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Cherien Abou-harb
Cherien Abou-harb has expressed support for terrorists, spread incitement and demonized Israel.
Abou-harb was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and attended the 2017 National SJP (NSJP) conference.
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
Abou-harb is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
As of October 2017, Abou-harb's Twitter bio said that she was a student at the University of Georgia (UG), set to graduate in 2018.
On May 22, 2017, Abou-harb retweeted the tweet: “palestinian prisoners are on day 36 of their hunger strike to demand basic human rights but of course no media coverage #DignityStrike36.”
“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most of them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.
On July 21, 2017, Abou-harb retweeted the tweet: “israeli soldiers put metal detectors at al aqsa mosque and clash with people praying but no one wants to talk about that 
On July 14, 2017, terrorists murdered two Israeli police officers outside the entrance to the Al-Aqsa compound, reportedly following claims that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was in danger. In response to the terror attack, Israel installed metal detectors and security cameras at the entrance to the holy site, which the authorities later removed, after further rioting and escalation in violence.
On October 21, 2017, Abou-harb retweeted the tweet: “Ahhh Ethnically cleansing Palestinian women, how feminist,” which was responding to the tweet: ‘My kinda feminists, brave girls of the Israel Defense Forces, determined to kick the butts of jihadist threat to their country.”
On October 6, 2017, Abou-harb retweeted Samer Alhato’s tweet: Except Israel’s apartheid wall.” Alhato’s tweet was referencing Israeli actress Gal Gadot, and the tweet: “Watch: @GalGadot breaks down walls in her #SNL promo http://thr.cm/i0nkPq.”
On September 20, 2017, Abou-harb retweeted the tweet: “RT to stand on the Israeli flag and spit on it.”
On August 29, 2017, About-harb tweeted: “the same people that criticize BDS (a nonviolent protest) have no issue turning a blind eye to apartheid...y'all too stupid fr.”
On June 7, 2017, Abou-harb referenced Gadot’s starring role in the film Wonder Woman, tweeting: “someone explain to me how #WonderWoman
On January 31, 2017, Abou-harb tweeted: “Natanyahu, Trump, and Putin are our modern day Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo. Singlehandedly f**king up our entire world.”
On the same day, Abou-Harb tweeted: “You're a f**king dictator you piece of s**t” in response to a tweet by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel’s border wall against illegal immigration.
On August 10, 2016, Abou-harb tweeted: “the atrocities against Palestine by Israel is disgusting so y'all chill.”
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.
