Abid El-Miaari
Overview
Abid El-Miaari has expressed support for a terrorist, spread incitement, engaged in anti-Israel activism and disrupted a campus event. El-Miaari is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.In 2014, El-Miaari co-founded [01:15:15] the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at San José State University (SJSU) and served as its first president. According to SJSU’s student newspaper, the Spartan Daily, El-Miaari was president of SJP at SJSU in 2015 and 2019.
From 2015 to 2016, El-Miaari served as Director of Internal Affairs on SJSU’s Associated Students (A.S.) Board of Directors. In this position, he submitted [p. 4] an anti-Israel divestment resolution to the A.S. and pushed [00:00:26] for its passage.
In 2016, El-Miaari was also a Student Senator and a committee member for SJSU’s Campus Fee Advisory Committee.
In 2016, El-Miaari was affiliated with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco Bay Area chapter.
As of January 2023, El-Miaari was listed as the “manager” of “PALI RETAIL, LLC.” The company is incorporated in Nevada and registered as a foreign corporation in Foster City, California.
Also as of January 2023, El-Miaari was listed as an “officer” for GOLAN MARKETING LLC, located at the same address. As of the same date, El-Miaari was also listed as an “Agent” for Redfin Real Estate. In April 2021, El-Miaari was issued a “SALESPERSON” license from the California Department of Real Estate.
In September 2018, El-Miaari was a student [01:15:10] at SJSU. He graduated with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering. As of April 2021, El-Miaari’s LinkedIn page said he studied civil engineering at SJSU from 2012 to 2016.
As of January 2023, El-Miaari went by the name “Abid Miaari” on LinkedIn and was located in San Mateo, California.
Supporting a PFLP Terrorist
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.
Spreading Incitement
On November 21, 2014, several days after the Har Nof massacre, El-Miaari led an SJP at SJSU event titled: “Hands Off Al Aqsa and Palestine.” He was listed as a co-host on the Facebook event page.In the fall of 2014, Palestinian leaders and media incited a wave of violence against Israelis with the lie that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This resulted in the November 18, 2014 Har Nof massacre, in which terrorists murdered six people in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers.
According to a November 23, 2014 article published by the Liberation News, El-Miaari alerted the publication to a “list of Israeli crimes motivating the group’s protest.” The first item on the list was: “The closure/attacks on Al Aqsa Mosque.”
At the march, El-Miaari reportedly led activists in chanting: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” “Israel, Israel what do you say, how many kids did you kill today,” “Israel, Israel you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” and others.
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
The Liberation News article added that El-Miaari led the group to San José City Hall and presented the mayor’s office with a “list of demands.”
On July 21, 2017, El-Miaari updated his Facebook cover photo to a graphic with text that read: “HandsOffAlaqsa.”
Anti-Israel Activism
El-Miaari was listed on Facebook as an organizer of a November 12, 2014, SJP at SJSU event titled:“Dr. Steven Salaita: Academic Freedom and Palestine.”On October 28, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada” taking place in Israel, the Spartan Daily reported that SJP at SJSU hosted an event on October 21, 2015 featuring anti-Israel activist David Sheen. Speaking as SJP at SJSU’s president, El-Miaari said the group hosted Sheen “in order to spread awareness of what is happening in Israel.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
David Sheen is an anti-Israel activist and filmmaker who works to portray Israel as an extremist racist state. To this end, Sheen has been accused of purposefully mistranslating Hebrew articles and other media to make Israelis appear racist.
The event was titled: “David Sheen - The Bullet, the Ballot, & the Boycott: Racism in Israel Today.” According to the Facebook event page: "The core of the presentation concerns the dehumanizing discourse towards Palestinians…and the vigilante attacks they inspire, which spiked during last summer's assault [Operation Protective Edge] on the Gaza Strip.”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On September 25, 2018, El-Miaari featured as a panelist discussing the book: “We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics.” The event was part of the Ann Lucas Lecture Series in Law and Justice, hosted by San José State University's Department of Justice Studies. Anti-Israel professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Lisa Rofel were also on the panel.
During the lecture, El-Miaari said [01:24:03]: “If I was a Jew and I was talking about my family's experience in the Holocaust, there would be no demands saying a Nazi has to sit next to you to give their point of view…If I was black there wouldn’t be no demand saying a KKK [Ku Klux Klan] member has to sit next to you and give their point of view, so why is it that us Palestinians or pro-Palestine activists are always, you know, uh, pressured into having our oppressors sitting next to us and giving their point of view?”
On February 7, 2019, El-Miaari promoted on his Facebook page a “Palestinian Flag Raising in front of San José City Hall.” SJP at SJSU was listed as the contact on the post. El-Miaari reportedly organized the event, which took place on April 5, 2019.
Disrupting a Campus Event
After the walk-out, El-Miaari spoke [00:02:10] in a YouTube video where students recapped the event. El-Miaari also told [00:01:14] the students to give themselves a round of applause for participating in the walk-out.
Promoting BDS
While serving as Director of Internal Affairs on SJSU’s A.S. Board of Directors, El-Miaari promoted [00:00:26] SJP at SJSU’s position and submitteda resolution for SJSU’s 2015 BDS campaign to the A.S.
The resolution was titled: “(15/16-01) In Support of Divestment from Companies That Profit from the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.” The resolution called on the Board of Directors of the Tower Foundation, which directly “manages all financial aspects of funds donated to” SJSU, to divest SJSU’s holdings in a number of companies doing business with Israel.
The resolution claimed the listed companies violated international humanitarian law by “Facilitating Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians…”
On November 4, 2015, the resolution was approved by a vote of5-2-0 and put forward to the A.S.’s Board of Directors.
That same day, SJP at SJSU posted to Facebook: “First off, we would like to thank everyone for their efforts in getting this important resolution, headed by the director of internal affairs [Abid El-Miaari], passed in the University Affairs Committee. We are one step closer as a university to ending our complicity in human rights violations.”
On November 18, 2015, El-Miaari sat as a member of SJSU’s A.S. Board of Directors at the “SJSU Divestment Hearing and Vote” to consider the resolution. According to the Facebook event page created by SJP at SJSU, the A.S. board’s vote would “determine whether or not the resolution will be adopted by the Associated Students of San Jose State University.”
The resolution passed by a vote of 10-5-0, reportedly making SJSU the first campus in the CSU system to pass a divestment measure.
On November 22, 2015, El-Miaari posted to Facebook: “The Divestment resolution was officially signed as of Friday November 20. Thanks for everyone who helped by any means. Inshallah [God willing] for every ounce of stress that is placed on us, there is less stress on the people of Palestine.”
El-Miaari’s post included a photo of himself sitting next to a student who appeared to be signing the resolution.
On December 15, 2015, Board Members of SJSU’s Tower Foundation unanimously rejected the divestment resolution.
On February 10, 2016, El-Miaari featured [00:00:25] in a YouTube video, posted by AS SJSU where he said: “One such initiative that I helped push for was a resolution that called for divesting from companies that profit of the occupation of Palestine.”
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.
CAIR
CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.
CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.
Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.
In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.
CAIR was also listed as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1065294521Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abid_palestine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abid-miaari-b947a475
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