Anti-Israel groups and activists mourn Nasrallah's death and condemn the Jewish state for killing a terrorist leader

Pro-Hamas protesters outside the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Photo: Ron Sachs via Reuters Connect

Anti-Israel groups and individuals have widely condemned the Jewish state's military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, praising the Iranian-backed terrorist group's leader Hassan Nasrallah and falsely accusing Israel of targeting civilians.

Following Israel's most recent After the successful elimination of several high-profile terrorists in Lebanon, including Nasrallah, critics of the Jewish state accused the country of an “indiscriminate” bombing campaign. Many of these critics have praised the terrorists as the vanguard of a so-called “resistance movement against Israel.”

The Arab Feminism Movement, a group that purports to advance women's causes across the Arab world, issued a statement mourning the death of Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Hezbollah's headquarters in Beirut on Friday became.

“The Arab Women's Movement mourns the death of Hezbollah's Secretary General, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. “The leader who opposed all the world’s colonial powers, supported the oppressed of our Arab nation, sacrificed his sons as martyrs for the liberation of our homelands, and refused to rise except as martyrs,” the group wrote.

Various local chapters of the anti-Israel activist groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) also praised Nasrallah in official statements.

After Nasrallah's death, the JVP branch of the University of Michigan called for the eradication of the Jewish state, posting on social media: “The death of Israel is not just a threat, but a moral imperative and the only acceptable solution.” May the entire colony finally burn down.”

Meanwhile, Columbia University's SJP department hosted an “aAnti-Genocide Rally” to protest the killing of Nasrallah, one of the world’s most notorious terrorists in the last three decades. Additionally, Columbia SJP published a social media post that said, “Hezbollah and Hamas were only founded in response to the brutality, Israhell.” [sic] killed people in the Levant region years ago.”

SJP and JVP have been instrumental in organizing widespread anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the United States in recent months.

Katie Halper, a Jewish left-wing podcast host, posted that Nasrallah “understood Zionism better than Zionists.” Halper has repeatedly invited guests on her show who downplayed the spread of anti-Semitism in society and insisted on the dissolution of the Jewish state.

Rania Khalek, host of the so-called “anti-imperialist” media outlet Breakthrough News, praised Nasrallah as the leader of “in my opinion the most important and powerful armed resistance groups in the Middle East.” Khalek continued, arguing that Nasrallah was right to identify Israel as a puppet of “American imperialism” in the Middle East and the “head of the American snake.” In particular, Khalek has repeatedly defended Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical attacks against the Syrian population, denied the existence of Uyghur concentration camps in China, and expressed support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Nasrallah has been linked to several terrorist attacks in which hundreds of Americans, Lebanese, French and others were murdered, including the 1983 and 1984 suicide truck bombings in Beirut that targeted the U.S. Embassy, ​​the U.S. Marine barracks and the U.S. Army Annex. message aimed. More than 300 Americans and Lebanese died in these attacks alone. As the leader of Hezbollah, he was also involved in organizing several attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.

Nevertheless, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with documented ties to terrorist groups such as Hamas, condemned Israel's military operations in Lebanon as a “massacre” of innocent civilians. The group made no mention of Israel's successful elimination of Nasrallah, nor did it mention Hezbollah's relentless rocket, missile and drone attacks on Israel over the past year, which sparked current Israeli operations.

“As Israel slaughters civilians and destroys cities with impunity across the Middle East, the Biden administration ignores U.S. and international laws and norms by supporting – through action and inaction – the far-right Netanyahu government’s apparent desire for all-out regional conflict ,” the group said in a statement. “The Biden administration’s complicity in this killing and destruction must end. President Biden must act to force a ceasefire.”

Shaun King, an American social justice activist, wrote: “​​They have no idea how resistance works.” He also shared an X/Twitter post from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that called on “all resistance forces in the region.” [to] assist and support [Hezbollah].“

Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets, missiles and drones There have been almost daily attacks on northern Israel following attacks by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists on the southern region of the Jewish state on October 7. Since then, both sides have been engaged in constant exchanges of fire while avoiding major escalation as war rages in the southern Gaza Strip.

About 80,000 Israelis were forced to do so evacuate their homes They live in northern Israel and are fleeing to other parts of the country in the face of Hezbollah's relentless attacks.