Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, poet, and essayist from Djibouti who now teaches French and Francophone Studies and Creative Writing at George Washington University. While known for his literary work, Waberi has increasingly used his academic platform to promote anti-Israel rhetoric and legitimize extremist narratives. His social media activity and public commentary since October 7 reveal an obsession with framing Israel as genocidal, glorifying Palestinian “resistance,” and defending campus encampments that have fueled antisemitic hostility.
Record of Advocacy & Ideological Bias
Publications and Commentaries
Jul 2025: Shared a post from the propaganda account Hidden Palestine commemorating a Palestinian writer “assassinated by Israeli agents,” reinforcing anti-Israel conspiracy tropes and romanticizing anti-Zionist figures.
May 2024: Featured in Afrique XXI defending the pro-Palestinian encampments across U.S. universities. In his testimony, Waberi accused Israel of genocide and condemned GWU for “violating students’ right to protest,” recasting rule-breaking and harassment as moral resistance.
Jul 2015: Published an article in Le Monde comparing Israeli policy toward Palestinians to South African apartheid. He endorsed the framing that Israel’s “occupation, colonization, and legal discrimination” amount to apartheid, citing radical anti-Zionist academics such as Robin D.G. Kelley and Achille Mbembe to reinforce the claim.
Apr–May 2024: Wrote and published a short story romanticizing the GWU student encampment, which he regularly visited, praising the “embellishment” of the George Washington statue as a form of creative protest. His writing celebrated lawbreaking as art, echoing the same rhetoric used by campus agitators to justify vandalism.
Social Media & Online Activity
Since October 7, Waberi has filled his public accounts with pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel content — reposting calls to “arrest Netanyahu,” celebrating the encampments, and describing Israel’s counterterrorism operations as “genocide.” His online activity consistently erases Hamas’s massacres and reframes terrorism as resistance, blending literary aesthetics with moral distortion.
Events and Academic Platforms
As a GWU professor, Waberi uses his credibility as a writer to mask extremist politics as intellectual commentary. His presence at encampments and contributions to foreign media outlets give academic cover to movements that glorify violence and delegitimize Jewish self-determination. In classrooms and interviews, he projects the same narrative — that Israel is an apartheid regime and Western support for it is a moral crime — ensuring that political bias permeates his teaching and mentorship.
Abdourahman A. Waberi has turned his literary prestige into a political weapon. Through articles, fiction, and social media activism, he promotes a worldview in which terrorism is resistance, antisemitism is justice, and defacing university property is “embellishment.” His rhetoric feeds the radicalization of students and reinforces a culture of academic permissiveness toward hate — the very opposite of what a university should stand for.
