Dania Salem
Overview
Dania Salem has spread anti-Semitism and demonized Israel on social media. She is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Salem also promoted hatred of Jews and demonized Israel on social media before she started university.
In 2016, Salem was listed on Facebook as the “Sisters Event Coordinator” of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at Benedictine University (Benedictine), on Benedictine MSA’s Facebook page.
In 2015, Salem indicated on Twitter that she was affiliated with the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an offshoot of the MSA.
As of January 2020, Salem’s LinkedIn page said she worked as a Technical Specialist at Apple, since May 2019, and that she studied Health Science at Benedictine from “2015 - 2019.”
Salem’s LinkedIn page also said she became a Certified Nursing Assistant at Joliet Junior College in 2017.
As of January 2020, Salem used the alias ohsochicago on Twitter.
Anti-Semitism
On July 9, 2015, Salem tweeted: “FALASTEEN BLADNA, WAL YAHOOD KLABNA.
[Palestine is our county and the Jews are our dogs].”Demonizing Israel
On March 20, 2018, Salem tweeted: “aw look at all the European colonists!!! you misspelled palestine.” The tweet was in response to a tweet that read: “Most beautiful place on earth, glad its in good hands
#israelforever.” The tweet featured photos of Jews touring in Israel. On May 15, 2016, Salem tweeted: “68 years of occupation. Respect existence or expect resistance.
#FreePalestine #Nakba68.” The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
On October 12, 2015, Salem tweeted: “He's a child & they're cussing at him after he's been shot...Israelis aren't human. They're literally devils.” Salem’s tweet referred to a terror incident that day involving Ahmed Manasra.
On the same day, Salem tweeted: “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine. Zionist scum. @CNN.”
On July 31, 2015, Salem tweeted at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited Palestinian victims of a suspected arson attack: “Lol. Like hitler visiting a jewish family. You're a MURDERER.”
On July 7, 2015, Salem tweeted: “You guys are TRASH for having a snapchat of a city that is on stolen land. Show the apartheid wall in #PALESTINE. @Snapchat.”
On March 3, 2015, Salem tweeted: “kol khara ya ibn al kalb [eat s**t you son of a dog] RT ‘@netanyahu: ‘I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.’#NetanyahuSpeech”
On January 5, 2015, Salem tweeted: “If you favor a two-state solution for Palestine, unfollow me.”
Support for BDS
On October 20, 2019, Salem tweeted: “they got me in california I was so upset. wish we'd vocalize the fact that they're israeli in public spaces so we can effectively boycott them.”The tweet was in response to a tweet that read: “BurgerIM in Bridgeview? You've got to be kidding me. Israeli halal burger joint trying to find its way into Muslim wallets.”
Pre-University Hatred of Jews
On December 17, 2014, Salem tweeted: “Ye5rib bayt al yahood, kol al nas bid3aso 3ala ijri. 7ameeer. [Destroy the homes of the Jews, all of the people trampling my feet. Donkeys].”Pre-University Hatred of Israel
On November 8, 2014, Salem tweeted: “May Allah let Israel and it's oppressive regime rot in the deepest depths of Jahannam [Hell].”On November 7, 2014, Salem tweeted: “@bosnianparade are you familiar to what Israhell is doing to Masjid al Aqsa [Al Aqsa Mosque]?? The third holiest site for muslims? You ARE muslim, right???”
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda served as the excuse for an upsurge in Palestinian violence that flared in the fall of 2015 and incited Palestinians to attempt mass casualty attacks on Israeli civilians in July 2016..
On November 7, 2014, Salem also tweeted: “If you think Israel is peaceful, please do the world a favor and never discus the Palestinian resistance again.”
On August 30, 2014, Salem tweeted: “israel??? — Error: Unknown word.”
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.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
Social Media and Weblinks
Twitter:https://twitter.com/ohsochicago/
https://twitter.com/hipsterjabi [Deleted]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dania-salem-98a547145/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/hipsterjabi/ [Deleted]
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