American Muslims for Palestine: A Get-Together of Anti-Semites

Hatem Bazian, the founder of AMP and SJP. Bazian advocates for the dismantlement of the state of Israel and for an intifada in America. He calls the U.S. Congress “Israeli-occupied territory” and compares Zionists to Nazis.

• Bazian, who is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley in the Ethnic Studies Department, once led a protest against the arrests of 79 SJP members at UC Berkeley who attempted to disrupt a Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
  
  

• Bazian was an organizer and featured speaker at a press conference to support a controversial mural at UC Berkeley depicting Malcolm X’s face surrounded by dollar signs, yellow stars of David, skulls and crossbones, and the words “African blood.” Jews were forcibly excluded from the press conference.
  
  

• In the Harvard International Review, Bazian claimed that much of ancient Jewish history in the land of Israel is a “mythical past” and that the Jewish people were merely a “historical passer-by in the land.
  
  

Lamis Deek, a founder of the New York chapter of Al Awda, a virulently anti-Israel organization. Deek is also affiliated with SJP, AMP, WOL and CAIR. She is the co-founder of the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) and the founder of Brooklyn Law School Muslim Students Association [MSA], a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group.

• At a rally in May 2022, Deek declared “We love Hamas, and the PFLP, and Islamic Jihad…They are global, global heroes of the fight against imperialism. They are global agents of world peace. They are global agents of progress and humanity!”
  
  

• In December 2017, Deek said, “It is the Intifada that will bring peace here in the U.S. Long live the Intifada! Long live the Intifada!!”
  
  

• In May 2022, Deek said, “Israel is a global threat...Israel threatens everybody.”
  
  

Nerdeen Kiswani, the founder of the New York-based radical anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) as well as the New York chapter of SJP. She was also the president of City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law’s chapter of SJP.

Kiswani has incited violence against Jews in New York through WOL’s frequent demonstrations which have resulted in violent attacks on Jews.

• KIswani calls for the death of Zionists, Israel’s destruction and to “Globalize the Intifada.” She advocates “resistance by any means” and has vowed to track down and “go after …Zionist settler foundations” in New York. She made good on this promise by launching the Strike MoMA campaign, which targeted trustees of the iconic Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for their pro-Israel activism, among other reasons.
  
  

• At one rally, Kiswani said, ”I hope that pop-pop is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime!” At another, she led a chant reminiscent of Nazi language, screaming, “There is only one solution! Intifada, Revolution!”