGill with a bachelor’s degree in cell biology and anatomy in 2021.
In January 2022, Alami indicated on Twitter that she was planning a career in surgery.
As of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn said she had been an external community representative at the McGill Tribune from September 2020 to May 2021.
Also as of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn said she was located in Montreal, Quebec.
Alami is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn profile said she had been a “Research Trainee” at the “Centre universitaire de santé McGill,” the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), in Montreal, Quebec, since September 2021.
As of the same date, Alami’s LinkedIn said she was pursuing a master’s degree in experimental medicine in the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology at McGill, slated to graduate in 2023. Also according to Alami’s LinkedIn, she graduated from McGill with a bachelor’s degree in cell biology and anatomy in 2021.
In January 2022, Alami indicated on Twitter that she was planning a career in surgery.
As of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn said she had been an external community representative at the McGill Tribune from September 2020 to May 2021.
Also as of June 2023, Alami’s LinkedIn said she was located in Montreal, Quebec.
As of the same date, Alami used the handle “@taraxrh” on Twitter and TikTok. She used the handle “@taraalalami” on Instagram, and went by the username “Tara A.” on LinkedIn.
Glorifying Terrorism
On May 25, 2024, Alami spoke [01:09:46] at a plenary session at the People’s Conference for Palestine titled: “Palestinian Resistance and the Path to Liberation.”The conference was organized by anti-Israel groups, including PYM, SJP and Al-Awda, and was held in Detroit, Michigan, on May 24-26, 2024.
In her speech, Alami said [01:09:20]: “Yes, we understand the Palestinian resistance as being formed by the freedom fighter, the militant resistance fighter. But it’s also every Palestinian who chooses direct confrontation with the Zionist state and the Zionist settler project whose condition of possibility is the annihilation of the Palestinian people and the theft of all of Palestinian land.”
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.
Alami continued [01:09:46]: “And that’s what popular resistance truly means: direct confrontation with the Zionist enemy at every sector of Palestinian society, with the participation of all of Palestinians.”
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. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.
Calling for Israelis to Die
On December 30, 2021, Alami tweeted in support of a tweet that read: “This year there was 61 shooting attacks on Israelis and 18 stabbing attacks on Israelis…”
”On December 30, 2021, Alami tweeted: “they are occupying my land and killing my people so yeah i’m going to hope for their death.”
On January 18, 2022, Alami tweeted: “Yeah i would like to see every settler dead actually.” A day later, Alami indicated on Twitter that she considers every Israeli Jew a “settler.”
On January 22, 2022, Alami tweeted to an Israeli Jew: “We said by all means necessary gadi, from the river to the sea. don’t give a f**k whether or not you can ‘swim’.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
Celebrating the Death of Israelis
On February 28, 2023, Alami tweeted “
” followed by a graphic that said “SETTLER DOWN” featuring balloons, party streamers and a yellow cartoon star wearing a PFLP headband. Alami wrote her tweet in response to a tweet that said: “We are shattered by the loss of Elan Ganeles, a US-Israeli citizen & IDF vet murdered today by Palestinian terrorists.”
On February 27, 2023, 26-year-old U.S.-Israeli citizen and former IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldier Elan Ganeles was murdered by Palestinian terrorists who shot at his car from their vehicle while he was driving to a friend’s wedding.
The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.
On December 5, 2021, Alami tweeted “good,” in response to a tweet that referred to the suicide of a mentally ill former Israeli soldier who “stabbed himself 20 times till death, today.”
On January 13, 2022, Alami tweeted an image with balloons and party streamers that said “OFFICER DOWN!” She was responding to a tweet that said: “#BREAKING: Two IDF Officers were killed overnight in a case of mistaken identity.”
On January 14, 2022, Alami tweeted “good,” in response to a tweet about the two Israeli army officers who were “misidentified & mistakenly killed by IDF fire.”
On July 21, 2022, Alami tweeted: “chef’s kiss” and included a tweet that said: “Sinkhole opens up in the bottom of a swimming pool in Israel. Reports say one man was sucked in and died.” The incident occurred that same day.
On January 28, 2023, Alami tweeted about a terror attack targeting on Israeli civilians one day earlier in Jerusalem: “kwame ture says (paraphrased): ‘if you love your people, you must be ready to die for your people and you must be ready to kill for them too.’”
On January 27, 2023, on the evening of the Jewish Sabbath, Palestinian terrorist Alqam Khayri opened fire on Jewish civilians in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem. Khayri killed seven people and wounded three before he was shot and killed by the police.
Also on January 28, 2023, Alami tweeted: “resistance by the colonised masses against a genocidal settler-colonial regime, the foundation of which is the settlers colonising the land, is beyond justified and deserved. if you’re not ready to face armed resistance, don’t be a settler.”
Alami retweeted a June 3, 2023 tweet that celebrated the death of three Israeli soldiers killed that day by an Egyptian police officer along the Israeli-Egyptian border.
The original tweet said: “You will never live in peace on stolen land 
” and included two photos of Israeli soldiers in mourning after the attack.
” and included two photos of Israeli soldiers in mourning after the attack.Celebrating Terrorist Attacks
On October 7, 2023, Alami tweeted: “liberation is near, by all means necessary..” On the same thread, Alami tweeted: “Palestine will be liberated, we will return to our land, we will be together again in our homeland.”
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, approximately 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 as young as an infant of nine months and as old as 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.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
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.
On October 8, 2023, Alami tweeted: “Lmao [laughing my a** off]” in response to a tweet from Toronto’s Mayor Olivia Chow condemning “Hamas horrific attacks on Israeli civilians” and claiming Toronto police were not aware of threats to Jewish communities in Toronto.
Also on October 8, 2023, Alami tweeted: “bismillah [in the name of God]” in response to a tweet that reported that rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel.
On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah launched rockets and mortar shells at Israel as an act of “solidarity” with Palestinians.
Violent Hatred of Zionists
On August 7, 2022, Alami tweeted: “If you are not actively disturbing zi*nists’ life in a protest, like continuously occupying a space or ruining an event, what are you doing that hasn’t been done already (and better) on social media?”On January 30, 2022, Alami tweeted in opposition to a tweet showing two “liberal Zionists” displaying two flags designed with aspects of the Israeli and Palestinian flags.
Alami wrote: “i would end up in jail with a two consecutive life sentences if I saw this in front of my eyes.”
On December 28, 2021, Alami shared to Twitter a tweet that read: “Jewish man says he was slugged in Brooklyn for wearing Israeli military hoodie.” Alami commented: “Nice.”
On December 26, 2021, two Jewish college students, Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich, were reportedly assaulted by two men outside a Foot Locker in Brooklyn, New York. Zavadsky, who was wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt, waspunched in the face by one of the assailants, who called Zavadsky and Kaganovich “dirty Jews.”
On December 11, 2021, Alami tweeted: “told a zionist to choke, they restricted me for a week, then i came back and said i still think he should choke lmfao [laughing my f**king a** off].”
Alami wrote: “i would end up in jail with a two consecutive life sentences if I saw this in front of my eyes.”
On December 28, 2021, Alami shared to Twitter a tweet that read: “Jewish man says he was slugged in Brooklyn for wearing Israeli military hoodie.” Alami commented: “Nice.”
On December 26, 2021, two Jewish college students, Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich, were reportedly assaulted by two men outside a Foot Locker in Brooklyn, New York. Zavadsky, who was wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt, waspunched in the face by one of the assailants, who called Zavadsky and Kaganovich “dirty Jews.”
On December 11, 2021, Alami tweeted: “told a zionist to choke, they restricted me for a week, then i came back and said i still think he should choke lmfao [laughing my f**king a** off].”
Glorifying PFLP Terrorist Leaders
On February 6, 2023, Alami posted on Instagram a photo that she captioned: “Leila Khaled’s kuffiyeh in a café on Mont Royal.” On the scarf was a picture of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, and below it the words: “يا قدس احنا قادمون [O, Al-Quds (Jerusalem), we are coming]."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 January 26, 2022, Alami tweeted a thread featuring four videos of PFLP founder George Habash. In the first tweet, Alami wrote: “Eternal comrade George Habash, الحكيم [the wise] (1984).”
In the first Twitter video that Alami shared, Habash said [00:00:19]: “Israel is the embodiment of Zionism…we are ready to have peace if we can get rid of Zionism.” In the third video, Habash called [00:00:14] for an increase in “armed struggle” against Israel and said [00:00:35]: “Our job is to…strike Israeli targets…we regard it as a right for us.”
Alami also called [00:13:10] for “the right of return for the millions of Palestinian refugees in the diaspora…and complete and absolute restitution and reparations.”
On January 19, 2022, Alami tweeted: “All of that being said, I do not give a f**k if you throw a temper tantrum because you interpret ‘from the river to the sea’ as ‘they want Jews to be thrown into the river’ أخبطوا راسكم بألف حيط [Hit your head on a thousand walls].”
In the same video that Alami shared, Khatib said [00:02:16]: “So don't come to me now and tell me well, this land originally belonged to Jews, you know, Palestinians are not the ones who created white supremacist values. That was created in Europe.”
Alami commented on the video: “Soooo so insightful.”
Also on May 13, 2021, Alami also claimed [slide 13]: “Hamas was founded as a REACTION to occupation…Demanding non-violent and unarmed ‘civil’ resistance against settler-colonialism…is colonial and racist.”
Alami’s tweet was in response to a tweet that said: “ordinary Palestinians living in the grip of militants are silently applauding the Israeli counter-terror operation” in Jenin.
In early July 2023, Israeli forces launched a two-day counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp. Its goal was to target terrorists and dismantle the terror infrastructure of organizations such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). By the end of the operation, the Israeli army had reportedly dismantled “hundreds of explosives, weapons caches and underground tunnels.”
On July 4, 2023, Alami tweeted: “...some excerpts from a piece I wrote for @africasacountry about Palestinian resistance being a continuous endeavour:”
Alami’s tweet included excerpts from an article she had written six months previously titled: “Resistance is a continuous endeavor,” which referred to [photo 1] Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi as a “resistance leader,” and to his death as “martyrdom.” Alami’s article further described the Lion’s Den terror group as a “revolutionary armed faction.”
Alami’s article also claimed [photo 1]: “The conditions of 75 years of brutal settler-colonialism birthed Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi…and the Lions’ Den at large.” She also wrote that Al-Nabulsi, along with Lions’ Den members, were “the personification of the natural progression of colonized youth raised to become revolutionary freedom fighters…who, on a daily basis, function as a tangible, steadfast embodiment of the moral duty and inalienable right to resist genocide, land theft, dispossession, and colonial violence by any means necessary.”
Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, a “commander” of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was known as “the lion of Nablus.” On August 9, 2022, he was killed [p. 5] in a gun battle with Israeli forces. The Brigade is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department.
The “Lions’ Den” [عرين الأسود]is an independent “armed group” with operatives hailing from various other Palestinian terrorist organizations. The group reportedly emerged from Nablus in August 2022. The Lions’ Den has claimed responsibility for the death of Israeli soldiers. They also targeted Israeli civilians in multiple terror attacks in October and November 2022.
During the panel discussion, Alami claimed [00:01:37] that “there were three men martyred in Jenin” the previous day. The three men were reportedly members of the PIJ terror group who opened fire on Israeli soldiers who attempted to arrest them. PIJ said the three men who were killed were “members of its military wing.”
On September 6, 2021, Alami shared [slide 70] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a PYM post celebrating the escape of six terrorists from an Israeli jail, including Zakaria Zubeidi [bottom left], a terrorist leader during the second intifada. Alami commented: “Incredible news.”
Zakaria Zubeidi was the former Jenin commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is listed as a foreign terror organization (FTO) by the U.S. government. Zubeidi was involved in several terror attacks on Israeli civilians. On September 6, 2021, Zubeidi was one of six prisoners who escaped from Israel’s Gilboa prison. They were all recaptured by September 19, 2021.
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
Alami said [00:00:00]: “Is it mandatory to be a settler and a colonizer?...Is it mandatory to live on stolen land…” Alami also referred [00:00:29] to the Israeli, Canadian and US armies as “genocidal”.
On June 22, 2021, Alami posted [slide 27] to her Instagram Stories Highlights an excerpt of a 2009 Electronic Intifada interview with BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti, who claimed: “We don’t have to prove that Israel is identical to apartheid South Africa in order to [justify] the label apartheid…” Barghouti went on to accuse Israel of “an evolved form of apartheid.”
Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
On May 23, 2021, Alami posted [slide 4] on her “Words” Instagram Stories Highlights that “The establishment of the Israeli State by Zionists has never been about religion. Populating it has always been about eugenics.”
On May 23, 2021, Alami responded [slide 40] on her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights to the question, “how come all Palestinans are so beautiful and all zionists are so ugly???” with: “That’s what supporting a genocidal settler-colonial state does to you… Ugly beliefs ugly face.
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On July 19, 2021, Alami shared [slide 40] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a post showing a graphic that read: “Zionism is not ‘Jewish self-determination.’ It is an intolerant supremacy movement.”
In October 2021, Mashayekh was listed as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering (Viterbi). In May 2021, she tweeted: “I want to f**king kill every motherf**king Zionist.” She also tweeted: “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews]
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Mashayekh has also spread violent hatred of Israeli Jews, called for the destruction of Israel and America, expressed support for Hamas and glorified terrorists.
Mashayekh was condemned after Canary Mission exposed her anti-Semitic tweets.
Alami retweeted a December 1, 2021 tweet that read: “Please report C*nary M*ssion's video on @intifadyas for targeted harassment.” On November 22, 2021, Canary Mission released a video on Twitter exposing Mashayekh’s anti-Semitic tweets.
On December 2, 2021, Alami shared a Canary Mission tweet that read: “An Open Letter to @USC& @USCViterbi signed by 64 professors including Andrew Viterbi himself! ‘We, the undersigned faculty, wish to register our dismay about ongoing open expressions of anti-Semitism and Zionophobia on our campus that go unrebuked.’"
Alami commented on the tweet: “ZIONOPHOBIA LMFAOOOOOO [laughing my f**king a** off].”
On the same day, Alami tweeted: “they@wanna be victims so bad. I’m zionophobic
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On May 20, 2021, Alami urged [slide 36] viewers on her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights to join SPHR McGill.
On October 7, 2019, Alami reportedly published a profile of SPHR in the student newspaper, the McGill Daily, titled [p.7]: “The History and Future of SPHR.” The article accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing, colonialism, and imperialism” and promoted BDS.
On May 15, 2021, during OGW, Alami participated [slide 20] in an anti-Israel demonstration outside the Israel consulate in Montreal. Protesters at the rally held signs that read, “Israel=Nazi” and “Israel is terrorist.”
The same day, Alami posted to Instagram photos from the rally and commented: “Thanks everyone. Keep mobilising and keep this momentum going. This isn’t a one-week thing. And ACAB [All Cops Are Bastards].
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In May 2021, Alami signed an open letter, co-signed by SPHR, titled: “PETITION TO THE MCGILL ADMINISTRATION TO DIVEST FROM ALL ISRAELI COMPANIES AND TO UPDATE THE DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM POLICY TO INCLUDE ZIONISM.”
On May 16, 2021, Alami posted [slide 25] to her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights that she “found out about BDS in grade 9.” She also said that she has “been completely boycotting many, many companies complicit in the occupation since then” and that she is “happy to boycott even more companies in the future.”
In the first Twitter video that Alami shared, Habash said [00:00:19]: “Israel is the embodiment of Zionism…we are ready to have peace if we can get rid of Zionism.” In the third video, Habash called [00:00:14] for an increase in “armed struggle” against Israel and said [00:00:35]: “Our job is to…strike Israeli targets…we regard it as a right for us.”
George Habash, who has been called“the godfather of Middle East terrorism,” founded the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1970, Habash was the mastermind behind the hijacking of four Western airliners known as the Dawson Field hijackings. In 1972, the PFLP collaborated with Japanese Red Army terrorists to massacre 24 people at Israel's Lod International Airport (renamed Ben Gurion International Airport).
On September 27, 2021, Alami shared [slide 4] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a post that celebrated PFLP leader Khalida Jarrar, and five other “former prisoners” in Israeli jail, as “freedom fighters.”
The other five were imprisoned for activity with the Democratic Progressive Student Pole (DPSP), which reportedly was the PFLP faction at Birzeit University in Ramallah. Israel declared DPSP “an illegal and terrorist organization” in October 2020.
Alami praised [00:21:44] Khaled for being “essential to any kind of revolution on the ground or any kind of uprising on the ground…”
The other five were imprisoned for activity with the Democratic Progressive Student Pole (DPSP), which reportedly was the PFLP faction at Birzeit University in Ramallah. Israel declared DPSP “an illegal and terrorist organization” in October 2020.
Khalida Jarrar is a senior PFLP member who has been in Israeli prison multiple times. In 2019, she was one of 50 PFLP operatives arrested, following a deadly 2018 bombing attack that targeted an Israeli family on vacation.
On October 17, 2021, Alami featured in an October 17, 2021 Spring Socialist Network podcast where she promoted [00:21:18] the writings of PFLP leaders and “Palestinian revolutionaries” Leila Khaled and Ghassan Kanafani. Alami praised [00:21:44] Khaled for being “essential to any kind of revolution on the ground or any kind of uprising on the ground…”
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 September 13, 2021, Alami shared [slide 82] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a screenshot of an excerpt from page 6 of the “Military Strategy of the P.F.L.P.” that read: “For the principle of legitimate defense prescribes reacting to aggression promptly and with all possible means, whatever the circumstances.”
Calling for Israel’s Destruction
On October 17, 2021, Alami said [00:12:42] in a Spring Socialist Network podcast: “It’s clear that when we say ‘Free Free Palestine,’ we’re talking about Palestine from the river to the sea. We’re not talking just about the occupied West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. We are talking about the liberation of Palestine and Palestinians from the Zionist regime and its allies.”Alami also called [00:13:10] for “the right of return for the millions of Palestinian refugees in the diaspora…and complete and absolute restitution and reparations.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
On January 19, 2022, Alami tweeted: “All of that being said, I do not give a f**k if you throw a temper tantrum because you interpret ‘from the river to the sea’ as ‘they want Jews to be thrown into the river’ أخبطوا راسكم بألف حيط [Hit your head on a thousand walls].”
Demonizing Israeli Jews
On June 28, 2021, Alami shared [slide 5] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a video by Palestinian artist Sudah Khatib who said [00:00:01] that it was “surreal” to her that based on “biblical stories” anyone would consider Jews indigenous to Israel.In the same video that Alami shared, Khatib said [00:02:16]: “So don't come to me now and tell me well, this land originally belonged to Jews, you know, Palestinians are not the ones who created white supremacist values. That was created in Europe.”
Alami commented on the video: “Soooo so insightful.”
One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is to claim [00:06:46] that Jews, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, do not descend from the ancient Israelites. This claim alleges that Jews are white Europeans who lack a connection to the Land of Israel.
Khatib also said [00:01:14] in the video: “If you're my age, you've looked at a map and you know that Palestine is the connection between Africa and Asia, therefore, it has to be colonized. And white supremacists, they want to control our resources, therefore, they have to create a white supremacist existence in Palestine.”
On May 13, 2021, during Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), Alami responded [slide 13] on Instagram to the question: “How do we respond when they accuse hamas of using human shields?” Alami wrote: “Does Hamas allegedly using human shields justify the Israeli state just because they were purposefully ‘placed’ there as shields?”
Defending Hamas
Alami reposted a November 1, 2024 post on X that said: “...Hamas did not make Nazi Israel & its western backers genocidal. On Oct 7 there was legitimate Palestinian armed resistance that exposed, through its effectiveness, exactly how nazified the West is…”
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.
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.
During OGW in May 2021, Hamas reportedly used civilians as human shields to defend against Israeli counterstrikes. Hamas also launched rockets from densely populated civilian areas, stockpiled weapons in private homes and situated key operations facilities in civilian apartment buildings, near mosques, hospitals and schools.
Also on May 13, 2021, Alami also claimed [slide 13]: “Hamas was founded as a REACTION to occupation…Demanding non-violent and unarmed ‘civil’ resistance against settler-colonialism…is colonial and racist.”
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization founded in 1987 that is dedicated to destroying Israel and killing Jews. Since 2001, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at Israel and on October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 hostages, including children and the elderly.
Terror Support (PIJ, Lion’s Den, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
On July 5, 2023, at the end of an Israeli counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp, Alami tweeted: “...Palestinians on the ground, in Jenin or otherwise, and those of us in exile love our freedom fighters who sacrifice their life for the liberation our homeland and people.”Alami’s tweet was in response to a tweet that said: “ordinary Palestinians living in the grip of militants are silently applauding the Israeli counter-terror operation” in Jenin.
In early July 2023, Israeli forces launched a two-day counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp. Its goal was to target terrorists and dismantle the terror infrastructure of organizations such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). By the end of the operation, the Israeli army had reportedly dismantled “hundreds of explosives, weapons caches and underground tunnels.”
On July 4, 2023, Alami tweeted: “...some excerpts from a piece I wrote for @africasacountry about Palestinian resistance being a continuous endeavour:”
Alami’s tweet included excerpts from an article she had written six months previously titled: “Resistance is a continuous endeavor,” which referred to [photo 1] Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi as a “resistance leader,” and to his death as “martyrdom.” Alami’s article further described the Lion’s Den terror group as a “revolutionary armed faction.”
Alami’s article also claimed [photo 1]: “The conditions of 75 years of brutal settler-colonialism birthed Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi…and the Lions’ Den at large.” She also wrote that Al-Nabulsi, along with Lions’ Den members, were “the personification of the natural progression of colonized youth raised to become revolutionary freedom fighters…who, on a daily basis, function as a tangible, steadfast embodiment of the moral duty and inalienable right to resist genocide, land theft, dispossession, and colonial violence by any means necessary.”
Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, a “commander” of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was known as “the lion of Nablus.” On August 9, 2022, he was killed [p. 5] in a gun battle with Israeli forces. The Brigade is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department.
The “Lions’ Den” [عرين الأسود]is an independent “armed group” with operatives hailing from various other Palestinian terrorist organizations. The group reportedly emerged from Nablus in August 2022. The Lions’ Den has claimed responsibility for the death of Israeli soldiers. They also targeted Israeli civilians in multiple terror attacks in October and November 2022.
On April 2, 2022, Alami moderated an online panel discussion titled: “Challenging Corporate Complicity in the Continued Colonization of Palestine: Means and Methods.” The event was organized by the anti-Israel groups Al-Haq, the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) and Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste.
During the panel discussion, Alami claimed [00:01:37] that “there were three men martyred in Jenin” the previous day. The three men were reportedly members of the PIJ terror group who opened fire on Israeli soldiers who attempted to arrest them. PIJ said the three men who were killed were “members of its military wing.”
Zakaria Zubeidi was the former Jenin commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is listed as a foreign terror organization (FTO) by the U.S. government. Zubeidi was involved in several terror attacks on Israeli civilians. On September 6, 2021, Zubeidi was one of six prisoners who escaped from Israel’s Gilboa prison. They were all recaptured by September 19, 2021.
Spreading Incitement
On May 20, 2021, during OGW, Alami responded [slide 35] on Instagram to the question “do you support the intifada,” by answering “Viva viva intifada [long live the intifada].”Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On July 18, 2021, Alami posted [slide 36] on her Instagram Stories Highlights: “In preparation for their attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque, Zionist settlers harass Palestinians all throughout Jerusalem.’”
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.
Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
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.
Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
On July 18, 2021, Alami shared [slide 38] on her Instagram Stories Highlights a post with a video showing families walking on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The post said: “...Israeli settlers stormed and desecrated the Al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday. This is not a fringe minority. This is the very essence of what Zionism stands for.”
On October 17, 2021, Alami featured in a Spring Socialist Networkpodcast during which she accused [00:11:35] Israel of “ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.”
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.
On October 17, 2021, Alami featured in a Spring Socialist Networkpodcast during which she accused [00:11:35] Israel of “ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.”
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.
Jewish ownership claims to lands in Silwan, a Jerusalem neighborhood also known as Shiloach, have been frequently met with Palestinian violence against Israelis who sought to reclaim their property rights.
Hatred of Israel
On September 10, 2022, Alami posted a video to TikTok replying to the question: “isn’t doing military service mandatory in that country [Israel]?”
Alami said [00:00:00]: “Is it mandatory to be a settler and a colonizer?...Is it mandatory to live on stolen land…” Alami also referred [00:00:29] to the Israeli, Canadian and US armies as “genocidal”.
On June 22, 2021, Alami posted [slide 27] to her Instagram Stories Highlights an excerpt of a 2009 Electronic Intifada interview with BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti, who claimed: “We don’t have to prove that Israel is identical to apartheid South Africa in order to [justify] the label apartheid…” Barghouti went on to accuse Israel of “an evolved form of apartheid.”
On May 20, 2021, as Hamas and Israel entered into a ceasefire to halt OGW, Alami posted [slide 37] on her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights a list of rationales why the ceasefire “means nothing,” including: “I*F [IDF] pigs will continue to harass, arrest, and murder Palestinian children and adults with no consequences whatsoever.”
On May 16, 2021, Alami posted [slide 30 ] to her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights that she wished “everyone knew that Palestine is occupied by a ruthlessly genocidal settler-colonial state…”
Hatred of Zionists
On May 12, 2021, Alami claimed [slide 11] on Instagram that “Zionists on campus purposely sabotage democratic voting procedures in student unions…Their tactics are systemically pervasive and they impede student democracy.” Alami also commented [slide 10] that members of Hillel “might be the most insidious people I’ve ever come across.”Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
On May 23, 2021, Alami posted [slide 4] on her “Words” Instagram Stories Highlights that “The establishment of the Israeli State by Zionists has never been about religion. Populating it has always been about eugenics.”
On May 23, 2021, Alami responded [slide 40] on her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights to the question, “how come all Palestinans are so beautiful and all zionists are so ugly???” with: “That’s what supporting a genocidal settler-colonial state does to you… Ugly beliefs ugly face.
” On July 19, 2021, Alami shared [slide 40] to her Instagram Stories Highlights a post showing a graphic that read: “Zionism is not ‘Jewish self-determination.’ It is an intolerant supremacy movement.”
Solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh
In December 2021, Alami tweeted multiple times in support of Mashayekh who was [00:11:08] in the middle of a national controversy over anti-Semitism she spread on social media that year.In October 2021, Mashayekh was listed as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering (Viterbi). In May 2021, she tweeted: “I want to f**king kill every motherf**king Zionist.” She also tweeted: “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews]
.” Mashayekh has also spread violent hatred of Israeli Jews, called for the destruction of Israel and America, expressed support for Hamas and glorified terrorists.
Mashayekh was condemned after Canary Mission exposed her anti-Semitic tweets.
Alami retweeted a December 1, 2021 tweet that read: “Please report C*nary M*ssion's video on @intifadyas for targeted harassment.” On November 22, 2021, Canary Mission released a video on Twitter exposing Mashayekh’s anti-Semitic tweets.
On December 2, 2021, Alami shared a Canary Mission tweet that read: “An Open Letter to @USC& @USCViterbi signed by 64 professors including Andrew Viterbi himself! ‘We, the undersigned faculty, wish to register our dismay about ongoing open expressions of anti-Semitism and Zionophobia on our campus that go unrebuked.’"
Alami commented on the tweet: “ZIONOPHOBIA LMFAOOOOOO [laughing my f**king a** off].”
On the same day, Alami tweeted: “they@wanna be victims so bad. I’m zionophobic
”SPHR McGill Activism
On August 10, 2021, Alami posted to Instagram photos of herself speaking at a “Rally for Palestine,” hosted by SPHR McGill on May 30, 2021.On May 20, 2021, Alami urged [slide 36] viewers on her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights to join SPHR McGill.
On October 7, 2019, Alami reportedly published a profile of SPHR in the student newspaper, the McGill Daily, titled [p.7]: “The History and Future of SPHR.” The article accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing, colonialism, and imperialism” and promoted BDS.
Anti-Israel Activism
On October 21, 2021, Alami was listed on Facebook and Instagram as the facilitator and a panelist of a Spring Socialist Network webinar titled: “Viva Palestina! A Roundtable Discussion on Palestinian National Liberation.” During the webinar, Alami said [00:08:42] she was an activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).On May 15, 2021, during OGW, Alami participated [slide 20] in an anti-Israel demonstration outside the Israel consulate in Montreal. Protesters at the rally held signs that read, “Israel=Nazi” and “Israel is terrorist.”
The same day, Alami posted to Instagram photos from the rally and commented: “Thanks everyone. Keep mobilising and keep this momentum going. This isn’t a one-week thing. And ACAB [All Cops Are Bastards].
”Supporting BDS
On July 13, 2021, Alami published an article in Spring magazine, titled: “BDS and Palestinian liberation.” In the article, she outlined the BDS movement’s “three-fold goals” as a means of “achieving Palestinian liberation from the river to the sea.”In May 2021, Alami signed an open letter, co-signed by SPHR, titled: “PETITION TO THE MCGILL ADMINISTRATION TO DIVEST FROM ALL ISRAELI COMPANIES AND TO UPDATE THE DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM POLICY TO INCLUDE ZIONISM.”
On May 16, 2021, Alami posted [slide 25] to her “Palestine Q&A” Instagram Stories Highlights that she “found out about BDS in grade 9.” She also said that she has “been completely boycotting many, many companies complicit in the occupation since then” and that she is “happy to boycott even more companies in the future.”
SPHR
SPHR was formed in 1999 via a merger between the Concordia Centre for Palestinian Human Rights (CCPHR) at Concordia and the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) at McGill University. The group gained notoriety after instigating a riot at Concordia University, that forced then former (and current) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel a speech scheduled for September 9, 2002. Ticket holders later reported that the protesters subjected them to antisemitic slogans and physical attacks. A holocaust survivor was kicked in the groin and a local Rabbi with his wife were assaulted and spat on.
SJP
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 Students 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.
PYM
In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”
PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”
On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”
On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
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.
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Infamous Quotes
“We said by all means necessary gadi, from the river to the sea. don’t give a f**k whether or not you can ‘swim’.”
“All of that being said, I do not give a f**k if you throw a temper tantrum because you interpret ‘from the river to the sea’ as ‘they want Jews to be thrown into the river’”
“Yeah i would like to see every settler dead actually.”
“told a zionist to choke, they restricted me for a week, then i came back and said i still think he should choke lmfao [laughing my f**king a** off].”
“Yes, we understand the Palestinian resistance as being formed by the freedom fighter, the militant resistance fighter. But it’s also every Palestinian who chooses direct confrontation with the Zionist state and the Zionist settler project whose condition of possibility is the annihilation of the Palestinian people and the theft of all of Palestinian land.”
