Fatima Itmaizah

Overview

Fatima Itmaizah promoted incitement and spread hatred of Israel as the vice president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK).

As of April 12, 2018, Itmaizah’s LinkedIn page said that she fundraised for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) in 2015.

PCRF has been financially linked with The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Global Relief Foundation and The International [Islamic] Relief Organization — all of which were shut down by the United States government for funneling donations to terrorist organizations.

Itmaizah’s LinkedIn also listed her as a member of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at UTK (UTK MSA).

Itmaizah is a 2017 graduate of UTK with a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and that she was a member of the Student Dental Association since September 2015.

As of April 2018 Itmaizah went by the name “Fatima Elharithi” on Facebook.

Promoting Incitement

On October 16, 2015, Itmaizah updated her Facebook profile picture to a graphic identifying with violence against Jews. The graphic suggested that Jewish presence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem needs to be cut way with a knife.

The image depicted the Dome of the Rock, appearing as a fruit covered in blue skin, emblazoned with a star of David — a Jewish symbol. The picture showed the blue skin being cut and peeled away with a knife — with blood dripping down the hand of the peeler as the blade stripped away the peel.

In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The attacks were incited by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

Itmaizah retweeted a June 6, 2016 anti-Semitic tweet by fellow SJP UTK student and radical bigot, Mohamed Ali who responded to a tweet by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson wishing Muslims a “Ramadan Kareem.”

Ali tweeted — “This is like Hitler's military spokesperson wishing Jews a happy Rosh Hashanah before continuing their massacres.”

Itmaizah retweeted an April 13, 2016 tweet of a photo of an Israeli flag. The tweet read — “Who put up the flag for a fictional country in our school smh.”

Itmaizah also retweeted a March 28, 2016 tweet that read — “Zionists don't have a race they're just animals.”

On March 24, 2016, Itmaizah attacked a tweet explaining that the Jewish festival of Tu Bishvat as “the ‘New year of the trees.” In response, Itmaizah tweeted: “is that why they demolish palestinian homes? To make room for trees?”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA’s Bigotry and Anti-Semitism

The leadership and general membership of SJP UTK and UTK MSA is fraught with virulent anti-Semites, Hitler and Nazi sympathizers,promoters of terrorist incitement, homophobes and bigots. These individuals propagate Jew-hatred, often — but not always— under the guise of attacking “Israelis” and “Zionists.”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Spreading Homophobia

On June 12, 2013, fellow SJP UTK member Mohamed Ali — who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head — tweeted: “you feggity feg feg. I have so much sweg on my dik biches melt for me.... — Briana why u such a salty fag lol http://ask.fm/a/4iballkc.”

On March 8, 2014, Hesham Annamer — a 2016 nominee running for the position of board member of UTK MSA, tweeted — “My little brother was facetiming one of his little fag friends & i was talking. Dude was like ‘who's that in the background?’”

On May 9. 2013, Eyad Hijer, a fellow UTK MSA member, tweeted — “‘@ogmcphee: @eyadhijer @iammusick I'd call him daddy’ of course you would you faggot.”

In April 19, 2016, Ameen Abdel-Khalek a member of SJP UTK tweeted “If only people here cared as much for children dying in Syria Palestine Iraq instead of f**king faggot rights maybe wed get somwhere in life.”

On December 18, 2015, Abdel-Khalek tweeted “Transphobic?Are we making up words now.Come on niggas you got me f**ked up if Im gonna acknowledge a transgender. Seriously shoot me if I do.”

On June 23, 2016, Abdel-Khalek tweeted a drawing of a baby locked in a cage, being spoken to by an adult standing outside the cage: “You can come out when you’re done being a little faggot.”

On October 19, 2014, Abdel-Khalek tweeted a picture of Spiderman, with the caption “This is exactly the kind of sh** that makes people think you’re a faggot.”

UTK MSA Member - Spreading Anti-Black Racism

On October 15, 2014, UTK MSA member Eyad Hijer tweeted a quote from fellow UTK student Jesse West that read: “...Everyone pray for my sister. Nothing's wrong with her, she just likes black guys.”

UTK MSA Leader - Demonizing White People

On March 9, 2012, Sonya Hadjerioua, a 2016 executive board member of UTK MSA, tweeted — “When I think of green eyes I think of white ppl and when I think of white ppl think of HITLER @ayat0315.”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Praising Hitler and Promoting Jew-Hatred

Eyad Hijer on July 17, 2014 tweeted to a Jewish person — “‘...I already hate you. You dirty filthy Jew. All your people do is f***ed s**t up. Wish hitler was still around to show you guys.”

On December 27, 2015 — in response to a tweet that read : “The most morally army in the world, the Israeli army Leave A Comment !” — Hijer tweeted: “This is why I hate Jews.”

On April 20, 2014, Hesham Annamer — a 2016 nominee for the position of UTK MSA Board Member— tweeted: “Hitler had alot of great ideas. We need a guy like that in the white house.”

On August 29, 2012, fellow SJP UTK member, Mohamed Ali — who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head — tweeted: “Had to write about a leader for DCL class. Wrote about Hitler. Cuz he's a boss.”

On March 15, 2014, Ali tweeted: “Im gonna put #PeaceInTheMiddleEast, #ThotNation, &#FreePalestine at the end of my senior quote. The last 1 as a f**k u 2 the Jewish teachers.”

On July 31, 2013, Ali tweeted — “Make like a Jew and take control.”

On June 21, 2013, fellow UTK MSA member Afeef Youssef Kamah tweeted a meme featuring an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew with a big, hooked nose. The meme, known as the “Happy Merchant,” originally appeared in a racist and anti-Semitic piece promoting a world without Jews and Blacks — comparing them, respectively, to rats and cockroaches.

Youssef Kamah tweeted the meme along with the comment — “@jayomarion @AbdelRahmanM OHH WE ARE FRIENDS…”

On August 15, 2015, SJP UTK member Jenine Omari liked a tweet by UTK MSA member and virulent anti-Semite, Eyad Hijer, who tweeted — “F**k Jews.”

Stori Nuri — a co-president of UTK MSA and president of SJP UTK on January 22, 2015, tweeted — “‘Jew test: throw a pen and if they pick it up they're a Jew’

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SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Propagating Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

On July 27, 2012, fellow SJP UTK member, Mohamed Ali, who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head, tweeted: — “Zion or Zionism, is the belief that Jews are the rightful inhabitants or Israel/Palestine. Lol Illuminati.”

On July 5, 2014, Ali tweeted — “When it comes down to it, Israel is the world's super power, not the USA. They control everything behind the curtains...they control so much from the film industry to franchises to pentagon communications to Wall Street to White House lobbies.”

On the same day, Ali tweeted — “I'm not surprised. America d**krides Israel so hard. They're scared. Israel controls them.”

On June 17, 2013, Ali tweeted — “I feel like all the current problems in the world are linked to the U.S, Israel, & all their d**kriding countries- most of Europe.”

Ebad Hussain, the 2016-2017 treasurer of UTK MSA tweeted, on August 9, 2014— "In America you can criticize God, but you cannot criticize Israel. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

SJP UTK Leader and UTK MSA Member - Spreading Hatred of Israel and Zionists
Stori Nuri — a co-president of UTK MSA and president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UTK. (SJP UTK) — tweeted on April 6, 2016: “Your daily reminder that Israel is a piece of s**t.”

On April 7, 2015, Mohamed Ali — who ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head — tweeted — “I feel so incredibly irritable right now. No idea why...Just feel like kicking a Zionist tbh.”

SJP UTK Founder - Calling for a Third Intifada

On December 8, 2013, Amira Sakalla the founder of SJP UTK tweeted — ““@PalAnonymous: Today marks the 26th anniversary of the First #Intifada #Palestine ”

About time for another one..” More than 10,000 Israelis were maimed or murdered by the Palestinian terrorist violence of the First and Second Intifadas — mostly in the suicide suicide bombings that characterized the Second Intifada.

SJP UTK Members - Drawing Inspiration From Advocates of Genocide

On April, 21, 2016, SJP UTK member Ameen Abdel-Khalek retweeted a tweet by the anti-Semitic Islamist leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the president of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The Wall Street Journal reported that the council has used the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a basis for some of its legal-theological deliberations.

In a January 9, 2009 sermon shown on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed: "O Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. O Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people. O Allah, do not spare a single one of them. O Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."

On March 22, 2016, Abdel-Khalek retweeted tweet from the Hamas info Twitter account — the official Twitter account of the terrorist organization that read — “When will Hamas give up its armed struggle? Watch this debate b/w Sheikh Yasin and a foreign reporter…”

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was the co-founder of Hamas. Yassin has been described as the “mastermind of Palestinian terror” and a “mass murderer” behind many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes during the Second Intifada.

On January 10, 2003, in an interview with the Muslim website Alskifa, Yassin said “Suicide attacks and jihad reinforce national unity in the ranks....Our voice is one of struggle, of jihad and of suicide...”

On September 10, 2015, Abdalla Husain — the Tayseer Seminary’s liaison to UTK MSA, and member of SJP UTK, tweeted — “I HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS YASSER ARAFAT!!!!!!!!!!! #PALESTINE #AAAYYWAAAAAAA I am very happy right now

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Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."

UTK MSA Tayseer Seminary Liaison - Likening Israel to Nazi Germany

On July 21, 2014, Tayseer Seminary’s liaison to UTK MSA, Abdalla Husain — who serves to link MSA with other community efforts in Knoxville — compared Israel to Nazis, tweeting — “Like father like son. Germany in the 30s and 40s is Israel now.”

SJP UTK - Hosting Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist Alison Weir

On April 18, 2013, SJP UTK hosted a speaking event featuring anti-Israel agitator Alison Weir.

Weir is the founder and executive director of the anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK). She has reportedly been “a repeat guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show.” The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has exposed Weir’s propagation of numerous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories.

SJP UTK - Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany

On January 16, 2015, SJP UTK retweeted an anti-Semitic tweet that read “Zionism is Terrorism.” The tweet features a photo of a Jewish child held at gunpoint by a Nazi soldier during the Holocaust, next to a photo of a Palestinian child being arrested by the IDF. The caption on the photo read: “They Act Like NaZis, Because They WERE The NaZis.”

SJP UTK - Promoting Terrorist Incitement as “Education”

On November 13, 2014, SJP UTK posted on Facebook a flyer promoting two Palestinian students hosted by SJP UTK as part of Birzeit University’s so-called “Right to Education” tour.

The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas.

SJP UTK - Promoting Libels to Demonize Israel’s Self-Defense

On July 18, 2014, SJP UTK co-hosted a demonstration with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UTK, (UTK MSA), opposing Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE).

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

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.

MSA

The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."

The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.

The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.