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Kate Dannies
Kate Dannies has called for Israel's destruction, expressed support for terrorists, called for intifada and spread hatred of Zionism.
In 2024-2025, Dannies was listed as the adviser and a member of the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Miami University (Miami), known as MU SJP. Dannies is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Dannies' activism took place during Israel’s war against Hamas, which Israel launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks when Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds.
As of July 2025, Dannies was listed as an assistant professor of global and intercultural studies at Miami, which is located in Oxford, Ohio.
On January 16, 2025, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists and while Dannies was the adviser of MU SJP, the group posted [slide 1] on Instagram a pro-terror statement titled: "For 15 months, GAZA RESISTS GAZA RISES."
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
The statement said [slide 6], referring to Israel: "True rest will only come following the complete dismantlement of the zionist occupation and the complete liberation of Palestine, from the River to the Sea."
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On January 16, 2025, while Dannies was the adviser of MU SJP, the group posted [slide 1] on Instagram a pro-terror statement titled: "For 15 months, GAZA RESISTS GAZA RISES."
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and antisemitic violence.
The statement said [slide 3]: "...this ceasefire is a direct result of...the Palestinian resistance...It is because of the resistance in Lebanon, Yemen, and the wider region that continued to act as support fronts to Gaza."
The Axis of Resistance is an informal coalition of Iran-backed paramilitary actors in the Middle East created in the 1980s. The network includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shiite militia groups in Iraq and Syria. Axis members receive arms, military training and financial aid from Tehran. The group participated in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, supported Syria's Assad regime and perpetrated numerous acts of terrorism in the region.
The statement also referred [slide 2] to Israel as a "barbaric zionist entity" and called [slide 5] for "the end of zionist normalization from our campuses."
On March 8, 2024, MU SJP posted [slide 7] on Instagram a photo of terrorist 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.
On March 1, 2025, while Dannies was the adviser of MU SJP, the group posted on Instagram an announcement about "Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)," titled: "THE STUDENT INTIFADA: THE NEW GENERATION."
The term “intifada” translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection” and carries the connotation of terrorist violence, including suicide bombings, hijackings, shootings and stabbings.
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented internationally as a “series of events that seeks to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people.” One of its goals is to build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. IAW has been renamed Palestine Awareness Week.
On April 19, 2024, while Dannies was the adviser of MU SJP, the group posted [slide 2] on Instagram a photo of a sign that said: "ZIONISM IS FASCISM."
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
