Nizar Khalil Abu Shaheen lists himself as an elementary school teacher in the West Bank. His profile contains several pictures in UNRWA classrooms, teaching and with students.
In June 2021, Nizar Khalil Abu Shaheen shared and endorsed as “words that should be read” an antisemitic conspiracy theory aboutwealthy Jews controlling the UAE, and in particular forcing it to make peace with Israel for their own financial gain. The antisemitic post also quotes “The International Jew” by notorious antisemite Henry Ford which claimed “the Jews prefer to lead the world from behind,” suggesting that the Jewish “capitalists” prefer to control the UAE indirectly. Furthermore, the post conflates the Jews with theState of Israel, which in itself is antisemitism.
Partial post translation:
The truth is that the Jews are behind the launch of the “UAE project”, in which “wealthy Jews” from the West thought to establish aJewish settlement in the Middle East that would serve their financial interests and the flow of trade, without having to interact withthe (home) country, for political rea- sons, and other reasons.
Does it make any sense that simple-minded and unambitious Emiratis are running this complex machine? The Emirates, and AbuDhabi in partic- ular, has the highest percentage of wealthy people in the world—an estimated 75,000 millionaires, most of which arerich Jews. This means a safe envi- ronment for this enormous coffer. So it shouldn’t surprise us that it was Jewish millionaire Haim 4his arm to Israel [in friendship]. The UAE isn’t just skyscrapers, fancy streets, trade movements, and as of recently, factories and workshops. It’s a colony for conspiring against the nation… Question: Why don’t the capitalists rule the UAE directly, instead of thesedesert Arabs and their titles? The answer to this question is given in Henry Ford’s book, The International Jew, published in 1921, inwhich he states that “the Jews prefer to lead the world from behind.”
In September 2021,when six convicted terrorists escaped from Israeli prison, Nizar Khalil Abu Shaheen posted praise and encouragement for the leader Zakaria Zubaidi, describing him as an “honest and humble person” who“stole our heart.” Zubaidi, considered a “symbol of the Intifada,” is the former Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. In a 2005 interview, he assumed responsibility for the 2002 Beit She’an attack that killed 6 people— David Peretz, 48; Haim Amar, 56; Shaul Zilberstein, 36; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; and Yaakov Lary, 35. One of Abu Shaheen’s Face-book posts below endorsed a call to violently resist the Israeli army’s efforts to locate and re-arrest the escaped convicts.