Armando Leon
Overview
Armando Leon has promoted violence against Jews and Israelis, spread hatred of Zionists, expressed support for Hamas and denied Israel’s right to exist. Leon has also demonized Zionism and Israel, endorsed an anti-Israel agitator and engaged in anti-Israel activism.Leon is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2022, Leon was listed as the primary contact for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Arizona State University (ASU).
As of the same date, Leon’s Facebook said he attended Arizona Western College (AWC).
Leon also graduated from ASU with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in December 2021.
In July 2021, Leon indicated on Twitter that he was working as a canvasser at Field Works.
As of May 2022, Leon indicated on Facebook he was located in Tempe, Arizona.
As of the same date, Armando used the handle “Odnamra_Noel” on Instagram and “OdnamraNoel” on Twitter, Tiktok and Linktree.
Promoting Violence Against Jews and Israelis
On March 21, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Sticks and stones can break the idf [Israel Defense Forces]
.”Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.
On January 20, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Sticks and stones can break the idf bones
.”Leon’s tweet was in response to another tweet that said: “@giladerdan1 shows the UN [United Nations] Security Council a large rock like the kind Palestinians threw at Israeli vehicles 1,775 times in 2021…” The tweet included a photo of the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, holding a rock.
On December 29, 2021, Leon tweeted: “I mean when you are wearing a terrorist org [organization] shirt you are básica [basically] asking for it.”
Leon’s tweet was in response to another tweet that said: “On Sunday, 2 Jewish men were victims of a violent antisemitic attack in New York. They were attacked because one was wearing an IDF sweatshirt…”
On December 26, 2021, two Jewish college students, Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich, were reportedly assaulted by two men outside a Foot Locker in Brooklyn, New York. Zavadsky, who was wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt, waspunched in the face by one of the assailants, who called Zavadsky and Kaganovich “dirty Jews.”
On May 7, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Give Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah guns.”
Hatred of Zionists
On May 3, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Zionist are apartheid lovers lmao [laughing my a** off].”On April 21, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Bullying zionists is activism.”
On April 11, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Zionist” and included a gif of the excrement emoji dancing.
On April 1, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Zi*nists will throw any s**t they pulled out of their a** to see what sticks.”
On March 27, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Progressive circles shouldn’t be a safe space for zi*nists.”
On January 30, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Zionists worked with nazis babe.”
On June 8, 2021, Leon tweeted: “...I remember once we made the zionists students at my university cry lol [laughing out loud].”
On June 7, 2021, Leon tweeted: “It’s not that hard to make a zionist cry, We made a few cried like 2 years ago when we disrupted their idf [Israel Defense Forces] event lol.”
Leon’s tweets referred to the disruption of a November 13, 2019 event organized by pro-Israel student groups at ASU titled: “Courage and Sacrifice: Wounded IDF Soldiers Speak on Campus.”
On April 14, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Zionist are entitled brats.”
On April 7, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Literally the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is terrorist organization Zionist opinions dont matter.”
On December 21, 2020, Leon tweeted: “You are zionist That is the same s**t as being antisemitic racist and a xenophobe lol F**k off.”
On August 21, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Every zionist is a supremacist.”
Supporting Hamas
On August 20, 2021, Leon tweeted: “...Im supporting the hamas or the pa [Palestinian Authority] in any way.”Denying Israel’s Right to Exist
On August 28, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Israel doesn’t exist to begin with lol [laughing out loud].”On May 31, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Isr*el” in response to a tweet that asked: “If you could ‘delete’ anything from earth what would it be?”
On January 20, 2022, Leon tweeted: “From the river to the sea
.”“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
The tweet was in response to a tweet from Jewish US politician Alma Hernandez that said: “Members of the anti-Israel group SJP at Arizona State University called for the complete destruction of Israel ‘from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea’ and rejected the two-state peace solution. This behavior threatens Jewish students and must not be tolerated at @ASU.”
The tweet included a video of anti-Israel protesters chanting: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
On January 21, 2022, in the same thread, Leon tweeted: “...Getting rid of isr*el will feee [free] a lot of people.”
Demonizing Zionism
On December 21, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Zionism is an ideology based on supremacy and entitlement With the goal of ethnic cleansing Palestinians.”Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
Also, on December 21, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Zionism is racism.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 other countries have adopted the definition as well.
On April 11, 2022, Leon tweeted: “The only terroristare people with a
on their bio [biography] Zionism is heavily influence on nazism.”IHRA highlights as another contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
Demonizing Israel
On January 23, 2022, Leon tweeted: “Israel itself is a terrorist apartheid state.”On January 20, 2022, Leon tweeted: “
= .”On November 30, 2021, Leon tweeted: “isr*el is a s**t country.”
On July 30, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Students supporting isr*el is a hate group.”
Students Supporting Israel (SSI) is a pro-Israel international campus movement founded in 2012, with chapters at more than 100 universities across North America. The group provides education and tools to students looking to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.
On May 23, 2021, Leon tweeted: “Well im sure israel took a lot notes from Jim Crow.”
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
On January 5, 2021, Leon tweeted: “If you support Israel you support apartheid, colonialism, imperialism, and ethnic cleansing.”
On December 12, 2020, Leon tweeted: “You mean projects like the deadly exchange? Where they work with US police and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and exchange tactics? If israel is so powerful why do they need USA sugar daddy Also they are an apartheid state.”
In 2017, JVP launched the “Deadly Exchange (DX)” campaign, which accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses. JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.
On October 23, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Corruption? Murder? Sounds like israel lol [laughing out loud].”
On October 17, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Israel wants to kill and destroy lol.”
On October 17, 2020, Leon tweeted: “They should be called israeli occupation forces They are terrorist and attack innocent civilians.”
“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory name for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army.
Endorsing an Anti-Israel Agitator
On April 10, 2022, Leon posed for a photo with anti-Israel agitator Mohammed El- Kurd after El-Kurd spoke at an SJP ASU event.On the same date, Leon tweeted a photo of a signed copy of El-Kurd’s book.
On March 31, 2022, Leon featured in a Facebook photo, promoting the speech with El-Kurd. The caption read: “...We are so excited to welcome Mohammed El-Kurd to campus to illuminate his recently released book of poetry…”
Anti-Israel Activism
Leon participated in a SJP ASU disruption of a November 13, 2019 event organized by pro-Israel student groups at ASU titled: “Courage and Sacrifice: Wounded IDF Soldiers Speak on Campus.”Leon participated [slides 9-11] in the “dying in” disruption outside of the venue, which involved students lying down on the ground while holding anti-Israel signs. One sign read [slide 7]: “NO WALLS OR BORDERS ON STOLEN LAND.”
SJP ASU and other student groups overtook the reserved venue prior to the event, while [slide 13] Leon and around 80 other protesters blocked the entrance to the room, forcing event organizers to relocate to another venue.
On the same date, SJP ASU posted to Instagram a photo of the activists and wrote: “Whether it’s ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] or IDF, agents of genocide and oppression are not welcome on campus. Thank you to all who helped us make that clear tonight.
On April 16, 2021, Leon tweeted: “You should’ve see all the zionist crying and going to counseling office After we protested their IDF [Israel Defense Forces] event.”
Leon featured in a photo posted to Facebook on April 27, 2022, by SJP ASU. The caption read: “Thanks to everyone that came to our last meeting of the semester. We want to congratulate and thank our board and general members that are graduating and also the ones moving on we couldn’t done every without you all, Also congratulations to our board members, we are excited to have you i. The family and we are looking forward to work with you.
”On March 29, 2022, Leon tweeted: “ALL TONGUES THAT RISE AGAINST SJP SHALL FALL.”
On June 24, 2021, Leon tweeted: “@PhxChildrens also needs to fire or suspend staff that has shown support or defended the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel This is a double standard and also a racist and discriminatory action.”
The tweet was in response to Phoenix Children’s, a system of healthcare facilities, tweet that they had fired Fidaa Wishah for her anti-Israel rhetoric.
Supporting BDS
On February 2, 2022, Leon tweeted at Arizona state senators, Sean Bowie and Lela Alston, saying: “@seanbowie @LelaAlstonAz Shame on the democrats that voted for the anti BDS bill today…”On March 2, 2022, SJP ASU posted a photo of Leon and other anti-Israel activists, after they spoke [00:37:59] at Arizona’s House of Representatives in opposition to anti-BDS Senate Bill 1250 (SB 1250), that would add universities to the list of public institutions in the state that are not allowed to boycott Israel.
At the meeting, Leon said [00:38:45] “I should have the right to boycott [Israel], and pressure my university…to also do the same.” He went on to say [00:38:54]: “I don’t want my university to take part in the apartheid state of Israel.”
On the same day, Leon tweeted at Arizona state representative, Teresa Martinez, saying: “Hey @TMartinez4AZ if people don’t like their university to endorse BDS there are other universities.”
On April 13, 2021, Leon spoke at an ASU Undergraduate Student Government (USG) senate meeting. At the meeting, he said [00:59:15]: “My name is Armando and I’m part of Students for Justice in Palestine at ASU. We were supposed to present our [BDS] resolution today.”
Senate Resolution (SR) 09, co-sponsored by SJP ASU, called on USG to “show support for Palestinian students and their fight for human rights by participating in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.”
Before the senate meeting, USG President Katherine Hostal removed the resolution from the agenda.
On April 12, 2021, Leon tweeted: “STOP ELECTING ZIONIST.”
Leon’s tweet linked to another tweet from Arizona state representative, Alma Hernandez, that said: “I want to thank [ASU] president @michaelcrow for calling me to discuss my concerns on the @ASU #BDS resolution…”
On December 22, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Is not about israel living Is about Palestinians living This proves that zionist are actually narcissistic entitled racist We are gonna bds yall a**es tho [though].”
On August 21, 2020, Leon tweeted: “Maybe i will Or there other ways to boycott israel Gonna do more research on that Either way those mf [mother f**kers] are scare of any type of boycott.”
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
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/armando.leonalvarado.9Twitter: https://twitter.com/OdnamraNoel/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/odnmara_noel/
TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@odnamra.noel [Private]
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