Dalia Altarshan

On February 3, 2015, Altarshan posted a link on Facebook to a “Sumoud: Fundraiser to Support Rasmea Odeh” event page. Altarshan wrote: “It’s not too late guys! You can still buy tickets and come tonight for the fundraiser dinner.”

In a picture published by SJP Loyola on n December 1, 2014, Altarshan joined SJP at Loyola activists at a demonstration, supporting Rasmea Odeh. Altarshan held a sign that read: “Free Rasmea and All Political Prisoners.”

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On August 18, 2014, Altarshan posted a photo on Facebook of then-United States President Barack Obama with a caption that read: “Let me be clear, We do not have money for veterans, children, the elderly, the poor, the schools, and bridges. However we have billions to give to Israel, so it can continue bombing and murdering Palestinians.”

On August 4, 2014, Altarshan posted a photo on Facebook of anti-Israel activists holding a sign that read: “Israel cut the s**t out. You were killing my people long before Hamas was created. Sixty-six years under occupation created Hamas!”

On July 15, 2014, Altarshan tweeted: “@Hashtag10001 @HIJO_DE__DIOS @tweetsrtiring @alayham2008 I still see no reply to the genocide of blacks by Jews. Did you google it?”

On the same day, Altarshan tweeted: “Israel never wanted and never will want peace.”

Also on July 15th, Altarshan tweeted: “your a product of the bulls**t propaganda spewed out by Israel.”

In a July 15, 2014 Twitter exchange, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Altarshan tweeted: “Hamas has nothing hidden underneath. They've never found anything. It's all lies told so they can.”

Altarshan’s tweet was responding to a tweet by a Palestinian who refused to evacuate his home following an Israeli warning that the house would be bombed.

Later in the feed, Altarshan argued that OPE was not an “...attack against a terrorist organization” but “a religious and politically motivated genocide.”

On July 4, 2014, Altarshan shared an image on Facebook of a series of maps portraying Israel as gobbling up the sovereign states of Canada, Australia, United States and Germany. The maps were captioned “How would you feel?”

Supporting BDS

On March 8, 2015, Altarshan changed her Facebook profile photo and cover photo to fliers promoting the Loyola Divest campaign, launched by SJP Loyola, which called “for divestment from corporations that are complicit in and which profit from the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.”

On March 25, 2015, Altarshan appeared in a celebratory photo posted on Facebook, with other SJP activists, following the passage of a BDS resolution at Loyola.

On March 31, 2015, the Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC) President signed and endorsed the divestment resolution. The vote passed with 16 votes in favor, 15 against and two abstentions.

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.

AMP

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian as a vehicle to generate mainstream support in the United States for the Palestinian national cause.

On its website, the organization lists Bazian as the chairman of its national board and describes itself as “a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.” 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused AMP of promoting “extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans” about Palestinians. The ADL further stated that AMP is directly involved in campus-based anti-Israel activity through Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Prior to founding the AMP in 2006, Dr. Bazian created SJP together with fellow UC Berkeley Professor Snehal Shingavi in 2001. The close working relationship between AMP and SJP has been documented several times over the years by several organizations, including NGO Monitor and StandWithUs. 

In addition to providing financial, public relations and legal assistance to SJP, AMP has also been accused of having connections to Hamas. The AMP national board includes former members of both the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation (HLF), both of which were found liable for aiding and abetting Hamas. The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas.

 

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