Riad Nimer lists himself as a teacher at UNRWA. His UNRWA employment is confirmed by photos of himself in UNRWA classrooms. He also posted an announcement by the UNRWA Al-Manara Elementary School, which included a photo with an UNRWA logo.
On August 9, 2022, Riad Nimer posted a video of terrorist Ibrahim al-Nabulsi’s funeral procession with a caption lionizing Nabulsi as a “pure soul.” The video likewise refers to Nabulsi’s “pure soul,” calls him a “martyr,” and states that he is one of the “noblest of heroes.” Furthermore, the video posted by UNRWA teacher Nimer concludes by endorsing a call for others to follow in Nabulsi’s footsteps—“peace unto…martyrs who have com- manded us tofollow the path they had taken.”
Nabulsi was an Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades commander whose cell had been responsible for several terrorist attacks against Israeli soldiers andcivilians in the West Bank, some in cooperation with the Iranian-backedPalestinian Islamic Jihad. One attack targeted the Jewish holy site Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.
Translation of video:
In the presence of your pure blood, O Ibrahim, and the blood of the martyrs of Gaza, Jenin, the eternal capital, and every other place in the Holy Land who came before you, the Earth feels ashamed, the sky of the homeland shudders when it accepts you. and those whose spirits fluttered in safety and tranquility. Rest at ease, O mother of the martyr, for your child lived, fought and became martyred in your love and the love of the homeland. Peace, peace unto the pure souls, peace unto the blood of the noblest heroes, their names were forgiven in the firmament of glory, martyrs who have commanded us to follow the path they had taken.
On November 18, 2014, Riad Nimer liked a post praising the gruesome Jerusalem synagogue axe and shooting attack, in which two Palestinian terrorists murdered five Jewish worshippers and a responding Druze police officer with axes, knives, and a gun. The post lauds the attack as “a unique and heroic act of self-sacrifice [suicide attack].” The post also rejects Israel’s legitimacy as a state by claiming the attack was perpetrated in “occupied Jerusalem”—even though it was in the Har Nof neighborhood in West Jerusalem, part of Israel since 1948. The post Nimer liked was by an UNRWA teacher previously identified by UN Watch in its 2017 report.
Post translation:
When they ram us, they will be rammed, when they stab us, they will be stabbed, and when they hang us, they will be hanged.
The axe is extra.
This is Jerusalem. These are fortresses of the revolutionaries. This is the fortress of the suicide attackers and the heroes. A unique and heroic act of self-sacrifice [suicide attack] in occupied Jerusalem. The initial harvest: 7 bodies and 17 wounded.
