Eve Tuck

Overview

Eve Tuck expressed support for Hamas after the terror group committed war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings on October 7, 2023.

The title of a paper Tuck published in 2012, “Decolonization is not a metaphor” was widely used as a slogan by Hamas supporters online and at protests to justify the October 7 massacre.

Tuck is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

On October 9, 2023, New York University (NYU) announced that Tuck had been hired as founding director of its new Center for Indigenous Studies, and that beginning January 1, 2024, she would “hold a joint appointment at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and will be a James Weldon Johnson Professor.”

In November 2023, three Jewish students named Tuck [p. 4] in a lawsuit they brought against NYU for fostering a hostile environment for Jewish students on campus.

Tuck had previously been Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, since 2015. She received a PhD in urban education from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2008.

Support for Hamas Terrorist War Crimes

On October 7, 2023, Tuck posted on the Bluesky social network regarding Hamas’s massacre that day: “Unprovoked is a dishonest framing. A free Palestine is possible because of how Palestinians have worked to keep alive and remake other framings, other futures.”

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

On October 11, 2023, Tuck wrote on Bluesky: “...Resistance for so many Palestinian youth and communities is life and future affirming. No one should have to live, go to school, study or do research under occupation.”

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

Also in October 2023, Tuck signed a pro-BDS statement titled: “Indigenous Solidarity With Palestine.” The statement said: “Colonized peoples have the right to defend themselves and to resist colonial violence. We support Palestinian liberation and their right as an oppressed people to resist colonialism and genocide.”

The statement further claimed that “Zionism is a form of racism and a colonial ideology.”

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.

The statement was written “to demand freedom for political prisoners, and to support Land Back and the right of return for Palestinians. Stop the genocide. End the siege. End the occupation. Dismantle apartheid. Decolonize Palestine.”

The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

In November 2023, Tuck signed a statement by “scholars in feminist, queer, and trans studies who are rooted in social justice praxis” that accused Israel of “genocide” and said Gaza was “effectively an open-air prison.”

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

The statement also said: “We are for the liberation and self-determination of colonized people, without exception. We believe that colonized people have the right to choose their means of resistance, within the boundaries of international law, without exception.”

It also said: “We will not stay silent while scholars and students who are speaking up and acting against this genocide are met with the profound, highly funded apparatus that represses, free speech and thought…We commit to standing up to…any attempts to investigate, punish, or fire individuals enacting free speech rights.”

On May 16, 2021, Tuck wrote on Bluesky: “Truth and reconciliation, in its most meaningful engagement…means resisting ongoing settler colonialism and contesting the very dispossession we are witnessing in Palestine.”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

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.