Noura Saleh Erakat (/ˈnʊərə ˈɛrəkæt/, NOOR-ə ERR-ə-kat; Arabic: نورة صالح عريقات; born (1980-01-16)January 16, 1980)[1] is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.

She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.

The tweet, which the lobby group B'nai Brith Canada described as “unacceptable,” praised Khader Adnan, a Palestinian activist and prisoner in West Bank who died after an 87-day hunger strike in protest against Israel’s systematic and discriminatory use of administrative detention to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial and to "to expose the basic injustice in Israel’s military justice system and its casual denial of basic freedoms".

[21] Erakat was said to be among three potential Palestinian American running mates for Dr Jill Stein, the left-wing Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election.

[23][24] She is the cousin of Ahmed Erakat, a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli police after his vehicle rammed into one of the barriers at a military checkpoint near Abu Dis, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020.