Deena Elboghdady
Overview
Deena Elboghdady has spread hatred of Israel and was a 2016 and 2017 board member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC).Elboghdady promoted SJP UIC’s Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement initiative at UIC in 2016.
As of February 2021, Elboghdady indicated on her LinkedIn that she was a “Clinical Engineer II” at TRIMEDX at the Rush University Medical Center in the Greater Chicago Area, since January 2021, and previously a “Clinical Engineer” at TRIMEDX from November 2019 - January 2021
Elboghdady’s LinkedIn said that she graduated UIC in 2018, with a degree in “Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics.”
Israel Hatred
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9. Any countries
8. That
7. Deserve to be
6. Declared ‘worst’
5. Because
4. They all
3. Have something
2. Great about them
1. Israel”
On May 15, 2018, during the March of Return riots in Gaza, Elboghdady shared a video on Twitter of a person physically preventing a dog owner from walking their dog on another person’s lawn.
Elboghdady commented: “Wish white ppl got this heated when it came to Israel killing and injuring thousands of Palestinians for PROTESTING. Or POC [People of Color] getting assaulted by the police 10x more often. Protect animals, love them, care for them. But don’t be outraged, when u wont be outraged for a human being.”
In April 2018, media reports confirmed [00:00:20] the March of Return protesters’ breaches and attempted breaches of Israel’s border fence, some by armed Palestinians. One Hamas leader declared [00:00:30]: “We will take down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.”
On January 25, 2018, Elboghdady tweeted: “The rest of the world has seen it. America has given Israel over 38billion dollars in military aid to continue this oppression. That aid.”
On that same day, Elboghdady tweeted: “The UN published report on Israel being an apartheid state and the 80 countries that recognize Palestine isn't enough. Do you know how many-”
In the same thread, Elboghdady tweeted: “And way to ignore the UN report and 80 countries (btw that was the old number) now it's 95 countries that support Palestine.”
On January 25, 2018, Elboghdady tweeted: “Israel and the US have even made an agreement with Facebook to ban any page that is pro-palestine or an activist for Palestine.”
SJP UIC Pushing BDS
On January 22, 2016, Elboghdady promoted SJP UIC’s UIC Divest campaign on her Facebook page. In January 2016, SJP UIC launched UIC Divest, a campaign calling for UIC “to divest from companies that support the illegal occupation of Palestine such as G4S, Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and Boeing.In February 2016, SJP UIC united with 23 other student groups to co-sponsor a BDS resolution that proposed “divestment from companies profiting from human rights abuses and violations of international law in Palestine.”
The resolution’s wording was later modified due to efforts to blunt its original anti-Israel focus and called on UIC to divest from “companies actively engaged in human rights violations in Palestine, Syria, China, United States, US-Mexican border, and Chicago.”
On February 15, 2016, the modified resolution passed unanimously.
Later that day, SJP UIC’s press release stated: “While tonight’s divestment vote is an important step in the divestment movement, we recognize that this is just the beginning. We are committed to working towards urging the university to divest wholly from the Israeli occupation....”
In April 2016, SJP UIC celebrated on Facebook the resolution’s passing and suggested it called on “the university to remove all their investments in companies complicit in human rights violations of the Palestinian people and the occupation and colonization of Palestine!”
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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