Andrew Meyer

Overview

Andrew Meyer is a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Meyer currently works as a Policy Analyst and Communications Manager at the Rachel Corrie Foundation (RCF), where he previously served as a board member. RCF was created to honor the memory of Rachel Corrie, a former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member who was accidentally killed while interfering with an Israeli military operation in 2003 during the Second Intifada. A wrongful death suit brought by Corrie’s family was dismissed when the judge ruled that Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in danger.  

Meyer is an active organizer within the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. He is a founding member of Olympia BDS, which has strongly advocated for a boycott of Israeli products at the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington. Meyer was also involved with a student-led BDS group at The Evergreen State College (TESC) — TESC Divest! — that "worked to make divestment...a reality at The Evergreen State College." The campus-based group appears to be defunct since 2014.

Meyer campaigned for a 2014 BDS campaign the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom (Exeter). Meywer is strategizing a BDS campaign at Ohio State University.

On September 21, 2013, Meyer led a workshop at the 12th Annual National Organizers Conference of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation called “A Leaner, Meaner BDS: Practical Tools for Running- and Winning- a Community-Wide BDS Campaign.” On May 21, 2011, Meyer gave a similar workshop at the “Move over AIPAC Conference” held by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Meyer is very active on social media and uses his Twitteraccount almost exclusively to spread anti-Israel invective. Meyer frequently retweets the tweets of well-known Israel haters Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal, Remi Kanazi and Ben White.

Meyer is an incoming PhD student in Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2015, he graduated from Exeter, with a master’s degree in Middle East and Islamic Studies. Meyer is a 2013 graduate of TESC, where he studied social movements and the Middle East.

Supporting Terror-Inciter Khader Adnan and Other Islamic Jihad Members

Meyer is a supporter of Khader Adnan, a senior member of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

On February 19, 2012, Meyer on Twitter referred to Adnan as "[t]he Palestinian Ghandi."

On March 6, 2012, Meyer retweeted a tweet expressing supporting for Hana al-Shalabi, a member of PIJ who has reportedly been involved with planning the group’s terror activities.

Presenting Terrorists as Innocent Victims

On October 10, 2015, Meyer retweeted a tweet that Palestinian terrorist Fadi Aloon had “no knife” and “posed no threat.”

Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page. 

Presenting Hate Speech as Free Speech

On January 31, 2012, Meyer spoke at an event co-sponsored by the Olympia chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)to defend a group of UC Irvine students dubbed the “Irvine 11,” who were arrested for repeatedly disrupting former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s talk at the university on February 8, 2010.

The description of the event branded the arrests of those who attempted to silence Michael Oren as “an increasingly belligerent campaign against the growing movement for Palestinian liberation.”

Endorsing Israel-Hater Max Blumenthal

On November 14, 2013, Meyer tweeted praise for Max Blumenthal’s “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.”

Blumenthal’s 2013 book, “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel,”was dubbed “The Israel Hater’s Handbook” by Eric Alterman of the progressive magazine The Nation.  

Advocating for Anti-Semitic Professor Steven Salaita

On September 9, 2014, Meyer tweeted support for Steven Salaita, who is the Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: "You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.” In 2017, Salaita posted to Facebook: “People ask if I would go back in time and change anything. I would not…I will die unapologetic.” In February 2019, Salaita stated that he had become a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C., area.

ISM

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:https://www.facebook.com/andrew.meyer.129

Twitter:https://twitter.com/littleofalot