Atika Al Bashir
Overview
Al Bashir was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the College of Staten Island (CSI), part of the City University of New York (CUNY) (CSI SJP), in 2014 and 2015, as well as 2016 and 2017.
She was also affiliated with New York City SJP (NYC SJP), in 2015 and 2016 . In February 2018, NYC SJP was renamed Within Our Lifetime (WOL).
In May 2017, Al Bashir indicated on Facebook that she had graduated from CSI.
Defending Hamas
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Also on July 31, 2014, Al Bashir tweeted: “...The only ppl using people as human shields is the IDF. There is absolutely no substantial evidence of Hamas ever doing that.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.
On August 7, 2014, Al Bashir tweeted: “F**k Obama and his ‘no sympathy for Hamas.’”
Expressing Support for Terrorists
On January 24, 2017, Al Bashir posted a fundraising link for Rasmea Odeh’s legal fund on Facebook and urged followers “‘to build a movement to defend [Odeh] and others including Free The HLF5.’”
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.
The HLF5 were five individuals associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) indicted for funnelling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.
The men were were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.
On May 16, 2017, Al Bashir posted a video of herself participating in the “Saltwater Challenge,” along with other CSI SJP activists.
The “Saltwater Challenge,” was held in solidarity Marwan Barghouti and other Palestinian inmates then hunger-striking in Israeli prisons. The Salt Water Challenge, was i started by Marwan Barghouti’s son, Aarab Barghouti.
On May 22, 2017, Al Bashir posted a photo of herself on Facebook with the caption: “I Support #DignityStrike.”
“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.
Promoting Incitement
On December 1, 2016, Al Bashir posted on Facebook an excerpt from a speech given by Lamis Deek, at the The 9th Annual Convention for Palestine in the U.S. The convention was held by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) in Chicago, IL, from November 24 - 26, 2016.Lamis Deek has expressed support for terror organizations and terrorism. She has supported [00:01:15] Hamas terrorists and called for intifada in America, as well as expressed hatred of Israel and propagated anti-Israel conspiracy theories.
Al Bashir’s Facebook post quoted advice Deek gave her audience during her speech [00:00:30], saying: “‘We have to centralize the resistance. We have to recenter and reclaim the right to resist, which is the right to self defense against a serial killer…’”
Al Bashir retweeted a May 14, 2016 tweet from WOL of a Palestinian Flag imprinted with the words: “There is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution!”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On October 6, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada” then occuring in Israel, Al Bashir promoted a “Day of Rage” event on Twitter, writing: “ALL OUT TODAY!! NYC DAY OF RAGE 5PM @ ZIONIST CONSULATE#FreePalestine.” In her tweet, Al Bashir also included a graphic with information for the event.
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
The “Day of Rage” event’s Facebook description said the rally began at the Consul General of Israel in New York and was held “in solidarity with” a Palestinian “Day of Rage,” which was “called for by Palestinian forces.”
The event’s Facebook description also said that the rally was co-sponsored by anti-Israel organizations including NY4Palestine, as well as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and NYC SJP.
The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
“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.
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On January 16, 2017, Al Bashir tweeted: “Foh [F**k outta here] y'all are bunch of f**king Zionist settler colonizing terrorists and racist as f**k,” in response to a tweet from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).On December 23, 2016, Al Bashir tweeted: “FACTSSSS,” in response to a tweet that read: “All of Israel is an illegal settlement. #justsaying.”
On November 13, 2016, Al Bashir tweeted: “Ongoing Nakba... The Zionist states' only interest is apartheid and expansion #PostElection #EndZionistSupremecy.”
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.
On August 1, 2014, Al Bashir tweeted: “‘Jewish people who support #Israel dishonor the memory of Holocaust victims, Jewish tradition and humanity.’ Well said. #FreePalestine”
On July 22, 2014, during Israel’s OPE, Al Bashir tweeted: “I am uttermost appalled and disgusted by anyone who faithfully condones and supports Israel. #FreeGaza.”
The same day, she also tweeted: “Israel is using chemical warfare as a means of genocide in Gaza. But our government doesn't think it's important for you to know.”
On July 12, 2014, Al Bashir tweeted: “Only if you knew Israel is terrorizing innocent people. Only if you knew that this is a genocide. #GazaUnderAttack.”
Endorsing Anti-Israel Agitators
Al Bashir retweeted a March 7, 2019 tweet that read: “Ilhan Omar is a fighter for justice…”On March 1, 2019, Omar suggested at an event that supporters of Israel were disloyal to America, saying [00:00:42]: “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
Following Omar’s March 1, 2019 presentation at Busboys&Poets TownHall, then-Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Elliot Engel, issued an online statement describing Omar’s comments [00:04:08] as a “vile anti-Semitic slur,” as well as “unacceptable and deeply offensive.”
On July 31, 2018, Al Bashir shared a video of Ahed Tamimi on Facebook, titled: “Ahed’s Message of Resistance.” In the video, Tamimi said [00:05:26]: “My message, as Ahed, is: Isolate, boycott and pursue Israel as a war criminal.”
On November 19, 2014, Al Bashir was tagged in a group photo on Facebook, posing with disgraced anti-Israel professor Steven Salaita.
The photo Al Bashir posed for was posted to Facebook by CSI SJP, from their event titled: “Silencing Dissent: a discussion on Academic Freedom with Steven Salaita.”
The event’s Facebook description said: “Professor Salaita is going on the offensive – against academic censorship, and against the continuing colonial domination of the Palestinian people that this censorship covers for…”
Supporting BDS
On November 17, 2016, Al Bashir was tagged in a photo posted to Facebook, pointing to a sign which read: “BDS is the floor not the ceiling: Decolonize This Place.”The photo was posted to Facebook by NYC SJP member Nerdeen Kiswani, whose post included a link to a NYC SJP article promoting BDS, titled: “The BDS Ceiling.”
On August 26, 2016, Al Bashir appeared in a photo on Facebook at Solidarity Center NYC, holding a sign which read:“Stop G4S, Boycott Zionism and Its Collaborators, Samidoun.”
On May 20, 2016, Samidoun Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Network held a protest in NYC to demand that G4S ends its contracts with Israeli prisons. G4S is a global private security corporation that provides security systems to Israel.
On March 24, 2015, Al Bashir tweeted: “I am so proud of all the SJP's that are getting divestment campaigns going on their campuses.”
On October 27, 2014, Al Bashir tweeted: “BDS BDS BDS BDS BDS BDS BDS!”
Anti-Israel Activism
On January 19, 2017, Al Bashir opposed Fordham University’s (Fordham) decision to deny SJP official group status at Fordham. Al Bashir posted on Facebook that the move was “a direct attack on Palestine solidarity activism.”In 2016, Fordham reportedly blocked the formation of a Fordham SJP chapter “based on the reported behavior of other [SJP] chapters on other campuses,” indicating that “the establishment of a local branch could be ‘polarizing’ and pose a safety concern to students and faculty.”
In her Facebook post, Al Bashir called on “all those who fight for justice to stand with us as we resist this shameful decision” and attached a link to a “Solidarity Rally for Fordham SJP” hosted by SJP at Fordham (Fordham SJP).
On May 16, 2016, Al Bashir was tagged in a Facebook photo from an NYC SJP co-sponsored event titled: “Nakba Day March for Resistance and Return.”
At the event, NYC SJP member Kiswani led the chant: [00:00:31] “settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!” and [00:00:52] “New York city you will learn, refugees will return!”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
On March 1, 2016, Al Bashir was a featured speaker at an SJP at College of Staten Island (CSI SJP) event titled: “Revitalizing the One State Solution,” with Kiswani and fellow NYU SJP activists, Dan Cione and Leena Widdi.
The “one-state solution” has been denounced from the Right and the Left as a scheme to dissolve Israel as the Jewish State.
The event’s Facebook description said: “the One state solution is the only response that will ensure equal democratic rights for all regardless of race, religion, and ethnicity.”
CSI SJP - Supporting Intifada
On October 15, 2015, during the Palestinian “Knife Intifada,” CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest in “Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising.” The protest was called to preempt an October 18, 2015 “Jewish Lives Matter” rally scheduled to take place in Times Square.The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
CSI SJP’s Facebook post said: “Join us loudly in proclaiming that Resistance is not Terrorism, Occupation and Colonialism are Terrorism!”
On October 6, 2015, CSI SJP shared on Facebook an NYC SJP “statement of solidarity” with a “Day of Rage” rally held at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.
At the bottom of that statement was a graphic of a keffiyeh-masked man throwing a rock, with the caption: “Palestine Let the Intifada pave the way for people’s war!”
Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:16] “Long live the intifada! Intifada, intifada!” as well as [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and [00:01:18] “Settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!"
“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.
CSI SJP - Defending Terrorists
On May 16, 2017, CSI SJP participated in the “Saltwater Challenge.”On June 3, 2016, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a “Justice for Rasmea Rally & March,” hosted by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City SJP (NYC SJP). The event’s Facebook description said the rally was organized to “demand a new trial and justice” for Rasmea Odeh.
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
NYC SJP’s blog post went on to praise Odeh and Khalida Jarrar.
Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.
On August 16, 2015, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest by NYC SJP supporting Mohammad Allan. Mohammed’s relative Ziad Allan, demonized Israel at the protest.
Allan is a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terror group “whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state.” Allan was first jailed by Israel in 2006 for trying to recruit a suicide bomber to carry out an attack in Israel. He was detained in 2014 for similar reasons. PIJ is backed by Iran and has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.
CSI SJP - Spreading an Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theory
On February 22, 2015, CSI SJP posted on Facebook an article stating: “Hundreds of Palestinians flee as Israel opens dams into Gaza Valley.”The article claimed that “hundreds of Palestinians were evacuated from their homes after Israeli authorities opened a number of dams near the border, flooding the Gaza Valley in the wake of a recent severe winter storm.”
Al-Jazeera shared and later retracted the story, admitting: “In southern Israel, there are no dams of the type which can be opened.”
CSI SJP - Supporting Anti-Israel Agitators
On March 10, 2015, CSI SJP shared a photo campaign organized by SJP at Hunter College to support Lina Khattab.Khattab was detained on December 13, 2014, and sentenced to six months jail time on February 16, 2015 for throwing rocks, while celebrating the 47th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)’s founding.
On January 29, 2015, CSI SJP posted an article on Facebook supporting disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita. The CSI SJP Facebook post said: “Down with foreign government lobbies bribing universities to silent dissenters and organizers against settler-colonial states!”
NYC SJP- Supporting Intifada (2015-2016)
On May 15, 2016, NYC SJP co-sponsored and promoted on Twitter a “Nakba Day March for Resistance and Return” rally, to be held the next day. NYC SJP’s tweet said: “From the river to the sea, intifada! Intifada!! #NakbaDay #Nakba68 #nyc.”Scripted chants were distributed before the rally, where agitators yelled [00:00:18]: “Intifada Intifada” and “5-6-7-8 Smash the Settler Zionist State”, as well as [00:00:41] “we don't want a two-state [solution]; we want ‘48!” and [00:00:20] “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!”
Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani, NYC SJP co-founder and Chair, posted on Facebook a video recording of the protest that featured herself and other protesters inciting [00:00:01] against Jews who moved from New York to Israel, claiming [00:00:06] “The Brooklyn settlers, the New York settlers are the most violent.”
Protesters were also led in chanting [00:00:32]: “Settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!” and [00:00:52] "New York City you will learn, refugees will return!"
On October 18, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” NYC SJP co-hosted a protest “in solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising,” aimed at disrupting a “Jewish Lives Matter” rally scheduled for October 18, 2015 in Times Square.
The Jewish Lives Matter rally was to memorialize Israelis murdered that month in the October 2015 “Palestinian Uprising,” known as the “Knife Intifada,"
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Tweets promoting NYC SJP’s support for the Palestinian Uprising were spread, urging people to attend the disruption.
During the rally, Kiswani led a crowd in chanting [00:00:36]: “1,2,3,4 occupation no more, 5,6,7,8 smash the settler-Zionist state!” followed by [00:01:21] “there is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution!”
Other protesters at the rally shouted [00:01:42]: “Falasteen ibladna Wel yahood ichlabna,” in Arabic, meaning: “Palestine is our country and the Jews are our dogs.”
NYC SJP - Supporting BDS
On October 4, 2015, John Jay SJP posted on Facebook a NYC SJP statement on the BDS movement, which stated that the goal is the “the eventual establishment of a single Palestinian national state covering all of historic Palestine.”The statement concluded that “SJP…cannot be divorced from a larger, off-campus movement that organizes for the progressive demands of the people, regardless if those demands are related to the university.”
NYC SJP then clarified in its statement on BDS, saying that the movement: “is not only fighting to drop israeli investments, but is fighting to change the content of the Zionist, imperialist education itself, by engaging in a struggle to liberate the university and democratically administer it to serve the oppressed communities from New York City to Palestine.”
WOL - Disrupting City Council Meetings
On September 16, 2016 NYC SJP members repeatedly disrupted a NYC City Council meeting discussing anti-BDS legislation, prompting the organizers tocall security personnel to have them removed from the hall.Towards the end of the meeting, Kiswani stood up and screamed [01:16:04] : “Yes, we want to shut down Zionists, because Zionism is racism... As a Palestinian I can’t go back to my country because of you people. F**K Israel and F**K Zionism!”
Kiswani also added [01:17:00]: “That sh*t just pi***ed me off and I’m leaving now because I’m f**king shaking and I’m so f**king disgusting [sic.] I didn’t want to be in the room with the f**king Israeli consulate” and the people inside, I hope they disrupt too, because we shouldn't f**king lend credibility to these pieces of sh*t. They need to be shut down. I hope they f**king clear the entire chambers cuz I want people to shut this sh*t down.”
NYC SJP - Praised for Calling for Intifada
On October 9, 2015, the Progressive Student Labor Front (PSLF) in Gaza, an organization politically linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), issued a statement via the PFLP website showing solidarity with their “comrades,” NYC SJP.The PFLP is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, Israel, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Australia.
The PSLF statement praised NYC SJP for leading “a march through the streets of New York calling for ‘Intifada’ and the liberation of Palestine.”
The statement also said: “We urge the development and escalation of BDS campaigns at an international level just as we urge the escalation of resistance in all forms and all means here in Palestine ....” and ended with an affirmation that the PSLF is “proud to call them [NYC SJP]...comrades in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.”
WOL - Spreading Hatred of Israel
On April 22, 2018, WOL shared a video on Facebook of burning miniature Israeli flags.On March 8, 2018, during a WOL co-hosted “International Women’s Strike NYC: Palestine Contingent,” Kiswani addressed the crowd, declaring [00:04:01] “Women’s liberation must be anti-Zionist.”
Kiswani also claimed [00:01:25] “Zionism is the ideology that thrives off of the kidnapping and torturing of our women” and [00:01:48] “Israel is a state that was built on the murder and rape of Palestinian women.”
On January 15, 2018, NYC SJP glorified Manal Tamimi on Facebook, sharing a post that labelled Tamimi a"super mother" and a “superwoman.”
On December 22, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a protest titled “Emergency Rally to End Child Detention: Free Ahed Tamimi!”
During the protest, one speaker accused [00:18:19] Israel of targeting a three-year-old Palestinian child with teargas.
On December 6, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “the fall of israhell #WriteAHappyStoryIn4Words.”
On November 16, 2017, NYC SJP members Kiswani as well as Noura Farouk and Dan Cione were panelists for an event hosted by SJP at Florida State University (FSU).
During the panel, Kiswani accused Israel of committing [00:08:29] “mass rapes” and claimed [00:9:08] that “to this day there is daily assault and sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Zionists.”
Kiswani’s also stated [01:45:52] “...we see in Israel, when Ethiopian Jews are trying to integrate themselves into the white settler colonial project of Israel, they put on the uniform and kill Palestinians and then their babies still get stabbed by Israelis and they still don’t see a day of justice in the court.”
Cione noted [00:26:14] that, after the Oslo accords, the U.S. gave the Palestinian Authority “over 32 billion dollars… for state building institutions.” Cione then condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for not funding radicals.
Cione said [00:24:42] that “when they were dumping all this money into Palestine” USAID included a “terror clause, which said that none of this money can go to “anyone that… is a terrorist organization as defined by Israel or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist.”
At the end of the panel, the attendees and panelists chanted [01:48:48] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”
On October 7, 2017, Farouq demonized [00:26:42] Israel during a WOL co-hosted rally “To Resist War and Racism At Home and Abroad,” that was protesting “16 years following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the start of the so-called war on terror.”
Farouq claimed [00:26:43] that the New York Police Department (NYPD) is trained by Israel, “sharing tactics to treat our people as subhuman.”
On July 27. 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “The Zionist entity of israhell #WhatIHateIn5Words.”
On June 16, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “.@SenatorMartins #WeBDSUntil Zionism is relegated to the dustbin of history.”
On April 26, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted a graphic showing the map of Israel overlaid entirely with the colors of the Palestinian Flag and superimposed with the text “Je Suis One State.”
On March 1, 2015, NYC SJP members Atika Al Bashir, Leena Widdi, Cione and Kiswani were panelists in an event titled “Revitalizing the One-State Solution.”
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.
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