Report on Wayne State University, Detroit MI (March
2018)
Canary Mission investigated anti-Israel activists from the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University (WSU), in March 2018.
13 officers and activists with SJP WSU were discovered to have spread a wide variety of hatred against Jews, Israel and the United States on social media, including:
- Cursing Jews in both English and Arabic
- Praising terrorism
- Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
- Accusing Israel of committing another Holocaust
- Claiming former President Bush was behind the 9/11 terror attacks
SJP WSU as an organization was found to have shown support for terrorists, denied the Jewish historical connection to Israel and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
SJP WSU Officers and Activists
Mayssa Masri is the current President of SJP WSU
Mayssa Masri has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and compared Israel to Nazi Germany on social media. As of February 2018, Masri was the president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University, since September 2017. For more information click here.
Rafeef Hamad was the 2016-2017 Vice President of SJP WS
Rafeef Hamad has shared anti-Semitic propaganda, supported terrorists and spread hatred of Israel on social media. Hamad was the vice president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University from September 2016 to August 2017. For more information click here.
Dana Abuqalbain is an activist with SJP WSU
Dana Abuqalbain has spread incitement to violence against Israelis and trivialized terrorism on social media. Abuqalbain is an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. For more information click here.
Summer Baraka was the Founder and President of SJP WSU from 2015-2017
Summer Baraka has supported terrorists and demonized Israel online as president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University from 2015-2017. Baraka co-founded SJP WSU in 2014. Baraka also spread anti-Semitism on social media before college. For more information click here.
Sherin Shkoukani is an officer of SJP WSU
Sherin Shkoukani has spread hatred of Jews and Israel on Twitter and is an officer for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. Her Facebook page said she was majoring in Marketing. For more information click here.
Ayah Koujane is the committee chair of SJP WSU
Ayah Koujane has demonized Israel and spread 9/11 conspiracy theories on social media. As of January 2018, Koujane was listed as the committee chair for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. For more information click here.
Tarik
Baraka was an activist of SJP WSU
Tarik Baraka has defended Hamas, spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories, shown support for a terrorist and demonized Israel on social media. Baraka was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. For more information click here.
Manal Abulebdeh is
the 2017-2018 Communication director of SJP WSU
Manal Abulebdehhas spread hatred of Israel and was the 2017-2018 communications director for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University (WSU). She is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. For more information click here.
Raneem Abubars is the 2017-2018 co-President of SJP WSU
Raneem Abubars is the co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)at Wayne State University for the 2017-2018 academic year. For more information click here.
Isra Khuja is the 2017-2018 secretary of SJP WSU
Isra Khuja is the 2017-2018 secretary of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. Khuja stated that she wanted to attend law school and reported that she had just completed a summer internship with the Third Circuit Court of Michigan. For more information click here.
Abdelatif Shkoukani was the treasurer of SJP WSU
Abdelatif Shkoukani was the treasurer for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)at Wayne State University. Shkoukani was listed on Facebook as an SJP WSU board member for the 2016-2017 academic year. For more information click here.
Ex-Canary was a committee chair of SJP WSU
Ex-Canary was the committee chair for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University in September-October 2017.
Dan Weed is affiliated with SJP WSU
Dan Weed is affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University. Weed indicated on his LinkedIn page that he plans to graduate from WSU in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in History. For more information click here.
SJP WSU Activity
Supporting Terrorists
On November 11, 2016 and 2017, SJP WSU posted photos to Facebook memorializing Yasser Arafat on the anniversary of his death. The 2017 post included an Arafat quote, reading: “The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”
Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the "father of modern terrorism." In 1996, he told Arab diplomats: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
On April 8, 2017, SJP WSU posted a photo to Facebook of a painting honoring terrorist Leila Khaled, displayed at an SJP Palestinian cultural event.
Khaled was a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. In a 2014 interview, Khaled opined that the Palestinian second intifada failed because it was not violent enough.
On November 25, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted and posted on Facebook in support of terrorist Rasmea Odeh.
Odeh was a key military operative with the PFLP. In 1969, she masterminded a supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
Denying Jerusalem’s Jewish History
On December 8, 2017, SJP WSU shared a Facebook video of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stating [00:00:15]: “Jerusalem is a city that is Palestinian, Arab, Christian, Islamic and the eternal capital of Palestine.“
Abbas was protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On October 19, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted< a picture taken at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, stating: “Victory of Palestine against Israel: Jerusalem Holy Site Declared Muslim, Not Jewish, in United Nations Resolution.”
BDS Support
On April 9, 2017, SJP WSU officers posed for a Facebook photo before a mock “apartheid wall” that featured a call to boycott Israel and included a quote associating Israel with Nazi propaganda methods.
The wall bore a quote often attributed to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.”
SJP WSU revised the quote, by replacing the word “truth” with the word “politics” and then crossed out “politics” and substituted the word “Israel,” written with fake blood dripping from the letters. Below the quote appeared the hashtag: “#BOYCOTTISRAEL.”
The quote embodied an anti-Semitic idea known as the “Big Lie,” which was used by Nazi Germany to demonize Jews and to promote the boycott of Jewish businesses.
SJP WSU used the wall as early as March 2016.
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