Abdallah Day
Overview
Abdallah Day has spread anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel on Twitter. He is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Day was a 2011-2012 board member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Minnesota (UMN). In 2013, Day indicated on Twitter that he was still an activist with SJP UMN.
As of December 2020, Day’s LinkedIn page said he studied Computer Software Engineering at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (Minneapolis College), from “2013 - 2015,” and studied at UMN from “2010 - 2012.”
Day’s LinkedIn page also said he was a “Software Engineer” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Anti-Semitism
On February 18, 2013, Day tweeted: “‘@ArabHummus: I got 99 problems and they all yahood [Jews].’ Lol #word.”On January 21, 2014, Day tweeted a meme with a caption that read “JEWS!” in response to a tweet by SJP UMN activist Motaz Nashawaty read: “What next? Will the Arabic language will be Israeli? #PRT.”
Nashawaty responded to Day’s meme saying: “Ya akhi, il sahyooniye il mishikle because not all yahood are say2een [My bro, the Zionists are the problem because not all the Jews are Zionists].”
Day replied: “@SuperSyrianMe true but a lot of Jews who dont claim Zionism are still sucked into Zionist schemes. ur right tho, i jst thought it was funny.”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On July 9, 2014, Day tweeted a montage of anti-Israel quotes, including a fabricatedquote attributed to Albert Einstein that read: “‘It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs, much of what Nazis did to Jews.”Day commented: “Four of the brightest and wisest minds the world has ever seen #FreePalestine.”
On March 25, 2013, Day tweeted: “@Israel celebrating #Passover? Good for you, now stop trying to inflict your past damage onto #Palestine #FreePalestine ya 7ameer [oh donkeys]!”
On March 12, 2013, Day y tweeted: “Injustice and apartheid in Palestine.”
On December 2, 2012, Day featured in photos shared on Facebook by SJP UMN taken at an SJP UMN “Die-in for Gaza,”,held to protest Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD).
The Facebook event description instructed participants where to “pick up signs and/or get the name of the martyr that you will be wearing” and said participants would hold the signs and “fall to the ground to portray the deaths of those in Gaza.”
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
On November 16, 2012, during Israel’s OPD, Day participated in an SJP UMN protest where its activists “came out to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza.”
Protesters held signs that read: “END AID TO ISRAEL,” and “BOYCOTT DIVEST SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!”
On March 9, 2012, Day featured in photos shared on Facebook by SJP UMN of an event titled: “Vizualizing Inequality.” The event was organized as part of “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW).
Promoting BDS
On July 13, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Day tweeted:“FREEZE ALL AID TO ISRAEL UNTIL IT COMPLIES WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS! http://wh.gov/lFN95.”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Day commented: “I got three letters for you: #BDS.”
The post also featured a graphic with a misleading series of maps.
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
SJP Activism
On September 25, 2013, Say tweeted: “If anybody's at the U and you're just chilling, head over to blegen 130 for SJP's event. Come on people! SJP needs your support! RT this.”On May 9, 2013, Day shared a photo of chocolate truffles on Instagram and wrote: “Want soma dis? Come to SJP's bake sale tomorrow in Moos tower at 12! Better come early cuz y'all know my truffles gon' run out quick! ;)”
On May 8, 2013, Day tweeted: “Come thru poeple! Lots of yummy baked goods for sale @ Moos this Thursday from 12 till sold out!” The tweet featured a flier promoting an SJP-organized Bake Sale on May 9, 2013.
On March 6, 2013, Day shared a photo on Instagram of chocolate truffles and wrote: “#SJP #BakeSale Come get your truffles! #CMU ground floor.”
On November 19, 2012, Day tweeted: “Come out to the @SJP_UMN General Body Meeting this afternoon at 12:30 for some hummus and pita chips!”
On May 4, 2012, Day featured in a group photo posted on Facebook by SJP UMN at the “SJP End of the Year Banquet 2012.”
On the same day, Day tweeted: “Congrats to the new @SJP_UMN board @AllyshaSalyani @Amooliee @FayizaHassen @LazySudani @ElkhatibMariam we've got a long year ahead of us :P.”
On May 4, 2012, Day also tweeted: “S/O to @SJP_UMN for making it this far! Special thanks to @AmiMeri for carrying us all the way through and being such a great president!”
SJP UMN Honoring Terrorists: 2012 - 2014
On November 10, 2014, SJP UMP posted on Facebook regarding Rasmea Odeh: “Our hearts go out to her” and said: “They find Palestinian activists as a threat and immediately label them as ‘terrorists.’”Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP 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.
On February 20, 2012, SJP UMN tweeted in support of Khader Adnan, a senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) who was on a hunger strike.
A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”
SJP UMN Promoting Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories: 2011-2012
On September 24, 2011, SJP UMN promoted a post on Facebook alleging that Israel controls America and influences American mainstream media, so that one “will always find the news tailored” in Israel’s favor.SJP UMN urged their followers to “READ IT & SHARE IT.”
On March 9, 2012, SJP UMN was scheduled to host an event for Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), titled “United States of Israel.” IAW is a series of events on university campuses promoting BDS.
One event included a screening of a documentary, titled: “AIPAC: The Israeli Lobby,” which claims AIPAC, Congress, the White House and Israel “seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace.”
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s mission is to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship and to enhance both nations’ security. Denouncing the influence of “the Israeli lobby” echoes an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about Jewish control over foreign governments, popularized in the book “The Israel Lobby” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
SJP UMN Demonizing Israel: 2012-2014
In April 2014, SJP UMN featured a “mock apartheid wall,” meant to mock Israel’s security barrier and held a “die-in,” as part of that year’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). Israel’s security barrier was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks.SJP UMN launched its annual Palestine Awareness Week in April 2011, a re-branding of IAW, with events demonizing Israel such as a “die-in.”
On November 28, 2012, SJP UMN held a “Die-in for Gaza,” to protest Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD), against Hamas to stop rocket attacks launched from Gaza on Israeli civilians.
The Facebook event description instructed participants where to “pick up signs and/or get the name of the martyr that you will be wearing” and said participants would hold the signs and “fall to the ground to portray the deaths of those in Gaza.”
On February 13, 2012, SJP UMN shared a video on Facebook, titled: “Sh*t Zionists Say,” that mocked [00:00:15] Israel supporters for feeling unsafe.
SJP UMN Promoting BDS: 2016
On February 15, 2016, SJP UMN launched a divestment campaign, calling for the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) and UMN to support divestment from companies that SJP UMN claimed “profit from human rights violations in Palestine/Israel.”SJP UMN’s statement announcing the campaign said UMN’s investment in the companies targeted by the campaign showed “implicit support for…the killing of civilians, and violations of their basic human rights.”
UMN’s Chief Investment Officer reportedly told The Minnesota Republic, a student-run newspaper at UMN, that the university had “no direct exposure” to the four companies targeted by the campaign.
On March 8, 2016, the MSA voted [00:26:24] to strike down the divestment resolution from the MSA agenda.
SJP UMN Promoting BDS: 2011-2012
On October 14, 2012, SJP UMN promoted a petition on Facebook calling on Minnesota’s NBA team, the Timberwolves, to boycott Israel and cancel a scheduled game against the Israeli team, Maccabi Haifa.The petition was part of a campaign organized by Minnesota Break the Bonds (MN BBC), which sent a letter to each Timberwolves player. The letter said: “Don’t normalize apartheid!” and urged them to boycott the game. It also said they were being used by Israel’s “propaganda machine.”
MN BBC was reportedly formed in 2006 to pressure the State of Minnesota to break economic ties with Israel.
On November 29, 2011, SJP UMN posted on Facebook promoting an MN BBC Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
SJP
SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.
The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
Social Media and Weblinks
Twitter:https://twitter.com/BrothaDayDayLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdallah-day-925829a5/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/brothadayday/
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