Fatmah Worfeley

Overview

Fatmah Worfeley was a member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER)at Portland State University (PSU), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Worfeley was the president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Portland Community College (PCC) and was a member of MSA PSU.

Worfeley is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Worfeley was a senator on the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government in 2016.

As of February 2019, Worfeley’s LinkedIn page said she was the Director of Advocacy and Programming at Momentum Alliance, a Trainer at Stop the Hate and the Communications Director at Daughters of Eve.

Worfeley’s LinkedIn page also said that she graduated PSU in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Civil Leadership and Spanish.

Supporting Terrorism

On December 25, 2013, Worfeley supported terrorist Samer Issawi in a Facebook post.

Samer Issawi is a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who received a 26-year prison sentence in 2002. During the second intifada, Issawi manufactured and distributed pipe bombs and fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles. In December 2013, Issawi called for the kidnapping of Israelis, saying: “The [Palestinian] prisoners' release will be brought about by kidnapping and [prisoner] exchanges. Nothing will happen without that.”

On October 19, 2016, Worfeley wrote on Facebook — "‘مكتوب عجبينك بط’ ‘it’s written on your forehead ‘(s)hero #Falasteen." The Arabic text — “‘Hero’ is written in your forehead" — she posted is the title of a 2011 Palestinian song which celebrates the release of 1,027 Palestinian terrorists in exchange for Hamas releasing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Hamas claimed that the prisoners released were responsible for killing 569 Israelis. Issawi was among those released as was Ahlam Tamim i, the mastermind of the 2001 Sbarro Cafe Bombing where 16 were killed and 130 injured in central Jerusalem.

On March 9, 2016, Worfeley wrote “falasteen ” next to a Facebook image calling for “intifada.”

On October 19, 2016, Worfeley shared a link on Facebook raising money for Ali Jiddeh, who planted four hand grenades in downtown Jerusalem as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Jiddeh injured nine Israelis and spent 17 years in jail. He claimed, in the link, that his act was part of "being active in the Palestinian national struggle."

On October 22, 2016, Worfeley retweeted a tweet which promoted Dareen Tatour.

In October 2015, Tatour was placed under house arrest for incitement to violence and for support of a terrorist organization on social media. Tatour had supported the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and posted to Facebook: “I am the next shahid [martyr].”

On September 22, 2016, Worfeley defended smuggling tunnels running from Egypt to Gaza, which Hamas has used to smuggle weapons, as only being there to help Gazans with basic needs. She also said that Israel "continue[s] to demolish Palestinian blood."

Vilifying Israel

Worfeley is a member of the Facebook group Americans Against Genocide in Gaza, which has a cover photo stating "Stop the Palestinian Holocaust!"

On August 13, 2016, Worfeley tweeted that an Israeli Olympic athlete "represents the oppression and genocide."

On September 29, 2016, Worfeley shared a video by anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi calling Israel a "settler-colonial state" and implying that Jews have no right or connection to their ancient homeland.

On September 5, 2016, Worfeley shared a BDS image which called Israel a "CRIMINAL LAND THIEVING ABUSIVE MURDEROUS OCCUPYING HUMAN RIGHTS DENYING APARTHEID STATE." The post came from Peter Alan Foley who uses his Facebook page to post large amounts of anti-Israel propaganda.

On October 10, 2016, Worfeley tweeted: "I'm currently questioning my time and effort with student government. There's too much f**king Zionism, racism and ignorance."

On November 28, 2015, Worfeley accused Israel of "racism" in a Facebook photo.

On October 25, 2016, Worfeley said on Instagram that Israel practices "apartheid."

On December 18, 2012, Worfeley praised a Facebook photo accusing Israel of committing "massacres in Gaza" with a photo of dead bloodied children. The photo was posted one month after Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas.

Supporting BDS at PSU

On October 24, 2016, Worfeley celebrated the victory of a SUPER-authored BDS resolution, which passed the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government.

The resolution, which attempted to portray the State of Israel as a modern incarnation of Apartheid South Africa, called on the university to divest from companies with ties to the Jewish state in an effort to discourage these companies from doing further business with Israel.

SUPER - Honoring Terrorists

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted its Palestinian Cultural Night where the group set up multiple displays honoring terrorists. Among them were Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh.

Khaled hijacked airplanes with the PFLP in 1969 and 1970 while Odeh masterminded a 1969 bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket and also attempted to bomb the British consulate. Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind.

The same event honored the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, as well as Haneen Zoabi — a member of Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) — who has been investigated for inciting violence on a number of occasions.

On November 19, 2014, SUPER hosted an event exclusively supporting Odeh.

On March 1, 2014, SUPER hosted another Palestinian Cultural Night where they honored Arafat.

SUPER - Bringing Anti-Israel Speakers to PSU

On May 23, 2016, SUPER hosted an event featuring Nada Elia who — in October of 2015, while Palestinians across Israel stabbed scores of Israeli civilians during the "Knife Intifada" — wrote an article titled “Why Be Afraid of an Intifada?” where she said “Intifadas are good.”

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi who is known for his aggressively anti-Israel performances.

On April 9, 2015, SUPER hosted Professor Steven Salaita, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

On February 24, 2015, SUPER hosted BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

On May 13, 2014, SUPER hosted anti-Israel propagandist Ali Abunimah, who said in 2010: "Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit."

On December 13, 2013, SUPER hosted terror supporter Eva Bartlett.

On May 25, 2012, SUPER hosted blood libel propagator Jasbir Puar who has claimed that Israel harvests Palestinian organs and stunts Palestinian growth.

On February 25, 2012, SUPER hosted conspiracy theorist As’ad Abu Khalil who said two weeks earlier that among the "anti-Semitic kooks" within the Palestinian movement were possibly “infiltrators to sabotage our cause and smear our campaigns.”

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.

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.