Report on Tufts University (December 2017)

In this special Canary Mission Report, we reveal who was really behind the Tufts University surprise Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution that spurred outrage last Passover eve – as covered by The Algemeiner Fox News The Washington Times and Legal Insurrection.

At First Glance – Tufts SJP

On April 9, 2017, on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday, several Tufts Community Union (TCU) student senators submitted a surprise BDS resolution that called on the university to divest from four companies that do business with Israel.

The resolution was authored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

By scheduling this surprise BDS vote on the eve of Passover, they ensured that Jews would not be present to defend themselves against an anti-Semitic attack on the right of Jews to self-determination.

The resolution hearing was fraught with lies and half-truths presented by SJP members Noah Habeeb and Mile Krstev. In a further shameful move, the TCU senate also ensured the vote was held as a secret ballot, in order to shield the voters from any form of accountability.

Unsurprisingly, due largely to an absence of Jewish opposition, the resolution passed.

This pre-Passover stunt was yet another in a series of scandals for SJP. SJP and its leader Hatem Bazian have been exposed so often for its bigotry and racism that it is no longer seen as a serious player by university administrations and even former members.

JVP – The Real Culprits?

The Tufts story was both covered in the media and by Canary Mission. We have since duly investigated and have now released a number of profiles on culprits in SJP and JVP (see links below).

SJP is rightly to blame for their role in the exclusionary timing of the resolution. However, upon closer examination, the entire episode was in fact masterminded by the fringe extremist organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) (a name that is false advertising on many levels).

JVP planned the entire vote in advance.

At the resolution hearing, JVP leader, Hannah Freedman revealed that although the resolution was ready for presentation the previous week, the authors chose to push it to the following week’s senate meeting because “many of us were away at a conference last weekend…”

Freedman omitted to mention that the “conference” their activists were attending was the anti-Israel JVP National Member Meeting (NMM).

By scheduling the vote on the eve of Passover, when most Jews would not be around to vote, JVP deliberately undermined the Jewish community at Tufts – in favor of giving themselves more time to strategize against Israel.

It gets worse…

At least seven SJP Tufts leaders took part in the JVP conference. They made a presentation and collaborated with senior JVP officials. This included Parker Breza who admitted that Tufts SJP consulted exclusively with JVP during the resolution drafting process.

Jewish Voice for Peace is neither a mainstream Jewish voice, nor is it interested in Peace.

Tufts Students and Alumni

	Hannah Zafar is a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist. Zafar joined other Tufts SJP activists in a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) campaign that attacked Jews living in Judea and Samaria. See More click here

	Miriam Priven is a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist. Priven promoted a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. See More click here

	Jonathon Venitz was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist, who openly supported convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh in 2015. Venitz shared material promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to the Tufts SJP Facebook page in 2014. See More click here

	Erynne van Zee was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist in 2016. Zee participated in multiple Tufts SJP events from 2015 to 2017, including the Israeli Apartheid Week 2017. See More click here

	Emma Youcha openly supported convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh on behalf of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University, in 2015. See More click here

	Johnny Auld was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University, in 2016. Auld participated in multiple Tufts SJP events in 2015 and 2016. Auld was involved with Tufts SJP as early as March 2013, , when he listed himself on Facebook as having attended Tufts SJP’s Israeli Apartheid Week. See More click here

	Natasha Blazer was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University from 2014 through 2017. According to Tufts SJP’s Facebook page, Blazer attended that Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 on Tufts’ campus. On February 26, 2015, Blazer shared the full Tufts SJP Israeli Apartheid Week schedule on Facebook, including an event promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Mary Snyder co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University hat excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. See More click here

	Lindsay Sanders was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist in 2016 and 2017. On January 30, 2017, Sanders promoted a Tufts SJP strategy meeting on Facebook. Sanders listed herself on Facebook as having attended the SJP East Regional Conference from March 25 – 27, 2016, in Philadelphia and the National SJP Conference in 2014 at Tufts. See More click here

	Olivia Dehm justified the exclusion of Jewish students from a Tufts University anti-Israel resolution hearing. She urged the Tufts student senate to pursue the surprise motion, although many Jewish students were home for the holiday, on Passover Eve, 2017. Dehm was a member of the Tufts Community Union Senate at the time of the vote, representing the Class of 2017. See More click here

	Katie Saviano supported terrorists as an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University, in 2017. Saviano also appeared in multiple Facebook photos in 2016 as a Tufts SJP activist. See More click here

	Molly Tunis co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Tunis was the spokesperson for Tufts SJP after the divestment vote. See More click here

	Amira Subaey co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Subaey is a student senator for the Class of 2019 in the Tufts Community Union Senate , where she defended the BDS resolution. According to Facebook, Subaey has attended over two dozen Tufts SJP events from 2015 to 2017. See More click here

	Parker Breza co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Breza is a senator in the Tufts Community Union Senate where he defended the divestment resolution. See More click here

	Margaret Ringler was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University, from 2014 to 2016. As of June 8, 2017, Facebook indicated that Ringler attended multiple Tufts SJP events. Ringler was involved with the group as early as March 2014, when she attended Tufts SJP’s Israeli Apartheid Week. See More click here

	Aidan Huntington was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University, in 2016. Huntington attended the Tufts student government meeting where a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution was voted e that excluded many Jewish Students, on Passover Eve, 2017. See More click here

	Katherine Hirsch co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. See More click here

	Rosy Fitzgerald is a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University activist. Fitzgerald is a promoter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She has joined Tufts SJP activists in Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) efforts on behalf of BDS and has promoted BDS as a Tufts SJP organizer. See More click here

	Sam Slate co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Slate was involved with Tufts SJP since 2014, when he listed himself on Facebook as having attended the 2014 National SJP Conference at Tufts. See More click here

	Saba Kohli Davé endorsed a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Davé was a Tufts SJP activist, from as early as 2014 and attended the 2015 National SJP Conference in San Diego. See More click here

	Neha Bhatia supported a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Bhatia was an activist with Tufts SJP in 2016 and 2017 and she wore an SJP shirt to the Tufts Community Union Senate meeting where the divestment vote took place. See More click here

	Sami Ascha presented a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. At the divestment resolution vote, At the divestment resolution vote, Ascha was the first to speak and said that he was speaking on behalf of Tufts SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)at Tufts. As of June 2017, Ascha was a member of the Facebook group for the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at Tufts. See More click here

	Ann Yacoubian was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University in 2012 – 2014 and continued her anti-Israel activities as a graduate student at Columbia University. Yacoubian has bragged on social media about harassing Israel supporters. Yacoubian was banned from entering Israel after being jailed and deported in August 2014 — shortly after graduating from Tufts. See More click here

	Lucas Koerner founded the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Tufts University in 2010. Koerner is an anti-Israel activist notorious for a 2011 incident, where he was arrested and reportedly bit an Israeli police officer, in Jerusalem. See More click here

	Sabrina Ghaus was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist at Tufts University in 2014. In 2014 Ghaus led and participated in multiple Tufts SJP events that disrupted pro-Israel events or vilified Israel on Tufts’ campus. See More click here

	Amina Mohamed was a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist at Tufts University in 2015. Mohamed has spread anti-Semitism and demonized Israel on social media. Mohamed was a Senator in the Tufts Community Union Senate in April 2017, when it held a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve. See More click here

	Claudia Aliff was involved with SJP since 2014, when she was listed on Facebook as having attended the 2014 National SJP Conference, hosted by Tufts SJP. Aliff was a senator in the Tufts Community Union Senate in April 2017 when it passed a Tufts SJP Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution excluding many Jewish Students, on Passover Eve. See More click here

	Emma Brown has demonized Israel, as an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University in 2014. Brown attended the 2014 National SJP Conference at Tufts. Brown remained active with Tufts SJP through, at least, the spring of 2015, when Facebook listed her as attending multiple Tufts SJP events. See More click here

	Hannah Freedman was reportedly a Tufts SJP student organizer and “media coordinator” for the 2014 National SJP Conference at Tufts. Freedman led a surprise anti-Israel resolution vote at Tufts University, that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. See More click here

	Noah Habeeb led a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University that excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Habeeb marginalized Jewish students and publicly lied before the Tufts student senate, as a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activist at Tufts University. See More click here

	Nicole Joseph co-sponsored a surprise anti-Israel divestment resolution vote at Tufts University, excluded many Jewish students, on Passover Eve, 2017. Joseph spoke before the Tufts student senate in support of the resolution, on April 9, 2017. See More click here

	Thomas Abowd has mocked Judaism and demonized Zionism. Abowd has also trivialized both anti-Semitism and Apartheid, and whitewashed the hate speech of anti-Semitic Professor Steven Salaita. Abowd is a professor of American Studies, Anthropology and Arabic Culture,at Tufts University. Abowd is an activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and an advisory board member for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in Boston (JVP Boston). See More click here

	Brianna Moody was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts and attended the 2015 National SJP Conference in San Diego. See More click here

	Jonathan-Jacob Moore is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Leah Muskin-Pierret was a leading member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts. She served as the “logistics point person” for organizing the 2014 SJP National Conference held at Tufts. Muskin-Pierret also spoke at the 2015 SJP National Conference in San Diego. See More click here

	Leila Nashashibi was a “logistics committee member” for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts for four years. Nashashibi works at Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), as the Campaign Organizing Fellow in the Washington, D.C. area. See More click here

	Nicolas Serhan is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Elise Sommers is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Clayton Woolery is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts and supports the the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Mile Krstev is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement. See More click here

	Sophia Goodfriend was a programming coordinator for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts. Goodfriend attended both the 2015 and 2014 National SJP Conferences. Goodfriend is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). See More click here

	Julia Mason Wedgle was a leading activist with JVP and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Tufts University (Tufts JVP and Tufts SJP) from 2012 – 2015. Wedgle has also accused Israel of “genocide” on social media and called for Israel’s destruction while a fundraiser for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). See More click here