Cole Manley
Overview
Cole Manley has spread hatred of Israel and promoted an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign at Stanford University (Stanford). In 2014 and 2015, he was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Stanford.In 2014 and 2015, Manley was also a member of the anti-Israel organization Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine (SOOP), which has described itself as a coalition of 19 student groups promoting divestment from "human rights abuses in Palestine & around the world."
As of October 2020, Manley’s LinkedIn page said he was a Research Assistant for the “Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute” at Stanford, since June 2015. His LinkedIn page also said that he studied History at Stanford andgraduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2015.
In 2020, Manley graduated from Columbia University (Columbia) with a master’s degree in History.
Also as of October 2020, Manley was listed as a Ph.D. student, studying History at the University of California - Davis (UC Davis).
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On January 22, 2015, Manley promoted an article to Facebook written by fellow SOOP member Sid Patel. The article was published by Standford’s student-run newspaper “The Stanford Daily” and titled: “A False Security.”Patel demonized Israel’s response to Operation Protective Edge (OPE).
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Patel claimed that the Israel Defense Forces was “the greatest purveyor of terrorism” against civilians and suggested that Israel used Hamas rockets and terror tunnels as pretexts to “‘justify’” OPE.
Hamas terror tunnels are intended for mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios against Israeli civiliansand soldiers. They stretch from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Hamas terror tunnels are intended for mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios against Israeli civiliansand soldiers. They stretch from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
On January 16, 2015, Manley featured [00:00:06] in a SOOP campaign video, titled: “#FilasteenFridays: Israeli State Violence.” The YouTube video description accused Israel of “human rights abuses” and suggested that “institutional links that exist between those crimes and its parallels in the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color in the U.S.A.”
The video description echoed the “Deadly Exchange” campaign.
In 2017, JVP launched the “Deadly Exchange” campaign that accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses.
JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S."
The video accused mainstream Jewish organizations in the United States of coordinating exchange programs between American and Israeli security personnel, to advance “worst practices” and “racist policies.”
The campaign page claimed that these “policies” included: “extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill policies, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention.”
Narrating the video, Manley blamed [00:00:24] Israeli police forces for police brutality against people of color in the U.S. and endorsed [00:01:24] SOOP’s divestment campaign.
On January 13, 2015, Manley shared to Facebook an article written by fellow SOOP activist Muzzammil Shittu and commented: “Muzz thank you. You flesh out the historical connections between South African apartheid and the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the parallels between critics of divestment in both instances.
Manley also promoted an event for the following day on his Facebook post, writing: “Come out tomorrow night to learn more about how the occupation relates to Ferguson.”
In August 2014, riots took place in Ferguson, Missouri, following the death of Michael Brown, a black teenager. The riots prompted anti-Israel activists to blame Israel for police brutality in the U.S.
Manley co-authored anOctober 26, 2014 article, published by The Stanford Daily, that claimed: “Both Palestinians and African Americans face racism and militarized policing when they resist. It is no surprise that the former head of the St. Louis County Police Department trained with the Israeli military, as have hundreds of senior police officials nationwide.”
On November 27, 2012, Manley promoted to Facebook an article published in the Stanford Daily titled “Why I care about Israel’s occupation of Palestine.” The article attempted to link “the multi-billion-dollar American-Israeli occupation of Palestine” to “the increase of racial profiling, police brutality against nonviolent political dissidents, American immigration policy and the welfare of the global poor.”
The article also suggested that the Israeli Police were responsible for the Oakland Police force “critically” injuring an Iraq War veteran and “dozens of others during the Occupy movement” and linked to the New York Police Department “racially profiling Muslim and Arab citizens since 9/11.”
Promoting BDS
In 2014, Manley was also a member of SOOP, an organization that disseminated BDS materials and solicits donations for BDS, but claimed that it is not connected to the BDS movement and favors what it calls "selective divestment."
On October 26, 2014, Manley co-wrote an op-ed calling on Stanford to “divest from companies that facilitate and profit from the injustices of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.” The op-ed promoted the launch of SOOP’s BDS campaign.
On November 23, 2014, Manley co-signed an op-ed by “the students behind Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine.”
The op-ed claimed: “The narrative of the Israeli state cannot be equated with the narrative of those they occupy” and that “international corporations in Palestine/Israel and the United States” formed “interconnected systems of oppression.”
On January 27, 2015, SOOP published a BDS resolution calling for Stanford to divest from companies that “violate international humanitarian law by: maintaining the illegal infrastructure of the Israeli occupation…facilitating Israel and Egypt’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians…[and] facilitating state repression against Palestinians.”
In 2015, Manley signed SOOP’s petition accompanying their divestment resolution.
On January 28, 2015, Manley endorsed SOOP’s divestment campaign on Facebook, writing: “#StanfordDivest Investing in human rights violations is not just wrong; it is illegal. Come hear from three Palestinians about their lives 1/28 (tonight) at 7pm! #FreePalestine Out of Occupied Palestine and sign the petition at soopalestine.org! Peace and justice.”
On February 9, 2015, Manley shared on Facebook an opinion piece, published by Presbyterian pastor Geoff Browning in The Stanford Daily. The article promoted Stanford’s divestment campaign and stated: “We do not want the endowment of this great university to be tainted with the blood of Palestinian suffering.A vote for divestment is a vote for nonviolent resistance.”
That same day, a video featuring Manley and other members of SOOP promoting “StanfordDivest” was published on YouTube. Manley appeared [00:00:35] supporting divestment on behalf [00:00:35] of Stanford’s Students for Alternatives to Militarism (SAM).
On February 10, 2015, the SOOP resolution initially failed [00:00:42]but was later brought forward in a motion calling for a re-vote and passed on February 17, 2015.
On April 14, 2015, however, the Stanford Board of Trustees announced that Stanford would take no action on SJP’s request.
SJP Activism
On October 16, 2015, Manley participated in a “silent protest” against Israel, organized by Stanford SJP.
Activists at the Stanford SJP protest held signs that read: “#AlAqsa Under Fire,” as well as “ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE.”
On November 12, 2014, Manley attended a Stanford SJP event titled: “Education Under Occupation: A Night With Students From Palestine.” The Facebook event page description read: “Stanford SJP is proud to host a stop of the nationwide Right To Education tour!”
Following the event, Manley thanked the speakers and organizers on Facebook.
SJP Stanford co-president Fatima Zehra was quoted in Stanford’s campus newspaper, saying: “We wanted to do something because we felt that Sunday’s protest was going to be really one-sided.”
Zehra reportedly considered e-mails advertising the scheduled mourning vigil problematic, because they referred to Israelis who had been murdered as “victims of terror.” Zehra claimed: “There’s implicit racism in that, because it’s like, all Palestinian Arabs are terrorists...”
Barghouti, who is the founder of the BDS movement, rejects Israel’s existence. Barghouti has claimed [00:04:28] that international law allows anyone with Palestinian ancestry the right to settle in Israel and said [01:18:21] BDS demands are “inflexible” and “non-negotiable.”
On November 9, 2015, Stanford SJP held a “Visual Talk” featuring Dr. Mads Gilbert, noting that he was “hit with a lifetime ban from entering Gaza by the Israeli government.”
Gilbert, who is banned indefinitely from entering Gaza via Israel due to his connections with Hamas leadership, was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
While at the hospital, Gilbert acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza and was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert called the attack a “legitimate response.”
The campaign was initiated [00:12:16] by Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and promoted on social media under the hashtag “#Stanford Divest.”
As of January 2020, SOOP’s Facebook page said its mission was “To end Stanford's investments in corporations which profit from the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
SOOP has reportedly stated that it is not connected to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and is focused on “selective divestment.” However, the coalition has reportedly disseminated BDS materials and promoted a video that solicited donations for BDS.
The resolution, titled: “A Resolution to Divest from Companies Violating Human Rights in Occupied Palestine,” was co-authored by Ramah Awad, SOOP leader and co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Stanford (SJP Stanford) at the time and then-members of SOOP, Clayton Evans, Laura Perez and Emma Hartung.
The resolution called for Stanford University Trustees to divest from companies that it alleged: “violate international humanitarian law by: maintaining the illegal infrastructure of the Israeli occupation.”
The resolution also called for divestment from companies it claimed facilitates Israel’s “collective punishment of Palestinian civilians…[and] state repression against Palestinians.”
On February 8, 2015, The Stanford Review, a student-run political magazine reported that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings showed no evidence that Stanford has been invested in any of the companies that SOOP targeted for divestment over the last ten years, with the exception of Raytheon, for one filing period.
The resolution initially failed [00:00:42] to garner the required 66% majority senate approval, in a vote held on February 10, 2015.
Senate Chair Ana Ordonez then brought forward a motion calling for a re-vote. Ordonez reportedly initially abstained from voting and was later quoted in the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, as saying: “Now that the noise has subsided, I know that I voted incorrectly.”
Ordonez voted in favor of the resolution in the re-vote, which passed on February 17, 2015. However, the Stanford Board of Trustees later announced on April 14, 2015, that Stanford would take no action on SJP’s request.
In accordance with the board’s Statement on Investment Responsibility, the board said in its statement on the resolution that they focused on “questions of divisiveness and negative impact” and determined that acting on the request would be “likely to impair the capacity of the University to carry out its educational mission.”
The video featured members of student groups, including [00:03:38] SJP Stanford, expressing why they support “#StanfordDivest.” Ramah Awad, SOOP leader and co-president of SJP Stanford at the time, said [00:03:45]: “We recognize divestment as one step on that path to liberation.”
On January 23, 2015, SOOP posted a photo album on Facebook titled: “Human of ‘Out of Occupied Palestine,’” which featured photos of Stanford students holding posters with anti-Israel messages and showing support for #StanfordDivest.
One photo showed a student holding a sign which read: “I support divestment because collective punishment is a war crime.” Another sign read: “There are better & more commendable ways to fiscally profit that doesn’t contribute to the displacement & exploitation of human lives.”
On January 21, 2015, SOOP reportedly organized a panel discussion to promote its BDS petition, which called for Stanford’s divestment from corporations that allegedly “facilitate human rights violations in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
On January 9, 2015, SOOP published a Youtube video titled: “FilasteenFridays: Collective Punishment in the Palestinian Territories.” The video urged Stanford students to support their BDS campaign as “the only way to show true moral neutrality.”
On January 8, 2015, SOOP hosted an informational event titled: “Case for Divestment from the Occupation of Palestine.”
The event’s Facebook description said it would include an explanation of SOOP’s “divestment criteria, followed by a moderated discussion with some of the campaign organizers.”
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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.
Activists at the Stanford SJP protest held signs that read: “#AlAqsa Under Fire,” as well as “ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE.”
On November 12, 2014, Manley attended a Stanford SJP event titled: “Education Under Occupation: A Night With Students From Palestine.” The Facebook event page description read: “Stanford SJP is proud to host a stop of the nationwide Right To Education tour!”
The Right to Education Tour brings Palestinian students to U.S. campuses to promote a claim that Israel arbitrarily obstructs the rights of Palestinians to higher education. The organization has demonized Israel for its security sweeps made to shut down terror cells operating from Palestinian campuses.
Following the event, Manley thanked the speakers and organizers on Facebook.
Stanford SJP - Protesting Against a Vigil for Terror Victims
In October 2015, SJP Stanford organized a protest as a “preemptive response” to a vigil scheduled to mourn Israeli civilians and soldiers killed in stabbing and ramming attacks, during the “Knife Intifada,” then occurring in Israel.SJP Stanford co-president Fatima Zehra was quoted in Stanford’s campus newspaper, saying: “We wanted to do something because we felt that Sunday’s protest was going to be really one-sided.”
October 2015 saw a wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” where young Palestinians throughout Israel were stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The upsurge in violence across Israel was incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Zehra reportedly considered e-mails advertising the scheduled mourning vigil problematic, because they referred to Israelis who had been murdered as “victims of terror.” Zehra claimed: “There’s implicit racism in that, because it’s like, all Palestinian Arabs are terrorists...”
SJP Stanford - Hosting Anti-Israel Agitators
On April 27, 2016, Stanford SJP held an event hosting Omar Barghouti for a live-video lecture.Barghouti, who is the founder of the BDS movement, rejects Israel’s existence. Barghouti has claimed [00:04:28] that international law allows anyone with Palestinian ancestry the right to settle in Israel and said [01:18:21] BDS demands are “inflexible” and “non-negotiable.”
On November 9, 2015, Stanford SJP held a “Visual Talk” featuring Dr. Mads Gilbert, noting that he was “hit with a lifetime ban from entering Gaza by the Israeli government.”
Gilbert, who is banned indefinitely from entering Gaza via Israel due to his connections with Hamas leadership, was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
While at the hospital, Gilbert acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza and was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert called the attack a “legitimate response.”
SOOP #Stanford Divest
Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine (SOOP) was reportedly a coalition of 19 student groups campaigning for Stanford University (Stanford) to “divest from corporations profiting from human rights abuses in occupied Palestine.”The campaign was initiated [00:12:16] by Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and promoted on social media under the hashtag “#Stanford Divest.”
As of January 2020, SOOP’s Facebook page said its mission was “To end Stanford's investments in corporations which profit from the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
SOOP has reportedly stated that it is not connected to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and is focused on “selective divestment.” However, the coalition has reportedly disseminated BDS materials and promoted a video that solicited donations for BDS.
SOOP - 2015 Divestment Campaign
In February 2015, members of SOOP presented a petition and a divestment resolution to the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Undergraduate Senate to further the agenda of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement.The resolution, titled: “A Resolution to Divest from Companies Violating Human Rights in Occupied Palestine,” was co-authored by Ramah Awad, SOOP leader and co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Stanford (SJP Stanford) at the time and then-members of SOOP, Clayton Evans, Laura Perez and Emma Hartung.
The resolution called for Stanford University Trustees to divest from companies that it alleged: “violate international humanitarian law by: maintaining the illegal infrastructure of the Israeli occupation.”
The resolution also called for divestment from companies it claimed facilitates Israel’s “collective punishment of Palestinian civilians…[and] state repression against Palestinians.”
On February 8, 2015, The Stanford Review, a student-run political magazine reported that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings showed no evidence that Stanford has been invested in any of the companies that SOOP targeted for divestment over the last ten years, with the exception of Raytheon, for one filing period.
The resolution initially failed [00:00:42] to garner the required 66% majority senate approval, in a vote held on February 10, 2015.
Senate Chair Ana Ordonez then brought forward a motion calling for a re-vote. Ordonez reportedly initially abstained from voting and was later quoted in the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, as saying: “Now that the noise has subsided, I know that I voted incorrectly.”
Ordonez voted in favor of the resolution in the re-vote, which passed on February 17, 2015. However, the Stanford Board of Trustees later announced on April 14, 2015, that Stanford would take no action on SJP’s request.
In accordance with the board’s Statement on Investment Responsibility, the board said in its statement on the resolution that they focused on “questions of divisiveness and negative impact” and determined that acting on the request would be “likely to impair the capacity of the University to carry out its educational mission.”
SOOP - Promoting BDS
On February 10, 2015, SOOP promoted a BDS Youtube video on Facebook, titled: “Stanford Student Groups Support #StanfordDivest.”The video featured members of student groups, including [00:03:38] SJP Stanford, expressing why they support “#StanfordDivest.” Ramah Awad, SOOP leader and co-president of SJP Stanford at the time, said [00:03:45]: “We recognize divestment as one step on that path to liberation.”
On January 23, 2015, SOOP posted a photo album on Facebook titled: “Human of ‘Out of Occupied Palestine,’” which featured photos of Stanford students holding posters with anti-Israel messages and showing support for #StanfordDivest.
One photo showed a student holding a sign which read: “I support divestment because collective punishment is a war crime.” Another sign read: “There are better & more commendable ways to fiscally profit that doesn’t contribute to the displacement & exploitation of human lives.”
On January 21, 2015, SOOP reportedly organized a panel discussion to promote its BDS petition, which called for Stanford’s divestment from corporations that allegedly “facilitate human rights violations in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
On January 9, 2015, SOOP published a Youtube video titled: “FilasteenFridays: Collective Punishment in the Palestinian Territories.” The video urged Stanford students to support their BDS campaign as “the only way to show true moral neutrality.”
On January 8, 2015, SOOP hosted an informational event titled: “Case for Divestment from the Occupation of Palestine.”
The event’s Facebook description said it would include an explanation of SOOP’s “divestment criteria, followed by a moderated discussion with some of the campaign organizers.”
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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