Is Australian Attorney and Activist Randa Abdel-Fattah an “Extremist Terrorist Sympathizer”?

Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian writer, attorney, and “antizionist” activist of Egyptian and Palestinian descent. This is what she posted on Oct. 8, 2023, while terrorists who entered Israel on hang gliders and proceeded to massacre, kidnap, and brutalize civilians were still at large:

In January 2024, she published an article dismissing (true) reports of sexual assault of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists as “atrocity propaganda.”

Here she is expressing her commitment to harassing “zionists:”

In February 2024, she was one of ten authors who signed a letter demanding the Adelaide Book Festival to disinvite Thomas Friedman because he’s a “zionist.”

Her reaction to the massacre of fifteen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in December was to decry those “quickly surrendering to the agenda of those who are using a horrific act of antisemitism to entrench anti-Palestinian racism,” and its exploitation “Zionists, white supremacists, the far right to advance their racist, violent, and oppressive agendas.”

The Adelaide Book Festival chose to disinvite her thereafter, on the vague grounds that it would not be “culturally sensitive” to have her after the Bondi atrocity.

In response, she accused the Festival of anti-Palestinian racism, which in turn led to widespread withdrawals of other authors from the Festival on either anti-censorship or anti-racism grounds, which in turn led to the cancellation of the Festival this year.

She has now posted the following statement:

I can’t imagine that in a country where the loser pays the winner’s legal fees, she really wants a trial on whether calling her an extremist and terrorist sympathizer is false.