When Charities Betray America: Examples of Anti-American and Anti-Police Hate Speech

When Charities Betray America:
How “Pro-Palestinian” Protest Groups Promote Anti-Americanism
(full report)

Executive Summary | Methodology
Examples of Anti-American and Anti-Police Hate Speech
Chronological Analysis | Analysis of Engagement Levels
Three Organizational Examples
Prevalence of Charities Among These Radical Groups
Conclusion | Endnotes
Appendix A: Organizations | Appendix B: Individuals

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Examples of Anti-American and Anti-Police Hate Speech

Calls for Violence: “Globalize the Intifada” and “Bring the War Home.”  Since October 7, 2023, the rhetoric of anti-Israel extremist groups has increasingly included calls for violence with slogans such as “globalize the intifada” and “bring the war home.”[i]

The two slogans advocate for direct and violent action to disrupt the functioning of the United States, with “globalize the intifada” referring specifically to the two waves of terror between 1987–1993 and 2000–2005 that targeted Israelis and alleged Palestinian enemies with suicide bombings, guerrilla warfare, and other killings.

“Globalize the intifada” has been embraced as a slogan by the “pro-Palestinian” movement, particularly student protestors, and has been promoted as the “only solution” for dismantling so-called systems of oppression in the United States.[ii]

In numerous posts, activists not only refer to students who disturb their campuses as “brave students,”[iii] but on November 7, 2024, they publicly praised the so-called “Amsterdam pogrom,” an anti-Semitic attack against Israeli citizens in the streets of Amsterdam, as an example of the intifada in Europe.[iv]

While anti-Israel activists often attempt to disguise the true meaning of these slogans by emphasizing their connection to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, analysis reveals that these inciteful slogans serve as explicit calls for domestic terrorism because they are frequently accompanied by acts of violence and vandalism. For example, the slogan “globalize the intifada” was displayed or used at the protest encampments in the United States, which were marked by guerrilla-like actions, the occupation of public spaces, and clashes across university campuses. The slogan was also used to justify an act of vandalism targeting the German consulate in New York on June 12, 2024.[v]

On Election Day, November 5, 2024, a banner with the slogan “bring the war home” and an illustration of the American flag burning was displayed on a bridge in Brooklyn, explicitly showing the ultimate goal of these anti-Israel extremist groups to “destroy the imperial death machine from the inside.”[vi]

A day after the one-year commemoration of the Hamas massacre, on October 8, 2024, Unity of Fields praised anonymous activists for having “brought the war home” by defacing a John Harvard statue at Harvard University and breaking windows in campus buildings.[vii]

Anti-Police Propaganda. The “pro-Palestinian” movement’s demonization of police officers mirrors its depictions of Israeli security and military forces, oftentimes directly claiming that U.S. and Israeli law enforcement are essentially a single entity jointly implementing occupation of indigenous land, white supremacism, and genocide.

The movement’s equating of the two countries’ law enforcement is particularly dangerous because these groups consistently applaud violence targeting Israeli security forces as acts of “resistance.” When they clash with American police, they likewise boast of their “resistance.” By influencing the movement’s protestors to identify with terrorists attacking Israeli security and military personnel, it legitimizes similar so-called resistance against American security/police and military personnel and raises the risk of violence.

The phrase “cops are pigs” became a common trope at the spring 2024 Gaza encampments, when daily clashes occurred between rowdy protestors and police forces across U.S. campuses. During this time, anti-police sentiment progressively expanded in scope and evolved into demands for the complete abolition of the police. Increasingly vulgar verbal attacks with phrases like “f[***] the police” or “FTP” were used, and officers were referred to as “KKKillers.” At several encampments, aggression and vandalism were directed at police officers and police stations.[viii]

One of the most aggressive promoters of violence and criminality against police officers was Unity of Fields (UoF), an anonymous group that promotes acts of domestic terrorism by protestors. Formerly known as Palestine Action US, UoF activists engage in and promote aggressive protests and vandalism against organizations they see as supporters of Israel or Zionism.[ix]

UoF’s stated mission is to disrupt and dismantle Zionism and U.S. imperialism through direct militant actions. It has claimed responsibility for acts of vandalism and disruption across the United States at branches of Israeli companies, especially Israeli weapons manufacturers, and has endorsed similar actions against Jewish institutions and businesses.[x]

UoF also openly celebrates attacks against Israeli targets and expresses explicit support for designated terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

On October 15, 2024, in a post on X, UoF claimed responsibility for an attack at an NYPD station. In the post, which included headlines such as “pigs off campus,” “bring the war home,” and “long live the student intifada,” they declared: “To the pigs, BC admin and CUNY admin: we will be back again and again until you take your grimy, genocidal talons out of the hearts of the people of the Middle East.”[xi]

On October 13, 2024, Unity of Fields publicly supported the vandalism of a mural honoring Sergeant Robert Williams III in Philadelphia. In the post, UoF called the police a force of repression and occupation and even went so far as to call for the death of more American police officers:

We recognize amerikkkan police as part of the same machine that kills and oppresses Palestinians across the ocean. In death as in life, may no cop rest peacefully.[xii]

The terms “AmeriKKKa” and “AmeriKKKans” are intended to equate the United States and its citizens with members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) white supremacist terrorist group.[xiii] Those terms are also a call to defeat or arguably destroy the United States and the American identity, just as moral people would hope to rid the world of the KKK.

Unsurprisingly, the term consistently appears in anti-American and anti-police hate speech and incitements to violence and crime. For example, in September 2024, UoF published a post dehumanizing police officers (“pigs”), accusing them of being agents of AmeriKKKa’s repressive and fascist policies and encouraging mass fare evasion to sabotage the system.[xiv] UoF further claimed “all zionist, police & surveillance infrastructure are legitimate targets” and used Hamas’s red triangle symbol, which the terrorist group uses to identify a target about to be attacked.

“Belly of the Beast” and “Imperial Core.” The term “belly of the beast” identifies the United States as the epicenter of global imperialism, capitalism, and oppression. Initially used as a synonym for Washington, DC, the extremist groups have broadened its usage to refer to the United States nationwide and to emphasize that supporters are operating inside the enemy and thus they have a particular obligation to exploit this opportunity.[xv]

The phrase has been used in association with the occupation of the New Hampshire headquarters of Elbit Systems, an Israeli military technology company, by Palestine Action US; the occupation of the New York City subway; and an act of urban guerrilla warfare at Penn Station Plaza during a Within Our Lifetime demonstration on July 19, 2024.[xvi]

Similarly, the term “imperial core” is used to describe the United States as the hub of global inequality, militarism, and exploitation. Anti-American rhetoric emphasizes the importance of being within the “core” to dismantle imperialism, while simultaneously glorifying destructive actions to achieve this goal.[xvii] Examples that were all seen as legitimate acts to dismantle America from within include the defacement of New York City’s historic Blue Moon Hotel, a general strike within the school system, and protests on Wall Street to disrupt work and daily activities.[xviii]

“American Imperialism.” The term “American Imperialism” is used to demonize the United States as a malicious, warmongering, and exploitative actor on the world stage. It is often used as an indirect justification of violence and destruction because most viewers of the posts would agree that it is justifiable for an oppressed and abused population to use violence for self-defense. The extremist elements of the “pro-Palestinian” movement use it to paint terrorist groups and U.S. adversaries like the Iranian government as engaging in legitimate resistance.[xix]

“Turtle Island” and “So-Called United States.” Terms such as “Turtle Island” and “So-Called United States” are used to deny the legitimacy of the existence of the United States by invoking classic anti-colonial rhetoric.

The narrative is used to equate Israel’s alleged illegitimacy as an occupier of indigenous land with the United States as an alleged occupier of North American land.[xx] Both countries are criticized as unworthy of existence, and therefore if violence against Israel to “liberate” Palestine is justified, then so is violence against the United States to “liberate” Turtle Island.

Anti-Israel extremists use the same framing and terminology employed by Hamas to legitimize its terrorism to issue identical calls for violent action in the United States. Terms like “flood” (a reference to the October 7 attacks that Hamas named “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”), “Intifada,” and “sumud” (steadfastness) are used to invoke the need for radical action to achieve their goal.[xxi]

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In the next installment, a chronological analysis shows an increase in examples of anti-American and anti-police speech.

Source: https://capitalresearch.org/article/when-charities-betray-america-3/