Batoul El Sayah
Overview
Batoul El Sayah has spread hatred of Israel and served as the general executive of the anti-Israel student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at McMaster University (SPHR McMaster) in 2016-2017. She was an activist with the group from 2015 to 2017.
SPHR is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
El Sayah also supported a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign at McMaster in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2015.
As of February 2024, El Sayah was listed as a speech therapist at Andalusia Speech Therapy Inc. in Mississauga, Ontario.
As of the same date, El Sayah was registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario (CALSPO).
In 2017, El Sayah posted on Facebook that she was studying “Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour” at McMaster. El Sayah was listed as a member of the Facebook group MacMSA Sisters Class of 2018, referring to the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the university.
In 2020, El Sayah was a student in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) at the University of Toronto (U of T) and a member of SLP’s Summer Mentorship Program (SMP).
El Sayah also spread hatred of Israel on Twitter before attending university.
Hatred of Israel and Zionists
El Sayah retweeted a series of September 12, 2015 tweets from a since-deleted Twitter account that included a tweet that said: “Israel has attacked Masjid Al-Aqsa every single month in the past year. I don't ever want to hear ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East,’”
El Sayah also retweeted a tweet that said: “As a Palestinian, it kills me to think that I may not get to visit Masjid Al-Aqsa before Israel destroys it.”
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
El Sayah retweeted a September 13, 2015 tweet that read: “This is what Israel call ‘ democracy ’ attacking our holy places. #AlAqsaUnderAttack…”
On September 13, 2015, masked Palestinian rioters barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa Mosque. They set off fireworks, starting a small fire, and threw stones and debris stored inside the mosque at Israeli police. The police later found pipe bombs the rioters had prepared to launch at Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount plaza.
El Sayah retweeted a September 22, 2015 tweet about Hadeel Al-Hashlamoun that claimed: “18 yo Palestinian girl shot by IDF [Israel Defense Forces] & left to bleed to death as armed Israeli settlers watch…”
In September 2015, Al-Hashlamoun was shot after she reportedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers. She later died of her wounds.
El Sayah retweeted an October 14, 2015 tweet about Basel Bessam Sidr, which claimed: “Israeli just shot kids and keep them bleeding to death. This 15 year old boy executed with more than 20 bullets now!”
In October 2015, during the “Knife Intifada, Basel Bessam Sidr was shot while attempting to stab Israeli police officers in Jerusalem.
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 attacks were incited by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
El Sayah retweeted a November 10, 2016 tweet that read: “Zionist feminism: Pink drones for breast cancer awareness that drop chemical bombs on Palestinian women that give them cancer. Excellent.”
The tweet was in response to a tweet by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) that read: “We are #Pink @breastcancernow #BreastCancerAwareness.” The tweet featured a photo of a pink Israeli fighter jet.
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.
Anti-Israel Activism (SPHR, BDS)
El Sayah indicated on Facebook that she “went” to a March 16, 2017 event heldduring McMaster’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) 2017 titled: “From Intifada to LiberationDefeating Colonialism & Imperialism.”
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
El Sayah indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an October 4, 2016 event titled: “SPHR Meet and Greet 2016-2017.”
El Sayah indicated on Facebook that she“went” to a March 16, 2016, SPHR screening of the anti-Israel film “The Wanted 18” held during IAW 2016.The IAW 2016 Facebook event page said that IAW “aims to raise awareness about Israel’s ongoing settler-colonial project and apartheid policies over the Palestinian people.“
El Sayah indicated on Facebook that she attended an October 16, 2015 anti-Israel demonstration during the Knife Intifada, that was titled: “End the Occupation: Justice, Freedom, Equality.” The event page for the demonstration claimed that for “decades zionists have shamelessly murdered Palestinians of all ages...”
El Sayah indicated on Facebook that she “went” to a March 23, 2015 event titled: “Vote Yes to BDS.” The event was a McMaster Student Union (MSU) General Assembly (GA) meeting where students reportedly voted to pass a BDS motion endorsed by SPHR McMaster and other student groups.
In 2015, McMasterBDS, a committee of pro-BDS students on campus, campaigned for the passage of a divestment resolution that called [p. 3] on the student body to endorse the global BDS movement and “commit to identifying and divesting from companies that support or profit from Israeli war crimes, occupation and oppression of Palestinians.”
High School Hatred of Israel
On July, 28, 2014, El Sayah tweeted: “F**k you Israel, just f**k you. Allah yestful feeko o Allah y5dko [Allah will take care of you and Allah will take you]. Ameen.”El Sayah wrote her tweet during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
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/sayahbTwitter: https://twitter.com/157BE [Private]
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- McMaster,
- more...
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SPHR
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- Ahmed Fajem,
- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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