A Snapshot of Hate: Pro-Hamas Group Protesting “Killer Kamala” Also Posted Pic Simulating Biden Beheading

One of the anti-Israel groups who protested Vice President Kamala Harris appearance at the American Federation of Teachers conference in Houston last Thursday previously posted a shocking photo simulating a bloody beheading of President Joe Biden by a Hamas member.

The post announcing the “Killer Kamala out of Houston” rally was authored by a coalition of five groups that have expressed support for Hamas and the Axis of Resistance, an Iran-led coalition of terrorists and militias. The five groups are Houston for Palestinian Liberation, the Houston chapters of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

The video of the rally shows participants chanting in support of anti-Israeli violence, saying “No peace on stolen land when people are occupied! Resistance is justified when people are colonized!”—standard anti-Israeli slogans.

The Houston chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the group most responsible for the nationwide protests on college and university campuses by far, indicated its involvement in the protest by coauthoring the post with the pro-terrorist footage.

SJP—like PYM, PSL and DSA—endorsed the October 7, 2023, atrocities and expressed solidarity with Hamas, but SJP went even further by declaring itself to be a literal part of Hamas. By its own words, SJP is Hamas.

A Horrifying Picture

The horrifying picture (intentionally not posted here) mimicking the beheading of President Biden by Hamas was posted by Houston for Palestinian Liberation in June. It was taken at a rally in front of the White House. The green headband worn by the protestor is what Hamas members and loyalists wear in the Palestinian territories.

The post with the despicable image was coauthored by Houston for Palestinian Liberation, the Houston chapter of Healthcare Workers for Palestine and the Houston chapter of Al-Awda, another pro-Hamas group. Al-Awda Houston was at the June protest at the White House as shown by a sign that reads, “The key to return is resistance” with an upside-down red triangle that is used to signify support for Hamas’s targeting of Israelis (In Hamas propaganda videos, the symbol is used to identify who it is targeting in combat footage.)

Other photos from the June rally posted by Houston for Palestinian Liberation show at least two protestors with the Hamas headbands, signs created by the ANSWER Coalition calling for the release of all Palestinian “political prisoners” (a reference to imprisoned terrorists), and a sign saying “Resistance against occupation is a human right”—one of the slogans used to justify the October 7 attacks and other anti-Israeli acts of terrorism.

Houston for Palestinian Liberation’s anti-Americanism also came through in another post with a celebratory video of an American flag being taken down and replaced with a Palestinian flag outside Union Station in Washington, DC, at the protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.

The extremist ideology of the groups protesting Harris is also apparent in the language they used in the post: “We need to show her and all other genocidal politicians that THEY ARE NOT WELCOME IN HOUSTON.”

It is easy to overlook these words as simply being hyperbole, but the messaging is telling.

These groups don’t want the vice president or any politician with whom they disagree to even come into the area. This activism shows an authoritarian streak, similar to Hamas’s behavior. They are essentially calling for the political Balkanization of America.

Metastasizing Hate

The photo showing the protestor acting out a beheading of Biden by Hamas deserves to go viral because it vividly shows the type of extremism that is consistently seen at these anti-Israel protests.

It harkens back to when comedian Kathy Griffin destroyed her career, at least for a very long time, by publishing a disturbing photo depicting herself holding the decapitated head of President Donald Trump in May 2017. The result was condemnation across the board and a “cancellation” of her so severe that almost five years a New York Times headline later read, “Kathy Griffin is Trying to Get Back on the D-List.”

Obviously, this photo depicting a beheading of Biden won’t get even a microscopic fraction of the attention that Griffin’s received because there’s no celebrity involved—but it should.

An outrageous, insensitive and self-injurious breaching of the blurry line between edgy and offensive by a comedian whose brand is associated with provocative humor has minimal significance beyond its own drama. No one believes Griffin would actually attempt to decapitate Trump, and nowhere did she justify doing so.

However, the Hamas photo has greater significance—much greater significance.

It is a microcosm showing how deadly ideologies rooted in terrorism, political hatred, and anti-Semitism are metastasizing in the U.S., manifesting itself in the form of pro-Hamas groups who avoid backlashes with the magic of soothing keywords like “anti-genocide,” “pro-peace,” “human rights,” and “liberation.”

Imagine how much better the country would be if Americans were just a tenth as outraged about this photo as with Griffin’s photo in 2017.