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Investigative Project on Terrorism Last week, CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter filed an EEOC complaint, alleging employment discrimination by a posh Pennsylvania private school. Natalie Abulhawa was fired from her job as an athletic trainer at the Agnes Irwin School in Bryn Mawr after a review of her social media posts, which cursed “Zionists” with a crude and sexist term while another said “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.
School officials saw the posts in Abulhawa’s profile page by the group Canary Mission, which is devoted to “Exposing hatred and anti-Semitism on college campuses and beyond.”
In a 2014 post included on the Canary Mission page, Abulhawa compared the Holocaust to the Palestinian plight. CAIR’s national office defended Abulhawa last Thursday, casting these comments as “criticizing the Israeli government’s apartheid and occupation of #Palestine.”
Abulhawa only recently started work at the Agnes Irwin School, a private, all-girls preparatory school with about 600 students and annual tuition ranging from $22,000 for kindergarten to $43,000 for high school juniors and seniors. Having a faculty member rage against all “each and every” person who supports the existence of a Jewish state – Zionists, by definition – probably isn’t the image officials wanted.
“Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” and “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” are among the examples in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of antisemitism that is now endorsed by 37 countries and hundreds of universities, local governments and non-governmental organizations. The U.S. State Department embraced that definition in 2016.
Rather than address those uncomfortable facts or acknowledge the consequences of her hateful actions, both Abulhawa and CAIR attacked the messenger.
Canary Mission’s reproduction of Abulhawa’s own words amounted to “Islamophobic smears,” the CAIR Philadelphia office said in a news release last Tuesday. A graphic- with the release described Abulhawa as “a proud Palestinian woman.”
“She was reportedly terminated based on allegations of an anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic hate platform,” the release said.
“Employment discrimiantion (sic) against Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans is a real problem,” Abulhawa said in a separate CAIR news release. “Agnes Irwin School did not think twice before bulldozing my life, without even a pretense of due process. It only took a known hate site to profile me for them to derail my career.”
In this equation, saying “F*** each and every single Zionist on this planet” is not hateful. But aggregating this and similarly strident tweets into an online profile makes Canary Mission “a known hate site.”
Overview
Natalie Abulhawa [Natalie Hackett Abulhawa] has joked about terrorist violence and denied Israel’s right to exist. In 2016, Abulhawa was a student activist and organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Temple University (Temple). Abulhawa is the daughter of anti-Israel activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa, who was denied entry into Israel in 2015 and 2018.
Joking About Violence
On August 10, 2016, Natalie Abulhawa tweeted a picture of a graphic with the text: “bruh I didn’t get to throw any rocks this year.” Abulhawa commented: “Palestinian problems.”
On July 15, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “israeli soldiers are in my neighborhood yay lemme go stock up on some rocks.”
On July 2, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted a photo of a WhatsApp text message that she wrote to a group called Birzeit Squad. Abulhawa’s WhatsApp text read: “lemme go stock up on some rocks then,” and was in response to a message from another member of the group, warning members to be careful of the Israeli army “sneakin around.”
In November 27, 2015, Abulhawa tweeted a video of herself training with a high- powered sniper rifle. Abulhawa commented on the video: “dear white people, I’m not training for isis.” The video showed several other weapons within Abulhawa’s reach.
Travel to Israel
On August 4, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “they wrote down my name so I’m prob never getting into the country on my US passport again but I got that pali basbort so I’ll be back😉 “
On June 5, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: all these gross a** zionists on my flight eyeing me mad hard because I got my laptop out with its free Palestine stickers 😭“
On June 4, 2016 Abulhawa tweeted: “praying I can hold back my attitude and get through israeli customs 🙂 “
On July 11, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “it’s so fking gross when israeli pig soldiers try to flirt with me as IM WALKING THROUGH A CHECK POINT. like y’all serious?”
Denying Israel’s Right to Exist
On August 4, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “Israel doesn’t have the right to exist .”
On July 19, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “I yelled “this is Palestine not Israel” at tours of foreigners today so it a was successful day.”
On June 4, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “‘have you ever been to Israel’ ‘no but I’ve been to Palestine.’”
On July 6, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “why did my location say Israel I’m in Palestine.”
Israel-Hatred
On November 19, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “Israeli: Welcome to IsraelMe: Israel isn’t real, this is Palestine Me to me: now spit in his face.”
On August 25, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “I named my wifi today, was gonna make it ‘not associated with Isis’ but wanted to avoid NSA showing up to my house.” The tweet featured an image of a wifi modem named “FKNETANYAHU.”
On August 5, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “Fk each and every single Zionist on this planet. I hope they rot in fking hell. Fking cts.”
On January 24, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “there’s nothing human about crossing through cages and being strip searched to get into another city. I fing hate Israel.”
On July 19, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted: “بيت لحم [Bethlehem]// Bethlehem // fk Israel”. The tweet was attached to a photo of Abulhawa standing next to a sign in Bethlehem, with a raised middle finger.
On July 13, 2016, Abulhawa tweeted a reply to a question from another twitter user. The question asked:” 9. @ Someone Who Reminds You Of Khara [sht]”. Abulhawa answered: “@Israel”
Demonizing Israel
On March 20, 2016, Abulhawa participated, with her mother, in a raucous anti-Israel protest, at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington D.C.
The protest was held by Al-Awda — the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. Some protesters held signs that read: Israel Hands Off U.S. Foreign Policy.” Other signs read: “JEWS CONTROL U.S. SENATE.” Abbas Hamideh — Al-Awda’s co founder and a headline speaker at the rally posted on Instagram a photo from the rally that featured Brother Nathanael. Brother Nethaniel is a Jewish convert to Christianity, who has has called “Judaism a religion of Death” and endorsedthe anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery. Hamideh’s Instagram post said:: “#Christians must stop criminal #AIPAC from lobbying the #USA to continue israeli #TERRORISM in Occupied #Palestine #Resistance48.”
On July 25, 2014, Abulhawa tweeted: “One day our children will be learning about the Palestinian holocaust, just like we learned about the Jewish holocaust.”
Charles Black says
They just hate Israel. “Anti-Zionism” is a pathetic attempt to hide that they hate Israel and Jews.
Cleavis W Nowell says
Canary mission is turkey vulture and every islamist is likewise turkey vulture !
BareNakedIslam says
Canary Mission is a great website. Why would you compare them to any kind of Muslim? I suggest you spend some time looking at the site before slandering what they do.
Bubba Grump's Nutz says
With that much hate and Vitriol, don’t get within 6 feet of her in case she self-combusts.
A guy can dream, right?
BLR says
I say we need another round of congressional investigations under the unamerican activity’s
, we need to pull their tax exemption as a non profit listing their self’s as nondenominational advocacy a blatant lie , we need to get Trump off the fence so’s when we put him back where he belongs he can start the ball rolling our way on this anti american outfit
BareNakedIslam says
GW Bush actually pulled their tax exempt status, then Obama reinstated it.
Tim. says
Them sheep shaggers lowlife wankers backwards asshole cair can fuck right off. And they wondered no one like them
Linda Rivera says
Who are these mere humans — Muslims, to OPPOSE the HOLY ONE of Israel, Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good, who dwells in unapproachable light.
The ONE TRUE God, our Glorious, Majestic, Awesome Creator who gave Israel to Jews as an everlasting possession thousands of years before the SAVAGE, GENOCIDAL, BLOOD CONQUEST Cult of Islam was invented.
The Enemies of Jews and Israel are the ENEMIES of Almighty God.
Bible, Psalm 83:1-5
1 O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
2
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
3
They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant:
Az gal says
Muslums just hate Jews- period. Muslums follow Islamic ideology which teaches them to be hypocrites & liars. Muslums want the land of Israel. They also are working on Egypt, Lebanon, Europe. When they finish with those, they will be working on us.