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Batool Alawadi
Batool Alawadi [Batool Mohammad] was a leader of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter that expressed support for Hamas terrorists after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. Alawadi was also arrested for disruption.
Batool Alawadi served as a “secondary leader” of the SJP chapter at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for the 2023-2024 academic year. At that time, she used the name Batool Mohammad. UC Davis is located in Davis, California.
Alawadi is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On March 5, 2024, Al Jazeera English posted on X a video featuring Alawadi, and reported [00:00:43] that Alawadi was studying political science at UC Davis.
Alawadi’s SJP chapter showed support for Hamas following a series of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.
The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
On October 12, 2023, the SJP-UC Davis chapter posted on Instagram: “Until liberation and return…” The post included a statement titled: “Resistance and Occupation” and said: “Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Davis unequivocally condemns the Zionist military occupation of Palestine…and will continue to stand in total and unwavering solidarity with the occupied and besieged Palestinians in Gaza…” The post continued: “The responsibility for the current escalation of violence is entirely on the Israeli occupation…”
On October 17, 2023, the SJP-UC Davis chapter posted on Instagram: “Students for Justice in Palestine across all of the UC’s condemns the University of California Board of Regents for the statement that was made on Mideast violence…”
The post continued: “...We believe in the complete and total liberation of Palestine by any means necessary….
Anti-Israel activists use the phrase “By any means necessary” as one of multiple euphemisms for terrorist violence, of which another is “resistance.”
The post continued: “... Palestine will one day be free, from the river to the sea…”
The post claimed [slide 3] that “Gaza has been besieged and converted into the world’s largest open-air prison…”
Referring to Gaza as an “open-air prison” is a way to delegitimize the UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Israeli military discovered that Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On March 5, 2024, Al Jazeera English posted on X: “...Batool Alawadi from UC Davis shares insights into the groundbreaking passing of a BDS bill by the student government…” The post included a video featuring Alawadi, who said [00:03:16] “What happened last January, myself and and 12 other individuals, we were arrested because we were peacefully protesting at a public comment session for a UC regents meeting…”
A UC Regents Meeting was held January 23-25, 2024 in San Francisco, California. Minutes of the meeting were published on January 24, 2024, and reported that Alawadi “...called the Regents and chancellors cowards for not standing up for supporters of Palestine…” and added “...UC was funding the bombing in Gaza through its investment in weapons manufacturing companies and was complicit in war crimes…” and called for “immediate divestment from occupation and genocide.”
On January 25, 2024, SJPatUCD posted on its Instagram account: “UCSF SHUTDOWN + ARREST 
“ The post included a video of the Regents Meeting demonstration and arrest, and a comment by Alawadi: “ucpd [University of California Police Department] kkk[Klu Klux Klan] iof they’re all the same.”
On February 7, 2024, TheAntReader, an independent student paper, reported that after the public comment session, Alawadi and other protesters sat on the floor of the meeting room and chanted: “...From the river to the sea, end UC complicity. UC Regents, you can’t hide. You’re financing genocide. Occupation is a crime. UC out of Palestine.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On February 14, 2024, CityOnAHillPress, a UC Santa Cruz student paper, reported that the UC Police Department “arrested and cited 13 UC students and alumni for criminal misdemeanors: “failure to disperse, resisting arrest, and unlawful assembly.”
On May 13, 2023, the SJP-UC Davis chapter posted on Instagram [slide 1]: “...here is a guide for understanding anti-Zionism…” The post included a flyer that said: “What is Anti-zionism? / We Will Return.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The post said [slide 3]: “Zionism is a historical process of settler colonialism that began decades before the Nakba…and that has continued in the 75 years of colonial domination ever since…”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
The post said [slide 4]: “...Zionism is racism.”
In 1975, an anti-Israel resolution that branded Zionism as a form of racism was proposed and passed in the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution was repealed in 1991 by a much larger majority.
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
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