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Deena Fadah
Deena Fadah was an officer of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter that expressed support for terror and hatred of Israel in the wake of the October 7, 2023 terror attacks by Hamas against Israel.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Deena Fadah served as the co-president of the SJP chapter (sjpwsu) at Wayne State University (Wayne State) in October 2023. The group's Instagram bio states: "Students seeking justice, liberation, and total reclamation for the Palestinian people 
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" and states in Arabic: ثورة الطلاب ["Student Revolution"].
The watermelon has been appropriated by anti-Israel activists as a symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to "Israeli occupation," as it shares the Pan-Arab colors. It gained popularity following the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023.
Fadah served as fundraising director for the Yemeni Student Association (ysawsu) in 2023.
Fadah is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of January 22, 2024, Fadah was listed on Instagram as studying neuroscience at Wayne State University, located in Detroit, Michigan.
On October 7, 2023, Deena Fadah's sjpwsu chapter reposted a post from Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) that said: "...PALESTINE LIVES! THE RESISTANCE LIVES!"
The post continued: “In the past several hours, the resistance in Gaza stormed the illegitimate border fence, rentering 1948 Palestine for the first time in many of our lives … the resistance has taken occupation soldiers hostage, firing thousands of rockets onto occupied Palestinian land...we continue to stand alongside our people in Gaza and across Occupied Palestine in their legitimate resistance against the occupiers...the struggle for liberation and return continues..."
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Included in the post was a photograph of dozens of Gazan men and boys in and on top of a captured Israeli tank, with a mob of Gazans running in the street alongside the tank, shouting and raising their hands in victory.
On October 8, 2023, Fadah's sjpwsu chapter posted on Instagram: "...ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE ...join us in honoring our martyrs and the struggle of our people against the colonizer. it is our duty to echo the calls...from the river to the sea. Long live Palestine, long live the resistance..."
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
Included in the post was a photo of a Gazan standing on top of a captured Israeli tank, holding up a Palestinian flag, and making the "v" for "victory" sign.
On October 18, 2023, Fadah's sjpwsu chapter posted on Instagram: "DETROIT TODAY!" Included in the post was a flyer promoting a rally titled: "EMERGENCY GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION / STOP THE GAZA GENOCIDE" with a photograph of two Gazan youths throwing stones, captioned in Arabic جيل الانتفاضة [“intifada generation”], and an illustration of two armed Hamas terrorists in a paraglider.
Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.
In the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, numerous terrorists infiltrated into Israel in motorized paragliders. Hamas terrorists descended in gliders on the Nova Music Festival, where they slaughtered over 360 unarmed young men and women. In the wake of the atrocities, images of Hamas militants on paragliders served to symbolize and glorify the deadly attacks.
On November 7, 2023, Wayne State published the first issue of the "Falastine Post" with the tag line: "Resistance Until Reclamation, Generation After Generation, Until Total Liberation, From the River to the Sea." The upper left corner of the masthead included a verse from Mahmoud Darwish: "...Put it on record at the top of page one...I shall eat the flesh of my usurper...beware, beware...of my anger!" The cover page included a photograph captioned: "Members of the Black Panther Party with members of the PLO in their main office in Algeria, 1969."
The PLO’s stated goal in its 1968 Charter was the “liberation of Palestine” through “armed struggle.”
As of January 11, 2024, the Falastin Post was hosted on sjpwsu's Instagram page.
On January 27, 2024, Fadah's sjpwsu chapter posted on Instagram: “HANDS OFF YEMEN AND FREE PALESTINE…” The post referred to an event hosted by sjpwsu in response to the U.S. Department of State designation of the Yemenite Houthis as a terrorist group on January 17, 2024.
Following the outbreak of Israel’s 2023 war against Hamas, Houthi terrorists attacked commercial ships off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and launched missiles into southern Israel. Like Hamas, the Houthi movement is backed by Iran, and is designated as a terror group by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The Houthi slogan translated into English reads: “God is the Greatest / Death to America / Death to Israel / A Curse Upon the Jews / Victory to Islam.”
On October 7, 2023, Fadah's sjpwsu chapter posted on Instagram: "...Mainstream news coverage of what's happening in Palestine and Israel needs crucial context: Israel's violent, decades-long military occupation and apartheid system against Palestinians...this daily violence against Palestinians receives little to no mainstream news coverage..."
Included in the post was a photograph of Hamas terrorists from Gaza using a large Caterpillar tractor to break through the security fence on its border with Israel, captioned: "CRUCIAL CONTEXT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL RIGHT NOW."
The post justified the terrorist attacks against Israel with [slide 5] that said: “The root cause of violence in Israel and Palestine is Israel’s decades-long violence and oppression against Palestinians.”
On October 16, 2023, Fadah's sjpwsu chapter posted on Instagram a call for students to wear keffiyehs for the week of October 16-20, 2023, in order to: “show your solidarity for Palestine as they continue to face settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing by the Zionist Entity backed by our tax dollars."
The keffiyeh is a Palestinian headdress traditionally worn by men, which has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
Also on October 16, 2023, Fadah's chapter of the ysawsu posted on Instagram: "The Yemeni Student Association at Wayne State...condemns the heinous crimes of genocide committed by the Israeli occupation...It's been more than 75 years of catastrophe...ethnic cleansing, illegal occupation, and blockade..."
The modern State of Israel was founded 75 years earlier, in 1948.
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On October 25, 2023, SJP WSU co-hosted an event in remembrance of October 7, 2023, along with a number of other WSU student groups. The Instagram caption for the event post concluded: “ may Allah liberate the land of Palestine and the beloved Masjid Al-Aqsa.”
The language of “flood” is a reference to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the name Hamas used for their terror operation on October 7, 2023. It is a reference to the allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. This accusation has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
On November 2, 2023, under Fadah's leadership, Wayne State Student Senate passed resolution 2324-03, the “BDS Resolution” “to ensure that we are not complicit in war profiteering and investing in companies that knowingly contribute to or benefit from human rights violations in Palestine and around the world.”
On February 5, 2024, SJP WSU posted issue three of the Falastin Post on their Instagram. In the accompanying caption, they wrote that “Our [Wayne State] president, provost, and dean… refused to support the BDS resolution... Their ignorance shows and they are responsible for enabling the genocide in Gaza.”
On February 28, 2024, SJP WSU posted that for National Week of Action they held a banner drop in the Wayne State Student Center. The banner they displayed featured the words “end the genocide WSU” and “divest now!”
