Zachariah Barghouti
Overview
Zachariah Barghouti [Zachariah Hammoudi Barghouti] has glorified violence and expressed support for terrorists. He has also honored terrorists, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Sanctions Divestment (BDS) movement.The conference was co-hosted by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as the anti-Israel groups Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Existence Is Resistance.
Glorifying Violence
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
The video featured scenes of Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks, and firing weapons, interspersed with video clips [00:00:58] of injured or dead [00:03:31] Israelis.
Support for Terrorists
Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.
On May 24, 2017, Barghouti tweeted: “NYC organizing and mobilizing for Palestinian hunger strikers. #dignitystrike.” He also tweeted: “NYC out in support for Palestinian hunger strikers! Follow @PYM_USA for updates.#إضراب_الكرامة #dignitystrike.”
Honoring Terrorists
Barghouti added: “to be featured in next year’s anthology, apply for our Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship by August 1st! 🗓🇵🇸 Learn more about it on our website: Pymusa.com.”
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.
Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
On November 23, 2016, during Odeh’s appeal, Barghouti tweeted: “Hey folks it's officially 12:00 CST which means welcome to the #Justice4Rasmea power hour!Tweet @Justice4Rasmea and follow the hashtag.”
On the same day, Barghouti tweeted: “.@Israel tortures & sexually assaults Palestinians as means to facilitate colonization of #Palestine #Justice4Rasmea.”
He also tweeted: “Rasmea should be honored, not imprisoned #Justice4Rasmea #Not1More and “The case of Rasmea Odeh, a #Palestinian Hero: http://justice4rasmea.org/about/#Justice4Rasmea.”
On October 7, 2015, Barghouti called upon his Facebook friends to donate money for Odeh’s supporters to attend her appeal of her immigration fraud conviction.
On April 25, 2018, Barghouti promoted the “Palestine Lives” Conference on Facebook
On March 18, 2016, Barghouti posted on Facebook a campaign protesting McGraw-Hill Education for recalling copies of a U.S. college textbook that featured a set of maps claiming Israel stole Palestinian land.
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On October 14, 2015, Barghouti wrote a post that framed “Palestine and Israel” as “Life over Death” and as “Jesus over Satan.”
Accompanying the post was a photo of Palestinians throwing rocks, with superimposed text that read: “Support our Troops.”
On January 26, 2013, Barghouti tweeted: “#Palestine is an idea named #Israel whose Time has come.”
On August 15, 2012, Barghouti tweeted: “Mercy integrates the disassociation activated by #Zionism. We are here to correct and clean up the carbon based memory, #666 of Zionism.”
The number 666 has become known as a symbol denoting the Antichrist or the devil, in modern popular culture.
On July 5, 2012, Barghouti tweeted: “Father God, please free me from Zionism, the spirit of Zionism, and every ungodly principle attached to the Zionist pact. #DivestForPeace.”
On that same day, he also tweeted: “Declare: Spiritual principles of the Zionist pact are exposed, disarmed, defeated and disgraced through the cross of Christ. #DivestForPeace.”
On June 8, 2012, Barghouti tweeted: “Dear #Israel: #Islam protects u from the evil that comes from u, the #Israeli #Apartheid #Regime, #PA and #Hamas. #Quran #Revolution.”
On April 4, 2012, Barghouti tweeted the allegation that “#Israeli forces attempt to arrest 2-year-old #Palestinian child.”
Supporting BDS
On March 10, 2016, Barghouti shared to Facebook a Peace House rap video condemning American record producer, DJ and radio personality DJ Khaled for endorsing Sabra, a Israeli Hummus producer.
On December 5, 2013, Barghouti tweeted urging followers to support the American Studies Association (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Barghouti wrote that the academic boycott is “ethical & effective” and claimed that Israel practices “apartheid.”
In 2013, the ASA adopted a resolution calling for an academic boycott of Israel, during its annual conference.
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
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