Amirah Ahmed
Overview
Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Arrested for Trespassing
On April 27, 2024, during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, Ahmed was arrested and charged with trespassing while participating in an illegal encampment on the University of Mary Washington (UMW) campus. The protest was co-organized [slide 2] by UMW SJP, where Ahmed was its president. UMW is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia.On April 26, 2024, UMW SJP posted on Instagram, promoting the protest, and wrote: “
HAPPENING NOW ALL OUT TO JEFFERSON SQUARE! JOIN THE UMW SOLIDARITY CAMP SIT-IN FOR GAZA!...UMW Student’s [sic] for Justice in Palestine along with member clubs of the Watermelon Coalition announces its joining of the People’s (Popular) University for Gaza. We demand that UMW administration and SGA [Student Government Association] meet the ongoing student demands as well as disclose and divest all endowments and investments from corporations and institutions which actively fund Israel’s apartheid and genocidal regime.”On the same day, the encampment was reportedly disbanded. However, anti-Israel protesters re-erected their encampment and continued protesting the following day. Ahmed and other anti-Israel activists remained [slide 3] at the encampment after being told that anyone remaining would be subject to arrest and disciplinary sanctions.
Later that day, Ahmed was reportedly arrested and charged with trespassing. A total of 12 anti-Israel activists, including 9 students, who reportedly defied the administration’s orders to vacate, were arrested at the illegal protest.
On April 27, 2024, UMW president Troy D. Paino issued a statement where he said: “We remain committed to working with our campus community members to facilitate peaceful expression, and we welcome individuals and families to our campus for public events, including demonstrations, when those activities abide by policies and regulations. Events that do not follow instructions, attempt to disrupt classes or activities, or endanger the health, safety, and security of our campus community will not be allowed.”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
10/12/2023 - Leading a Rally Supporting Hamas War Crimes
Ahmed co-organized and led an anti-Israel protest in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on October 12, 2023. Ahmed spoke at the protest, blaming Israel for Hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians.At the rally, Ahmed said [00:00:01]: “The ethnic cleansing and the brutal expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian people from their historical homeland…as well as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza…is what has culminated in today’s situation.”
Ahmed continued [00:00:18]: “we stand for the Palestinian people’s right to resist their own genocide,” and called for [00:00:30] the “international recognition of Israel’s war crimes, during the past week and the past seventy-five years.” The State of Israel was founded in 1948, 75 years earlier.
Ahmed led [00:00:24] protesters in chanting: “Free, Free Palestine!” She also held a Palestinian flag with the phrases “End Apartheid” and “Free Palestine” written across it.
Ahmed also said [00:00:45]: “To defend the State of Israel is to remain complacent…If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
On October 12, 2023, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of Mary Washington (UMW SJP) held a “Decolonize Palestine Protest” at Market Square in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The event was in support of the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that targeted Israeli civilians for murder, torture and kidnapping. A day before their protest, UMW SJP issued a statement justifyingHamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians.
On October 12, 2023, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of Mary Washington (UMW SJP) held a “Decolonize Palestine Protest” at Market Square in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The event was in support of the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that targeted Israeli civilians for murder, torture and kidnapping. A day before their protest, UMW SJP issued a statement justifying Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians.
UMW SJP’s event was part of a National SJP (NSJP) “National Day of Resistance” which mobilized anti-Israel student groups in the U.S. and Canada to hold protests condemning Israel’s response to Hamas as “genocidal.” NSJP’s event tool kit called for “dismantling Zionism” and described Hamas’s war crimes as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and “both morally just and politically necessary.”
Protesters at the UMW SJP event held signs accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “genocide.” One protester held a sign that read: “Resist and Liberate.”
10/18/2023 - Speaking at an Anti-Israel Event
Ahmed spoke at a UMW SJP event on campus on October 18, 2023.The event was called a “Candlelight Vigil for Gaza and Palestine.” One featured speaker accused Israel of “genocide” multiple times, while another sign featured on the UMW SJP Instagram page said: “DECOLONIZE PALESTINE,” a phrase recognized as a call for the destruction of Israel.
Biographical Information
As of November 2023, Ahmed’s LinkedIn profile said she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in political science at UMW, slated to graduate in 2025.As of the same date, Ahmed wrote on LinkedIn that she was the founder and president of UMW SJP. She was also the vice president of UMW’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) chapter (UMW MSA).
On October 11, 2023, UMW SJP posted on Instagram a statement co-signed by several other anti-Israel groups, which said they “stand in support of the decolonization of Palestine and the liberation of the Palestinian people.”
On October 12, 2023, UMW SJP issued a statement alleging that the October 7 Hamas massacre was due to Israel’s “ethnic cleansing and brutal expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian people from their historical homeland over 75 years ago” and the “inevitable result” of the current Israeli government’s attempt to “create the conditions for a new 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.
As of November 1, 2023, Ahmed’s LinkedIn said she had been a digital producer at the online magazine MuslimGirl.com (MG) since March 2022. MG was founded by anti-Israel activist Amani Al-Khatahtbeh.
As of the same date, Ahmed’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Student Aide” at UMW’s James Farmer Multicultural Center since June 2023 and a “Diversity Peer Educator” in UMW’s Farmer Fellows Program since March 2023.
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.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
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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