Elizabeth Moore

Overview

Elizabeth Moore [Elizabeth Margaret Moore Symmeson] is involved in Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at the University of Washington (UW), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

As an undergraduate, Moore was the coordinator of SJP at The Evergreen State College (TESC).

In 2012, Moore volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Judea and Samaria.

Moore works with the Rachel Corrie Foundation, which she has assisted in promoting BDS and organizing anti-Israel die-ins.

Moore is a member of the Olympia chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She was featured in a video defending a boycott of Israeli products at the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington.

Moore promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement at TESC as an organizer for TESC Divest! — a student-led BDS group that "worked to make divestment...a reality at The Evergreen State College." The anti-Israel divestment resolution at UW was rejected in May 2014. The campus-based group appears to be defunct since Moore’s graduation in 2014.

In March 2016, Moore was accepted to the UW Master’s of Social Work program.

Moore graduated from TESC in 2014, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy.

Deceiving to Demonize Israel

In a July 24, 2014 video, Moore fraudulently claimed that Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) was initiated as way of "controlling the population Gaza" and accused Israel of “going in and stirring things up to remind everyone who is in charge” (3:55).

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.  

In 2012, Moore created a Prezi presentation, titled: “Welcome to Palestine,” to document her work with ISM.

The last slide of Moore’s presentation featured Moore alongside Janna Jihad Ayyad, during an anti-Israel protest.

Janna Jihad Ayyad Al-Tamimi, also known as Janna Jihad, is an anti-Israel youth activist. She is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi, who is notorious for exploiting young children as political props by manufacturing confrontations with Israeli soldiers who respond to the riots that Tamimi organizes.

Moore’s fifth slide features a video of one such confrontation.

Promoting Hatred of Israel

On March 1, 2016, Moore wrote in a Facebook post that "I am excited for the new 'movement moment' in which the connection between the black liberation and Palestinian liberation is irrefutable and beyond that, widely accepted." She went on to lie that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not supportive of Zionism.

Moore’s post demonstrated the embrace of intersectionality by the BDS movement, as well as SJP’s employment of the coat-tailing tactic that conjoins various forms of oppression.

BDS and SJP have both used intersectionality to blame Israel and Zionism for such things as rising tuition costs in New York State, police riots in Ferguson, Missouri, race-based violence in the US, negative environmental impacts of the fossil-fuel industry, and campus rape.

SJP TESC

SJP TESC was founded in November 2013 and was formerly known as the Mid-East Solidarity Project.

In February 2014, SJP TESC hosted TESC’s Israeli Apartheid Week. The week-long event featured false claims that Israel is an "apartheid state" and showcased the construction of a mock “Apartheid Wall" to mischaracterize Israel’s security fence.

SJP TESC - Supporting Financers of the Terror Organization Hamas

On February 26, 2014, SJP TESC co-hosted an event called “Letter Writing Day to Pro-Palestinian Political Prisoners.” SJP TESC encouraged participants to write letters of support to former officers of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) — who were found guilty of funneling $12 million dollars to Hamas. HLF’s founders received sentences ranging between 15 and 65 years in federal prison in the United States.

SJP TESC - Lying to Demonize Israel

On May 15, 2016, SJP TESC shared on Facebook a fraud-laden video by AJ+, that propagated serial lies about Israel and the history of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The bogus claims were quickly refuted by The Israel Project, in a video highlighting AJ+’s inaccuracies and deceptions.

On September 8, 2014, SJP TESC posted on Facebook that Israel has no right to self-defense — based on a fraudulent misrepresentation of international law.

On July 27, 2014, SJP TESC posted an article on Facebook that perpetrated a series of lies. The article claimed that Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014 was initiated in retaliation for Hamas’ kidnap-murder of three Israeli high-schoolers Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel. The article then fraudulently claimed that Israel fabricated the kidnapping charge against Hamas, to justify the 2014 Gaza war. 

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.  

On August 4, 2014, SJP TESC doubled down, posting an article on Facebook called "Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza — Debunked." The article repeated the insinuation that Israel falsely accused Hamas of kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teenagers — and denied that the dramatic increase of Hamas’ rocket attacks from Gaza prompted OPE. The article also denied that Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields — in direct contradiction to Hamas’ open admission to the practice several weeks earlier (0:42).

On December 20, 2013, SJP TESC shared a Facebook post mischaracterizing as “ethnic cleansing” a proposed Israeli government plan (the Begin-Prawer Plan) to officially recognize and register the vast majority of Bedouin settlements throughout southern Israel and relocate and compensate the residents of 35 unrecognized villages. SJP TESC also set up on-campus events to protest the Prawer Plan and called on its Facebook followers to attend a “Day of Rage” protest against the plan.

SJP TESC - Honoring Human Shields

On March 17, 2014, SJP TESC honored the memory of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie on Facebook.

SJP TESC - Spreading Hate and Disinformation

In May of 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, SJP TESC held campus events commemorating "al-Nakba day" and propagating the historically and currently false claim that Israelis are committing an “ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”

SJP TESC - Embracing Hate Speech and Mocking

On December 9, 2013, SJP TESC posted a video called “Sh*t Zionists Say,” that mocked and ridiculed pro-Israel supporters for feeling attacked and unsafe (0:16).

On February 19, 2014, and again, on April 2, 2015 SJP TESC shared a video called “This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings” featuring anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is notorious for his aggressively anti-Israel poetry and spoken-word performances. On April 2, 2015 SJP TESC hosted Kanazi on campus and again shared Kanazi’s “Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings” video on Facebook.

On May 21, 2014, during a student’s speech against a divestment resolution targeting Israel, SJP TESC wrote on Facebook "’hurt feelings’ all I hear is blah blah blah.”

Supporting BDS at the Expense of Palestinian Jobs

On November 30, 2013, SJP TESC called on Facebook for a Boycott of the Israeli company Sodastream.

500 Palestinians eventually lost their jobs when Sodastream moved its factory from Judea and Samaria to southern Israel. Although the company denied that BDS had an impact on the decision, the BDS movement took credit for the factory’s closure and the large job losses for Palestinians.

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.

ISM

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded in 2001 and, according to the group’s website, is “resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles.”

JVP

JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.

JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).

Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.” 

JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish values.”

The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans  comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”

According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”

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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