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Alia Amanpour Trapp
Alia Amanpour Trapp was arrested twice for violating conduct policies at Temple University (Temple). She also led an anti-Israel protest at Temple and participated in a pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
Alia Amanpour Trapp's activities took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war, called called “Swords of Iron,” after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings.
The atrocities were executed on October 7, 2023, and left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Alia Amanpour Trapp is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2025, Alia Amanpour Trapp's LinkedIn profile said she was active with anti-Israel campus groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Muslim Student Association (MSA).
As of the same date, Alia Amanpour Trapp's LinkedIn said she was studying for a bachelor's degree in political science and government at Temple, slated to graduate in May 2025.
Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On August 29, 2024, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, Alia Amanpour Trapp led an anti-Israel protest on the Temple campus.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
During the protest, anti-Israel activists rallied [00:01:49] outside the Rosen Center, the home of the Temple's Hillel chapter.
Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
While outside the Rosen Center, Alia Amanpour Trapp chanted [00:01:58]: "Say it loud, say it clear! We don't want no Zionists here!"
During the protest, an anti-Israel activist held [00:01:49] the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel. It is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States. The EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel also list it as a terror group due to its history of carrying out assassinations, suicide bombings, hijackings and multiple murders.
On August 29, 2024, Temple's president, Richard M. Englert, issued a statement condemning the protest as an act of "intimidation and harassment."
Englert wrote in his letter that "demonstrators used megaphones to chant directly at the occupants within the building...Targeting a group of individuals because of their Jewish identity is not acceptable and intimidation and harassment tactics like those seen today will not be tolerated."
Englert also wrote that the incident was being investigated.
On September 12, 2024, Alia Amanpour Trapp said [00:00:41] in an interview to The Associated Press (AP): "The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pennsylvania was definitely one of the most transformative moments of my life."
Alia Amanpour Trapp then said [00:00:49]: "I have never felt so in tune with what I was meant to do or meant to be. I think that that is probably the point in my life where I woke up every day and I really did feel a sense of purpose."
There were over 140 pro-Hamas and anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 more globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. The encampments were unofficially known as the “student intifada,” borrowing a term associated with terrorist violence.
Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. They occupied campus grounds, in many cases illegally, caused property damage, violently took over buildings, celebrated terrorism and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Activists set up encampments to oppose Israel’s right to wage war against the Hamas terror group following October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 people, including 32 American and 8 Canadian citizens. Hamas also kidnapped 252 people, including 11 Americans and the bodies of 2 murdered Canadians.
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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