Michael Fabris

As of May 2022, Fabris was listed as an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, since July 2021. 

Also as of May 2022, Fabris used the name “Mike Fabris (Krebs)” on Facebook, the name "Mike Fabris" on Twitter and “fabris_mike” on Instagram.

Accusations of Rape/Abuse of Palestinian Women

In an article published on February 28, 2013, Fabris and co-author Dana Olwan wrote: “...in colonized Palestine, land theft was secured not only by military force but also by laws that sanctioned the terrorising of indigenous Palestinian girls and women and subjugated them to the technologies of sexual harassment intimidation, punishment and death.” 

In the same article, the authors went on to write at length about purported crimes against Palestinian women, claiming: “In [Deir Yassin], Palestinian women were molested, raped, and then killed. In one example of such gendered and sexualised violence, the womb of a nine months pregnant Palestinian woman was cut open before she was murdered.”

Accusing Israel of Apartheid

On May 1, 2012, Fabris published an article in which he referred to Israel as a “colonial apartheid state.”

On March 7, 2012, Fabris presented a lecture entitled “Canada and Israel: Allies in Apartheid.” The event was a part of a week long “Israel Apartheid Week in Regina” campaign.

On March 5, 2012, Fabris presented the same public lecture to the BIAC alongside Dana Olwan.

In an article published on November 13, 2001, Fabris described the analogy made between Israeli laws and Apartheid South Africa as “a justified comparison.”

Demonizing Israel as a Colonial State

On February 28, 2013, Fabris co-authored an article with Dana Olwan, in which they wrote: “Israel’s colonization of Palestine also proceeds crucially through land theft. Zionist settlement began in earnest during the first decades of the 20th century, a process culminating with the 1948 Nakba... This trajectory of land theft deepened after 1967 with the expansion of Jewish-only settlements in the occupied territories, which continues in the present…” 

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

 
In that same article, the authors attempted to delegitimize Israel, calling it a “Colonialist State” and referring to its people as “settler colonialists.”

Denying all Jewish connection to the land of Israel, the authors went on to state that “The first and defining aspect of… Israeli settler colonialism is the displacement of indigenous people from their land, and the theft of that land and all its possible resources for the use and benefit of the settler population.”

These accusations echoed claims Fabris  made in an article published on May 1, 2012, entitled “Architect of Apartheid.” 

In this article, Fabris described the establishment of Israel as, “a predomin-antly European population establishing a state on the lands of racialized people, displacing the original inhabitants, and settling the land as their own.”

Support for BDS

On June 14, 2011, Fabris signed a petition as a member of the “Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign.” The petition was an open letter calling for the band Napalm Death to cancel their upcoming concert in Israel. 

The letter accused Israel of creating an “open-air prison camp” and claimed that “Israel dispossessed over 750,000 Palestinian people in order to form a nation that was intended to be exclusively for Jews.” 

In an article published on the BDS website on August 24, 2010, Fabris was quoted as a “spokesperson for the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition (BIAC).”