Nasser Rabbat

On October 28, 2023, Rabbat tweeted: “Germany has a long bloody record of human rights abuses of course (Nazism…) so why is it again blinded by a supremacist ideology, Zionism, even if it is brandished by descendants of its Jewish victims?...”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.

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. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

Rabbat retweeted a December 8, 2023 tweet that said: “86 years after the sirens sounded for the Nazi genocide, the Spanish city of Gernika once again sounds the sirens in response to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”

On December 13, 2023, Rabbat tweeted: “Intense it is. The German government's disregard of human rights of the Palestinians while hectoring us on their adherence to the ‘never again’ position is intensely bigoted.”

The phrase “Never Again” is deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.

On December 27, 2023, Rabbat tweeted: “‘You’ve seen what genocide looks like. It looks like Nazis rounding up Jews and killing them. Are the Israelis wearing swastikas? Are the Palestinians Jewish? No? Okay then.’”

Rabbat retweeted an October 7, 2023 tweet that said: “I see many academics and experts woke up today surprised that decolonization isn’t just a theory.”

Rabbat retweeted a December 31, 2023 tweet that featured a video of crowds of Palestinians in the streets of Ramallah chanting in Arabic: “The people want the Qassam Brigades!”

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military wing of Hamas.

The same tweet that Rabbat retweeted said: “at some point, ‘allies’ who spend time lecturing & speaking over Palestinians (+Arabs, Muslims) ‘for’ Palestinians, are gonna have to contend with (on their own time) how many/most Palestinians support the armed resistance standing btwn Israel & the annihilation of their nation.

Rabbat retweeted an October 15, 2023 tweet that said: “The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become [sic] a state…”

On November 12, 2023, Rabbat tweeted in support of anti-Israel professor presidential candidate Cornel West. He wrote: “The one to vote for next year if you are serious about challenging the blind support the US political class give to the apartheid state of Israel.”

On November 23, 2023, Rabbat tweeted: “Americans are Bankrolling Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Gaza…” He included in his tweet a link to an article of the same name that appeared online in CounterPunch.

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 April 26, 2017, Rabbat tweeted an endorsement for a hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, many of whom were convicted murderers and terrorists. The tweet included a video of BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti expressing support for the hunger strike and referring to Israeli prisons as “apartheid dungeons.”

The “Dignity Strike” was a hunger strike initiated on April 16, 2017, by Marwan Barghouti, the terrorist who financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike, most of whom were also incarcerated for acts of terrorism.

On July 2, 2006, Rabbat signed a petition denouncing the 2006 Lebanon War as an act of “Israeli aggression… motivated by both historical ambitions vis-à-vis Lebanese territory and waters and by a racist supremacist ideology.”

The petition also called for the Lebanese government and intellectuals around the world to join the BDS movement.

The petition called upon the Lebanese government to “take a stand against all kinds of normalization with Israel, by closing down the Israeli embassies and government offices located in Arab countries, and by boycotting products of Israeli and pro-Israeli companies, whatever their nationality.”

The petition also called for action to “pressure the American and European governments to halt their military and material maintenance of the Zionist killing machine.”

On December 11, 2003, Rabbat signed a petition denouncing the 2003 Geneva Initiative.

The petition repeatedly referred to “Israeli settlement colonies” and accused the initiative of “set[ting the] stage for mass transfer and ethnic cleansing in the future to maintain demographic Jewish dominance.”

The petition also accused the initiative of “making it impossible for the Palestinians to exercise control over ‘East Jerusalem,’ not to say anything about ‘West Jerusalem,’ which was conquered and ethnically cleansed in 1948.”

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.

Antisemitism During a Hamas War

Celebrating Hamas Terrorism

Hatred of Israel

Support for Terrorists

Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)

Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS)

Social Media and Weblinks