Yasmin Oriqat

Overview

Yasmin Oriqat has spread hatred of Zionists, showed support for violence and expressed support for terrorists and hatred of Israel.

Oriqat is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. She was affiliated with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in October 2019.

On May 14, 2018, Oriqat indicated on Twitter that she was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

As of October 2022, Oriqat’s LinkedIn said she was a Mental Health Therapist at Fred Finch Youth & Family Services in Oakland, California since August 2022.

Fred Finch Youth & Family Services describes itself as “a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit organization that provides innovative, effective, caring mental health and social services to children, young adults, and their families.”

As of October 2022, Oriqat’s National Provider Identifier (NPI) number was listed as 1730811738 and her work address was the same as Fred Finch Youth & Family Services. Oriqat’s NPI information was certified on June 29, 2022.

Also as of October 2022, Oriqat’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Wellness Counseling Intern” at Westmoor High School in Daly City, California from September 2021 to May 2022. However, on September 8, 2022, Oriqat tweeted: “... I work at a middle school.”

Oriqat’s LinkedIn also said she graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) with a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in 2022. She also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from San Jose State University (SJSU) in 2018.

As of October 2022, Oriqat used the handle “@_yassssmin” on Twitter. She used the name “Yasmin O.” on LinkedIn and was listed as being located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hatred of Zionists

On September 28, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “We only bully Zionists over here okurrrr [okay].”

On August 14, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “I can’t fight but a Zionist a** b**ch could catch these hands.” The term “catch these hands” means to fight.

On October 3, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “Shut yo zionist a** hoe a** b**ch a** up.”

On May 14, 2018, Oriqat tweeted: “our sjp had an event the other day and the israeli club came and started waving their ugly a** flag right in front of our table THEYRE SO ANNOYING.”

In the same thread that day, Oriqat tweeted: “omg i hate them.”

Supporting Violence

Oriqat retweeted an April 20, 2022 tweet by Muayad Shaheen that read: “please show me one liberation movement that succeeded solely through non-violent means.”

Oriqat retweeted an April 9, 2022 tweet by Ayah Ghanameh that read: “yeah i support violent resistance and what about it? liberation by any and all means necessary …”

On September 23, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “Anyone who says ‘violence is not the answer’ when it comes to protests knows damn well that if the police killed their parents they’d burn the whole city down too.”

Oriqat retweeted a June 30, 2020 tweet that said: “there is something just so beautiful abt palestinian women.” The tweet included photos of a masked Palestinian woman with her finger on the trigger of a raised pistol and other masked women using slingshots.

Oriqat retweeted a June 26, 2020 tweet that said: “I support violent Palestinian resistance.”

Oriqat retweeted a November 14, 2019 tweet during an Israeli military operation in Gaza. The tweet said: “If you’re support for Palestinians is couched in non-violence or is predicated on denouncing armed resistance, we don’t want you as an ally. That’s not support. If you can’t understand the importance of fighting back, you don’t understand the severity of our oppression.”

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.

On August 3, 2014, during an Israeli operation against Hamas in Gaza, Oriqat set her Facebook profile picture to a photo of herself holding a sign that said: “WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED, RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED. #IAMGAZA.”

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

Supporting Terrorists

Oriqat retweeted a January 3, 2022 tweet in support of Hisham Abu Hawash who ended his 141-day hunger strike the following day.

In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.

On November 8, 2021, Oriqat tweeted: “I am tweeting in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers, Kayed, Miqdad, Alaa, Hisham, Ayyad and Loay. Join me! Copy and paste this tweet, and quote retweet with the hashtags #FreeThemAll.”

Oriqat retweeted a September 22, 2020 tweet promoting a petition in support of holding a Zoom event featuring Leila Khaled.

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.

The petition said: “Leila Khaled is a powerful, inspiring figure. She’s more than just a freedom fighter. Leila is a mother, a wife, and a national icon… What Leila proves to us most is that everyone has a place in the Liberation of Palestine.” It concluded: “SIGN BELOW TO SUPPORT… LEILA KHALED'S ROLE IN MARKING PALESTINIAN HISTORY AND LIBERATION.”

Hatred of Israel

On September 29, 2020, Oriqat tweeted a graphic that said: “Israel is like that fat kid in Gym class that fakes an injury so he can watch everyone else suffer the mile while he chills in the shade.”

On July 16, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “Foreal y’all didn’t cross out israel and write Palestine in every textbook or map in school? Smh [shaking my head].”

On July 1, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “Are you even Palestinian if you didn’t get in trouble for crossing out Israel and writing a Palestine on the map in your history class in high school.”

On the same date, she tweeted: “LMAO every time my teacher would say israel I’d just yell Palestine it’s literally a reflex.”

On June 23, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “How can you see the damage Israel has done and how evil they are and still be like ‘hmm idk if I support Israel or Palestine. I guess supporting none would take less brainpower.’”

On June 15, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “I’m so tired of Palestinians sugarcoating and normalizing the occupation to be more likeable to our colonizers. Understand that Palestine and Israel will never live happily ever and there will never be peace until Palestine is free.”

On the same date, Oriqat tweeted: “Anyway, F**k Israel.”

On May 15, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “‘Fitness Israel where we not only occupy your country, but your body too.’” Her tweet included a screenshot of an Israeli fitness Instagram page.

On January 14, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “People are surprised but US police are literally trained by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]. We ain’t out here saying FTP [F**k The Police] for no reason.”

On December 19, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “Can we impeach Israel.”

Also on December 19, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “Honestly I can’t even look at Maluma the same after he posted pictures with IDF soldiers.” Her tweet referred to Columbian singer Maluma who posted a photo of himself with an Israeli police officer on Instagram.

On November 13, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “This dude really hopped in my DMs trying to defend Israel talking about ‘but Gazas sending air strikes back’ like I knew that other Arabs don’t care about Palestine but damn how can you defend such a terrible country.”

On October 21, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “...Palestinians that don’t identify with their culture are part of the ethnic cleansing problem because the more that happens, the more the culture dies and that’s exactly what israel wants.”

Supporting BDS

On June 17, 2020, Oriqat tweeted: “Daily reminder that Ben and Jerry’s is on the BDS list don’t fall for this s**t.” Her tweet referred to a tweet about a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor and campaign “dedicated to criminal justice reform.”

On October 24, 2019, Oriqat tweeted: “I can’t believe it’s been five years since we made one of the biggest moments in BDS history when we had thousands of people protesting the docking of a ship delivering Israeli goods to the bay. We f**king DID that #FreePalestine.”

In 2014, AROC a “Block the Boat” initiative to stop a shipping boat owned by an Israeli company from docking in the San Francisco Bay.

In her tweet, Oriqat promoted an October 26, 2019 event in San Francisco, CA, organized by AROC "to celebrate the historic and decisive Block the Boat victory as a major contribution to all movements for social and economic justice!" On the same day as the event, Oriqat appeared in an AROC Facebook photo from the event.

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.