October 9, 2024

Anti-Israel groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Students for Justice in Palestine, launched a deceptive campaign on October 7, hijacking Jewish grief over the massacre by Hamas to push their disinformation against Israel. They held “interfaith vigils” on campuses, intentionally using the anniversary to distort facts and fuel anti-Israel sentiment. Their rhetoric falsely portrayed Israel as the aggressor on Oct. 7, 2023, masking their deeper goals of undermining Israel’s existence and radicalizing young activists. This manipulation of public perception, rooted in lies, disrupts the mourning process and stokes division, while potentially inciting further violence. This reporting was completed as part of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative investigating anti-Semitism, in the name of journalist Daniel Pearl, murdered in 2002 by militants in Pakistan.