Category: Demonize

Hamas Loyalist Professor: Noura Erakat at Rutgers University Celebrating suicide bombers and demonizing Jews.

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Editor’s note: American campuses are awash in a crisis of Jew hatred. Ineffectual college administrators have taken tentative steps to try and rein in the proponents of terror on their campuses, but they have yet to confront the most obvious source of this poisonous Jew hatred—their own radical faculty who have not only called for an end to Israel but have outright celebrated the barbaric bloodshed of the terror group Hamas.

The Freedom Center is exposing these radical, pro-terror faculty as the Top Ten Hamas Loyalist Professors. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. Noura Erakat, an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, is #8 on our list.

#8: Noura Erakat, Rutgers University

As an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Dr. Noura Erakat has repeatedly used her academic position and influence to promote the terrorist organization Hamas and to justify their barbaric massacre, mutilation, and rape of innocent Israeli Jews.

In a series of tweets issued on October 7th, a day of infamy in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered over 1200 Israeli men, women and children, and brutalized and raped many others, taking hundreds of hostages, Dr. Erakat raised her voice to defend Hamas’s horrors.

“#Gaza has been under a naval blockade & land siege for 17 years & its 2 mil Palestinians have been subject to 4 large scale offensives,” Erakat tweeted. “Any shock in response to this multi-scalar attack [by Hamas] reflects an expectation that those Palestinians die quietly and a complicity in their strangulation.”

On the same day of horrors, Erakat also tweeted: “Any condemnation of [Hamas] violence is vapid if it does not begin & end with a condemnation of Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, and occupation." #Palestine #Gaza #Decolonize.”

In another tweet, she claimed: “Israel does not have a Hamas problem or a Gaza problem, it has a Palestine problem. Even if Hamas were to disappear, Israel would continue its removal and dispossession of Palestinians…”

In yet another post on October 7th, Erakat attempted to justify Hamas’s bloodletting as a “military tactic,” tweeting, “Civilians r taken hostage, soldiers r captured. This is a military tactic. ““Hamas has demanded the release of all Palestinian political prisoners…”

As horrifying as Erakat’s October 7th tweets on behalf of Hamas are, they are hardly without precedent. The professor has a long record of condoning and even celebrating terrorism against the world’s only Jewish state.

In an article written in May 2023, Erakat honored Khader Adnan, a deceased senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another anti-Israel terror organization.

In May 15, 2023, Erakat wrote an article honoring the deceased Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, Khader Adnan, who was on record encouraging suicide bombings, stating  “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”

This is the man whom Erakat lauded in her article and in a tweet, writing, “#MustRead thread on #KhaderAdnan. A life of compassion and resistance. A reminder that the best of Palestinian leaders have been killed, imprisoned, exiled.”

Erakat has also gone to bat for another senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Khaleda Jarrar, who has been repeatedly arrested and jailed by Israel for such crimes as calling for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and involvement in a fatal 2018 bombing attack. Of the woman, Erakat tweeted: “Khaleda Jarrar is a long time #Palestinian leader & an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. #Apartheid Israel keeps imprisoning her w/o charge or trial & recently *convicted* her of membership in a political party [PFLP]…”

When Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched yet another major round of attacks against Israel in May 2021, firing over 4,300 rockets at major population centers, Erakat was quick to defend those actions and take the side of the terrorists. “When folks tell you the problem is Hamas rockets, remind them Zionist settler colonial expansionism is the cause, not the effect…” she tweeted.

Erakat has repeatedly demonized Israel and propagated anti-Semitic blood libel tropes about the Jewish people. Writing just two weeks after the slaughter of over 1200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, Erakat tweeted, “Israel has dropped the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on 2.2 besieged Palestinians & achieved ZERO of its military objectives. / This is not a war on Hamas but a war on Palestinians & particularly children…#Gaza_Genicide.”

In a separate tweet from July 4, 2023, Erakat wrote, “Israel promises the very fascist future that threatens the whole world…no one is safe." #ApartheidIsrael #Fascism #SettlerColonial #DoNotNormalizeApartheid.”

And on May 13, 2022, the professor tweeted, “Our bodies are testimony to the reality of this racist, supremacist Zionist ideology. Its drive for a satellite state for settlement necessitates segregation, removal, dispossession, elimination through & by grotesque violence. Palestinians are among its most brutalized victims.”

Despite this laser-like focus on the alleged “grotesque violence” of Israeli Jews, Erakat has celebrated Palestinian and Hamas violence against Jewish citizens of Israel, repeatedly praising known terrorists and lauding Hamas for its October 7th attack. She deserves to be known as one of the leading Hamas-loyalist faculty members in the nation.

American Professor Lies with Statistics to Demonize Israel

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/american-professor-lies-with-statistics-to-demonize-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

American professor Alan J. Kuperman has come up with a study that claims more civilians are being killed by the IDF in Gaza than the black African civilians killed by the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed in Darfur, Sudan. Find information on his claims here: “US Academic Skews Stats in The Guardian To Compare Gaza To Worst Recent Genocides,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, April 18, 2024. But they aren’t true.

Now the IDF, which is very careful to count the combatants it has killed, after six months of war, concluded that it had killed about 15,000 Hamas and PIJ combatants.

In the first six months of the Gaza war, Kuperman claims — accepting uncritically the figures put out by the Hamas-run Health Ministry — that there were 33,000 people killed in Gaza. (After the seventh month of fighting, that figure has risen to 34,000). But he failed to note that a great many of those killed were not civilians at all, but Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters. The IDF, which has always been very conservative in its estimates of enemy death, determined that by that point in the war, about 15,000 Hamas and PIJ terrorists had been killed. That would mean, if we were to accept Hamas’ figure — 33,000 — of the total number of dead after six months, that only 18,000 of those killed were civilians. That would give us a monthly average of 3,000 civilians killed.

During the two years of massacres in 2003 and 2004 by both the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed militias, hundreds of thousands of black Africans, all of them civilians, were killed. Some put the total at 400,000. That would mean an average of 17,000 monthly deaths. Compare that figure to the 3,000 civilians killed on average each month in Gaza during the first six months of the war. The deaths that Kuperman says were “much greater” in Gaza than in any other recent example of mass killings, turn out to be far less, both in monthly averages, and in the total.

The deaths of civilians in Darfur continued long after the actual fighting was over. Black Africans in Darfur were not combatants but farmers and pastoralists simply trying to stay alive in a subsistence economy. The Janjaweed not only murdered civilians, but deliberately destroyed all the crops the Darfur farmers had planted, cut down their trees, stole their livestock, and burned down their villages, so that any Africans who survived their attacks would find it difficult to continue to live. Thus many died of starvation in the months following the end of hostilities, in a slow-motion genocide. A total of two million black Africans — all civilians — died in the Darfur war. So far, after seven months of war, fewer than 20,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza. See the difference?

Here are the facts, for those who need reminding:

1. Hamas started this war, a war Israel did not want, when 3,000 of its operatives smashed into Israel on October 7, accompanied by some non-Hamas Gazans who came along to join in the fun of raping and killing. Hamas operatives proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis. They kidnapped and taken back to Gaza about 260 Israeli hostages.

2. In conducting its war in Gaza, the IDF has made colossal efforts to minimize civilian casualties. It has done so by dropping 14 million leaflets, sending six million messages, and making four million robocalls, all in order to warn civilians to leave areas, or specific buildings, such as schools, apartment buildings, mosques, and hospitals, where Hamas has embedded itself and hid its weapons and rocket launchers. In warning civilians to leave places about being targeted, the IDF is also, unavoidably, warning Hamas. No other army in the world warns its enemies of where it plans to strike next.

3. Israeli pilots have called off hundreds of strikes after they detected the presence of too many civilians in the target area.

4. For these reasons, British Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded the British forces in Afghanistan and fought in a half-dozen other campaigns, has described the IDF as the “most moral army in the world” in its sustained effort to minimize civilian casualties.

Similarly, West Point Professor of Urban Warfare John Spencer has written that “ Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties in urban warfare than any other military in the history of warfare.”

5. Even if we were to accept the figures on casualties put out by the Hamas-directed Ministry of Health, we arrive at a figure of 3,000 monthly deaths of Gazan civilians during the first six months of the war. But in Sudan, during the period of the Arab Janjaweed attacks on black Africans, the monthly average was nearly six times as high — 17,000 deaths each month.

It’s a cautionary tale. Pay close attention to the numbers being cited by those who make astonishing claims about the deaths of Gazan civilians that, they insist, have been far greater than the civilian deaths caused by the Janjaweed in Darfur or in similar recent cases of mass death, as in Burundi. Don’t let yourself be hornswoggled.