Eduarda Araujo

Overview

Eduarda Lira da Silva Nabuco de Araujo was a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brown University. She is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

She also goes by the names Eduarda Araujo and Eduarda Silva.

Araujo signed a petition started by NYC SJP member Maya Wind in 2013 which calls upon UWC to cancel plans to open a branch in Israel.

On November 19, 2012, Araujo spoke on behalf of SJP Brown to the Brown Daily Herald about the group’s divestment efforts, which call upon Brown to divest from American companies doing business with Israel.

Araujo graduated from Brown with a Bachelor’s degree in 2015. That year, she also received an international baccalaureate from United World College of the Adriatic (UWC Adriatic).

Supporting Terrorists and Murderers

On November 20, 2014 Araujo posted a photo on Facebook that featured a likeness of unrepentant terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh. 

The photo also included an image of domestic terrorist Assata Shakur.

Assata Shakur was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper and wounding another in 1973 while a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba in 1984, where she resides today. She is listed on the FBI Most Wanted Terror List under her legal name, Joanne Deborah Chesimard.

Next, the photo featured an image of Commandanta Ramona, a deceased leader of the militant separatist Mexican group the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).

Finally, the photo included an image of Angela Davis. Davis made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List in 1970, after being charged as a principal with aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder — for purchasing the shotgun used in the abduction and killing of a judge. Davis was eventually arrested — but was acquitted.

Brown, UWC Adriatic

SJP Brown

Since its founding in 2009, SJP Brown has promoted the boycott of Israel at Brown and also pressured Brown to divest from Israel.

In 2010, SJP Brown began bringing Israeli Apartheid Week to Brown’s campus, to smear Israel with accusations of "apartheid policies" and “to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

In March 2010, SJP Brown set up a 75-foot long banner on Brown’s Main Green, asking students the misleading, rhetorical question, "Do you want your University profiting from apartheid?"

SJP Brown Supporting Student-Killer Rasmea Odeh

The PFLP is designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, The United States and Israel and promotes the violent destruction of Israel. The PFLP has claimed “credit” for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi, the 2011 butchering of the Fogel Family (including two boys, aged 4 and 11 — and a three month old girl.)

Odeh was involved in a 1969 bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two South African students. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.

The day following her arrest, Odeh confessed in a highly detailed account. One of Odeh’s co-conspirators also directly implicated Odeh as the mastermind of the bombings, in a 2004 documentary.

Odeh was tried and convicted for her involvement in both attacks and sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court. After being released in a prisoner swap, she emigrated to the United States. 

In November 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh of immigration fraud—  for omitting mention of her prior conviction and life sentence, of which she served 10 years.

Odeh was then sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, fined and ordered to be deported following her prison term. In February 2016, Odeh’s case was sent back to the district court to examine whether trauma-related repressed memories contributed to Odeh’s failure to disclose her prior conviction.  

Siding with Terrorist Violence

Spreading Hate and Disinformation

Promoting Disruption over Dialogue

SJP Brown’s co-leader and protest organizer Josette Souza alleged that Hillel’s invitation of “student leaders” to the event was not meant to stimulate dialogue, but rather to influence those who will go on to make domestic and international policy” — and labeled the event “insidious.” 

Disguising Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

In February 2014, SJP Brown published an op-ed in the Brown Daily Herald, calling on the university to adopt the  American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and criticizing Brown President Christina Paxson for denouncing the boycott. SJP Brown claimed that the aim of the academic boycott is to “put pressure on Israeli universities that play a central role in the maintenance of a settler-colonial project in Palestine based on ethno-racial supremacy.”  

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/eduardalsna [Deleted]