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There’s a white Jewish man who’s managed to wedge himself into pro-Palestine spaces, building a personal brand off of genocide. And every time I vaguely mention him, without even naming him, someone new messages me with another horrifying story.
This man was a failed OnlyFans creator before rebranding as a “Palestine supporter.” Since then, he’s taken sponsorship deals, asked for donations nonstop, and monetized every angle of his supposed activism.
He was in Egypt under the guise of helping relief efforts for Gaza. Instead, he bragged about getting a free apartment, not paying for anything, and living comfortably while volunteers around him were actually working.
He reportedly made videos with Palestinian children on a “field trip,” asking people to donate for these “orphans” without consent from their families. When they found out and asked him to take it down, he blocked them.
He sexually harasses and fetishizes Arab women, according to multiple reports. Several women have described feeling unsafe around him, especially in activist spaces.
He joined a solidarity flotilla and then voluntarily signed self-deportation orders, abandoning others who went on hunger strike while still in captivity. When people asked him about it, he blocked them too.
He’s repeatedly claimed that he “sacrifices more than Palestinians” as if abandoning a failed Hollywood career to go live-stream on TikTok for donations is more than surviving occupation, displacement, and bombing.
He centers himself in everything. Even when talking to Palestinians and on livestreams, it’s “me me me” how he suffers, how he is censored, how he gave up fame, while literally grifting off of a genocide.
If you’ve felt uneasy about him, you’re not alone. Palestinians have been warning for a long time. Many are blocked when they raise concerns.

This isn’t cancel culture. It’s protecting the movement from exploiters. If your solidarity is self-promotion, it’s actually extraction.
Many Black people have also called them out for fetishizing Black women

I’m not gonna include every single post about this, but there’s a lot and it’s self evident when you can literally see those videos still up on his social media
Many Palestinians and Arabs have reached out to me, saying that he frequently likes to talk about trying to sleep with Arab women

He bragged to my sister and other comrades that he was living for free in Egypt including in his apartment, and she straight up called him out saying he’s just taking housing away from Palestinians fleeing the genocide.
And the orphan story I was told a few days ago, but have heard iterations of things like this prior. Image
Again, if you’re asking for receipts, you can find them yourself on his own TikTok page which if you took a cursory glance at, you can easily find no less than 10 different videos fetishizing Arab women…
Like is this supposed to be normal?? a white Jewish guy starts supporting Palestine and then bases half of his content around fetishizing Arab women and we’re not supposed to call this out?? Image
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More people continue to reach out about ways he has harmed the movement, including a student organizer who just told me he was at an encampment in NYC clout chasing and filming people Image
He weaponizes Islam against Muslim and speaks in disgusting derogatory manner to people when he was questioned about sharing a fundraiser that used images/videos of a program for Palestinian in Egypt that they don’t even give money to. Image
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While on the Handala, Jacob went live on TikTok saying women should “thank” him for his activism by sending nudes. He repeated it more than once and was completely serious. Image

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Jul 30
Israel must be completely dismantled because its very existence depends on the starvation, torture, and mass murder of Palestinian babies. There is no reforming that. No coming back. Supporting it in any way means aligning with genocide in perpetuity.
Anyone who supports Israel — financially, diplomatically, ideologically — is supporting the starvation, torture, and mass murder of children.

Not abstractly. Not hypothetically.
Actually. Literally. Right now.

And it can never be undone.
There is no “neutral” position.
Israel dropped U.S.-made bombs on babies. It denied food, fuel, and medicine to over 2 million people.
It turned Gaza into a death camp.
You support that or you oppose it.

No PR firm, no rebrand, no UN speech will wash the blood off.
Read 7 tweets
Jul 29
Chris Smalls — the only Black person aboard the Handala Flotilla — was also the only one confirmed to be severely beaten by Israeli forces so far. There were 17 people on that boat. That’s not a coincidence.
The flotilla was a peaceful attempt to bring aid to Gaza. It was attacked by Israel. Now, 14 people remain imprisoned, on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians who are starving under Israeli siege. Meanwhile, 3 of the people who self deported and are now free are Jewish.
One of them, came back to a welcome wagon. Flowers. Slaps on the back. Ululations. Celebration. And yet, while people are locked up, while Gaza is being starved, while Chris Smalls is being brutalized — for some the focus has turned into a feel-good reunion story.
Read 6 tweets
Jun 7
A thread debunking the idea that “equal rights in an Israeli state” is a pro-Palestinian position. Spoiler: it’s not. It’s a liberal Zionist fantasy that preserves settler-colonial rule under a civil rights framework. 🧵
Equal rights within an Israeli state assumes the continued existence of the state of Israel—a settler-colonial project founded on the genocide of Palestinians and the Nakba. That’s not justice. That’s reforming colonialism, not ending it.
When people say “what if Israel gave Palestinians equal rights?”—they’re asking us to legitimize the theft of our land, accept the erasure of our identity, and live under the flag of the regime that destroyed our lives. That’s not liberation.
Read 11 tweets
Jun 3
People keep saying “the tide is turning” on Palestine. But from where I stand, it’s not. What’s happening is the mass normalization of genocide. Palestinians are being starved, bombed, dismembered, erased — and the world is watching it happen in real time.
Famine. Dehydration. Shredded bodies. Children without limbs. Families obliterated. We’re witnessing the full-scale annihilation of our people. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out in the open with global surveillance, media, and outrage and yet it continues.
What has changed is that people are starting to realize this won’t be remembered well. Whether we survive this or not, they know history will judge. So now there’s a rush to stake some symbolic position. To say “I was against it,” at least on paper.
Read 7 tweets
Apr 23
The encampments/occupations taking root across the country are courageous. They show that people refuse to be silent while Gaza is being massacred. That matters.

But courage alone isn’t a strategy. And without one, it risks turning momentum into a moment.
The risk is following a trend instead of building a plan. A tent is not a tactic. And BDS is not a strategy, it’s a framework. To win it, you need a strategy that makes your institution pay a price for supporting Zionist violence, politically, financially, and reputationally.
That means disruption. That means escalation. That means not walking away the moment repression shows up.

If your encampment can be cleared with a threat, it’s not a crisis for the university. It’s a minor inconvenience.
Read 8 tweets
Apr 2
Every liberation movement faces a choice: continue along the paths that feel familiar, or step into the uncertainty of what has not yet been tried. The difference between endurance and victory is whether we have the courage to break the cycle.
If history teaches us anything, it is that power never concedes to persistence alone. It responds to disruption, to escalation, to forces that leave it no choice but to change. The greatest threat to oppressive systems is resistance that refuses to be predictable.
Every movement reaches a time when it must decide: will we keep doing what is familiar, or will we embrace what is necessary? The future is shaped by the courage to evolve. The most effective struggles do not just endure; they escalate.
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