Burkan Aranki
Overview
Burkan Aranki tweetedthathe was a member of the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP), in 2014. Aranki has also glorified both Hamas and Hezbollah and called for “terrorism” and “intifada” against Israel. Aranki’s Twitter feed in 2016 indicated that he was a gun enthusiast.
Aranki has also promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Aranki participated in the violent disruption of a May 2018 pro-Israel event on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, as an activist with UCLA’sStudents for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
In May 2018, Aranki was reportedly a fourth-year physics student at UCLA. In June 2015, Aranki tweeted that he intended to continue on to medical school. In April 2019, Aranki tweeted that he was in graduate school.
Aranki co-authored an article published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research in August 2019.
On July 28, 2016 Aranki posted a picture to Instagram of himself with two others from the “Beverly Hospital Emergency Care Center” with the hashtags “EMTboyz” and “ERlife.”
In May 2018, Aranki’s Facebook page indicated he was an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, CA.
As of January 2020, Aranki’s LinkedIn page said he was an EMT at Nike, in Anaheim, California.
As of the same date, the website of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians showed that Aranki’s certification with that organization lapsed as of March 31, 2016. Aranki’s license (E101590) with the California Emergency Medical Services Authority also appeared as “expired,” as of September 30, 2018.
Claiming to be “Part of” a Terror Group
On April 14, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “I'm part of the PFLP, we are always on the end of the US made m-16s, and many of my friends killed by hands of military funding by the US.”
The PFLP — designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Australia — pioneered aircraft hijackings to draw attention to their movement’s demands, most notably with the capture of an Air France plane in 1976.
The hijackers flew the plane to Entebbe, Uganda, where they separated nearly 100 Jewish passengers from the others and threatened to execute one Jew per hour. Israel, however, launched a successful commando raid to rescue the hostages.
The PFLP also claimed “credit” for the November 18, 2014 Har Nof Synagogue massacre — where PFLP operatives murdered six people with a gun, axes and a butcher knife during morning prayers. PFLP Gaza leader Hani Thawbta stated: “We declare full responsibility of the PFLP for the execution of this heroic operation..."
Gun Enthusiast
On September 11, 2016, Aranki tweeted: “Guns are so cool.”On September 23, 2013, Aranki tweeted: “I'm going to f**kin' tear it up Friday with my new gun (;”
On May 21, 2013, Aranki tweeted: “Julian bought an AK-74 and I bought an AK-47, were like twins but opposite..not all the way opposite more like halfway opposite #guns #webad.”
Glorifying Hamas and Hezbollah
On March 17, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “#palestinian #trustissues Ik we been used by other - but Iran,Assad,hezbollah are the real ones/our soul mates
.”On July 24, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Aranki tweeted: “F**king Hamas, those brave motherf**kers, what they're doing is unheard of. #GazaUnderAttack #fightback.”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 19, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Why is it so hard (probably impossible) to get a Hezbollah flag in the U.S?!
”
”On July 19, 2014, Aranki tweeted a photo of a Hamas flag and wrote:: “I managed to get a #Hamas flag- it's not illegal to fly it right? Idc I'll fly it anyway #FreePalestine #resist,”
Calling for Terrorism and Intifada
On March 6, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Mmmaaaannnnnnnnnnn what's with all this peaceful approaches!?? F**k that. I want terrorism and another intifada.”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On July 1, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “There's going to be a huge a** #war really soon. A 3rd #intifada. I'd love to take part in it.”
On July 7, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “a 3rd intifada is what we need. #GazaUnderAttack #StopIsrael”
On July 24, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “The #intifada will happen, my home town, Birziet better be the first Militarize and fight till freedom or death.”
On the same day, Aranki tweeted: “Let the intifada begin!!!!!!”
Calling for Israel’s Destruction
On June 5, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “I'll be the next martyr, lay down my life any time #vivalapalestinia.”On April 30, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Do not fear, for I will be the destruction of israel.”
On March 6, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “I don’t want a two state solution. I want the complete and utter destruction of Israel.”
On that same day Aranki tweeted: “Why is it so hard to find a Palestinian girl or any girl with the same urge to annihilate Zionism, that's all i ask for haha
.”On February 27, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “But israel, after we destroy them, I'll make sure they are the last occupiers.”
On November 21, 2012, Aranki tweeted: “Aww theres a ceasefire...i was just about to pick up a gun and free gaza myself.”
Defending Terrorism
On June 3, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “I just wanted you to understand it’s wrong to attack Palestinians for any form of resistance, whether it’s armed or sharing a post. Esp against an enemy with emense weapons and Media units.”On June 1, 2018, Aranki tweeted “Forever true” along with a screenshot of a tweet that said “Palestinian resistance needs money, arms, training and aid; Hezbollah, Syria and Iran delivered that alone for decades. Palestinian resistance does not need your empty slogans, media campaigns and campus protests when you vehemently demonize those genuinely helping Palestine.”
On the same day, Aranki tweeted: “is donating money all we can do? Donations are great but don’t deter Israel from continuing its slaughter.”
Spreading Anti-Semitism
On March 7, 2019, Aranki tweeted: “Wow reading the Gallup poll, I had no idea Israel was so popular in the US! I guess it is anti-Semitic to assume it’s‘money’ that buys support
.”
.” On August 25, 2013, Aranki tweeted: “we were like a jew in a gas chamber yesterday next to taco bell.xD”
On December 13, 2012, Aranki tweeted: “@AlqassamBrigade these kids have been targeted by israhell since birth, they must defend against jewish pigs to survive.”
Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On May 8, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “Israel is our puppet master, free #America from Israel
.”On September 19, 2015, Aranki tweeted: “While America and Israel fund and train these Islamic state terrorists.”
On March 9, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Here's israel arresting a baby. Yeah, it's real. #Israelis are terrible people who should be exterminated.”
Hatred of America
On August 1, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “America is the epicenter of genocide, so don't flaunt that patriot nonsense.”On June 30, 2014, Aranki tweeted at then-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice: “@AmbassadorRice tell your f**k buddies israel to stop there assault. Than please do us all a favor and kill yourself.”
On December 24, 2013, Aranki tweeted an image of the grim reaper wearing an American flag, knocking on a closed door labelled “Egypt” while holding a bloody scythe printed with the image of the Israeli flag. Behind the reaper are a series of open doors labelled Pakistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, with blood seeping out of each of them.
Hatred of Israel
On May 21, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “Zionism is a diesese.”On April 17, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “F**k Israel.” Aranki attached to his tweet a tweet that stated: “They shot to kill or to cause devastating damage.. it's not a self defense it's a genocide #GreatReturnMarch.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
On November 13, 2015, Aranki tweeted: ‘I've said it before, I'll say it again - #Israel and #Saudi Arabia are the cause of all terrorism.”
In response to the tweet: “What's Israel ?” Aranki tweeted: “some neo nazi pretend state that thrives off lies, colonialism, and the bombing of innocent people.”
On July 23, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “@tbotnar which were initially Palestinian cities till it was infested with pigs (aka zionists).”
On July 16, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “@haaretzcom kill yourself. Zionist dogs.”
On July 4, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “@zoecooknadel @HistoricalPics you mad that not everyone is pro genocide and ethnic cleansing? #stopisrael.”
On May 31, 2014, Aranki posted a photo of Palestinians standing next to Israel’s security barrier, tweeting: “I beg to differ. a concentration camp or a checkpoint? Either way it is a well learned nazi tactic.”
Aranki was responding to a Twitter comment that said: ‘I wouldn't equate Hitler's Germany with modern-day Israel. Not comparable by any stretch of the imagination.”
On April 15, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “My last retweet is the stuff that pisses me off, Palestine/israel is NOT about religion. It's about colonization and genocide…”
SJP Activism
On May 17, 2018, Aranki and SJP at UCLA activists and affiliates disrupted [00:00:47] an event hosted by Students Supporting Israel (SSI) on the UCLA campus.The event, titled "Indigenous People Unite," provided a forum for Jewish, Kurdish, and Armenian indigenous communities “to share the stories of their people.”The disruptors were joined by activists with SJP at UCLA Alumni Association(SJP at UCLA Alumni),as well as activists from the group Southwest Asian and North Afrikan Los Angeles (SWANA LA) and activists from the off-campus Antifa group Revolution Club L.A./ Refuse Fascism Los Angeles.
Approximately 41 minutes into the lecture, SJP at UCLA members and Antifa activists invaded [00:41:16] the forum. Protester Armen Adamian marched toward the speakers and tore the Armenian flag off the wall. Adamian also grabbed [00:41:24] the Armenian panelist’s notes off the speakers’ table and leaned over the seated panelist.
Other protesters chanted [00:43:01]“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” as well as [00:42:29] “We don’t want two states, we want ‘48!” and [00:45:08] “1,2,3,4 Open up the prison doors; 5,6,7,8 Israel is a terrorist state!!”
The Israeli flag was also ripped from the wall and protestor Natalie Kamajian, when asked to relinquish the flag, refused [00:46:52] to do so.
Campus security eventually escorted [00:50:05] the protesters out of the classroom where the event was held, into an adjacent hallway. There, the protesters pounded [00:521:2348] on the door to the classroom and continued [00:08:32] chanting.
Later, when the door was reopened, the protesters continued their disturbance, screaming [00:33:15] obscenities, using [00:14:27] a megaphone and physically blocking [00:13:52] the door from being closed.
In a May 17, 2018 interview with the Daily Bruin, Aranki said he thought the SSI event was “false” because “it did not feature any Palestinian speakers.”
Following the disruption, students attending the SSI event reported feeling intimidated and fearing for their physical safety. SSI chapter president Hirmand Sarafian, the Armenian panelist, reported that he felt physically threatened “throughout the whole thing, from the beginning to the end.”
SJP at UCLA reportedly denied initiating or having “a significant hand in organizing the demonstration” and claimed that “none of our board members attended the event.”
However, SJP at UCLA’s 2018 primary signatory Robert Gardner was filmed taking a leadership role in the disruption, alongside SJP at UCLA signatory Gurutam Thockchom, as well as Aranki and fellow SJP at UCLA activists Sarena Khasawneh, John Abughattas, and Tamara Khoury.
On May 18, 2018, both SWANA-LA and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) in Austin specifically praised SJP at UCLA and SJP at UCLA Alumni’s role in disrupting the SSI event. PSC is an alternative name for SJP.
On that same day, Aranki tweeted: “Made it in the school news
,” with a screenshot of his May 17, 2018 Daily Bruin interview, and the caption: “Ya boy about to be targeted 
.”On May 19, 2018, Aranki twice tweeted a meme promoting the disruption, commenting: “You cannot co-opt the Armenian struggle to white wash [sic] your genocide against the Palestinians.”
why y’all so mad.”On May 20, 2018, Aranki added to his previous Twitter thread: “Stopping an event that white washes ethnic cleansing is stupid?”
On May 24, 2018, UCLA chancellors Jerry Kang and Monroe Gorden published anofficial denunciation of the incident in the Daily Bruin.
The chancellors’ statement condemned the intimidation of panelists and audience members and declared that the university would “refer all evidence of wrongdoing” of non-UCLA students “to local prosecutors to determine whether they have broken the law.”
On May 30, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “SJP is under attack, so many zionist newspapers smearing us, even breitbart came at us at UCLA last week.”
On June 1, 2018, Aranki tweeted: “I’m f**king sad. Israel must pay for its crimes,” adding “What’s worse is how BFI and SSI expects us to stay quite[sic] after all this bs.”
Gardner tweeted in response: “They have no idea what’s coming. The question is: are folks on campus ready? It’s time turn our anger into organizing and turn the f**k up.”
Aranki responded: “Lord knows I’m ready to turn it up a notch
,” to which Gardner tweeted: “We need you
.”A June 14, 2018 article, published by the Jewish Journal, reported that half a dozen students said they would file formal complaints against the disruptors for “criminal disruption of a meeting, as well as disturbing the peace and conspiracy.”
An August 8, 2018 article in the Algemeiner reported that the Los Angeles city prosecutor was investigating the disruption, and had “requested additional investigative materials from the UCLA Police.”
Supporting BDS
On February 20, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Through #BDS we wage our war, although guns would be nice too.”On March 17, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “Well if @Neilyoung goes to play in israel, I hope his plane crashes. #BDS #StandwithPalestine #stopAparthied.”
On June 1, 2014, Aranki tweeted: “the world is opening it's eyes, there's no denying that, BDS will continue to grow- until Israel ceases it's ethnic cleansing.”
SJP at UCLA
On February 15, 2017, Aranki tweeted a photo of himself featured on SJP at UCLA’s Instagram account, adding: “I'm famous af #freepalestine.”On the same day, Aranki tweeted: “met a long time role model of mine this week @Remroum,” along with a photo of anti-Israel propagandist Remi Kanazi. Kanazi has justified terrorism, belittled the Holocaust and demonized Jews. He has also supported terrorists, compared Zionists to the KKK and spread hatred of Israel.
On February 13, 2017, SJP at UCLA hosted Kanazi during their Palestine Awareness Week (PAW).
Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) is a re-branding for American audiences of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), originally 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.
On February 14, 2017, Aranki tweeted: “SJP is my favorite thing at UCLA by far.”
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SJP at UCLA - Support for Terrorists
On May 15, 2017, SJP at UCLA participated in a “Saltwater Challenge.”The “Saltwater Challenge” was held in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prison inmates convicted of terrorism. The strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings that killed five Israelis during the second intifada. Aarab Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti, launched the "Saltwater Challenge."
On October 14, 2015, the day after Palestinian terrorists killed three Israelis and wounded more than 20 others during the “Knife Intifada,” SJP at UCLA held a demonstration and “die-in,” as part of the International Day of Action for Palestine. The outreach co-director for SJP, Ani Der Grigorian commented to the Daily Bruin: “When there is no justice, there is no peace.”
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.
On October 29, 2015, SJP at UCLA shared on their website an October 23, 2015 submission to the Daily Bruin, titled “Palestinians are dying too.”
The submission, written by Shawndeez Davari Jadalizadeh, accused the Daily Bruin of taking part in a “callous political project” to “erase Palestinian life” by failing to mention the names of Palestinians killed during the Knife Intifada.
The submission then listed a number of “Palestinians killed by Israelis... since Oct. 1, the beginning of the third intifada,” including terrorists Fadi Alloun, Amjad al-Jundi, Hassan Manasra.
Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
Amjad Al-Jundi stabbed an Israeli soldier on October 7, 2015. He then took the soldier’s rifle and ran to a nearby apartment building where he tried to shoot and stab a local woman in her home. Police responded and killed Al-Jundi during a shootout that transpired.
Hassan Manasra was shot on October 12, 2015, while he and his 13-year-old cousin Ahmed were engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem, critically wounding a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounding a 25-year-old man.
On January 15, 2014, SJP at UCLA hosted an event titled “International Solidarity with Palestine: Towards a Global Intifada.”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
The second intifada (2000-2005) was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
The event featured BDS founder, Omar Barghouti, and welcomed him to Los Angeles. Barghouti has expressed support for terrorism, promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and has explicitly called for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state.
SJP at UCLA - Anti-Semitism
In February 2015, four SJP at UCLA activists and council senators with UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association (USA) were involved in a widely publicized anti-Semitic incident.Sofia Moreno Haq, Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, Manjot Singh and Fabienne Roth were responsible for preventing Rachel Beyda from joining the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) judicial board, because Beyda belonged to Jewish organizations.
Beyda’s position on the Judicial Board was later confirmed at a re-vote and the four objecting counselors submitted a formal apology to Beyda and the Jewish community.
SJP at UCLA - Intimidation
In 2016, SJP at UCLA reportedly harassed Milan Chaterjee, the former president of UCLA’s Graduate Student Association (GSA), to such an extent that he stepped down from his student government position and left UCLA.In November 2015, Chaterjee had attempted to block an effort by SJP at UCLA to use school funds to promote the BDS movement during a diversity caucus town hall event, in accordance with a policy requiring viewpoint neutrality.
Chaterjee said that, as a result, he was "relentlessly attacked, bullied, and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students" for months.
In April 2014, SJP at UCLA members submitted a petition to USAC’s judicial board against two former undergraduate student government council members who participated in trips to Israel that were sponsored by pro-Israel Jewish organizations.
SJP at UCLA alleged that the council members committed “conflict of interest violations” by participating in the sponsored trips and should have abstained from voting on a February 2014 BDS resolution. SJP at UCLA also argued the council members’ votes on the divestment resolution should have been disqualified.
SJP at UCLA alleged that the council members committed “conflict of interest violations” by participating in the sponsored trips and should have abstained from voting on a February 2014 BDS resolution. SJP at UCLA also argued the council members’ votes on the divestment resolution should have been disqualified.
Although the ballot on the divestment resolution was secret, it was assumed that the two voted against the resolution because they both spoke against the resolution during discussions prior to the vote.
The student judicial board later ruled that the trips taken by the council members did not constitute a conflict of interest.
SJP at UCLA - BDS Activism
In December 2013, SJP at UCLA launched its first divestment campaign, drafting a resolution calling on the UC Regents to pull funding from five companies doing business with Israel, including Caterpillar, Cemex, Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), General Electric (GE), and Hewlett-Packard (HP). The February 2014 debate lasted over ten hours and went until 6:00 a.m. The resolution was ultimately voted down.
In November 2014, SJP at UCLA again pushed a divestment resolution “calling on the Regents to divest from companies that enable and profit from violations of Palestinian rights.”
The resolution claimed that the same five companies “provided weapons used” by Israel “in attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,” and that investment in these companies “shows implicit support” for “the killings of civilians.”
On November 18, 2014, the undergraduate student government adopted the divestment resolution with a vote of 8-2-2.
In February 2015, SJP at UCLA pushed BDS beyond the UCLA campus by promoting a divestment resolution to the UC Student Association (UCSA). The resolution also called on the UC Regents to divest from American-based corporations that “violate Palestinian human rights.”
The UCSA Board of Directors passed the resolution by a 9-1-5 vote.
On March 15, 2018, various SJP chapters in the UC system co-opted a student protest against tuition hikes outside of the UC Regents meeting at the UCLA campus, calling on the Regents to divest from certain companies that do business with Israel.
On April 25, 2018, SSI chapter president, Hirmand Sarafian, tweeted a short video documenting that during a discussion prior to the tuition-hike protest, BDS activists [00:00:18] “called us ‘Hillel fascists’ and asked us to leave” after Sarafian argued that [00:00:13] “BDS shouldn’t be included here because it excludes many Jewish voices.”
Sarafian added [00:00:28] that BDS activists at UCLA tried to “justify the use of a Swastika,” displayed by Gaza protesters, when “talking about the recent Gazan protests,” and claimed [00:00:39] “that middle-eastern Jews of different minorities aren’t really Jews.”
SJP at UCLA also used their 2014 Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) to promote divestment, erecting a “mock apartheid wall” and hosting a screening and discussion of the film “Roadmap to Apartheid,” a film that compared Israel to apartheid in South Africa.
Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) is a re-branding for American audiences of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), originally 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 at UCLA - Glorifying A Terrorist
On February 14, 2017, SJP at UCLA glorified Rasmea Odeh on their Facebook page, in honor of Palestine Awareness Week (PAW), calling her an “icon of the Palestine liberation movement,” and “an example for the millions of Palestinians who have not given up organizing for their rights.”The post concluded: “#Justice4Rasmea #FreePalestine #PAW2017.”
Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States. In 2017, Odeh was deported to Jordan and stripped of U.S. citizenship, after admitting to immigration fraud.
SJP at UCLA - Hosting Israel-Haters
On May 10, 2018, SJP at UCLA hosted a talk featuring anti-Israel professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Abdulhadi has cultivated ties with terror-supporting universities, glorified terrorists, trivialized the murder of Israeli teenagers and endorsed hate speech. She is also a national leader within the BDS movement.On November 15, 2017, SJP at UCLA hosted anti-Israel journalist David Sheen. The event description said Sheen would “speak about racism and ethnic cleansing within the Israeli community.” Sheen is an anti-Israel propagandist who often demonizes Israel on American college campuses.
On November 30, 2016, SJP at UCLA screened the anti-Israel film “The Occupation of the American Mind.” The event also featured the film’s anti-Israel Executive Producer, Professor Sut Jhally and anti-Israel activist and musician Roger Waters.
In his films, Jhally claims that the “Israel lobby” has waged “the most successful PR campaign ever,” resulting in a strong pro-Israel bias in American public media.
Blumenthal’s book “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel” has been dubbed “The Israel Hater’s Handbook” by Eric Alterman of the progressive magazine The Nation.
In January 2017, Peled said [00:00:06] the Israeli army was one of the “best trained, best equipped, best fed, terrorist organizations in the world” and claimed [00:00:16] that “their entire purpose is terrorism.”
Muhtaseb regularly uses her Facebook and Twitter to demonize Israel, whitewash Palestinian terrorism and collaborate with fellow anti-Israel activists. Atshan has praised inciters of violence including Sheikh Omar Suleiman who, in 2014, called on Twitter for a “Third Intifada” to destroy Israel.
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.
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Infamous Quotes
“F**king Hamas, those brave motherf**kers, what they're doing is unheard of. #GazaUnderAttack #fightback.”
“Mmmaaaannnnnnnnnnn what's with all this peaceful approaches!?? F**k that. I want terrorism and another intifada.”
“SJP is my favorite thing at UCLA by far.”
“There's going to be a huge a** #war really soon. A 3rd #intifada. I'd love to take part in it.”
“Let the intifada begin!!!!!!”
“Israel is our puppet master, free #America from Israel.
“While America and Israel fund and train these Islamic state terrorists.”
“@haaretzcom kill yourself. Zionist dogs.”
“@AlqassamBrigade these kids have been targeted by israhell since birth, they must defend against jewish pigs to survive.”
“Why is it so hard to find a Palestinian girl or any girl with the same urge to annihilate Zionism, that's all i ask for haha.”
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“Through #BDS we wage our war, although guns would be nice too.”
“Well if @Neilyoung goes to play in israel, I hope his plane crashes. #BDS #StandwithPalestine #stopAparthied.”
