Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Abdel Razzaq Takriti is an associate professor who has presented numerous anti-Israel lectures at events aimed to demonize Israel and promote the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As an alumnus of the University of Toronto (UofT), Abdel Razzaq Takriti showed support for the pro-Hamas student encampment at UofT in May 2024.
Takriti spoke at the 2017 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference.
Takriti was a leader of anti-Israel activity at Oxford University (Oxford).
He is co-author of learnpalestine.com —a website glorifying the “Palestinian Revolution.”
In an article published on May 10, 2006, Takriti characterized Israel as “the Armageddon state” and argued that “the Israeli apartheid regime is a mere tool in the hands of hungry American imperialism.”
As of August 2024, Takriti was listed as an associate professor and the Arab-American educational foundation chair in modern Arab history at the University of Houston (UH).
Takriti spoke at the 2017 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference.
Takriti was a leader of anti-Israel activity at Oxford University (Oxford).
He is co-author of learnpalestine.com —a website glorifying the “Palestinian Revolution.”
In an article published on May 10, 2006, Takriti characterized Israel as “the Armageddon state” and argued that “the Israeli apartheid regime is a mere tool in the hands of hungry American imperialism.”
As of August 2024, Takriti was listed as an associate professor and the Arab-American educational foundation chair in modern Arab history at the University of Houston (UH).
As of the same date, Takriti was also listed as an associate professor of history and Arab-American educational foundation chair in Arab studies at Rice University (Rice). Rice is located in Houston, Texas.
On October 27, 2017, Takriti participated in a plenary discussion at the National SJP Conference.
NJSP 2017 was scheduled for October 27-29, 2017, in Houston, TX. The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the National Students for SJP 2017 Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
On March 5, 2013, Takriti was the featured speaker at the Centre for Gender Advocacy’s Israel Apartheid Week. At the event, Takriti delivered a presentation titled “Peace vs. Pacification” in which he advocated for “depriving apartheid Israel of its military, monetary, and diplomatic bases of support.”
According to an article published on March 1, 2014 chronicling the event, its purpose was “to further the analysis of Israel as an apartheid state and build support for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.”
The same article went on to describe Takriti’s lecture, in which he “pointed to the particular responsibilities that Britain carries for building and sustaining Israeli Apartheid, and identified the meaning and importance of international solidarity to those struggling against colonialism and Apartheid.”
In 2008, Takriti was ejected from an event at Oxford honoring former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Following the incident, Takriti spoke to reporters and stated that “I stood up and walked towards [Peres], saying, ‘how dare you say this at a time when you are besieging 1.5 million people in Gaza? 1.5 million people are starving to death! Shimon Peres, you’re a war criminal. You are responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people in Qana [southern Lebanon]. You’re responsible for an apartheid state. Shame on you.”
In an article published on February 16, 2006, chronicling Oxford Israel Apartheid Week, Takriti was cited as the media spokesperson for the university’s Palestinian Society, and quoted stating “We are simply stating our belief and explaining that Israel is an apartheid state, to encourage people to take a stance and increase public pressure on Israel to change its apartheid policies.”
The purpose of Takriti’s discussion was to reflect on his “experience of building the Palestinian Revolution website” and its “implications for modern Palestinian revolutionary historiography as well as broader approaches to the study of anti-colonial revolutions.”
The website Takriti presented at the workshop was the product of a project he participated in at Oxford titled “The Palestinian Revolution,” which it characterizes as a “classic armed liberation struggle that counts as a landmark anti-colonial movement of the twentieth century.”
The website includes a twelve-part learning program called “Teach the Revolution” which aims develop in its students “a keener awareness and heightened sense for the frameworks, practices, and tangible experiences of the Palestinian revolution, especially of the revolutionaries themselves.”
In August of 2014, Takriti signed the “Middle East Scholars and Librarians Call for Boycott of Israeli Academia.”
In signing this petition, Takriti and others committed “not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”
The statement backed all the encampment’s demands, including divesting from the alleged “apartheid policies of the state of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
To show support, Takriti submitted a “support selfie,” where text beside his face said: “DISCLOSE. DIVEST. CUT TIES.”
Participating in Anti-Israel Events
On November 17, 2017 Takriti was scheduled to appear on a panel discussion titled “‘The Occupation’ and Israel’s Human Rights Violations.” The event is part of The Jerusalem Fund’s “The Palestinian Struggle: Adversity on All Fronts” conference.On October 27, 2017, Takriti participated in a plenary discussion at the National SJP Conference.
NJSP 2017 was scheduled for October 27-29, 2017, in Houston, TX. The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the National Students for SJP 2017 Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
On March 5, 2013, Takriti was the featured speaker at the Centre for Gender Advocacy’s Israel Apartheid Week. At the event, Takriti delivered a presentation titled “Peace vs. Pacification” in which he advocated for “depriving apartheid Israel of its military, monetary, and diplomatic bases of support.”
Anti-Israel Activity at Oxford
On February 26, 2014, Takriti delivered a lecture titled “Palestine and the Meaning of Solidarity.” The event was part of Wadham College’s Israel Apartheid Week at Oxford University.According to an article published on March 1, 2014 chronicling the event, its purpose was “to further the analysis of Israel as an apartheid state and build support for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.”
The same article went on to describe Takriti’s lecture, in which he “pointed to the particular responsibilities that Britain carries for building and sustaining Israeli Apartheid, and identified the meaning and importance of international solidarity to those struggling against colonialism and Apartheid.”
In 2008, Takriti was ejected from an event at Oxford honoring former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Following the incident, Takriti spoke to reporters and stated that “I stood up and walked towards [Peres], saying, ‘how dare you say this at a time when you are besieging 1.5 million people in Gaza? 1.5 million people are starving to death! Shimon Peres, you’re a war criminal. You are responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people in Qana [southern Lebanon]. You’re responsible for an apartheid state. Shame on you.”
In an article published on February 16, 2006, chronicling Oxford Israel Apartheid Week, Takriti was cited as the media spokesperson for the university’s Palestinian Society, and quoted stating “We are simply stating our belief and explaining that Israel is an apartheid state, to encourage people to take a stance and increase public pressure on Israel to change its apartheid policies.”
Anti-Israel Website
On March 4, 2017, Takriti delivered a presentation at Brown University’s (Brown) Palestinian Studies Workshop titled “Digital Histories of the Underground: Teaching the Palestinian Revolution.”The purpose of Takriti’s discussion was to reflect on his “experience of building the Palestinian Revolution website” and its “implications for modern Palestinian revolutionary historiography as well as broader approaches to the study of anti-colonial revolutions.”
The website Takriti presented at the workshop was the product of a project he participated in at Oxford titled “The Palestinian Revolution,” which it characterizes as a “classic armed liberation struggle that counts as a landmark anti-colonial movement of the twentieth century.”
The website includes a twelve-part learning program called “Teach the Revolution” which aims develop in its students “a keener awareness and heightened sense for the frameworks, practices, and tangible experiences of the Palestinian revolution, especially of the revolutionaries themselves.”
Supporting BDS
On November 12 2014, Takriti spoke at an event titled “BDS: Why We Need a Boycott of Israel.” Takriti’s lecture was part of Oxford Students’ Palestine Society’s Israel Apartheid Week.In August of 2014, Takriti signed the “Middle East Scholars and Librarians Call for Boycott of Israeli Academia.”
In signing this petition, Takriti and others committed “not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”
Support for the Pro-Hamas Encampment at UofT
Takriti showed support for the pro-Hamas encampment at UofT by signing on to a statement put out by UofT community members in May 2024 [row 14, first photo]. The May 20, 2024 statement was part of the BDS movement.
The statement backed all the encampment’s demands, including divesting from the alleged “apartheid policies of the state of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
To show support, Takriti submitted a “support selfie,” where text beside his face said: “DISCLOSE. DIVEST. CUT TIES.”
Social Media and Weblinks
University Website: https://ssl.uh.edu/class/history/faculty-and-staff/takriti_a/
University Website 2: https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/abdel-razzaq-takriti
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- Professor
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- BDS,
- SJP
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- 06/23/2025
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