Enrico Doan

Overview

Enrico Doan spoke on multiple panels in 2018 where he demonized Israel. Doan was also affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Doan is associated with Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at the University of Washington (UW), an affiliate of SJP.

Doan promoted and indicated that he attended the 2018 National SJP Conference.

The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”

Doan also attended the 2017 National SJP Conference.

Doan has attended events held by the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and the UW chapter of the Muslim Student Association (MSA).

As of February 2019, Doan’s Facebook page said he was a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at UW School of Law.

In December 2017, Doan’s now-deleted LinkedIn page indicated that he was pursuing a master’s degree in “Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis” at the Bothell campus of UW(UW Bothell), slated to graduate in 2018.

Doan’s LinkedIn page also said he was a 2015 graduate of UW with bachelor’s degrees in Biochemistry and English Language and Literature.

Demonizing Israel

On July 16, 2018, Doan participated in a panel titled “Censoring Palestine: Islamophobia, New McCarthyism and Campus Politics” as part of an International Symposium at the Universidad de Sevilla, Calle San Fernando.

During his talk, Doan said [00:32:17]: “Israel has wielded its significant financial resources and political lobby to target and silence advocates for justice in Palestine, through universities, various levels of government and other institutions with significant legal ways.”

The panel was part of anti-Israel Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies multi-year project titled: “Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice.”

Doan also promoted [00:34:45] AMED’s Teaching Palestine project on the panel as “critical and timely...to develop a radical pedagogy that centers resistance rather than coloniality.”

Professor Rabab Abdulhadi has, since 2014, sought to cultivate alliances between SFSU and two Hamas-dominated Palestinian universities.

On June 6, 2018, Doan participated in a panel titled: “Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice” during the 43rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) in Havana, Cuba.

Doan spoke about “Surveillance, Censorship, and Punishment: Selective Free Speech and the Suppresion[sic.] of Palestine on University Campuses”

On March 22, 2018, Doan was a panelist at An-Najah National University on the topic of “Surveillance, Policing and Gentrification: Lessons from South Central LA to Bethlehem."

Al-Najah (alternatively, An Najah) University is the largest Palestinian university in the West Bank and is notorious for its triumphal exhibit lauding the August 9, 2001 Sbarro cafe suicide bombing. The blast killed 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman and wounded 130.

Al-Najah’s exhibit featured a mock-up of Sbarro’s, including gnawed pizza crusts and bloody plastic body parts suspended from the ceiling, as though blasting through the air.

The 2013 An Najah graduating class was named for terrorist Abu Jihad at an appreciation ceremony for the class’s outstanding students. Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) planned the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre that killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounded 71 others.

Associated Press archive video footage, published in June 2015, confirmed that Al-Najah remained an incubator for terrorists.

Anti-Israel Activity

Doan indicated on Facebook that he “went” to a JVP event titled: “End the Deadly Exchange: No more US-Israel police partnerships!” on November 8, 2017.

In 2017, JVP launched the “Deadly Exchange (DX)” campaign, which accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses. JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.

From October 27-29, 2017 Doan attended the 2017 National SJP Conference (NSJP) and on October 30, 2017, appeared in an NSJP Facebook photo with activists holding signs opposing an anti-BDS Texas law.

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.”
Doan indicated on Facebook that he “went” to a SUPER UW general meeting on October 19, 2017.

Doan indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an event honoring Ghassan Kanafani, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization on August 19, 2017.

Doan was indicated on Facebook that he was “went” to a SUPER UW event demonizing Israel on May 25, 2017. The event was canceled.

Doan was indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an event featuring BDS leader Ilan Pappe on May 22, 2017.

Doan indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SUPER UW’s “Palestine Awareness Week” on February 13-17, 2017. The event’s Facebook description said: “Keep an eye out for our annual Apartheid Wall.”

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.

Doan indicated on Facebook that he “went” to a SUPER UW event featuring New York-based poet Remi Kanazi on February 15, 2017. Kanazi is notorious for his aggressively anti-Israel poetry and spoken-word performances.

BDS

On February 4, 2019, Doan wrote on Twitter: “Let’s get another thing straight: ‘Israeli food’ isn’t even a real thing/cuisine and is, at best, theft. #BDS.”

On January 28, 2019, Doan tweeted: “or, you know, you could support BDS...just a suggestion, my dude.”

Doan’s tweet was in response to a tweet by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, that said: “While I do not support the BDS movement, we must defend every American’s constitutional right to peacefully engage in political activity.”

Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference

On October 28, 2018, Doan posted to Facebook promoting the 2018 National SJP. The post shared the conference logo, featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag, and encouraged students and alumni to register.

Doan wrote that the conference logo signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return, the Kuffiyeh, and the birds of freedom leading our way with radical hope towards liberation for all and a Free Palestine.”

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes.

On October 27, 2018, Doan wrote on Twitter: “#NSJP2018 #ThisIsRadicalHope” and shared a National SJP 2018 tweet that shared their logo and encouraged students to register.

On November 24, 2018, Doan wrote on Twitter: “Please consider donating to our fundraiser to help us bring student activists, leaders, and organizers to NSJP’s annual conference at UCLA this November! Please share widely and remember to REGISTER if you haven’t done so already! #NSJP2018

https://tinyurl.com/y9cr34f5”

Doan indicated on Facebook that he attended the 2018 National SJP Conference on November 16-18, 2018.

2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence

During the 2018 National SJP conference, anti-Israel activist Mohammed Nabulsi led the attendees in the chant [00:00:52] “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”

Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.

Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”

As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”

The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.

Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.

National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.

On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”

Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.

By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.

2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel

On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.

Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”

Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.

2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”

Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”

2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”

Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.

Abudayyeh added that he was asked [00:08:45] to talk about Odeh’s case, and praised SJP and SDS students who organized [00:09:15] “absolutely valuable” events on behalf [00:9:11] of Odeh, “as she was fighting to stay in the U.S.”

2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews

During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).

Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”

Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”

Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”

2018 National SJP - Excluding Students

The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.

A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”

On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.

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.