Tomas Reuning
Overview
Tomás Reuning [Tomás Daniel Chávez Reuning] has spread hatred of Zionists, America and the police, as well as trivialized anti-Semitism and demonized Israel.
Reuning participated in a 2021 Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) protest in support of anti-Israel violence at Cornell University (Cornell) and signed an anti-Israel statement while serving as the 2020-2021 “LGBTQIA + Liaison At-Large” and Member of the Diversity Committee with the Cornell Student Assembly (SA).
As of March 2022, Reuning’s LinkedIn said Reuning graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature in 2021.
Reuning’s LinkedIn also said Reuning was the “Online Content Editor” and “Copy Editor” for Marginalia Undergraduate Poetry Review from August 2019 to June 2021.
As of the same date, Reuning’s LinkedIn said Reuning worked at McMaster-Carr since June 2021 and that Reuning was located in the Greater Chicago Area, Illinois.
As of March 2022, Reuning went by the name “tomás daniel” on Instagram and used the handle “tomas_o_menos” on Instagram and Twitter.
Hatred of Zionists
Reuning retweeted a May 15, 2021 tweet that read: “white jewish zionists appropriating social justice language to make themselves appear oppressed as they tweet and post instagram stories from their 6,000 square foot mansion in central new jersey is actually disgusting.”Reuning retweeted a May 15, 2021 tweet that read: “A common Zionist talking point we've come to accept is that "
has a right to exist." is predicated upon occupation, land theft, and elimination of the native. It needs those to maintain its demographic majority--when u defend its ‘right to exist,’ that is what u are defending.”Reuning retweeted a May 14, 2021 tweet that read: “Love how Zionist influencers are unironically sharing things like ‘Instagram infographics isn’t education’ & ‘do better research’ in response to worldwide support with Palestine as if their entire brands aren’t built around baseless girl-boss posts on how Zionism makes them feel.”
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.
Hatred of America
On January 6, 2021, the day of the U.S. Capitol Riot, Reuning tweeted: “Amerikkka is arguably worse in a multitude of ways.”Reuning’s tweet was in response to a tweet by U.S. President Joe Biden that read: “America is so much better than what we’re seeing today.”
The term “Amerikkka” uses the initials of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a way to demonize America as “fascist or racist.”
Reuning retweeted a July 31, 2021 tweet that claimed: “...america is a failed state.”
Reuning retweeted a September 6, 2021 tweet that read: “America seems proud to be the country with most covid 19 deaths because 10 rich people doubled their bank accounts while thousands lost their homes.”
Hatred of Police
On April 28, 2021, Reuning posted to Facebook: “Disgusting. Most cops really are just bullies who peaked in high school in uniforms.”On October 20, 2020, Reuning tweeted: “it's always the men who used to do actual sociopath s**t as kids like shooting and torturing animals with bb guns that will become cops and pretend they're good people.”
On May 31, 2020, Reuning tweeted: “even if there are good cops (there aren't), now is not the time to be talking about them. this not the time to be on that ‘not all cops,’ ‘not all men’ bulls**t. READ THE ROOM.”
On May 29, 2020, Reuning tweeted: “F**K THE POLICE. EVERY SINGLE ONE. VETE PA CARAJO [go to hell].”
On May 26, 2020, Reuning tweeted: “i have never met a cop that's a genuinely good person. family friends included. there's always something creepy, shady, power hungry, etc. about them.”
On November 10, 2019, Reuning tweeted: “cops are f**king evil.”
Trivializing Anti-Semitism
Reuning retweeted a May 22, 2021 tweet that read: “Don’t have the energy to discuss antisemitism every time I talk about Palestine...and those incidents of antisemitism don’t justify colonization and land theft. It’s really not that complicated.”Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. “more than doubled” during OGW and its aftermath, compared to the same time period in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Demonizing Israel
Reuning retweeted an August 5, 2021 tweet by anti-Israel cartoonist Eli Valley that included a video of U.S. House Representative Cori Bush labeling [00:00:20] Israel an “apartheid” state.Eli Valley has been condemned by former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Abraham Foxman for depicting “Jews and evangelical Christians… as blood-sucking monsters.”
Former Op-Ed Editor of the New York Times and target of Valley’s work, Bari Weiss, reportedly endorsed the assertion that Valley’s work traffics in “hatred that gloms onto Jews and the Jewish State.”
Reuning retweeted a May 11, 2021 tweet that accused Israel of “Illegal occupation,” “Systemic violence” and “Ethnic cleansing.”
Reuning retweeted a May 11, 2021 tweet that read: “Isn’t it crazy that American Jews have a ‘birthright’ to a land that neither them, nor their parents, nor their great grandparents 10x over have ever been to, yet i as a Palestinian need special visas to visit my place of birth?”
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
Reuning retweeted a May 11, 2021 tweet that read: “its PALESTINE. not israel. not palestine and israel. its PALESTINE.”
Participating in a Protest in Support of Anti-Israel Violence
In May 2021, Reuning participated [slide 6] Cornell SJP’s“March for Palestine” in support of anti-Israel violence.On May 12, 2021, Cornell SJP promoted on Instagram their upcoming May 15, 2021 “March for Palestine” on Cornell’s Ho Plaza. The event poster featured calls to: “SAVE SHEIKH JARRAH” and “SAVE AL-AQSA.”
Incitement around Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israel’s major centers on May 10-21, 2021. In response, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
On May 12, 2021, Cornell SJP promoted their upcoming march on Facebook, calling on their followers to “show support for the ongoing rebellion in occupied Palestine against the Zionist occupation” and condemn “Zionism and Israeli state terrorism.”
On May 15, 2021, Cornell SJP demonstrators participated in the group’s march. Protesters displayed a banner that read: “Stand with Palestinian Resistance,” as well as signs that read: “End the Palestinian Holocaust” and “Stop the US Funding of Genocide.”
At the protest, one demonstrator accused [slide 2] Israel of “white supremacy,” as well as [slide 1] “ethnic cleansing” and “violent brutal occupation.” Joseph Mullen, a newly-elected SA member and march organizer, pledged [00:00:50] “to end Cornell’s relationship with Israel.”
Reuning retweeted a May 15, 2021 tweet by Joseph Mullen, the protest co-organizer, that read: “Cornell showed tf [the f**k] up for Palestine today. This is the next generation of college students who will fight for a Free Palestine #Nakba73.”
Reuning also retweeted a May 15, 2021 tweet by Valeria Valencia that read: “there’s two types of people at Cornell today, those at the Palestine protest and those at collegetown darties [day parties].”
On May 16, 2021, Reuning appeared [slide 6] in a photo posted to Instagram by Max Greenberg, a co-organizer of the protest, in which Reuning marched with other protesters while holding a sign that read: “When people are occupied, resistance is justified!”
On the same day, Cornell SJP posted photos of their demonstration to Facebook and commented: “Cornell students and Ithaca residents turned out in force today to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and apartheid!”
Signing an Anti-Israel Statement
In May 2021, Reuning signed a statement titled: “Recognizing and Condemning Violent Attacks Against Palestinians.”The statement, published on Cornell SA letterhead, said: “We, the undersigned, are writing to condemn the violent and vicious acts of terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism, that have been plaguing Palestinians for years and specifically regarding recent events.”
The statement also alleged Israel carried out “illegal evictions” and deliberately targeted Palestinians celebrating Ramadan for violent attacks. Claiming “Mosques full of Muslims observing the last 10 days of Ramadan in solitude were attacked with grenades and ransacked,” the statement also alleged that Israel was considering an invasion of Gaza during the Islamic holiday of Eid.
The statement then called on the university administration to “act immediately” to end “their relationship with Technion in Haifa, Israel” and “any relationship between the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) and Israel.” The statement also called on the University to issue a statement in defense of Palestinian rights and to reconsider investments in Israel.
On May 13, 2021, Cornell’s student newspaper, The Cornell Review, reported that Abd Elmagid, as well as Uche Chukwukere, SA Vice President of Finance and SJP Cornell affiliate, and Joseph Mullen, an SJP Cornell activist and incoming College of Arts and Sciences Representative, introduced the anti-Israel statement during the final SA meeting of the year.
The statement was signed by 23 students, but was neither voted on nor enacted by the SA.
Cornell SJP - Overview
Cornell SJP has dismissed anti-Semitism, supported anti-Israel violence and whitewashed terrorists. The student group has also disrupted Israel Day campus events multiple times, demonized Israel and campaigned for the BDS movement.Cornell SJP activists wrote an anti-Israel statement and presented it at Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA) in May 2021.
Cornell SJP - Dismissing Anti-Semitism 2020-2021
On May 28, 2021, Cornell SJP posted to Instagram, opposing [Slide 1] a May 26, 2021 letter [Slide 1] by Cornell President Martha Pollack, which took notice of the “alarming national rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes...amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East,” and appealed for “rigorous discourse and debate, devoid of personal invective and attacks.”Cornell SJP condemned [Slide 4] the term “ongoing tensions” and blamed Israel exclusively for Palestinian-Israeli tensions, accusing Israel of “apartheid” and “provocations against Palestine, from the occupation of Sheikh Jarrah to the assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the bombings of the Gaza strip.”
Incitement around Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israel’s major centers on May 10-21, 2021. In response, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
Cornell SJP also rejected [Slide 7] President Pollack’s call for “rigorous discourse and debate,” promoting, instead, “the duty to resist colonial violence.”
Cornell SJP called on their Instagram followers to “send an email to [the Cornell] administration in regards to their complete dismissal of the ethnic cleansing and apartheid of Palestinians.”
Cornell SJP attached a link in their Instagram bio to a google document of an email condemning President Pollack’s letter, signed by Cornell professors, as well as Cornell students and student groups.
Cornell SJP - Glorifying Terrorist Ghassan Kanafani 2019-2020
On January 28, 2020, Cornell SJP shared to their Facebook a post from a local communist collective known as the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists (CORS), glorifying terrorist Ghassan Kanafani and promoting Kanafani’s rejection of any negotiations with Israel.Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during their formative years. Kanafani was also involved in the Lod Airport Massacre near Tel Aviv, for which PFLP took responsibility.
Cornell SJP - Demonizing Israel 2020-2021
On April 21, 2021, Cornell SJP promoted an April 22, 2021 “virtual teach-in” on the “Deadly Exchange” and encouraged students to “tune in to find out what it will take to end the militarization of campus police and (one aspect of) Cornell's complicity in the occupation of Palestine!”Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) launched the “Deadly Exchange” campaign in 2017. The campaign claimed that American Jewish organizations promoted human rights abuses. A video for the campaign by JVP accused American Jewish organizations of planning programs between American and Israeli security personnel, to advance“racist policies.”
On December 13, 2020, Cornell SJP hosted a teach-in titled: “Health and the Israeli Occupation.”
The event description alleged: “The apartheid system imposed by the Israeli occupation of Palestine extends to all facets of life, including health and medical treatment…Hospitals in Gaza are frequently demolished by Israeli bomber planes.”
Hamas has used hospitals in Gaza as command centers, weapons storage and launch sites for missile and rocket attacks against Israel in violation of international humanitarian law in regard to armed conflicts.
Cornell SJP - Demonizing Israel 2019-2020
On February 21, 2020, during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, Cornell SJP hosted a webinar titled: “Mental Health Under Siege - the Case of Palestine” given by four members of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network (PGMHN) steering committee.The Facebook event description accused Israel of “political violence, institutional racism, and internal colonialism,” claiming that Israel does not “just target the physical living conditions of the Palestinians, but aims to break the very fabric of their society, their souls, and their psyche as well.”
One of the speakers, Mustafa Qassoqsi, described [00:11:53] the founding of the state of Israel as the “colonization of Palestine by European Jews” and accused [00:13:15] Israel of “settler colonialism” and [00:15:00] “ethnic cleansing.”
Another presenter, Samah Jabr, head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health, claimed [00:38:15] that Israel’s humanitarian aid to Gaza is a “deceiving mask for sadistic intentions.”
Rana Nashashibi, a psychologist living and practicing in Jerusalem, alleged [00:46:54] that the Gaza Strip and most of the West Bank today is “very much like a huge, overcrowded prison, whose inmates are kept in check by heavily armed guards at the gates.”
Nashashibi added [00:47:11]: “If…this prison were to be called anything, it would be ‘a ghetto.’”
On November 22, 2019, Cornell SJP hosted an event titled: “Teach-in Gaza: Life inside the world's largest open air prison.”
The event description on Facebook said: “we will be discussing the history of Gaza from the Nakba to the Great March of Return to last week's military aggression by Israel. Learn more about U.S ally Israel's role in creating the world's largest open air prison...and how Palestinians today are fighting back for their lands.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
In November 2019, Israel launched Operation Black Belt to stop rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel. From November 12 to November 14, 2019, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group sent hundreds of rockets into Israel, targeting major civilian population centers.
Cornell SJP - BDS Overview
In February 2019, Cornell SJP launched an anti-Israel divestment campaign, calling on the University to divest from Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and any companies which Cornell SJP claimed “profit directly from Israeli military occupation.”Cornell SJPmembers tried to [00:23:03] deny that the resolution was part of the larger BDS movement, a tactic encouraged [00:58:53] by BDS-founder Omar Barghouti. Cornell senators also used a secret ballot to vote on the bill. The bill ultimately failed to pass.
In October 2019, Cornell SJP moved to direct confrontation, disrupting the quarterly meeting of Cornell’s Board of Trustees and calling on the Board to “sever ties” with the Technion. Cornell SJP also called to eliminate the Board’s power of discretion in investments in “the occupation of Palestine.”
Cornell SJP - Divestment Campaign 2018-2019
In February 2019, Cornell SJP launched an anti-Israel divestment campaign, introducing and pushing S.A. Resolution 36, “Urging Cornell to Divest from Companies Profiting from the Occupation of Palestine and Human Rights Violation.”Cornell SJP’s resolution called on Cornell to divest from Cornell Tech’s partnership with the Technion. Cornell Tech is Cornell’s technology, business, law and design campus.
Cornell SJP also called on the university to divest from Tata Motors, Ingersoll-Rand, Raytheon, G4S, and Hewlett-Packard and any other companies SJP Cornell claimed “profit directly from Israeli military occupation.”
Cornell SJP also said: “We will publicly name endowment investments…and hold university leadership responsible for complicity in crimes of apartheid.”
On February 18, 2019, Cornell SJP delivered a letter to Cornell’s President Martha Pollack calling on the University to “divest from companies profiting from morally reprehensible human rights violations in Palestine.”
On April 11, 2019, Cornell SJP presented their divestment initiative to Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA). During the discussion, Mahfuza Shovik, a resolution sponsor, denied [00:23:03] the resolution was part of the BDS movement.
Cornell SJP - Divestment Campaign 2019-2020
On October 19, 2019, Cornell SJP in conjunction with Islamic Alliance for Justice (IAJ) and other student organizations disrupted the quarterly meeting of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, and then held a protest outside the meeting venue.Protesters called on the Board to “sever ties” with the Technion and claimed the Technion engaged in “morally reprehensible” behavior. Protesters also called to eliminate the Board’s power of discretion in investments, so as to “stop funding atrocities in Palestine” and end “the 71 year long Israeli occupation of Palestine!”
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.
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
“Amerikkka is arguably worse in a multitude of ways.”
“cops are f**king evil.”
“F**K THE POLICE. EVERY SINGLE ONE. VETE PA CARAJO [go to hell].”
“Disgusting. Most cops really are just bullies who peaked in high school in uniforms.”
“it's always the men who used to do actual sociopath s**t as kids like shooting and torturing animals with bb guns that will become cops and pretend they're good people.”
“i have never met a cop that's a genuinely good person. family friends included. there's always something creepy, shady, power hungry, etc. about them.”
