Alec Desbordes
Overview
Alec Desbordes [Alec Noel Curtis Desbordes] was an activist with the anti-Israel organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Cornell University (Cornell SJP) in 2014.As of May 2022, Debordes’s LinkedIn page said he graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics in 2017.
Desbordes’s LinkedIn also said he received a master’s degree in Sociology and Economics from Université Paris Dauphine-PSL in 2022 and a master’s degree in Economics from École des hautes études en sciences sociales [The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences] (EHESS) in 2022.
As of December 2021, Desbordes worked for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) International Committee (IC) as the group’s “co-chair at large” for its Labor Subcommittee.
In November 2021, Desbordes posted to Facebook that he was appointed as a section secretary for the Parti Communiste Français [French Communist Party] (PCF).
On March 20, 2022, Desbordes indicated on Facebook that he was located in Paris, France. On April 24, 2022, Desbordes also indicated on Instagram that he was located in Paris.
As of May 2022, Desbordes used the handle “@project_wildcat” on Twitter.
SJP Activism
On November 5, 2014, the Cornell Daily Sun reported that Desbordes was “an active member of SJP” at the university. The report cited Desbordes as the source for writing that Cornell SJP had planted “50 signs depicting negative Israeli interactions with Palestine were planted on the Arts Quad.”The article reported that Cornell SJP wrote in a blog post that the signs were created by the anti-Israel website Visualizing Palestine, and Cornell SJP reportedly wrote that some of the signs were about “the recent assault on Gaza.”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
In the same article, Desbordes also showed support for a failed anti-Israel divestment resolution that was voted on in April 2014 before the Cornell Student Assembly. The resolution advanced the goals of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Cornell SJP and other BDS activists conducted [00:00:52] a walkout before the resolution was tabled [00:02:17] indefinitely.
On October 29th, 2014, Desbordes promoted an SJP event to Facebook that said: “Come check out Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine display on the Arts quad. It will be up until Friday!” His post linked to a Cornell SJP post that contained photos of posters demonizing Israel that the group had placed on the campus's Arts Quad.
Cornell SJP - Whitewashing Terrorist Rasmea Odeh 2014-2015
On August 20, 2014, Cornell SJP tweeted: “Arrest of Odeh is part of the systematic criminalization of Palestinian organizing #Justice4Rasmea.”Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08] with the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who masterminded a bombing in a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate. Odeh later moved to the United States, where she was convicted of immigration fraud in 2014, stripped of her U.S. citizenship in 2017 and deported to Jordan.
On November 6, 2014, Cornell SJP tweeted: “Cornell SJP is in solidarity with Rasmea Odeh!” accompanied by a link to their statement titled: “Justice For Rasmea Odeh, Justice For Palestine.”
In their statement, Cornell SJP claimed that Israel detained Odeh “on a spurious accusation of terrorism” and added: “Rasmea Odeh is the type of citizen that American leaders should be honoring.”
On March 16, 2015, Cornell SJP posted to Facebook and Instagram: “#justiceforrasmea #CornellSJP #resistance #freepalestine” and attached a photo of Cornell SJP activists holding a large banner that read: “Justice for Rasmea.”
Cornell SJP also posted a blog post to their WordPress titled: “Justice Denied: Rasmea Odeh Sentenced To Prison And Subsequent Deportation” that condemned the U.S. court’s decision to sentence and deport Odeh and labeled the decision “the repression of Palestinian activists.”
Cornell SJP - Disrupting Israeli Independence Day2016-2017
On May 2, 2017, Cornell’s student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, reported that Cornell SJP disrupted Cornell Hillel’s Israeli Independence Day celebration in Anabel Taylor Hall by holding a “die-in” protest in the middle of the event.Cornell SJP activists were granted entrance to the event venue after they assured campus police they would not disrupt the Hillel event. However, within minutes of entering the hall, four members of Cornell SJP held up a sign that read: “Celebrating 69 years of Genocide,” while others handed out flyers or lay on the floor, simulating corpses.
Cornell SJP members reportedly distributed flyers that said: “the modern day Jewish state was founded on the expulsion of the indigenous population.”
Cornell SJP - Disrupting Israeli Independence Day Celebration 2014-2015
On April 23, 2015, Cornell SJP held a march and “die-in” protest during Hillel’s Israel Day at Cornell. Protesters lay on the floor, simulating corpses in front of Hillel's Israel Day tables, while holding a banner that read: “Celebrating 67 years of Independence Genocide.”One protester displayed a sign that said: “Celebrating Apartheid,” while another held a sign reading: “Celebrating Genocide.”
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
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/alec.desbordesTwitter:https://twitter.com/project_wildcat
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desbordesalec/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-desbordes-362407137/
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YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTc20bokGD2rloygO1_kldQ
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