Exclusive | NYC campus activists peddle propaganda directly from Hamas: terrifying report

Activists on Big Apple college campuses are among those in the US who are peddling propaganda directly from Hamas that “encourage[s] acts of violence against Jews,” a terrifying new study has found.“Protestors and activists are not merely praising the activity of terror groups; they are actively sharing their official propaganda, disseminating communiqués, videos, and other materials directly onto mainstream platforms,” wrote the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism in its study titled, “Digital Couriers: How U.S.Anti-Israel Activists Amplify Terror Propaganda on Mainstream Platforms.”The distribution of such hate on Telegram and other social-media platforms, including X and Instagram, since the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ Oct.

7, 2023, attacks on Israel “shows the increased normalization of rhetoric and messaging from terror organizations that overtly encourage acts of violence against Israel and Jewish people,” the report said.“This shared material, which openly praises violent actions and actors, comes at a time of heightened danger for Jews worldwide with increased incidents of deadly antisemitic attacks,” researchers said.“American Jews specifically have been navigating an unprecedentedly high threat landscape, marked by record levels of antisemitic incidents across the U.S.”The terrorists’ propaganda is picked up from the official channels and platforms of the deadly hate groups and translated into English and distributed by other pro-Hamas intermediary channels, the study said.Resistance News Network — a radical antisemitic, anti-Zionist, English-language Telegram channel with more than 150,000 subscribers and which promotes violence against Israel — is one of the popular pass-along accounts.In order to disrupt the terror propaganda pipeline, ADL said social-media companies must rigorously enforce their existing policies, which often prohibit the sharing of content from federal terror organizations.It also urged Con...