Aya Khalifeh
Overview
Aya Khalifeh has spread anti-Semitism, equated Israel with Nazi Germany, glorified violence, promoted hatred of Israel and pushed conspiracy theories online.Khalifeh was reportedly the 2017 president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at California State University Sacramento (CSUS). She was instrumental in reviving SJP at CSUS and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Khalifeh was also a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and, in April 2016, ran unsuccessfully for the position of MSA president.
In 2017, Khalifeh’s Facebook page said she was studying Pre-Law/International Relations at CSUS, starting in 2013. As of February 2018, her Facebook page said she “studied International Relations at Sacramento State Class of 2013.”
As of July 2019, Khalifeh’s Facebook page indicated that she graduated from Sacramento State in 2018.
As of the same date, Khalifeh posted on Facebook that she started school at Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard) in 2019, where she is majoring in International Relations.
Anti-Jewish Social Media Posts
On November 5, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “Falasteen bladna, wil yahood klabna [Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs].”On August 17, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “About to beat up this yahoodi [Jew] on the jisir.”
On July 13, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “Allah yintikim min il yahood ya rab [Allah will take revenge on the Jews, God willing].”
On June 3, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “I take after my dad in a lot but I wish I didn’t inherit his family’s standard Jew nose cause they’re huge and so is mine.”
On March 4, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “I’ll kill the next person who asks me if I’m Israeli.”
On March 9, 2013, Khalifeh tweeted: “@BlueJewEgg, no, I’ve been reading your tweets, actually. I’d rather be a racist Muslim than a lying ignorant Jew.”
On November 18, 2012, Khalifeh tweeted: “@JONNTEJEDA yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Also hence why at the head of each massive foreign policies department is a jew in control.”
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany
On July, 8, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Khalifeh tweeted: “‘@MorningWood__: This is the Holocaust’ lmaaaaoOn March 22, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “so next time I say ‘don't say the quote ‘never again'’ when referring to the holocaust, remember what's happening in Palestine.”
On March 22, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “If you make a comparison chart between the nazis and zionists, there will be no difference and what's disgusting is that no. one. sees. It.”
On October 24, 2013, Khalifeh tweeted: “Lets all take a minute #palestine #israel.”
The tweet featured two images, one of Holocaust victims and the other of dead Palestinians with a caption that read: “What’s the difference between the Nazis and the Israeli army?”
Glorifying Violence
On October 6, 2015, Khalifeh shared on Twitter an image of a khafiyya-masked man holding a rock, designed to evoke a famous Leonardo Da Vinci representation of God creating Adam. Khalifeh commented: “God is with the resistance.jpg){kind=link}
On October 9, 2015, Khalifeh shared an image on Twitter celebrating unity between masked Christians and Muslims holding rocks and commented: “I love this #Palestine
Hatred of Israel
On December 28, 2016, Khalifeh tweeted: “YES. Phyllis Bennis is killing it on MSNBC right now, calling Israel an apartheid state, comparing the occupation to Jim Crow& S. AfricaOn December 28, 2016, Khalifeh tweeted: “Palestine and Israel was just compared to South African Apartheid on CNN. I'm sleeping happy tonight.”
On June 5, 2016, Khalifeh tweeted: “Killing millions of innocent kids men and women isn't new for Israel but always wrong too, boycott that you ass.”
On the same day, in response to a tweet by then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Muslim community on Ramadan, Khalifeh tweeted: “What about the Muslims in Palestine that Israel is slaughtering, you pro Israeli witch.”
On June 3, 2016, Khalifeh tweeted: “I hate them more than I do Zionists.”
On April 16, 2015, Khalifeh tweeted: “I could smell a zionist from a mile away.”
On July 4, 2015, Khalifeh tweeted: “I don't know what I hate more, the butt piece of toast, or israel.”
On August 1, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “another $225 million to Israel to kill Palestinians Thank you America.”
On July 30, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “I burnt two Israeli flags when we were in tel aviv today and it was the most exciting thing I've done in a while.”
On July 23, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted a cartoon of a man wearing a bib with a Jewish Star of David, representing Israel, cutting into a Palestinian child on a plate. The knife was inscribed “Muslim Silence” and the fork pinning the child to the plate was decorated with the stars and stripes of the United States.
On July 11, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “Israel is a piece of s**t, pass it on.”
On June 20, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “Israel is a khara [s**t], pass it on.”
On April 22, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “So in my gov class we had a pop quiz with 1 question asking us to define what a war criminal is.I wrote down ‘Israel’ and turned my paper in.”
On March 20, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “You best believe I'll deck you in the damn jaw if you ask me if I'm Israeli right after I say I'm from Palestine.”
On March 3, 2014, Khalifeh tweeted: “The South African apartheid regime was kicked out of FIFA from 1963 till the regime’s fall. The same should be the case for Apartheid Israel.”
On April 16, 2012, Khalifeh tweeted a fabricatedquote, attributed to Albert Einstein, that read: “‘It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Israelis) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.’ #Amen #EinsteinMyMan.”
Anti-Israel Campus Activities
From September 2016 to March 2017, Khalifeh was active in pushing a divestment campaign at CSUS, urging the California State University system to boycott companies that do business with Israel. Khalifeh shared a video made by Peace House on Facebook, who were facilitating a workshop to promote the divestment campaign.Khalifeh has also organized other Sac State SJP events, including an event that featured anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour.
In an October 26, 2016 interview with CSUS’ campus newspaper, the State Hornet, Khalifeh reportedly said that she has looked up to Sarsour for years and that so much of what she does on campus with SJP was due to Sarsour’s influence.
In 2016, Khalifeh signed a statement of support by National SJP for General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) faculty advisor Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who workedto establish ties between SFSU and Hamas-dominated Palestinian universities, Birzeit and An-Najah.
Al-Najah supported terror in 2016 and remained notorious for its exhibit lauding the 2001 Sbarro cafe suicide bombing, which included gnawed pizza crusts and bloody plastic body parts.
In January 2014, Abdulhadi organized and participated in a controversial, university-funded “Academic and Labor Delegation to Palestine.”
The ostensible purpose of the trip was “to attend an international conference and to research, network, and collaborate with potential university partners towards a possible memorandum of understanding.”
During the trip, Abdulhadi met with individuals affiliated with American State Department-designated terrorist organizations, including Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah.
On September 21, 2016, GUPS SFSU posted a statement of support for Abdulhadi and the memorandum with An-Najah and condemned pro-Israel organizations for denouncing the partnership.
Conspiracy Theories
On March 17, 2017, Kalifeh tweeted: “The $ that gets poured into major media outlets by pro Israeli lobbies is a number thats shameful. CNN won't risk that funding for the truth.”On March 22, 2016, Khalifeh tweeted: “ISIS is an American made dummy set out to mar the name of Islam and Muslims around the world.”
On September 12, 2015, Khalifeh tweeted an image of a tweet portraying a dialogue that read:
“Bae: come over
Me: 9/11 was an inside job.
Bae: my parents are out of town
Me: jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, Debra.”
On September 11, 2015, Khalifeh tweeted an image with text that read: “R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit.”
On June 7, 2015, Khalifeh tweeted: “everyone's just now talking about how the U.S. creates ISIS when we've been preaching that ever since they became a thing lmao.”
On November 18, 2013, Khalifeh tweeted an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controlling United States President Barack Obama like a puppet. The image was accompanied by her comment: “Accurate description of America and Israel's relationship.”
Sac State SJP - Pushing BDS
On September 17, 2016, Sac State SJP announced on Facebook the launch of its anti-Israel divestment campaign, likening Israel to apartheid South Africa. The status read: “SJP at Sacramento-State can now officially announce that we are one of them. Join us in making sure that we are on the right side of history. Our divestment campaign is officially initiated, people.
#SacStateDivest.”On October 5, 2016, Sac State SJP shared a Facebook status that read: “In honor of us proposing divestment on campus ~ This is a great short video for anyone who isn't very familiar with the BDS movement.
.”The post linked to a malicious video produced by the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) movement. The video claimed that Israel was established “through the ruthless and well planned ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians” through a “colonial logic of conquest, destruction and expulsion has continued until the present day.”
On March 5, 2017, Sac State SJP shared a Facebook status “pushing for a divestment hearing concerning the resolution we proposed to the school last year.”
Sac State SJP added new clauses to the bill including to “-Boycott of Sabra Hummus that is sold on campus for having companies built on illegal settlement land in Palestine.”
The post linked to a Facebook page “CSUS Divest” — the name of the campaign launched by Sac State SJP.
As of May, 14, 2017, according to the CSUS Divest Facebook Page, the campaign called for CSUS to divest from what it claimed are corporations “complicit in and which profit from the occupation and oppression of marginalized communities across the globe that includes, but is not limited to, our Palestinian brothers and sisters, African American brothers and sisters, undocumented brothers and sisters, and more.”
The BDS website, however, only targets companies that do business with Israel.
The resolution proposed that contracts the university has had with targeted companies “not be renewed when they expire.”
Sac State SJP - Collaborating with Anti-Semitic Filmmakers
On April 6, 2017, Sac State SJP — under the banner of CSUS Divest — held a Divestment workshop that featured Peace House Productions (Peace House). The divestment workshop claimed that Peace House would also be “filming a promo video for our campaign!”Peace House has produced several videos that vilified Israel and employed anti-Semitic tropes against American Jewish organizations. On February 2, 2016, (after Florida became the fifth American state to pass a resolution condemning BDS movement), Peace House produced a video featuring former USF SJP student activist Mahmoud Ali Mohamed attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In the video, Mohamed walked around the Florida Legislature making pronouncements that conjured anti-Semitic references to the “Jewish Lobby” and dual loyalty.
Sac State SJP - Promoting George Galloway
On September 5, 2016, Sac State SJP shared what it called a “must watch” video on Facebook of George Galloway debating in the British Parliament. In the video, Galloway condemned the United Kingdom for issuing the 1917 Balfour Declaration and called for sanctions on imports and exports between Britain and Israel.Sac State SJP - Demonizing Israeli Leaders
On September 29, 2016 — following the death of former Israeli statesman Shimon Peres — Sac State SJP shared a Facebook status that condemned world leaders grieving Peres’ death.Sac State SJP wrote: “Palestinians will never forget the part Peres had in the ethnic cleansing of their villages… He should not be honored as the ‘dove of peace’, coined by Bill Clinton, but rather a man who destituted the term ‘peace’ and held no reverence for international law.”
Sac State SJP - Spreading Libels
On March 11, 2017, Sac State SJP shared a video on Facebook produced by AJ+ (Al Jazeera) — a Qatari-funded channel notorious for spreading misinformation about Israel.Sac State SJP - Hosting Radicals
On October 16, 2016, Sac State SJP promoted and hosted a speaking event at Sac State, featuring violent agitator Issa Amro — the head of Youth Against Settlements — known for vandalism and attacking Israeli soldiers. Amro has been charged with numerous acts of violence against Israeli civilians and security forces.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 Student 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.
MSA
The Muslim Student Association (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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khalifeh.aya.hTwitter: https://twitter.com/ayah_khalifeh
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ayaakhalifeh/ [Deleted]
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- California-State-Sacramento
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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Infamous Quotes
[Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs].”
[Allah will take revenge on the Jews, God willing].”
