Palestinian American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa. Photo: Screenshot

A prominent Palestinian-American writer and activist recently accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of having a “single loyalty to Israel,” perpetuating the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people are inherently untrustworthy citizens more loyal to Israel than their own countries.

Susan Abulhawa repudiated Blinken, who is Jewish, during an appearance last Monday on RT, a Russian state-controlled television network.

“Antony Blinken is a Zionist. I believe his first loyalty is actually to Israel like so many Zionists who have gotten themselves and planted themselves in positions of power throughout this administration and previous administrations, throughout Congress, throughout the media, throughout Hollywood,” Abulhawa said in the interview.

“I do not believe for one second that their loyalty is to the United States. It is not even a dual loyalty. It is a single loyalty to Israel,” she continued. “And you know, Antony Blinken himself, when he went to Israel, said, ‘I’m here as a Jew.'”

Abulhawa has an extensive history of publicly condemning those who support Israel’s right to self-defense. In an X/Twitter post just last week, she accused Dana Stroul, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, of having a “single loyalty to a foreign country, for which they endlessly extort US tax dollars and spill American blood to maintain.”

The same day, the Palestinian author also castigated Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), who is Jewish, for being “a major player in the Zionist death cult infecting the world.” She added that that Zionists “aren’t human like us” and that “we’re ruled by spawns of Satan.”

Abdulhawa has also celebrated the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel last Oct. 7, saying that the massacre “wasn’t the beginning of violence; it is the beginning of the end of a genocidal colonial entity.”

In an article published in the anti-Israel outlet Electronic Intifada just days after the massacre, Abdulhawa wrote that “Palestinian fighters finally broke free on 7 October 2023 in a spectacular moment that shocked the world.” Lauding the Hamas terrorists, Abdulhawa stated that “these brave Palestinian fighters overtook Israeli colonies built on their ancestral villages, seeing their stolen lands for the first time in their lives.”

Despite her comments against Jews, Zionists, and Israelis, Abdulhawa’s work has been widely read. Mornings in Jenin, a novel penned by Abdulhawa, sold over one million copies worldwide. The activist also served as the lead organizer for the “Palestine Writes” festival at the University of Pennsylvania. The event, which featured a litany of anti-Israel speakers, incensed Jewish alumni and donors.

In September, Abdulhawa publicized a letter she had written to the university’s leadership amid backlash over the event. In her letter, Abulhawa claimed that Palestinians are indigenous to the land of Israel and have “encompassed many identities over millennia — including religious identities of Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” which critics have argued is an apparent attempt to appropriate Jewish history and identity.

Abulhawa has previously accused Israel of committing “a dozen kristallnachts [sic],” referring to the infamous pogrom carried out against Jews in Nazi Germany in November 1938.