Omar Shakir
Omar Shakir is an Arab-Anerican anti-Israel hater. Active against Israel since he was a student.[1]
All along, Shakir was and is dismissing Israel's security concerns but instead maliciously defaming it.
From a 2010, Arab report,[2] he struggled with applying the label on Israel because conditions are not the same as South Africa, such as Arabs in Israel actually do have voting rights.
Shakir was deported from Israel for his harmful BDS activities in 2019.[3]
In April 2020, in a tweet, he congratulated another infamous instigator, who serves in Btselem for promoting the apartheid slur.[4][5]
A year later, Shakir himself also promoted it, abusing the HRW platform.[6]
He expanded the Apartheid term, as so to fit his long-time anti-Israel agenda. Not realizing his expansion would cover many others. But realizing that according to his new apartheid definition, Israel can never escape this terminology, no matter what it does. (Hence proving again his point of pure hatred)[7]
Since Shakir has outrageously used the HRW status, it has boosted even more the excuse for anti-Israel radicals to use the slur.
The promotion and rising use of the term has contributed to anti-Semitic attacks especially since May-2021 Guardian of Walls.[8] Which as a result, even anti-Israel ardent activist, Bernie Sanders has asked to refrain from this and such rhetoric.[9] All the while other "activists" such as known anti-Jewish Islamic politicians Ilhan Omar and of "palestinian" Arab origin: Rashida Tlaib have not done so.
References
- ↑ Ophir Dayan: 'Shakir expulsion: The upper court is an important boundary mark.' Israel Hayom, November 9, 2019:
Shakir, who took up his current position in 2016, has been involved and invested in the Israeli-Arab conflict since his days as a student. While studying at Stanford University, he was president of the university's anti-Israel group, and even submitted a boycott proposal on behalf of Israel on its behalf, calling for the university to withdraw its investments from companies doing business in Israel. Even then, in 2013, members of the Student Council claimed that his remarks were full of "historical inaccuracies" and that they were an "attack on Israel in disguise." Upon graduation he began working at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he represented a professor fired from the University of Illinois for tweets such as "Scores have turned anti-Semitism from something terrible to something respectable since 1948."
His hobby at the time was, by the way, lecturing at events of "Students of Justice in Palestine," one of the most extremist anti-Israel student organizations, who argue that the Palestinian state should cover the entire territory of Israel. From the beginning of its activity until today, he presents Israel as an apartheid state that carries out ethnic cleansing.
- ↑ "BDS in the USA, 2001-2010." Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010)
- ↑ Fact Sheet on Omar Shakir's BDS Campaigns. ngomonitor. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/fact-sheet-on-omar-shakirs-bds-campaigns
- ↑ [https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/anti-semitic-propaganda-is-not-news/ Anti-Semitic propaganda is not news. Usrael Hayom, Jan 18, 2021. It is surprising that CNN quotes B'Tselem without fact-checking its accusations, especially in light of the network's tireless efforts to do so with ...
- ↑ When human-rights NGOs adopt anti-Semitic language. Ngo Monitor, Feb 10, 2021. '"Last month, the Israeli NGO B'Tselem launched a discriminatory and hateful campaign titled, “A regime of...
- ↑ Human Rights Watch 'Israel apartheid' report condemned as 'fiction', Mathilde Frot, The JC, Apr 27, 2021.
- ↑ Human Rights Watch's Apartheid Report: Unsurprising Propaganda and False Lies Shlomi Ben-Meir, Presspectiva, 09.05.21
And that's the little problem with him. The big problem is his big resonance in the international press, eager for any indictment against Israel.
... according to the report, there is (almost) nothing Israel can do to not be considered an apartheid state in the eyes of HRW. Even if it withdraws from all territories, establishes a Palestinian state and removes restrictions over the Gaza Strip, the stain will continue to accompany it... - ↑ "Jewish American groups appeal to Biden White House after string of antisemitic attacks related to Israel." Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 21, 2021.
Near Miami, a family was assaulted as they walked in Bal Harbour on Tuesday. The Orgen family was visiting from New Jersey when a car of people yelling “Free Palestine” and, “We’re going to rape your wife,”...since May 8 and that the ADL this week reported finding 17,000 tweets between May 7 and May 14 with variations of the words: “Hitler was right.”... Rubin, who handled Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, said the current level of vitriol in the United States against Jews is higher than he’s ever seen it. He pointed to an increased use of the term “apartheid” by progressive politicians and the appearance of White nationalists in the Palestinian cause...“There is language being used to describe Israel that is heading us on a path to arguments about delegitimization, that Israel should not exist, that the issue is that it exists,” said Rubin, executive director of the American Jewish Congress. “Words are being used about Israel that are incredibly unsettling to the Jewish community that go further, and in a direction that makes the community feel very vulnerable. And that vulnerability is not a good place to be..
- ↑ 5/23: Sanders, Gates, Honoré.
This week on "Face the Nation," will the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East continue to hold? Plus, more hopeful signs that we're reaching the end of the pandemic.J. Dickerson:
Let me ask you how this is played out here at home, the ADL says, there were a 193 reports of anti-Semitic incidents this week, up from a 131 previous week, so that's during the period while the crisis began...B. Sanders:
Anti-Semitism is rising in America, it is rising all over the world. We have to combat anti-Semitism. We have to combat the increase in hate crimes in this country, against Asians, against African-Americans, and against Latinos, so we have a serious problem of a nation which is being increasingly divided, being led by right wing extremists...
J. Dickerson:
Sanders:There are a number of liberals who use the the word "apartheid".. a number of liberals in the house used that language.
The executive director of the American Jewish Congress, who handled Jewish outreach for your campaign, Joel Rubin has said that the use of that language has increased the level of vitriol that has contributed to this Anti Semitism...
....we have to tone down the tone...
Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) Tweeted:Some progressive lawmakers, including AOC, use the term "apartheid" ... Bernie Sanders' former Jewish outreach director says the charged language can fuel anti-Semitic incidents. "I think we should tone down the rhetoric," Sanders says. https://t.co/lIsXnHhVTB https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1396556620583383041?s=20 4:00 PM · May 23, 2021