Nerdeen Karma

WOL leader finally sees what she openly advocates for

1. NYC’s Poster Child for Violence

I do not condone violence against anyone. Not even someone who has spent their entire life condoning violence against peaceful civilians, fundraising around violent messaging, and who goes on TV to defend horrific violence, including rape and murder branded as “Freeing Palestine” and “Resistance.”

The alleged plot against Nerdeen Kiswani should be condemned clearly and without hesitation. At the same time, the irony here is hard to ignore, and so is Nerdeen’s troubling record.

This incident exposes the hypocrisy behind the politics Nerdeen and the WOL cult have been pushing for years. It’s also a reminder why the intifada, which included suicide bombings of buses, nightclubs and pizza restaurants, should never be romanticized.

Start with WOL’s own rhetoric. They openly promote “all forms of resistance” and “by any means necessary.” That’s not my framing. That’s theirs. Nerdeen and her cohort have built an entire worldview around escalation, and now act shocked when that same logic turns back on them.

Israellycool has put together some of the clearest examples. In one clip, Nerdeen calls Palestinian violence “beautiful.” In another, Nerdeen threatens to set a civilian’s clothing on fire over an IDF sweatshirt.Not a soldier. A civilian’s clothes prompted her to say, "I hate your shirt, Ima setting it on fire. I'm serious." [CUNY and NYPD took no disciplinary action.]

Nerdeen also goes after voices that actually try to move things toward peace, even those that share her “Absolutely no Jews. One state.” ideology. Again, she demonstrates taht nobody is safe from Free Palestine in the long run.

She went after the documentary No Other Land because it showed coexistence. She didn’t claim it was inaccurate. She hated that it showed Jews and Arabs living side by side. That alone was enough to make it unacceptable.

Tragically, when people like me point out that WOL rejects coexistence, we’re told we’re being intolerant or Islamaphobic for simply repeating what they say themselves.

Nerdeen’s own words about Zionists remove any ambiguity. Nerdeen said they are not welcome “in Palestine, NYC, our schools, on the train, ANYWHERE.” Yes, she has spoken about expelling “Zionists” from a place she moved to.

Imagine that sentence about any other group in New York. NYC is a city largely built by Jews, funded by Jews, lived in by Jews. Nerdeen talks about excluding them from public life entirely, not just without consequences, but with boosts to social media and WOL funds that help her reside in NYC.

Nerdeen’s comments about dogs being “unclean” and not belonging in homes, which she later brushed off, fits the same pattern of sorting what belongs and what doesn’t. This a Jordan-born woman, who moved to NYC, telling Americans that their allies and pets should be hated.

Nerdeen’s rhetoric shows up in real-world consequences, not just for herself, as it did this week. At Columbia University protests she supported, a janitor was restrained by protesters. There have been incidents involving weapons, including fake explosives at protests. More recently, individuals aligned with this same activist space escalated protests into violence against police, throwing real grenades, that did not go off.

2. A Cannibalistic Movement

If there is one unintended contribution Nerdeen has made, it’s clarity that Free Paletine is just a hate movement at best, better described as a death cult. She exposes the movement better than any critic could.

Nerdeen is so unapologetically violent and racist towards Jews that I have wondered if her (and her allie Mohammed Hijab) are secretly “deep state actors,” as they often say of their cult following when the members act on their words. Unfortunately, these are serious people, causing serious problems.

Nerdeen doesn’t just go after opponents. She goes after allies too, but especially Jewish ones.

Take Jacob Berger, a failed actor turned activist aligned with her broader cause. Nerdeen publicly attacked him, accusing him of grifting. There were plenty of other people on the failed “Freedom Floatilla” (aka the selfie yacht), but “for some reason,” Nerdeen went after only one, possibly the only token Jew amongst these yachts.

Or take her own words about major pro-Palestine Jewish groups, “I’m sorry, but if JVP, IfNotNow, and JFREJ want more praise than Neturei Karta...”

Yes, even anti-Israel Jewish groups are not enough unless they fully align with her level of extremism. Groups that reject violence or try to maintain some balance get dismissed anyway. [Or, maybe, just maybe, they’re too Jewish for her.]

Nerdeen’s ideological policing is a rebuttal to the ever morphing ideas of what “Free Palestine” can mean.

In short, Nerdeen has attacked peaceful approaches, dismissed coexistence, mocked mainstream liberals, gone after anti-Israel Jewish groups, targeted individuals to stir outrage, and even criticized politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for showing the least bit of sympathy for Nova music festival victims. Total alignment is her minimum.

This is the first time we have seen someone take her logic seriously who was not on her side. We immediately saw how groups like “BDS” reacted, and it was to be expected: Double standards, blaming all Zionists and Jews for the incident, refusing to take accountability and doubling down on their violent rhetoric.

Nerdeen has yet to face real consequences for the death cult she leads.

One crucial note: Outlets like Associated Press and The Guardian reported that the suspect ‘planned to flee to Israel’ after the attack. That may be what he said. What readers are not told is just as important. Israel has a formal extradition treaty with the United States and regularly extradites suspects back to face charges. Recent examples include Rostislav Panev (2025) and Shai Cohen (2023). Israel is not a reliable refuge for American fugitives. Leaving that context out creates a misleading impression, and the fact that it keeps getting left out—especially when repeated by outlets like NPR, ABC News, and CNN—says a lot about how these stories are framed today.

It would be as if they said, “Suspect planned to say ‘It’s Opposite Day so you’re arrested, not me!’” It doesn’t matter.