Simon & Schuster’s partnership with a notorious antisemite who regularly calls Jews “roaches,” “demons,” and “ghouls” is deeper than previously reported.
Susan Abulhawa—who has projected the medieval bile for years on her X account—announced in a defiant video that the publishing giant would put out her new forthcoming novel. Simon & Schuster has already faced significant controversy and been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its decision to reprint two of Abulhawa’s past novels through its Atria imprint.
“The Zionists have missed or don’t know, but Simon & Schuster will also be publishing my new novel,” Abulhawa said.
“My upcoming novel, The Sun Still Kisses Me, is not yet listed, because its release isn’t until next year, but I’ll post more about it soon,” the author promised.
In a brief video announcing the project, Abulhawa also took aim at Jewish writers and editors who have spoken out against the collaboration—including Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson and Commentary editor and Free Beacon contributor John Podhoretz—laying digitally altered video of them over foreboding music.
“Zionists are really mad,” Abulhawa deadpanned.
Abulhawa promised in the video to donate all funds from the preorders of her books to the Palestinian Youth Movement. The movement “organizes events with the U.S. designated terrorist entity Samidoun” and, according to the Israeli government, has “close ties” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R., Ark.) office reported.
Abulhawa’s track record of attacking Jews (“Jews” specifically, not just “Zionists”) stretches back years and is in plain sight.
“We live in the time of jewish supremacist demons,” Abulhawa said in a September 2025 post on X, adding that Jews were a “cultureless, rootless human aberration.”
That same month, she blasted another critic as a “lying Jewish supremacist cockroach” and attacked “dual loyalty zionists,” citing former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis as an example.
In November 2025, Abulhawa called Israelis “demonic parasite[s],” adding that “Israel must be dismantled if humanity is going to have any chance at a moral future.” In another post she said, “We will have our revenge someday,” against the “sons of satan.”
Abulhawa has also openly supported Islamic terrorism against Jews and Christians.
She has called Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, which left more than 1,200 dead, a “a spectacular moment” and the Hamas fighters who carried it out “honorable” and “brave.”
“Rest in power Comrade Kozo Okamoto. You were an inspiration to all who knew you and all who knew of your heroic life. You were an embodiment of solidarity and love of the people,” Abulhawa posted on July 25—long after she began her partnership with Simon & Schuster.
Okamoto was the last surviving participant of the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, which left 26 people dead, including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico. Lod Airport, in Tel Aviv, is now Ben Gurion International Airport.
A mostly obscure internet troll to the American audience, Abulhawa first came to public prominence after New York City first lady Rama Duwaji provided illustrations for a group of essays she published.
Abulhawa, a native of Kuwait, today lives in a five-bedroom home in the Philadelphia suburbs—which the Free Beacon has identified.
Even New York City’s Israel-loathing mayor, Zohran Mamdani (D.), offered an unequivocal condemnation of Abulhawa when asked about her during a March 13 press conference.
“I think that that rhetoric is patently unacceptable,” Mamdani said. “I think it’s reprehensible.”
The Anti-Defamation League has condemned the Simon & Schuster partnership.
“Susan Abulhawa, an unabashed antisemite who traffics in antisemitic tropes and glorifies terrorism gets a book deal,” ADL boss Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement posted to X. “Meanwhile, Jewish authors increasingly face campaigns to boycott, blacklist, and silence them, while bookstores, festivals, and other cultural institutions face pressure to exclude or distance themselves from Jewish and Zionist voices.”
“We’re reaching a point where opposing antisemitism can carry a greater professional cost than promoting it,” Greenblatt went on.
Simon & Schuster has faced a growing revolt from readers—with at least one of its writers, Gerald Posner, saying he will no longer publish with the company if it holds on to Abulhawa.
“There is no doubt that Simon & Schuster would never sign any celebrated novelist who had posted publicly that Muslims were parasites, vampires, demons, and ghouls,” Posner wrote in the Free Press.
“Simon & Schuster can publish whomever it likes,” Posner went on. “It doesn’t mean its authors have to reflexively support that decision. If it stands by Abulhawa’s noxious views, I will sadly look for another publisher. And I hope that other authors might do the same.”
Jonathan Karp, a former CEO who now heads the company’s Simon Six imprint, said the company condemns antisemitism but vowed that Abulhawa’s books would go forward.
“Simon & Schuster unequivocally opposes antisemitism, racism, and all forms of bigotry,” Karp said in a mealy statement left as a comment to Posner’s Free Press article.
Both Karp and current CEO Greg Greeley did not respond to requests for comment on the new book collaboration.
A spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster said, “The 2027 novel is part of our 2025 three-book deal with the author, which included the two reissues”—and declined to offer any additional comment.
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