Evan W Jones

As of the same date, Jones’ Facebook page said he studied at NYU from 2014 to 2018.

Demonizing Israel and Zionism

On April 15, 2015, Jones co-authored a “Letter to the editor” in NYU’s student-run newspaper, the Washington Square News.

Jones wrote the piece with fellow NYU SJP organizers Ellis Garey and Shafeka Hashash to promote a BDS campaign championed by “NYU Out of Occupied Palestine (NOOP),” a coalition of anti-Israel faculty, student groups and others.

The letter condemned Israel and Zionism, suggesting the latter was tied to “settler-colonization, ethnic cleansing, racist discrimination and segregation…”

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.

The letter also stated that the “Palestinian struggle for justice does not end in Israel and Palestine, but extends to many other areas of the world — even the NYU campus.”

The letter concluded: “It is time for the NYU community to make another critical contribution to dismantling oppression, racism and imperialism on a global scale by divesting from companies that enable Israeli apartheid.”

Anti-Israel Activism (NYU SJP)

On January 27, 2016, NYU SJP posted on Facebook and Twitter a photo inviting students to “Come join us at Club Fest” and “learn more about what we do at NYU SJP!”  The photo showed Jones raising his fist behind an SJP banner.

On September 3, 2015, NYU SJP posted on Facebook a photo with the caption: “Interested in joining SJP? Check us out at Club Fest!!...” The photo featured Jones standing at an NYU SJP table with former NYU SJP co-president Yasmena Al-Mulla. 

On April 29, 2015, Jones attended an anti-Israel event titled: “Stand with Gaza,” which was hosted by NYU SJP and three other New York-based SJP chapters. Jones gathered with other SJP members to protest outside the Israeli Consulate in New York. 

On April 24, 2015, Jones attended an NYU SJP event with anti-Israel agitator Haneen Zoabi titled: “Israel: Racism and Apartheid, An Insider's View with Haneen Zoabi, MK.”

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.

The NYU SJP event description described  Zoabi as one of Israel’s “most outspoken and eloquent critics of Zionism and of Israeli Apartheid.”

On February 12, 2015, Jones featured in a Facebook photo posted by NYU SJP and captioned: “come visit us on the 10th floor of kimmel!” Jones was standing behind an NYU SJP table with a raised fist, alongside fellow SJP organizers Ellis Garey and Shafeka Hashash.

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/evan.w.jones.3