Donald Courter
Overview
Donald Courter [Donald Louis Courter] has demonized Israel and served as the “General Body Coordinator” for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (Rutgers NB SJP) in 2014.Courter is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. In his anti-Israel activism, he promoted a campus divestment initiative organized by Rutgers NB SJP in 2014.
Courter founded the All Marxist-Leninist Union (AMLU) at Rutgers and reportedly served as its “general secretary” in 2016. As of April 2023, AMLU’s Twitter bio said: “...Queer means pick up the gun. Abolish RUPD [Rutgers University Police Department]! Abolish Prisons!...”
As of November 2017, Courter was listed as the Organizational Secretary of Students and Youth for a New America (SYNA) on the organization’s website.
As of April 2023, Courter’s Twitter bio said he was a journalist and “host of TheRevolutionReport.” The Revolution Report’s website describes itself as “an anti-imperialist Marxist-Leninist YouTube channel” and states that Courter is its host and editor-in-chief.
As of December 2022, Courter worked as a correspondent for RT (formerly Russia Today).
As of April 2023, Courter’s LinkedIn page said he had graduated from Rutgers with a bachelor’s degree in History as well as Russian Language and Literature in 2017.
Also as of April 2023, Courter’s Twitter said he was located in Moscow, Russia.
Demonizing Israel
On November 18, 2014, a few months after Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas, Courter participated in a “die-in” where activists lay on the floor covered in fake blood, next to signs that read: “Israel is responsible for murder, occupation & apartheid.” The event was part of Rutgers NB SJP’s Palestine Awareness Week (PAW).Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) is a re-branding for American audiences of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), originally presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On November 18, 2014, Courter wrote an article in the Rutgers student newspaper, The Daily Targum, where he accused Israel of the “abhorrent murder of children” and of having a “neo-colonial military occupation.” The article attacked students with the Jewish campus group Hillel who organized a counterprotest to SJP’s die-in.
On December 12, 2013, Courter shared a photo on Facebook purporting to show Palestinians lining up to cross Israel’s security barrier. The caption in the photo read: “21st century concentration camp? No just Palestinians coming home from their Israeli slave jobs.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Anti-Israel Activism (SJP)
On February 26, 2014, Courter featured in a Rutgers NB SJP Facebook photo of him tabling for the group during PAW. He wore a Palestinian flag on his back and a green cap.On September 11, 2014, Courter posed with other SJP Rutgers student activists in a photo with Zaid Shakir.
Radical cleric Zaid Shakir co-founded Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, with SJP co-founder Hatem Bazian and others.
In a January 2009 article, Shakir claimed that terrorist organizations Hamas and al-Qaeda were pursuing legitimate objectives. He also defended Hamas as an organization that “was never given a chance to prove its commitment to the peace process.”
In October 2007, Shakir promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, describing the September 11 attacks as having “occurred under dubious circumstances that have yet to be thoroughly examined.”
On March 15, 2014, Courter posed with Rutgers NB SJP student activists in a photo with anti-Israel agitator Ali Abunimah, who said in 2010: “Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit.” In the photo, Courter stood on Abunimah’s right side.
On February 25, 2014, Courter posed with other SJP student activists in a photo with David Sheen, at a Rutgers NB SJP event during PAW. Courter appeared in the back of the picture with his left hand raised.
On November 9, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB shared an article to Facebook that expressed support for Ahmed Manasra.
On October 12, 2015, Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem. The pair critically wounded a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. Manasra was wounded.
On April 24, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB expressed support for Dima Al-Wawi on Facebook, posting: “Shame on Israel for wrongfully imprisoning this child to begin with! Palestine can't be free until all the prisoners are released!”
12-year-old Al-Wawi said that she hoped she would be killed in the process of killing an Israeli security guard. She said: “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred.” Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur.
On February 26, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB posted to Facebook in support of Muhammad al-Qiq: “Al Qiq is free!! Once again, Israel cannot defeat Palestinian courage and resilience!
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Muhammad al-Qiq, was detained by Israel for Hamas terror-related activities and was released after his hunger-striking posed a danger to his own life.
On February 25, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB shared to Facebook an article from the anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada (EI), in support of Rasmea Odeh.
Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
On April 3, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB urged readers on Facebook to “‘TAKE ACTION to free Palestinian feminist lawmaker Khalida Jarrar!’PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGN!”
SJP Rutgers NB’s Facebook post included a link to a Samidoun petition demanding the release of Khalida Jarrar from detention in Israeli jail.
Students reportedly filed a complaint against SJP Rutgers NB with the Bias Prevention Education Committee at Rutgers. SJP Rutgers NB was reportedly found in violation of Rutgers posting policy in dorms, which requires all posters of student organizations to be stamped for approval by Student Life.
On October 14, 2013, John Lisowski, then-events coordinator of SJP Rutgers NB, wrote a letter to the editor in the Daily Targum, the Rutgers student newspaper, titled: “Students do not need to be sheltered from reality.”
In the article, Lisowski wrote: “One is left to wonder what is so hateful about SJP’s fliers..the Israel/Palestine conflict is a subject of furious polarizing debate. The critics of the fliers only seem to be speaking out against them because they are on the opposite side of this debate from SJP.”
On February 18, 2014, Lisowski published an article attacking the Daily Targum’s Board of Trustees, claiming the board “elected to censor” the “Israel-Palestine conflict,” after they reportedly ordered student editors to remove what the Board reported to be an “anti-Semitic and inaccurate” commentary from the paper’s website.
On January 23, 2014, SJP Rutgers NB activist and the opinions editor of the Daily Targum, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, published a student commentary in the Daily Targum that questioned plans for a new Rutgers Hillel building.
The commentary was written by then-Rutgers student Colleen Jolly and titled: “Can Hillel’s funding be put to better use elsewhere?”
In her commentary, Jolly asked why the campus needed a “second Jewish building on a historically reformed Dutch college” and claimed that “pro-Israel parties are good at getting money into funds...”
She also asked: “...As a non-Jewish person, does the Jewish nature make you feel welcome?”
The Daily Targum’s board of trustees reportedly issued an apology to then-Hillel executive director, Andrew Getraer and student president, Ariel Lubow, for publishing Jolly’s commentary.
In his February 18, 2014 article, Lisowski wrote that the Board of Trustees took an “authoritative stance after a problematic student commentary with anti-Semitic undertones was published... It was just a false accusation against Hillel that questioned the organization’s funding. The Board of Trustees now demands that any articles that pertain to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must pass through them for approval in order to be published.”
Josh Ruebner is the Policy Director for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), formerly the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation (ETO).
Ruebner is also the co-founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI), an organization which merged into the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
Ruebner has accused Israeli military officers of studying Nazi tactics to use against Palestinians in Gaza and has accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of placing Israeli interests ahead of American interests.
Osama Abuirshaid, who also spoke at the SJP Rutgers NB event, was listed as the National Policy Director and board member of AMP on that group’s website. Abuirshaid reportedly worked for two Hamas-linked organizations in America that are now defunct: the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR).
Anti-Israel activist Miko Peled has said [00:00:06] the Israeli army is “one of the best trained, best equipped, best fed, terrorist organizations in the world” and claimed [00:00:16] that “their entire purpose is terrorism.” He also tweeted in September 2016 that U.S. aid to Israel causes people to think that “Jews have a reputation 4being sleazy thieves.”
On April 5, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event titled: “RISE UP: SJP Annual Banquet,” that featured Ehab Zahriyeh, a former Digital News Producer at Al Jazeera America and Iyad Burnat.
Burnat is the head of the Bil’in popular resistance committee and has, since 2005, organized weekly demonstrations against the Israeli West Bank security barrier. These demonstrations have often turned violent.
Burnat has repeatedly equated Israel with Hitler and ISIS. He has also accused “Zionists” of controlling American politics.
Also on April 5, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB posted to Facebook: “Our friends at Neturei Karta were able to join us at the banquet!” The post featured pictures of Neturei Karta members attending and addressing the event.
Neturei Karta is a fringe Jewish anti-Israel group that opposes Zionism on religious grounds and supports the dismantlement of Israel. Their leader, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, was excommunicated from many Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups for participating in a 2006 Holocaust denial conference.
On November 23, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted prominent anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour at an event titled: “Solidarity: Unifying Communities of Color to Break Cycles of Oppression.”
Sarsour has tweeted that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and frequently uses the word “Zionist” as a pejorative.
On November 17, 2014, SJP Rutgers NB co-sponsored an event titled: “Silencing Dissent: The University vs. Academic Freedom Featuring Professor Steven Salaita.”
A day earlier, SJP Rutgers NB promoted the event on Facebook and wrote that Salaita was “the professor who was denied a job at The University of Illinois after posting on social media about the atrocities committed in Palestine this past summer.”
The University of Illinois (U of I) rescinded a job offer made to Steven Salaita in 2014, after becoming aware of anti-Semitic tweets he made. Not long after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped by Hamas, Salaita tweeted: “You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.”
During Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014, Salaita tweeted: “There's something profoundly sexual to the Zionist pleasure w/#Israel's aggression. Sublimation through bloodletting, a common perversion.”
Salaita was ultimately unable to find a teaching position and claimed that he took a job as a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C. area.
On September 10, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge (OPE), SJP Rutgers NB hosted radical cleric Zaid Shakir, who established the Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, with SJP founder Hatem Bazian and others.
OPE was commenced by Israel in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
According to an Investigative Project report, Shakir “defends terrorist groups such as Hizballah and hopes for a day in which America is a Muslim country ruled by Islamic law... He suggests that ‘Zionist’ forces and the FBI were behind the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.”
The event’s Facebook description read: “SJP's first event of the Fall 2014 semester is our official BDS kick-off!”
The Facebook description also claimed: “Over 2,000 people were killed this summer and while a cease-fire may have been achieved, Israel has proven no law or treaty will stop its slow-motion genocide. Join Students for Justice in Palestine and start off the year by helping us put an end to Israel's war crimes through BDS-- boycott, divestment, and sanctions.”
Deek was a board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York and has supported [00:01:15] Hamas terrorists.
Taher Herzallah, the Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Herzallah has expressed support for violence against Israeli Jews, spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and posted pro-terrorist imagery to social media.
At the event, Deek said [00:00:15] BDS was “the least we could do.”
Deek continued [00:00:17]: “What is BDS? BDS simply means that I just refuse to participate in this. I refuse to support the Zionist entity, to support Israel as they engage in these acts of violence not just against the Palestinians but against our own people here and against people in the African continent and in South America or wherever Israel is engaging and fomenting acts of violence.”
On March 4, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted a lecture titled: “BDS and the Work of Anti-Normalization in Solidarity Activism with Palestine,” as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2015.
The policy of “anti-normalization” aims to ensure that all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians align only with the Arab agenda, including ending the occupation and a full right of return for Palestinians, which is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. The policies are shared with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The event featured national BDS leader J. Kehualani Kauanui and was moderated by Jasbir Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, where she has been a faculty member since 2000.
Puar has penned dozens of anti-Israel articles and spoken against Israel across numerous forums. She features regularly in BDS events and is listed as an Advisory Board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
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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 February 25, 2014, Courter posed with other SJP student activists in a photo with David Sheen, at a Rutgers NB SJP event during PAW. Courter appeared in the back of the picture with his left hand raised.
David Sheen is an anti-Israel activist and filmmaker who works to portray Israel as an extremist racist state. To this end, Sheen has been accused of purposefully mistranslating Hebrew articles and other media to make Israelis appear racist.
SJP Rutgers NB
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Rutgers University - New Brunswick (SJP Rutgers NB) was created in September 2011, with the stated mission to “shed light on injustices currently taking place [sic] Palestine, as well as empower students to elucidate truths and eradicate such injustices.” It was created as “a proud affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine.”SJP Rutgers NB - Supporting Terrorists (2015-2017)
On April 19, 2017, SJP Rutgers NB co-hosted an “emergency rally” in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners to “Support Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike.”The 2017 hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners known as the “Dignity Strike” was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in terror attacks during the Second Intifada, including financing the bombing of the Sbarro Cafe in Jerusalem.
On November 9, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB shared an article to Facebook that expressed support for Ahmed Manasra.
On October 12, 2015, Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem. The pair critically wounded a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. Manasra was wounded.
Manasra later admitted to investigators “I went there to stab Jews” and was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.
On April 24, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB expressed support for Dima Al-Wawi on Facebook, posting: “Shame on Israel for wrongfully imprisoning this child to begin with! Palestine can't be free until all the prisoners are released!”
12-year-old Al-Wawi said that she hoped she would be killed in the process of killing an Israeli security guard. She said: “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred.” Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur.
On February 26, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB posted to Facebook in support of Muhammad al-Qiq: “Al Qiq is free!! Once again, Israel cannot defeat Palestinian courage and resilience!
Muhammad al-Qiq, was detained by Israel for Hamas terror-related activities and was released after his hunger-striking posed a danger to his own life.
On February 25, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB shared to Facebook an article from the anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada (EI), in support of Rasmea Odeh.
Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
On April 3, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB urged readers on Facebook to “‘TAKE ACTION to free Palestinian feminist lawmaker Khalida Jarrar!’PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGN!”
Khalida Jarrar was sentenced in 2015 by an Israeli military court to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. A senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization, Jarrar was arrested again by Israel in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.”
In 2019, Jarrar, with other PFLP operatives, was arrested by Israel after a 2018 bombing attack that targeted an Israeli family. Jarrar was reportedly then head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016 and the cell which carried out the bombing was reportedly “planning additional attacks.” Guns and bomb-making equipment were seized during the arrest.
SJP Rutgers NB’s Facebook post included a link to a Samidoun petition demanding the release of Khalida Jarrar from detention in Israeli jail.
SJP Rutgers NB - Mock Eviction Notices Controversy (2013-2014)
On October 6, 2013, SJP Rutgers NB members slid hundreds of mock eviction notices under Rutgers dorm and apartment doors. The notices stated that students’ suites were “scheduled for demolition in the next three days” and if the residents did not vacate the premises in that time, the organization “reserved the right to destroy all remaining belongings.”Students reportedly filed a complaint against SJP Rutgers NB with the Bias Prevention Education Committee at Rutgers. SJP Rutgers NB was reportedly found in violation of Rutgers posting policy in dorms, which requires all posters of student organizations to be stamped for approval by Student Life.
On October 14, 2013, John Lisowski, then-events coordinator of SJP Rutgers NB, wrote a letter to the editor in the Daily Targum, the Rutgers student newspaper, titled: “Students do not need to be sheltered from reality.”
In the article, Lisowski wrote: “One is left to wonder what is so hateful about SJP’s fliers..the Israel/Palestine conflict is a subject of furious polarizing debate. The critics of the fliers only seem to be speaking out against them because they are on the opposite side of this debate from SJP.”
On February 18, 2014, Lisowski published an article attacking the Daily Targum’s Board of Trustees, claiming the board “elected to censor” the “Israel-Palestine conflict,” after they reportedly ordered student editors to remove what the Board reported to be an “anti-Semitic and inaccurate” commentary from the paper’s website.
On January 23, 2014, SJP Rutgers NB activist and the opinions editor of the Daily Targum, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, published a student commentary in the Daily Targum that questioned plans for a new Rutgers Hillel building.
The commentary was written by then-Rutgers student Colleen Jolly and titled: “Can Hillel’s funding be put to better use elsewhere?”
In her commentary, Jolly asked why the campus needed a “second Jewish building on a historically reformed Dutch college” and claimed that “pro-Israel parties are good at getting money into funds...”
She also asked: “...As a non-Jewish person, does the Jewish nature make you feel welcome?”
The Daily Targum’s board of trustees reportedly issued an apology to then-Hillel executive director, Andrew Getraer and student president, Ariel Lubow, for publishing Jolly’s commentary.
In his February 18, 2014 article, Lisowski wrote that the Board of Trustees took an “authoritative stance after a problematic student commentary with anti-Semitic undertones was published... It was just a false accusation against Hillel that questioned the organization’s funding. The Board of Trustees now demands that any articles that pertain to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must pass through them for approval in order to be published.”
SJP Rutgers NB - Anti-Israel Events (2015-2017)
On March 6, 2017, SJP Rutgers NB co-hosted an event with the anti-Israel organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The event featured a panel that included Josh Ruebner, Osama Abuirshaid and Riham Barghouti, co-founder of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).Josh Ruebner is the Policy Director for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), formerly the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation (ETO).
Ruebner is also the co-founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI), an organization which merged into the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
Ruebner has accused Israeli military officers of studying Nazi tactics to use against Palestinians in Gaza and has accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of placing Israeli interests ahead of American interests.
Osama Abuirshaid, who also spoke at the SJP Rutgers NB event, was listed as the National Policy Director and board member of AMP on that group’s website. Abuirshaid reportedly worked for two Hamas-linked organizations in America that are now defunct: the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR).
On November 9, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event titled: “Israel: A Manifestation of Imperialism & Colonialism,” featuring Raja Abdulhaq.
Abdulhaq has defended the terror group Hamas, glorified terrorists, whitewashed the 9/11 terror attacks and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
The SJP Rutgers NB Facebook event description read: “Come out to learn about how ZIONISM embodied the 19th century ethos of the European Mission Civilisatrice, racism, supremacy, and utilitarian principles, to justify the creation of a settler colonialism project on the land of Palestine.”
On March 28 - March 31, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which has been re-named Palestine Awareness Week, is an annual event to build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and “to raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people.”
Abdulhaq has defended the terror group Hamas, glorified terrorists, whitewashed the 9/11 terror attacks and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
The SJP Rutgers NB Facebook event description read: “Come out to learn about how ZIONISM embodied the 19th century ethos of the European Mission Civilisatrice, racism, supremacy, and utilitarian principles, to justify the creation of a settler colonialism project on the land of Palestine.”
On March 28 - March 31, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which has been re-named Palestine Awareness Week, is an annual event to build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and “to raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people.”
The banner on the event’s Facebook page showed protestors holding a banner that read: “Free Palestine Boycott Israel.”
On April 29, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event featuring Haneen Zoabi. The Facebook event description read: “SJP invites you to a discussion with Haneen Zoabi on Israeli Apartheid, Zionism and more from a viewpoint of a Palestinian living in Israel.”
On April 29, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event featuring Haneen Zoabi. The Facebook event description read: “SJP invites you to a discussion with Haneen Zoabi on Israeli Apartheid, Zionism and more from a viewpoint of a Palestinian living in Israel.”
Haneen Zoabi, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, has a long history of inciting violence. In 2014, she was suspended from the legislature after defending the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by the terror group Hamas, and who were later found executed in a field. In 2015, a criminal investigation was opened against Zoabi after she reportedly condoned anti-Israel violence and called for a new intifada.
SJP Rutgers NB - Hosting Anti-Israel Agitators (2014-2016)
On September 19, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted anti-Israel agitator Miko Peled at an event titled: “Keys to Peace.”Anti-Israel activist Miko Peled has said [00:00:06] the Israeli army is “one of the best trained, best equipped, best fed, terrorist organizations in the world” and claimed [00:00:16] that “their entire purpose is terrorism.” He also tweeted in September 2016 that U.S. aid to Israel causes people to think that “Jews have a reputation 4being sleazy thieves.”
On April 5, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event titled: “RISE UP: SJP Annual Banquet,” that featured Ehab Zahriyeh, a former Digital News Producer at Al Jazeera America and Iyad Burnat.
Burnat is the head of the Bil’in popular resistance committee and has, since 2005, organized weekly demonstrations against the Israeli West Bank security barrier. These demonstrations have often turned violent.
Burnat has repeatedly equated Israel with Hitler and ISIS. He has also accused “Zionists” of controlling American politics.
Also on April 5, 2016, SJP Rutgers NB posted to Facebook: “Our friends at Neturei Karta were able to join us at the banquet!” The post featured pictures of Neturei Karta members attending and addressing the event.
Neturei Karta is a fringe Jewish anti-Israel group that opposes Zionism on religious grounds and supports the dismantlement of Israel. Their leader, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, was excommunicated from many Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups for participating in a 2006 Holocaust denial conference.
On November 23, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted prominent anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour at an event titled: “Solidarity: Unifying Communities of Color to Break Cycles of Oppression.”
Sarsour has tweeted that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and frequently uses the word “Zionist” as a pejorative.
On November 17, 2014, SJP Rutgers NB co-sponsored an event titled: “Silencing Dissent: The University vs. Academic Freedom Featuring Professor Steven Salaita.”
A day earlier, SJP Rutgers NB promoted the event on Facebook and wrote that Salaita was “the professor who was denied a job at The University of Illinois after posting on social media about the atrocities committed in Palestine this past summer.”
The University of Illinois (U of I) rescinded a job offer made to Steven Salaita in 2014, after becoming aware of anti-Semitic tweets he made. Not long after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped by Hamas, Salaita tweeted: “You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.”
During Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014, Salaita tweeted: “There's something profoundly sexual to the Zionist pleasure w/#Israel's aggression. Sublimation through bloodletting, a common perversion.”
Salaita was ultimately unable to find a teaching position and claimed that he took a job as a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C. area.
On September 10, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge (OPE), SJP Rutgers NB hosted radical cleric Zaid Shakir, who established the Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, with SJP founder Hatem Bazian and others.
OPE was commenced by Israel in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
According to an Investigative Project report, Shakir “defends terrorist groups such as Hizballah and hopes for a day in which America is a Muslim country ruled by Islamic law... He suggests that ‘Zionist’ forces and the FBI were behind the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.”
The event’s Facebook description read: “SJP's first event of the Fall 2014 semester is our official BDS kick-off!”
The Facebook description also claimed: “Over 2,000 people were killed this summer and while a cease-fire may have been achieved, Israel has proven no law or treaty will stop its slow-motion genocide. Join Students for Justice in Palestine and start off the year by helping us put an end to Israel's war crimes through BDS-- boycott, divestment, and sanctions.”
SJP Rutgers NB - Supporting BDS (2015-2017)
On October 9, 2017, SJP Rutgers NB hosted an event titled: “BDS: SHOW me how to RISE,” that featured guest speakers Lamis Deek and Taher Herzallah, Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing for AMP.Deek was a board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York and has supported [00:01:15] Hamas terrorists.
Taher Herzallah, the Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Herzallah has expressed support for violence against Israeli Jews, spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and posted pro-terrorist imagery to social media.
At the event, Deek said [00:00:15] BDS was “the least we could do.”
Deek continued [00:00:17]: “What is BDS? BDS simply means that I just refuse to participate in this. I refuse to support the Zionist entity, to support Israel as they engage in these acts of violence not just against the Palestinians but against our own people here and against people in the African continent and in South America or wherever Israel is engaging and fomenting acts of violence.”
On March 4, 2015, SJP Rutgers NB hosted a lecture titled: “BDS and the Work of Anti-Normalization in Solidarity Activism with Palestine,” as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2015.
The policy of “anti-normalization” aims to ensure that all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians align only with the Arab agenda, including ending the occupation and a full right of return for Palestinians, which is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. The policies are shared with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The event featured national BDS leader J. Kehualani Kauanui and was moderated by Jasbir Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, where she has been a faculty member since 2000.
Puar has penned dozens of anti-Israel articles and spoken against Israel across numerous forums. She features regularly in BDS events and is listed as an Advisory Board member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
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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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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