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Derek Ide
Derek Ide [Derek Alan Ide] has glorified terrorists and was a co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Toledo University (UT) in 2012-2013. He also served as President of UT SJP and was a member of the UT SJP steering committee in 2015.
Ide attended the National SJP (NSJP) 2017 conference.
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
In 2015, Ide co-authored a divestment resolution launched by UT SJP’s Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement campaign — “UT Divest.”
On August 4, 2017, Ide posted on Facebook that he was studying History at the University of Houston (UH). Ide also indicated on Facebook that he completed a master’s degree in Middle Eastern History at UT from 2013 to 2015.
On August 1, 2015, Ide posted on Facebook that he started working as an Adjunct Lecturer at UT.
As of March 2020, Ide’s Facebook page said he was a “Former Adjunct Lecturer” at UT, from “August 2015 - May 2017.”
As of March 2020, Ide went by the alias “Derek Alan” on Facebook.
On January 3, 2020, the day the United States assassinated Iranian Qassem Soleimani in a targeted strike, Ide posted a photo of Soleimani and praised him on Facebook.
Soleimani was a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commander of its Quds Force from 1998 until his death in 2020.
Soleimani provided assistance to the terror group Hezbollah, assisted Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, was sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, and designated a terrorist by the United States.
Ide wrote on his Facebook post: “In a world of cowards, traitors, and imperial sycophants, be a Qassem Soleimani. RIP to one of the better military men of the late 20th and early 21st century. And long live those that fight for an alternative to US hegemony, even if it’s not exactly in the image western liberals desire.”
On November 24, 2016, Ide posted a photo on Facebook in which he wore a t-shirt featuring Leila Khaled and wrote: “#family.” Ide also tagged Khaled in the photo.
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre, where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister.
On December 4, 2016, Ide posted a photo of Shadia Abu Ghazaleh on Facebook, as well as a quote from the PFLP commemorating Ghazaleh.
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, a bomb-maker for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was involved in many attacks against Israel. She was killed when a bomb she was preparing in her home for an attack in Tel Aviv accidentally detonated.
On February 13, 2015, Ide wrote on Facebook that “the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani,” was one of his “personal heroes.”
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On February 17, 2015, the UT Student Government (SG) Students Judicial Council ruled UT SJP’s divestment resolution unconstitutional in a 5-4 vote. Following the vote, SJP doubled down, reissuing a similar divestment resolution two weeks later.
On March 3, 2015, during the discussion portion of UT Divest’s divestment resolution, Ide claimed [00:50:08] the lives of Palestinian civilians are threatened daily by Israeli “terror and brutality.”
On March 31, 2015, SG approved a SJP-UT-sponsored referendum inviting the student body to vote on whether SG should call upon the UT Board of Trustees to implement divestment.
57.13% of students voted in favor of the referendum, failing to meet the required two-thirds threshold.
On October 29, 2015, during the Knife intifada in Israel, UT SJP held an anti-Israel demonstration at the university's student union using propaganda posters depicting Palestinian terrorists as victims.
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
One of UT SJP posters read: “Israeli forces have killed 25 Palestinians this month. 8 of them children.” The poster then listed the “children” which included Ahmed Manasra, Marah Bakris [Marah Al-Bakri] and Israa [Asraa Zidan Tawfik Abed] Abed.
In October 2015, 16-year-old Marah Al-Bakri [Marah Bakir] stabbed an Israeli border police officer and tried to grab his weapon before she was shot.
In September of 2013, UT SJP held a mock checkpoint event to demonize Israel, where SJP member Katrina Bacome was photographed spray painting “Long Live the Intifada” on the mock “apartheid” wall.
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On August 4, 2014, UT SJP posted to their Facebook page a graphic denying that Hamas used human shields and claiming that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians.
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 12, 2014, UT SJP endorsed an anti-Israel demonstration held a day later. During the demonstration, UT SJP member Katrina Bacome led anti-Israel chants, while UT SJP member Shahrazad Hamdah held a sign that read: “Gaza is today’s Warsaw Ghetto.”
Nadine Armoush — a member of UT SJP — covered the demonstration for UT:10news, a weekly newscast at UT. Armoush claimed [00:00:11] that “Israel has occupied Palestine since 1948.”
Armoush also interviewed Bacome, who claimed [00:01:10] that Israel is committing a “slaughter of innocent Palestinians” and referred to Gaza as “the world’s largest open-air prison.”
On March 18, 2014 — during UT SJP’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) — UT SJP performed a play which demonized [00:08:12] Israeli soldiers as irrational, [00:05:20] cruel and [00:10:24, 00:36:21] violent.
One character in the play labelled [00:39.34] Israel a “brutal racist system” while another character claimed [00:37:13] that Israel locks Palestinian children in cages outdoors.
On October 3, 2016, UT SJP hosted Hamas propagandist Mads Gilbert.
Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership.
In 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014, Gilbert was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time, he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.
In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terrorism as a “legitimate response.” In December 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
On April 19, 2014, UT SJP co-hosted a “Gaza Fundraising Dinner.” Speaking at the event was Osama Abu Irshaid, the national policy director of the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Abu Irshaid formerly served as editor of Islamic Association for Palestine's Arabic periodical, Al-Zaitounah — a mouthpiece for pro-Hamas propaganda.
In 2015, UT SJP launched and ran a divestment campaign under the slogan “UT Divest,” as part [01:34:54]of the wider Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On February 17, 2015, the UT Student Government (SG) held a closed meeting on the Divestment resolution. The Students' Judicial Council ruled [00:02:03] that the resolution was unconstitutional because it would be impossible for student senators to remain neutral.
Following the vote, UT SJP successfully campaigned to have the ruling overturned, and on March 3, 2017, the student senators approved the divestment resolution in a 21-4 vote. One senator’s request [02:47:56] for a secret ballot was rejected.
On March 4, 2015, UT Interim President Nagi Naganathan released a statement saying that, regardless of the senators’ vote, UT would not divest from companies doing business with Israel.
On March 31, 2015, SG approved a UT-SJP-sponsored referendum inviting the student body to vote on whether SG should call upon the UT Board of Trustees to implement divestment.
57.13% of students voted in favor of the referendum, failing to meet the required two-thirds threshold.
On September 20, 2017, UT SJP shared a photo of Rasmea Odeh to their Facebook page, adding: “We stand with Rasmea!”
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap, and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh of immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan, and banned from re-entering the U.S.
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 Student 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.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
