Aziz Jalil

Overview

Aziz Jalil attacked a Jewish student at Temple University, as detailed below.

Jalil frequents activities organized by Temple Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a chapter of SJP at Temple University. He is also a member of MSA.

Jalil is a second year graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, completing his Ph.D. in Chemistry. Jalil graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Temple University.

Attacking a Jewish Student

On August 20, 2014, Jalil assaulted a male, pro-Israel TU student at Temple SJP’s table during a campus event held during Welcome Week.

Jalil allegedly struck the student in the face, as the student was called "Zionist," "Kike," “Racist,” "Baby Killer" and other anti-Semitic names and slurs. Jalil subsequently turned himself in to police.

He was charged with assault and recklessly endangering another person. Jalil was reportedly admitted to a six month Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, sentenced to community service, anger management counseling — and told to "stay out of trouble."

Temple SJP claimed that Jalil "was only a visitor to the SJP table" and that he had no formal affiliation with the group. However, other reports and a picture posted on the group’s twitter account contradict this claim.

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.  

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/aziz.palijalil [Deactivated]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelaziz-jalil/