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Firous Hossain
Firous Hossain [Firous Adorah Hossain] was a member of the leadership team of the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at The City College of New York (CCNY SJP) in 2024 and 2025.
CCNY SJP has expressed support for Hamas terrorism, called for Israel's destruction and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of February 2025, Firous Hossain's LinkedIn profile said she was studying for a bachelor's degree at CCNY, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY).
As of the same date, Firous Hossain's LinkedIn said she was located in New York, New York.
On September 27, 2024, while Hossain was a member of CCNY SJP's leadership team, the group promoted on Instagram a pro-Hamas rally titled: "Flood New York City for Palestine." The protest was organized by a pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and took place on October 7, 2024, in New York City.
The language of “flood” is a reference to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the name Hamas used for their terror operation on October 7, 2023. It is a reference to the allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. This accusation has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On January 16, 2025, while Hossain was a member of CCNY SJP's leadership team, the group promoted on Instagram a pro-Hamas rally titled: "Flood New York City for Gaza." The protest was organized by WOL and took place on January 18, 2025, in New York City.
The post said: "...we demand full liberation from the river to the sea...it’s a fight to end all U.S. financial, media, political, and diplomatic complicity in the crimes of settler colonialism, genocide, and Zionism. / The ceasefire while only temporary, was won through the resilience of Palestinian resistance."
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
