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Anna Baltzer

Overview

Anna Baltzer is the national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO).


Baltzer is a leader and national organizer within the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. She is heavily involved in church divestment campaigns and travels the world promoting these and other BDS causes. In the course of her travels and speaking engagements, she has reportedly propagated dubious and unsourced claims which she later recanted.


Baltzer endorsed BDS at the University of California, Irvine in 2008 and promoted a divestment resolution at the University of California, San Diego in 2010.


In the fall of 2014, Baltzer co-led a delegation for Interfaith Peace Builders (IFPB). She has reportedly worked with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the International Women's Peace Service.


Baltzer is very active on social media and uses her Facebookand Twitter accounts almost exclusively to spread anti-Israel invective and promote the organizations she represents.


On September 14, 2015, Baltzer lectured in Malaysia on how to run an effective BDS campaign — during the country’s first BDS conference. Baltzer praised Malaysia for having no diplomatic ties with Israel, calling Malaysia’s stance "extraordinary" and something Baltzer “dreams about achieving [in the U.S.]...it’s our holy grail.”


Baltzer received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from Columbia University (Columbia), in 2002. Baltzer also goes by the alias Anna Judith Piller and reportedly, Carrolle Corsuy.

Disseminating Israel-Hating Libels

On October 28, 2009, Baltzer was featured as a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, alongside Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti.


Baltzer promoted the libel that Israel denies Palestinians water rights negotiated under the Oslo Accords — a falsehood that has long been used as a weapon to attack Israel (7:40).


Baltzer also promoted the false notion (0:57) that Jews and Palestinian Arabs historically lived in peace, ignoring the long history of organized Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish communities before 1948.


On July 19, 2015, Baltzer falsely accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing," misleadingly tweeting: “Stop Israel's ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians of Susiya!” Khirbet Susiya is a small Bedouin village in the South Hebron hills, with a recently fabricated history.


On January 28, 2016 Baltzer tweeted: "@Israel tortures & sexually assaults Palestinians as means to facilitate colonization of #Palestine #Justice4Rasmea."

Idolizing Terrorist-Murderer Rasmea Odeh

Baltzer has numerous tweets describing her strong support for unrepentant terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh and has tweeted that ‘Rasmea should be honored, not imprisoned."


Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate. 

Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind. 

In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.


On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 


In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.

Covering for Hamas

In a July 25, 2014 interview with Fox News during Operation Protective Edge, Baltzer denied that Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields, despite Hamas openly admitting to the practice several weeks earlier. (0:18)


Baltzer also referred to Hamas as a "red herring" when questioned about how Israel should respond to Hamas’s genocidal attacks and its charter, which calls for the genocide of all Jews. (2:00)

Supporting Terror-Inciter Khader Adnan

Baltzer is a supporter of Khader Adnan, a senior member of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).


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.


The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO), now called the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), is a coalition of American-based anti-Israel organizations. ETO’s activities include lobbying Congress to end aid to Israel, promoting BDS, organizing Israeli Apartheid Week on college campuses and initiating publicity-generating campaigns to demonize Israel.

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.


IFPB

IFPB, known as Eyewitness Palestine since 2018, is an anti-Israel NGO that organizes activist delegations to Israel and the West Bank in order to showcase “the everyday violence of war and [Israeli] occupation.” IFPB’s program features lectures by representatives of anti-Israel groups that openly call for the end of Israel, including the designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP).

ISM

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded in 2001 and, according to the group’s website, is “resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles.”

Despite this claim, the ISM has been accused of supporting terrorism and has encouraged its foreign volunteers to act “as human shields in cities, towns and refugee camps.” At least once, ISM facilities have been used in attempts to facilitate the escape of known terrorists from Israeli security forces.

ISM has encouraged its volunteers to break curfew and disregard Israeli directives prohibiting access to closed military zones. This policy resulted in the death of ISM operative Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a bulldozer while interfering with an Israeli military operation in 2003. 

A wrongful death suit brought by Corrie’s family was dismissed when the judge ruled that Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in danger and found there to be no intent or negligence on the part of any Israelis involved in the incident.  


Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/anna.baltzer1


LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabaltzer


Twitter:https://twitter.com/Anna_Baltzer


Website:http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/index.html


Blog:http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/

Lecture Transcript:

https://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/154/transcript_154.pdf


Anna Baltzer
Status:
Professional
University:
Columbia
Organizations:
BDS,
ETO,
more...
IFPB,
ISM

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Last Modified:
04/22/2025

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Infamous Quotes

“Rasmea should be honored, not imprisoned #Justice4Rasmea
Anna Baltzer, Twitter, Jan 28 2016
“That Malaysia has been a leader in having no diplomatic ties with Israel...is extraordinary. In many ways your status quo is something Ali [Abuminah] and I dream about achieving in our context. It’s our holy grail.”
Anna Baltzer, Youtube, Sept 14 2015