Lawfare Suit Hits A BDS Member Where It Hurts (Part 2)

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Suhail Nafal first posted in 2018 at Facebook a photograph of Rebecca Rum, in her IDF uniform, next to a photograph of Razan al-Najar, who was killed while attending one of those violent demonstrations at Israel’s security fence known collectively as the Great March of Return. After someone discovered what Nafal already knew – that the photo of Rum had been taken from an IDF Facebook post from 2014 – she decided to deny the obvious.

In a subsequent post, Nafal clarified that she was not accusing Rum of murdering Al-Najar; she argued in all capital letters that the post was only meant to serve as a “comparison.”

But she had been, despite her denial, accusing Rum of murdering Razan Al-Najar. What else would anyone think she meant, in juxtaposing a photo of Rebecca Rum – identified by name – with a photo of Razan Al-Najar? The Israeli murderer, next to her sweetly-smiling Palestinian victim. And what did Nafal mean when she later claimed that the original post was meant to serve only as a “comparison”? What “comparison” was being made? Clearly, it was supposed to be between a militarized Israeli girl, in her IDF uniform, trained to wantonly kill innocent Palestinians “peacefully protesting,” and a Palestinian girl who only wanted to heal others, a veritable Florence Nightingale or Clara Barton of Gaza, treating those innocent, non-violent protesters. Those “innocent non-violent protesters,” let’s remember, have for more than two years been throwing Molotov cocktails, and other explosives of all kinds, at Israelis, and let loose explosive balloons and incendiary kites into Israel’s skies to set fire to thousands of hectares of farmland. And if Nafal’s intent in putting up Rum’s photograph side-by-side with that of Al-Najar was this meretricious “comparison,” that posting still constituted defamation of Rum, for she impliedly presented Rum as someone trained as a killer, instead of what she was, a young woman fulfilling her duty of national service to defend her homeland.

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Nafal proceeded to blame those who “don’t read English very well misunderstood & misinterpreted my post.”

No, there was no “misunderstanding” or “misinterpreting” Nafal’s original post on Facebook. It was designed to show a uniformed Rebecca Rum – identified by name – as the Israeli killer of the Palestinian Razan al-Najar. The post was designed to hold up Al-Najar as a heroine, and Rebecca Rum either as her killer, or as belonging to the class of wanton Israeli killers of the “peaceful” protesting Palestinians.

However, she accused Rum of being “complicit” in the killing of Al-Najar, and called Rum “a terrorist who made the choice to leave the US & go to a land to which she has zero ties specifically to murder the indigenous people of that land.”

How could Rebecca Rum have been “complicit” in the death of al-Najar? She had been out of the IDF in 2015, while Razan al- Najar died in 2018. Most likely, Nafal believes that all Israelis – and probably all Jews – are “complicit” in the death of al-Najar. Collective guilt for the perfidious Jews. How is Rum a “terrorist”? Has she taken part in, promoted, sanctioned, praise any act of terror by anyone? Never. She did not move to “a land to which she has zero ties.” Rebecca Rum is Jewish, and knows that the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people is the Land of Israel, where there has been a continuous Jewish presence for more than 3000 years. That is where religion of Judaism was born; that is where the Jewish people were formed. All their holy sites are located there: the Western Wall, the Temple Mount, Rachel’s Tomb, Joseph’s Tomb, the Tombs of the Patriarchs. It’s where the four holy cities of Judaism are located: Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberias.

Compare those more than 3000 years of Jewish history with the recently-invented “Palestinian people,” many of whom arrived in Israel within the last century, attracted by the economic opportunities that the Jewish pioneers created. Dr. Mordechai Kedar notes that many of the Arabs in “Palestine” are not originally Palestinians at all. They are immigrants who came to the Land of Israel from all over the Arab world during the British Mandate in order to find employment in the cities and on the farms the Jews had built. These immigrants still have names like Hourani (from Houran in southern Syria), Tzurani (from Tyre in southern Lebanon), Zrakawi (from Mazraka in Jordan), Masri (the Egyptian), Hijazi (from the Hijaz province of the Arabian peninsula), Mughrabi (from the Maghreb), and many other names that point to their true geographical origins.

Note too, as part of the “defamation” of Rebecca Rum, Nafal describes her as moving to Israel in order “specifically to murder the indigenous people of that land.”

According to Suhail Nafal, Rum went to Israel for one reason: not to live a Jewish life in the resurrected Jewish commonwealth of Israel, but solely in order to “murder” the Palestinians, who had a real claim – unlike the false claim of the Jews – to the land.

The complaint [by Rebecca Rum’s lawyers] alleges that Nafal’s posts caused Rum and her family and friends to be subjected to “hate messages and death threats,” as myriad threats called for “retaliation against [Rum] and her entire family.” Such threats occurred for “months,” as recently as this past July [that is, from 2018 to 2020], the complaint stated.

Furthermore, the complaint pointed out that about a week after Nafal’s posts, Rum visited Greece to teach English to refugees. One refugee accused her of being a “traitor” for “killing a Palestinian” and threatened another refugee who was teaching Arabic to Rum.

Rum suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that can cause muscular pain, lack of sleep, fatigue and depression, among other symptoms. The hate she received following Nafal’s posts exacerbated her fibromyalgia to become “severe,” according to the complaint, as stress is a trigger for fibromyalgia symptoms.

The complaint argued that Nafal’s original post was defamatory because it created the false perception that Rum was responsible for Al-Najar’s death and that Nafal did not make any effort in that initial post to clearly state that Rum did not kill Al-Najar.

Rum had been out of the IDF for three years by then and was nowhere near the Gaza border at the time of Al-Najar’s death, the complaint said.

“[Nafal] could have easily published a disclaimer or caption with the picture saying that [Rum] was not the person responsible for Al-Najar’s death,” the complaint stated. “[Nafal], however, chose instead to not protect [Rum], electing instead to further sensationalize the incident in her aim to attack the state of Israel.”

Because of Nafal’s posts, Rum has suffered “irreparable damage to her reputation” and fears for her life as well as the lives of her friends and family, the complaint added. Consequently, she is seeking $6 million in damages.

The complaint also acknowledged that while California law puts the statute of limitations for defamation at one year, Israeli law has a seven-year statute of limitations. The complaint argued that California should follow Israeli law in this matter given Rum’s dual citizenship.

Nafal is a California resident, according to the complaint.

Nafal knowingly posted a photo of Rebecca Rum in her IDF uniform side-by-side with a photo of Razan al-Najar, who was killed while participating with thousands of other Palestinians in an attempt, organized and led by the terror group Hamas, to breach Israel’s security fence. She knew perfectly well that Rum had nothing to do with the death of al-Najar; she had left the IDF in 2015, three years before al-Najar died. Yet Nafal did not add to her post the simple disclaimer that Rum had had nothing to do with al-Najar’s death, thereby leaving both Rebecca Rum and members of her family the targets of many death threats. The stress of these threats has led to a worsening of Rum’s fibromyalgia, a condition that can cause muscular pain, lack of sleep, fatigue, and depression. Rebecca Rum and her family members still live with the fear created by those threats.

If Rebecca Rum wins her lawsuit, and Suhail Nafal learns that she must pay her millions that she does not have, one of two good things could happen. Either Nafal will face financial ruin for the rest of her life, or she will have to escape to the Middle East, possibly to Gaza, where American justice cannot reach her. Both are awful outcomes, and will teach Suhail Nafal, and other obsessed BDSers, some of whom may now worry about being sued themselves for “defamation” in their anti-Israel postings, a lesson. To wit: the wheels of justice grind exceeding slow, but they do grind.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

~~~ FOR WORLD PEACE …… ISREAL MUST BE DESTROYED~~~comment image

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago

PALESTINE WILL NEVER BE FREE.

Jack Ward
Jack Ward
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

no such thing as palestine…

Daddyo
Daddyo
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

True, as, it would first have to exist.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Daddyo

10 STARS ON THAT REMARK!

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago

This is why Muslims, along with Democrats are LIARS AND DECEIVERS. They feed off of each other JUST LIKE SATAN DOES.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

US Stocks are still doing well. The NASDAQ remains well above pre-Covid-19 levels, and most other indexes do too. Also, the fear of an irrational post-epidemic bubble has passed. The markets are just moving ahead at a normal pace now.
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Mike Moss
Mike Moss
3 years ago

Reality comment image

Mike Moss
Mike Moss
3 years ago

She’ll win
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

STUNNING. Iran begins to talk about peace with the USA. [Of course they could change their minds tomorrow]
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

An Iranian website broke new ground by supporting peace with the USA, and inviting comments about the issue:
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The website said this:
“As an Iranian, I express my opinion and based on what I have learned from
my community, I think the majority also believe that the Iranian people
today want interaction, peace and cooperation
with other human beings on this planet.”
And he got replies like this one, with 866 upvotes:
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Here are some more Iranian replies to the idea of peace with the USANotice that more than 90% were upvotes:comment image
I have never seen this before in decades of following Iranian events.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

SEE MY COMMENTS ABOVE! THE PERSIANS LIKE THE GREEKS WERE A GREAT CIVILIZATION! TOO BAD AND REALLY SAD WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THEM!
THEIR GRANDPARENTS SHOULD HAVE SUPPORTED THE SHAH MORE VIGOROUSLY! ADMITTEDLY THE SHAH MADE SOME POLITICAL MISTAKES LIKE NOT LIVING AS A POLYGAMIST WITH HIS FIRST WIFE, DAUGHTER OF A VERY POWERFUL IMMAM WHOM HE ALIENATED BY SETTING HER ASIDE TO BE A MONOGAMIST AND TRYING TOO MUCH WESTERNIZATION TOO FAST! ALSO, THE SHAH’S FATHER WHO SET UP THEIR DYNASTY RENAMED IRAN FROM THE TIME HONORED “PERSIA” AND GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF DESTABILIZING THEORETICAL B.S. GOING LIKE HOW THE IRANIANS WERE MYTHICALLY RELATED TO THE GERMANS!
THE BRITISH WERE RIGHT IN OPPOSING HIM! THE BRITISH OFTEN KNEW MORE OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WE AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE SUPPORTED THEM AS THE STABILIZING FORCE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST OUTSIDE ISRAEL AS THEY SCREWED UP IRONICALLY BY NAMING A JEWISH QUISLING AS AN ADMINISTRATOR THERE BY THE NAME OF HERBERT SAMUELS! SAMUELS UNDID THE WORK OF SIR ALFRED MILNER WHO IF HE HAD JUST BECOME A TRUE POLITICIAN IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT WITH HIS NATIONALIST MOVEMENT AND NOT BEEN SO CRITICAL OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S EFFORTS TO SUPPORT CZARIST RUSSIA IN GREECE IN WWI COULD HAVE SAVED EUROPE FROM WWII AS HE SUPPORTED KEEPING MONARCHY IN GERMANY FORESEEING THE RISE OF ADOLPH HITLER THERE! GLOBALIST US DIM PREZ WOODROW WILSON UNDID SIR ALFRED MILNER’S EFFORTS AT VERSAILLES WHILE BUYING THE BRITISH OFF WITH GERMAN COLONIES THAT THEY DID A GOOD JOB IN ADMINISTERING ACTUALLY WHICH KEPT GERMANY MORE MULTIRACIAL IN THEIR THINKING! THE FUTURE’S PROBLEMS OF TODAY ARE CREATED FROM THE MISTAKES OF YESTERDAY!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Cauc: THERE I fixed that text for you, it took one minute, ASK ME HOW!
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See my comments above! The Persians like the Greeks were a great civilization! Too bad and really sad what has happened to them!Their grandparents should have supported the shah more vigorously! Admittedly the shah made some political mistakes like not living as a polygamist with his first wife, daughter of a very powerful imam whom he alienated by setting her aside to be a monogamist and trying too much westernization too fast! Also, the shah’s father who set up their dynasty renamed Iran from the time honored “Persia” and got a whole bunch of destabilizing theoretical b.s. Going like how the Iranians were mythically related to the Germans!

The British were right in opposing him! The British often knew more of what they were doing in the middle east and we Americans should have supported them as the stabilizing force for the middle east outside Israel as they screwed up ironically by naming a Jewish quisling as an administrator there by the name of Herbert Samuels! Samuels undid the work of sir Alfred Milner who if he had just become a true politician in British parliament with his nationalist movement and not been so critical of sir Winston Churchill’s efforts to support czarist Russia in Greece in WWI could have saved Europe from WWII as he supported keeping monarchy in Germany foreseeing the rise of Adolph Hitler there! Globalist us dim Pres Woodrow Wilson undid sir Alfred Milner efforts at Versailles while buying the British off with German colonies that they did a good job in administering actually which kept them more multiracial in their thinking! The future’s problems of today are created from the mistakes of yesterday!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

WHY SPEND THE TIME? HOWEVER, IF THAT FLOATS YOUR BOAT, KNOCK YOURSELF OUT!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

The Greeks had no love for the Persians who invaded Greece on numerous occasions while employing the soldiers of their various puppet states as cannon fodder. The battle of Marathon was once such battle in which the Greeks were victorious while Thermopylae was a loss. In any case Persians were Zoroastrians, not the slaves of allah.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

TRUE BUT THE PERSIANS IN ADOPTING ISLAM FELL AS A CIVILIZATION! CYRUS THE MEDE HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE AYATOLLAHS WHICH IS NOT TO THE PERSIAN’S CREDIT! IT IS APPROPRIATE THAT THEY QUIT USING THEIR ANCIENT NAME ADOPTING IRAN WHICH WAS FOUNDED ON A MYTH DESTROYING AND DENYING THEIR VERY OWN HERITAGE AS PERSIA!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

THEY WENT FROM CYRUS THE GREAT TO THE AYATOLLAHS AND IF THAT DOESN’T JUST SAY IT ALL NOTHING ELSE WILL!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

A hudna treaty in the making. A treaty of convenience to be broken when the muslums have the advantage:

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/muhammad/hudaibiya.aspx

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I SAY HANG THE MULLAHS AND REINSTATE THE SHAH! WE CAN THANK THE DIMS AND PREZ JIMMY PEANUT-HEAD CARTER FOR THIS WHOLE SAD SITUATION! THE PERSIAN MUSLIMS LIKE THE PALESTINIANS HAVE TO ACCEPT THEIR SHARE OF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR BETRAYING THE HERITAGE OF KING CYRUS THE GREAT FOR THE RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY OF INVADERS WHO SET UP A RELIGIOUS BELIEF SYSTEM NOT OF THEIR OWN MAKING!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

STUNNING. Iran begins to talk about peace with the USA. [Of course they could change their minds tomorrow]
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Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

IN AN ISRAELI COURT RUM SHOULD WIN BUT UNLESS THE USA EXTRADITES NAFAL THERE WHICH AGAIN, WE CAN’T DO DUE TO THE PRECEDENT IT SETS, IT IS A MUTE DECISION! IF THE MOSSAD GOES AFTER NAFAL, I WOULD SAY IT IS A COMMUNITY SERVICE BUT AGAIN, LEGAL PRECEDENTS ARE STUBBORN AND DANGEROUS THINGS! NAFAL’S MISUSE OF FREE SPEECH AS A U.S. CITIZEN HAS TO BE ALLOWED HERE AS THE SAME FREEDOM PROTECTS US TOO FROM PUNISHMENT AT THE BEHEST OF COUNTRIES AND MOVEMENTS WE TALK ABOUT!
AGAIN, ZIONIST ISRAEL SHOULD GET THE AID IT GETS FROM THE USA DUE TO HAVING TO PUT UP WITH THINGS LIKE THIS! THEY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED NAFAL EARLIER BEFORE SHE GOT U.S. RESIDENCY AND WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE GIVEN HER U.S. CITIZENSHIP! IF PRO-CHINA VP DEMENTIAL DADDY JOE LYING BRIBE’M/BIDEN IS ALLOWED TO OCCUPY THE PRESIDENCY, https://conservativesjournal.com/biden-muslims-will-serve-at-every-level-of-his-administration WILL BE THE REALITY AND WE WILL HAVE NAFALS ALL OVER THE PLACE GOING AFTER US ALL!

Mike Moss
Mike Moss
3 years ago

no need to SHOUT

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

HAVING A PROBLEM WITH ALL CAPS IS FOR ABUSED KIDS! SORRY! I LIKE FINDING MY COMMENTS! HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON!

Mike Moss
Mike Moss
3 years ago

blocked

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE HEAT—GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN!

David VonAllmen
David VonAllmen
3 years ago
Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike Moss

GO HIDE AND STAY OUT OF THE GROWN-UPS AREAS!

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

The indigenous people of Israel is the Jews. Over 3000 years of continual residence in the area proves it, compared to most of the muslims who claim that they were there first. The Arab claim can be likened to Scottish or French descendants claiming that they are the indigenous people of North America and not the native Indians.

Since hit is being heard in California, I have no expectations that the courts there will allow the suit to proceed.

Jack Ward
Jack Ward
3 years ago

Rebecca is a trained IDF combat soldier. nafal is a terrorist wandering free. Rebecca should administer her own justice and leave the courts out of it

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

THIS FEMALE MUSLIM, NAFAL SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN GRANTED U.S. RESIDENCE LET ALONE CITIZENSHIP! AS A U.S. CITIZEN WHICH ADMITTEDLY SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN GRANTED, SHE IS PROTECTED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH/EXPRESSION WHICH MUST BE TREATED VERY LOOSELY.
I DON’T LIKE THE BDS MOVEMENT OR ITS OTHER SUPPORTING ORGS OF Barricade Loot Murder AKA BLACK LIVES MATTER WHO I THINK SHOULD JOIN ANTIFA AS LISTED TERRORIST GROUPS BANNED FROM THE USA BUT THE PRECEDENT FOR A U.S. COURT TO SUPPORT RUM WOULD BE TOO DANGEROUS FOR AMERICAN FREE SPEECH/EXPRESSION RIGHTS! THE ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO BAN NAFAL FROM ITS BORDERS AND TO PUNISH HER RELATIVES BY DENYING THEM INTO ISRAEL AS TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS BUT OUTSIDE ISRAEL, SANCTIONS AGAINST NAFAL CAN’T BE ENFORCED IS HOW IT HAS TO BE! WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ISLAMICS TRY TO USE THE SAME REASONING FOR WHAT WE SAY ABOUT THEM AGAINST PAM GELLER OR YOU AND ME?
THE PALESTINIAN ARABS ARE JORDANIAN AND DECLARED THEMSELVES TO BE LOYAL TO THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN! THEY THEN BECAME TRAITORS TO THE HASHEMITES IN BLACK SEPTEMBER, 1970-1971 AND HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT! THEY CAN EAT SAND, I SAY AND RELY ON CHARITY FROM WHATEVER COUNTRIES WILL HELP THEM! THEY AREN’T ANYBODIES’ PROBLEM EXCEPT THEIR OWN!
THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD THAT JUST CAN’T REALLY BE SOLVED! THE PALESTINIANS AS INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE SHOULD TRY TO RELOCATE TO AN ISLAMIC NATION WITH ABUNDANT RESOURCES AND LOW POPULATION LIKE SAUDI ARABIA BUT NEWSFLASH, THEY DON’T TRUST THEM EITHER!

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