Fatima Guendouz

Overview

Fatima Guendouz was an anti-Israel activist with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at McMaster University (McMaster) from 2015 to 2016.

SPHR is an alternative name for Students For Justice In Palestine (SJP).

As of September 2023, Guendouz’s Facebook page said she graduated from McMaster in 2018. She was listed on ResearchGate as a member of McMaster’s “Antimicrobial Research Centre.”

As of the same date, Guendouz’s Facebook About page said she lived in Hamilton, Ontario.

Anti-Israel Activism

On March 9, 2016, Guendouz participated in an Israeli Apartheid Week event titled “Apartheid: Live!” hosted by McMaster SPHR McMaster. 

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is 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.

The event featured a “mock apartheid wall” labeled “Barrier to Peace.”

The “mock apartheid wall” is a series of panels meant to represent Israel's security barrier, which was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks and in response to Palestinian sniper attacks. Panels feature misleading statistics and “facts” that present a skewed image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In March 2015, Guendouz indicated on Facebook that she attended McMaster SPHR’s annual IAW.

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.