Amanda Najib

Overview

Amanda Najib served as Treasurer for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Rutgers University (Rutgers) and played an active role in SJP events and activities.

She was also an active supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on the Rutgers campus.

Najib graduated from Rutgers in 2015, with a Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management.

Bullying Students with Mock Eviction Notices

On October 6, 2013, Najib joined fellow SJP members who slipped over 850 "Mock Eviction Notices" under the doors of Rutgers students — both in on-campus dorms and off-campus apartments.

The eviction notices, which included a municipal court case number as well as warrant number, stated, "your suite is scheduled for demolition in the next three days. If you do not vacate the premise within this time frame, we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings…"

Although the mock eviction notices did reveal — in the third paragraph — that they were fake, many students complained of confusion and bias. According to Rabbi Esther Reed, the senior associate director of the Rutgers Hillel, "Two [students] were particularly bothered by the notice: one female cried because she was fooled by the beginning of the letter, and a male said [he] felt targeted because he is Jewish, and is the only person on his floor to get a notice..."

Deceiving and Advocating for Violence Against Israelis

On November 11, 2014, during one of SJP Rutger’s Palestine Awareness Week activities, Najib and other SJP members staged a "Die-In." The group, created signs and wore stained white t-shirts with red paint, then went out to the steps of Brower Commons and fell down to simulate their being killed by the Israeli army during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in the summer of 2014.

During the event, Najib and her fellow SJP members began chanting, "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free" — a call for the destruction of the Jewish State.

On September 23, 2014, Najib and SJP Rutgers set up an "information" table during the International Day of Action in order to promote BDS. At their table, SJP Rutgers displayed a sign fraudulently implying that Israel committed genocide — and another placard that advocated for Intifada and falsely equated racial unrest in Ferguson, MO with violence in Gaza Gaza. In the Second Palestinian Intifada, Palestinian terrorists murdered more than 800 Israeli civilians and injured nearly 5,800 more — most by suicide bombers and bus bombs.

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

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