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Cece Sadek
Cece Sadek signed an anti-Israel statement in October 2023 during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Sadek also spoke at the pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in 2024.
Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Alumni and students at the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) organized the statement, which blamed the war on Israel’s existence.
Cece Sadek also engaged in anti-Israel activism in February 2024, during Israel's war against Hamas.
Cece Sadek indicated on the statement that she received an MSW from SP2 in 2024.
As of February 2025, Cece Sadek's LinkedIn profile said she had worked part-time as an intern outpatient therapist at The Center for Autism in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 2023 to May 2024.
As of the same date, Cece Sadek's LinkedIn said she was located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
On October 31, 2023, 120 students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) signed a petition accusing Israel of "ongoing genocidal violence" in its war against Hamas, launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
The SP2 student and alumni statement blamed Israel for the war. Referencing the 75 years since Israel had been founded in 1948, the statement said: "We are in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their movement for safety and liberation. We recognize the critical context of the 75-year Israeli military occupation of Palestine as the root cause of the ongoing loss of both Palestinian and Israeli lives."
The statement accused Israel of "settler colonialism" multiple times. It further claimed Israel's war against Hamas was a "genocide" that was an example of "settler colonial violence" and "racialized violence."
The statement also demanded "an end to the siege on Gaza," alleging that Gaza was an "open-air prison," a reference to the 2011 UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip by Egypt and Israel to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On April 25, 2024, Sadek was featured in a video posted on Instagram, speaking at the pro-Hamas encampment at Penn, called the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
In the video, Sadek said [00:02:09]: "...we demand that the University of Pennsylvania disclose all of its individual and active financial investments in the Israeli apartheid regime. We demand the University of Pennsylvania divest financially from corporations that profit from Israel's genocide on Gaza and its occupation on the Palestinian people. We demand this university academically divest from Israeli institutions, condemning the scholasticide's of Palestinian scholars and universities and we demand the University of Pennsylvania defend Palestinian students and their allies, granting amnesty for those involved in pro-Palestinian protests..."
Date: April 25, 2024
Organizers: Philly Palestine Coalition (PPC)
Location: Penn campus, Philadelphia, PA
Event Flyer: Instagram
On April 25, 2024, anti-Israel activists from Penn, Temple University and Drexel University set up the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the Penn campus to protest Israel's war against Hamas.
PPC also promoted the encampment by posting an Instagram graphic that said: "Join The Penn Encampment! Rally to Support Our Students and Stand With Gaza!"
The encampment was part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Nearly 200 anti-Israel college encampments were set up in North America in spring 2024. Activists harassed Jews with antisemitic slurs, expressed [slide 5] support [00:02:45] for Hamas terrorism and called [00:04:45] for Israel's destruction. They blocked Jews from campus facilities and limited access to those with special wristbands or who said they weren't a Zionist.
