Daniel Teitell
Overview
Daniel Teitell [Daniel Ethan Teitell] has expressed hatred of Israel and opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which includes equating Israel with Nazi Germany.As of March 2024, Teitell’s LinkedIn profile said he was a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law (CUNY Law), known as CUNY Law SJP, while he was a student there.
Teitell is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Teitell was also a member of the CUNY Law chapter of the Jewish Law Students Association (CUNY JLSA) during the 2020-2021 academic year. CUNY JLSA is an anti-Israel group.
As of March 2024, Teitell’s LinkedIn said he was a member of the CUNY Law chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), known as CUNY Law NLG.
As of the same date, Teitell’s LinkedIn said he had worked as a “Law Graduate” at The Legal Aid Society since September 2023.
Teitell was listed online as having passed the New York State bar exam in July 2023.
As of March 2024, Teitell’s LinkedIn said he graduated from Pratt Institute (Pratt) with a bachelor’s degree in “Printmaking” in 2011.
As of the same date, Teitell’s LinkedIn said he was located in Queens, New York.
Hatred of Israel
On September 24, 2020, Teitell signed [p. 3] a CUNY Law NLG statement defending Nerdeen Kiswani, the founder of the pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL), after an anti-Israel video of her went viral.In a September 2020 TikTok video Kiswani posted, she stood in front of a man wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sweatshirt while repeatedly lighting a cigarette lighter in her hand. Kiswani stated: “I hate your shirt, I want to set it on fire.” She then moved the flame closer to his shirt. The male smiled and Kiswani said: “No...I’m serious.”
Kiswani posted a caption accompanying the video that read: “I almost set this guy’s shirt on fire.” The caption was followed by hashtags, reading: “#F**kIsrael #FreePalestine #freepalestinetillitsbackwards don’t come around me with that.”
In the statement Teitell signed, the CUNY Law NLG wrote that the CUNY Law administration “capitulated to the tendency to conflate opposition to the settler-colonial, white supremacist state of Israel and critiques of Zionist ideology with anti-Semitism.”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
On May 25, 2021, Teitell signed a statement by CUNY4Palestine that was published by the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss.
The statement said: “We condemn the brutal bombing of Gaza…We condemn the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah…We oppose the raiding of the al-Aqsa mosque…”
In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
Signatories of the statement also pledged to “Initiate, support, and amplify campaigns in solidarity with Palestinian calls for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, at CUNY.”
In June 2023, Teitell signed a statement titled: “Over 400 CUNY Law Alumni Stand with Fatima.” The statement compared the “harm and violence caused” by American police to “Israel’s violent occupation and apartheid system.”
The statement defended Fatima Mohammed for her CUNY Law commencement speech in May 2023, where she promoted violence, spread hatred of Israel and the police, honored terrorist financiers and promoted BDS. Mohammed is a WOL activist and in her speeches for the group, she has glorified terrorists and called for Israel’s destruction. The CUNY Board of Trustees condemned Mohammed’s speech.
Opposing the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism
In April 2021, Teitell signed an open letter titled: “Open Letter to the CUNY Community Re: USS IHRA resolution.”The letter stated: “We, the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) at CUNY Law, and our allies, write to convey our concern and alarm over the recent introduction on 3/14/21 of the University Student Senate (USS) Resolution ‘Condemning Anti-Semitism and Supporting the CUNY Jewish Community.’ We respectfully oppose this resolution, and urge the USS and our CUNY community to do the same. This resolution adopts a definition of antisemitism put forth by the the [sic] International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).”
The IHRA also highlights another form of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
On April 11, 2021, The CUNY University Student Senate (USS) posted a Zoom meeting on Facebook where they debated adopting two different definitions of anti-Semitism.
The JLSA definition of anti-Semitism was presented to the CUNY USS as part of a larger resolution submitted by CUNY JLSA and CUNY Law SJP. The resolution claimed [p. 3]: “antisemitism is not an exceptional form of bigotry.”
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/dan.teitellLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dteitell
