Felipe Bris Abejón
Overview
Felipe Bris Abejón published an anti-Semitic cartoon in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)’s student newspaper and has spread hatred of Israel online. Abejón served as the education and resources director of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCLA in 2015-2016.
As of August 2018, Abejón’s LinkedIn page said he was an Arabic and Political Science undergraduate student at UCLA, slated to graduate in 2019. He has been an editorial cartoonist with the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper, since September 2016.
Anti-Semitism
On February 13, 2017, Abejón published an anti-Semitic cartoon in UCLA’s student newspaper, the Daily Bruin.The cartoon depicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing in front of the Ten Commandments, with the “not” of the Sixth Commandment — “thou shalt not steal” — crossed out.
Underneath the Sixth Commandment, the Seventh Commandment “Thou shalt not kill” is inscribed: “#7 Thou shalt not kill.” Netanyahu is depicted with a thought bubble saying “#7 is next.”
A February 14, 2017, Jewish Journal article said that the cartoon was “commenting on a Feb. 6 legislation known as the ‘Regulation Bill’ that could retroactively legalize roughly 4,000 homes built by Israeli settlers on private Palestinian land in the West Bank.”
The Daily Bruin issued an apology the same day. Members of SJP at UCLA’s board wrote to the paper condemning the cartoon and denying any affiliation with Abejón.
Hatred of Israel
On May 16, 2018, during Gaza’s violent March of Return, Abejón tweeted: “Peaceful protests continue in Gaza as well as the murder of the protesters by the Israeli army. #freepalestine #palestine #gaza #GazaUnderAttack.”Abejón’s tweet featured a cartoon of an Israeli soldier firing a machine gun at a fence, with a second Israeli soldier saying: “I think there’s some kids over there who haven’t felt the self-defense yet!”
In May 2018, violent riots, instigated by Hamas on the Israeli-Gaza border, saw thousands of rioters attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with participants declaring their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”
On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during a May 14 protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
On December 7, 2017, Abejón tweeted a cartoon portraying three Israeli soldiers beating a bleeding and defenseless Palestinian youth near the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem. United States’ President Donald Trump was depicted holding a chair aloft and joining the fight, saying: “Alright! Let’s solve this thing!”
Abejón added: “East #jerusalem has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967
#freepalestine #palestine #trump #alquds #trump #alaqsa #القدس_عاصمة_فلسطين_الابدية # فلسطين [#Palestine #Jerusalem - the Capital of Palestine] #palestinewillbefree.”
Abejón tweet was written in response to Trump’s announcement, a day earlier, of his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On November 25, 2015, while serving as the education and resources director for SJP at UCLA, Abejón co-authored an article in the Daily Bruin that accused Israel of carrying out a “systematic attempt to uproot a group of 5.5 million people from their ancestral land on the basis of their race and religious beliefs.”
The article also suggested Israel was guilty of “crimes against humanity” and accused Israel of “systematic planned aerial attacks on densely populated civilian areas” in Gaza.
SJP at UCLA - Support for Terrorists
On October 14, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” SJP at UCLA held a demonstration and “die-in,” in solidarity with Palestinians one day after Palestinian terrorists killed three Israelis and wounded more than 20.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.
On October 29, 2015, SJP at UCLA shared on their website an October 23, 2015 submission published six days prior in the Daily Bruin, titled “Palestinians are dying too.”
The submission, written by Shawndeez Davari Jadalizadeh, accused another article in the Daily Bruin of taking part in an attempt “to erase Palestinian life” by failing to mention the names of Palestinians killed during the Knife Intifada.
The submission then listed a number of “Palestinians killed by Israelis... since Oct. 1, the beginning of the third intifada,” such as: Mohannad Halabi, Fadi Alloon, Amjad Hatem al-Jundi, Bassem Bassam Sidr, Hassan Khalid Manasra, Fadel al-Qawasmi and Mohamed Nathmie Shamassnah.
On October 3, 2015, during Israel’s “Knife Intifada,” 19-year-old Mohanad Halabi murdered two Israeli rabbis in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. The wife and child of one of the victims were also injured. The day before the murder, Halabi, a member of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), had reportedly posted to his Facebook page: “The third Intifada is here"and "Wake up from your slumber and save al-Aqsa. Let the revolution erupt.”
Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
Amjad Al-Jundi stabbed an Israeli soldier on October 7, 2015. He then took the soldier’s rifle and ran to a nearby apartment building where he tried to shoot and stab a local woman in her home. Police responded and killed Al-Jundi during a shootout that transpired.
Basel Bessam Sidr was shot while attempting to stab Israeli police officers in Jerusalem. Fadil Qawasmi was shot after attempting to staban Israeli policeman and a civilian in Hebron.
Hassan Manasra was shot on October 12, 2015, while he and his 13-year-old cousin Ahmed were engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem, critically wounding a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounding a 25-year-old man.
Mohammad Nathmie Shamasna was shot after he stabbed a 19-year-old Israeli soldier and unsuccessfully tried to grab his gun.
During an interview with the Lebanese Al-Quds TV channel following the attack, Shamasna’s mother said the family was proud of her son, who was “martyred for the sake of Al-Aqsa,” and then pulled out a knife concealed beneath her clothes and said, while making stabbing motions: “Watch out, Israel! Watch out!”
SJP at UCLA - Anti-Semitism
In February 2015, four SJP at UCLA activists and council senators with the Undergraduate Students Association (USA) were involved in a widely publicized anti-Semitic incident.Sofia Moreno Haq, Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, Manjot Singh and Fabienne Roth were responsible for preventing Rachel Beyda from joining the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) judicial board, because she belonged to Jewish organizations.
Beyda’s position on the Judicial Board was later confirmed at a re-vote and the four objecting counselors submitted a formal apology to Beyda and the Jewish community.
SJP at UCLA - Intimidation
n 2016, SJP at UCLA reportedly harassed and intimidated Milan Chaterjee, the former president of UCLA’s Graduate Student Association (GSA), to such an extent that he stepped down from his student government position and left UCLA.In November 2015, Chaterjee attempted to block an effort by SJP at UCLA to use school funds to promote the BDS movement during a diversity caucus Town hall event, in accordance with a policy requiring viewpoint neutrality.
Chaterjee said that, as a result, he was "relentlessly attacked, bullied, and harassed by BDS-affiliated organizations and students" for months.
In April 2014, SJP at UCLA members submitted a petition to USAC’s judicial board against two former undergraduate student government council members who participated in trips to Israel that were sponsored by pro-Israel Jewish organizations.
SJP at UCLA alleged that the council members committed “conflict of interest violations” by participating in the sponsored trips and should have abstained from voting on a February 2014 BDS resolution. SJP at UCLA also argued the council members’ votes on the divestment resolution should have been disqualified.
Although the ballot on the divestment resolution was secret, it was assumed that the two council members voted against the resolution because they both spoke against the resolution during discussions prior to the vote.
The student judicial board later ruled that the trips taken by the council members did not constitute a conflict of interest.
SJP UCLA - BDS Activism
In December 2013, SJP at UCLA launched its first divestment campaign, drafting a resolution calling on the UC Regents to pull funding from five companies doing business with Israel, including Caterpillar, Cemex, Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), General Electric (GE), and Hewlett-Packard (HP). The February 2014 debate lasted over ten hours and went until six in the morning the following day. The resolution was ultimately voted down.
In November 2014, SJP UCLA again pushed a divestment resolution “calling on the Regents to divest from companies that enable and profit from violations of Palestinian rights.”
The resolution claimed that the same five companies “provided weapons used” by Israel “in attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,” and that investment in these companies “shows implicit support” for “the killings of civilians.”
On November 18, 2014, the undergraduate student government adopted the divestment resolution with a vote of 8-2-2.
In February 2015, SJP UCLA pushed BDS beyond the UCLA campus by promoting a divestment resolution to the UC Student Association (UCSA). The resolution also called on the UC Regents to divest from American-based corporations that “violate Palestinian human rights.”
The UCSA Board of Directors passed the resolution by a 9-1-5 vote.
SJP UCLA also used their 2014 Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) to promote divestment, erecting a “mock apartheid wall” and hosting a screening and discussion of the film “Roadmap to Apartheid,” a film that compared Israel to apartheid in South Africa.
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.
SJP at UCLA - Hosting Israel Haters
On January 28, 2016, SJP at UCLA hosted anti-Israel Professors Ahlam Muthaseb and Sa'ed Atshan.Muhtaseb regularly uses her Facebook and Twitter to demonize Israel, whitewash Palestinian terrorism and collaborate with fellow anti-Israel activists. Atshan has praised inciters of violence as well as Sheikh Omar Suleiman who, in 2014, called on Twitter for a “Third Intifada” to destroy Israel.
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.
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- 06/23/2025
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Infamous Quotes
“For the uninitiated, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is a systematic attempt to uproot a group of 5.5 million people from their ancestral land on the basis of their race and religious beliefs.”
