Belal Daoud
Overview
Bilal Daoud [Belal Daoud] harassed students and promoted the boycott of an Israel-supporting Jewish Philanthropist while serving as the 2013 vice president of the Committee for Justice in Palestine (CJP) at Ohio State University (OSU).Daoud was reportedly the 2014 publicity director of CJP OSU and reportedly the vice president of CJP OSU in 2015.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at OSU was formerly known as CJP until 2016.
Daoud also reportedly promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) initiative, titled: “OSU Divest,” in 2015.
As of March 2020, Daoud’s LinkedIn page said he was a “Software Implementation | Information Security” consultant at Paycor in Cincinnati, OH, since July 2017.
Daoud’s LinkedIn page also said that he earned a master’s degree in “Homeland Security - Information Security and Forensics” at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (PSU IST), in 2019 and a bachelor’s degree in “Foreign Policy and Security, Security and Intelligence,” in 2019.
Harassing Students
The notices, which were headlined: “EVICTION NOTICE” in bold text, stated: “This building is scheduled for demolition in three days… We cannot be held liable for persons or property remaining inside the building. Charges for the labor and costs of the demolition will be applied to your student account.”
The notices also claimed that “Eviction notices are routinely given to Palestinian families living under the oppressive Israeli occupation for no reason other than their ethnic background; the goal is to make life so miserable for Palestinians that they leave. Forced evictions are arbitrary, racist, humiliating (and) violent.”
In an article published by OSU’s student newspaper, The Lantern, on March 6, 2014, Daoud was quoted about the eviction notices and promoted CJP OSU’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).
Daoud reportedly said: “I’m hoping it’s going to be a tradition. I’m hoping that we’ll have the wall every year, we’ll have the mock eviction notices every year. I want people to almost expect it to happen.” The “wall” Daoud referred to was meant to mock Israel’s security barrier.
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Calling to Boycott a Jewish Philanthropist
Leslie H. Wexner is a Jewish-American businessman and the founder and CEO of the L Brands (formerly Limited Brands) corporation. Wexner, a native of Ohio, is an alumnus and major funder of OSU.
In his blog post, Daoud criticized Wexner’s funding of Hillel and of Birthright Israel, which he labeled as “nothing more than a brainwashing group.”
Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
Daoud also called to boycott Wexner’s businesses, saying: “this fun fact is just a friendly reminder to everyone who shops at Mr. Wexner’s businesses: now you know who you are really funding. You can’t just stop paying taxes, but do you really need [Wexner product] cheeksters?”
Promoting BDS at OSU
In March 2015, Daoud reportedly worked with OSU Divest to introduce a BDS resolution at OSU’s University Student Government (USG), in order to place the BDS resolution on a referendum ballot, for a university-wide vote.
The vote was for OSU to divest “from six companies profiting from Israel's occupation of Palestine.”
OSU Divest claimed that by “advocating for divestment from corporations, we are not condemning or attacking a country, a community, or a people” and “our initiative does not support any particular political stance.”
USG’s Judicial Panel disqualified the resolution on March 8, 2015, due to technical infractions.
In 2016, Daoud again reportedly supported a divestment resolution, which targeted companies OSU Divest claimed were “complicit in human rights violations.”
The divestment resolution that Daoud supported was presented on March 23, 2016, by OSU Divest to the University Student Government (USG).
During the pre-vote discussion of the bill, OSU Divest activists accused Israel of “apartheid.” One activist claimed that United States presidential election candidates “all paraded to AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] to pledge allegiance to a foreign government.”
The stated mission of AIPAC is to “strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.”
Following the pre-vote discussion, the 2016 resolution failed in a secret ballot by 21-9 votes, with 15 abstentions.
SJP OSU - Spreading Incitement 2013-2015
On September 23, 2015, SJP OSU promoted an event on Facebook titled: “#AlAqsaUnderAttack: The Treatment of Sacred Palestinian Places of Worship Under the Occupation.”The event’s Facebook description claimed that there have been “attacks of Masjid Al-Aqsa, the third-holiest site in the Islamic faith, by the Israeli Defense Forces.”
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.
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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.
On November 3, 2014, SJP OSU co-sponsored and promoted on Facebook a “Hands Off Al Aqsa!” event.
The event’s Facebook description said: “When will we stop rallying? When Palestine is FREE! Religious freedom is under attack! As humans, we cannot stand around and watch as Palestinians are robbed of their religious freedom.”
On October 30, 2014, after a terrorist attempted [00:00:13] to assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick, triggering a temporary closure of the the Temple Mount, SJP OSU posted to Facebook an Al-Jazeera article titled: “Shutdown of Al-Aqsa mosque a ‘declaration of war’ say Palestinian leaders.”
SJP OSU - Spreading Hatred of Israel 2014-2016
On April 2, 2016, SJP OSU promoted on Facebook an event the group hosted as part of Birzeit University’s “Right to Education” tour.The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas.
On November 6, 2015, SJP OSU posted an article on Facebook that claimed Israel harvested organs from the bodies of killed Palestinians. The accusation was made by the chief Palestinian delegate at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour. Israel’s then-U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon wrote to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanding that he condemn the accusation.
On October 2, 2014, SJP OSU posted a graphic on Facebook that read: “#JSIL.”
The hashtag “#JSIL” means “Jewish State in the Levant” and is used as a way of comparing Israel to the Islamic State (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL).
SJP OSU’s Facebook post linked to an Al Jazeera social media stream post that spread an effort by Twitter users “to rebrand Israel as [Islamic State and the Levant] ISIL, renaming it ‘The Jewish State of Israel in the Levant.’”
On September 26, 2014, SJP OSU posted on Facebook a graphic featuring a series of misleading maps that presented lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land,” purportedly stolen by Israel. SJP OSU also featured these maps as part of their mock “apartheid wall,” during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) .
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
SJP OSU - Demonizing Trips to Israel 2016
On December 1, 2016, SJP OSU hosted an event objecting to a trip to Israel geared towards student government leaders, sponsored by an Israel advocacy group.Yousef Yacoub, SJP OSU’s then-treasurer, wrote on Facebook that he would track student “senators, directors, and members of senior staff,” who indicated interest in the trip.
On November 18, 2016, Yacoub wrote on Facebook: “I see you, and I promise you that if you go on this trip without hearing our voices, I will take action. At the first General Assembly of next semester, I will bring forth a resolution for all of your impeachments.”
On April 4, 2016, SJP OSU shared to Facebook a quote from an article published anonymously a month earlier in the Tufts University student newspaper, that demonized Birthright-Israel.
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
The article claimed that Birthright was “violent” and that “To make Birthright fun and safe means eradicating an Arab populace.” The article also said that “Birthright is the erasure of our right to our homeland, and it promises our homeland to one in four students at this university.”
On February 22, 2016, SJP OSU promoted a poster on Facebook that condemned a free trip to Israel awarded to Oscar nominees. The poster suggested that laws distinguishing between Israeli citizens and foreign nationals were “a defining feature of an apartheid state” and said: “Free Trip To Israel At The Expense of Palestinians” and “#SkiptheTrip, Don’t endorse Israel Apartheid.”
OSU Divest 2015-2017
OSU Divest was established in January 2015: “in response to the ever-worsening human rights crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories.”The group claimed that by “advocating for divestment from corporations, we are not condemning or attacking a country, a community, or a people,” and “our initiative does not support any particular political stance.”
In March 2015, OSU Divest introduced a BDS resolution at OSU’s University Student Government (USG). The divestment resolution was voted down.
On March 23, 2016, OSU Divest worked closely with SJP OSU board members to present another divestment resolution to the USG.
During the pre-vote discussion of the 2016 bill, which was published by secretary of the USG, OSU Divest activists accused Israel of “apartheid.” One claimed that United States presidential election candidates “all paraded to AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] to pledge allegiance to a foreign government.”
The stated mission of AIPAC is to “strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.”
OSU Divest received the 1,895 signatures required for their 2017 divestment initiative to be placed on the USG ballot as a referendum. The 2017 divestment bill was ultimately defeated.
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
Twitter: https://twitter.com/halalbelal [Deleted]
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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