Alexa Klein-Mayer

In 2015, Klein-Mayer was reportedly the education chair of the SJP chapter at Northwestern University (Northwestern SJP). Klein-Mayer had been a member of SJP as early as 2012.

Klein-Mayer has also engaged in activism with the anti-Israel group Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) in the Washington, D.C. area.

As of April 2024, Klein-Mayer was listed online as a “Resident / Virtual Program Assistant” at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC), which is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Also as of April 2024, Klein-Mayer was listed online as a program manager at Buddhist Healthy Boundaries.

As of the same date, Klein-Mayer was listed online as having graduated from Harvard Divinity School (HDS) with a master’s degree in 2022. Klein-Mayer reportedly studied “Buddhist chaplaincy, liberation theologies, and queer theory” at HDS.

Klein-Mayer also graduated from Northwestern with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies in 2016.

Demonizing Israel

On April 23, 2015, Klein-Mayer co-authored an anti-Israel statement titled: “Letter to the Editor: Moderates or moderates of erasure?”

The letter claimed: “The Israeli occupation of Palestinians…is a history of colonialism, occupation and settlements.” The letter continued: “...when people are oppressed systematically by an apartheid system, it is on the rest of the world to heed their calls for solidarity.”The letter also accused Israel of having committed the “Nakba.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

Anti-Israel Activism (BDS, SJP)

In early 2015, Klein-Mayer participated in a BDS campaign at Northwestern.

In January 2015, Northwestern SJP launched a BDS campaign called NU Divest, which was described as “a student-led campaign calling on Northwestern University to divest from corporations that are profiting off of the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.”

On February 5, 2015, in preparation for a student government hearing to vote on an anti-Israel divestment resolution, Klein-Mayer and fellow anti-Israel activist Hazim Abdullah-Smith, reportedly ran a pro-BDS workshop.

On February 18, 2015, Northwestern SJP members participated in an NU Divest hearing in the Northwestern Associated Student Government (ASG) Senate to debate the passing of the divestment resolution.

On February 19, 2015, the ASG Senate passed the NU Divest resolution with a vote of 24 in favor, 22 against and three abstentions.

On the same date, Klein-Mayer appeared [00:01:07] in NU Divest’s promotional video, which showcased different students stating their reasons for supporting the 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.

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