Frishta Bastan
Overview
Frishta Bastan has equated Israel with Nazi Germany and spread hatred of Zionists andIsrael. Bastan is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.Bastan was an activist with the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) chapter at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) in 2013 and 2012. SAIA is a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) employing an alternative name.
In June 2017, Bastan was a member of the University of Toronto (U of T)’s Students for Palestine Facebook group.
In June 2017, Bastan was a member of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at McMaster University (McMaster)’s Facebook group and a member of UTM MSA’s Facebook group. In 2015, Bastan posted on Facebook that she served on the board of directors U of T’s student union (UTSU) and UTM’s student union (UTMSU).
Bastan worked for the House of Commons of Canada as an outreach & community relations manager from “Jul 2017 - Jan 2019” and as a teaching assistant at McMaster from “Sep 2016 - Jan 2017.”
Bastan has also received an “Antiracism Certificate” from the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) and a “Community Engagement, Leadership, and Development Certificate (ongoing)” from the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at TMU. In addition, she was issued a mental health first aid (MHDA) certificate from the Mental Health Commission of Canada in 2017.
As of September 2023, Bastan went by the username “Freshi Stan” and used the handle “@FreshiStan” on Twitter. She also went by the username “Frishta ‘Fresh’ Bastan” and used the handle “@freshpoetry” on Instagram.
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany
On November 16, 2012, Bastan tweeted: “Good for you Zionists! You are recreating Hitlers ideology. Except this time you aren't the victims.”
Hatred of Zionists
On November 21, 2015, Bastan tweeted the Facebook profile of a user whose personal picture was of an Israeli flag and wrote: “LMFAO [laughing my f**king a** off] SO THIS JUST HAPPENED HE FOLLOWED ME ON FACEBOOK LMFAO GTFO [get the f**k out] YOU DIRTY PIG.”On October 14, 2015, Bastan tweeted: “Netanyahu [Benjamin Netanyahu] needs to stfu [shut the f**k up]. Forever.”
On November 18, 2012, Bastan tweeted: “This chick on the SAIA page needs to stfu [shut the f**k up]... damn Zionists are really annoying people.”
Hatred of Israel
On July 18, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Bastan tweeted:
“F**k Israel. #GazaUnderAttack #GazaBlackout.”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On November 18, 2012, during Israel’s Pillar of Defense (OPD), Bastan tweeted: “Are you proud world leaders? Are you happy to witness a massacre? Are you excited that Gaza will soon be wiped off the map? Yes. Yes. Yes.”
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
On November 17, 2012, Bastan tweeted: “If Israel invades Gaza, you shameless, inhumane world leaders can all applaud yourselffor allowing yet ANOTHER genocide to happen.”
On November 16, 2012, Bastan tweeted: “70,000 Israeli soldiers are about to commit a massive massacre. WHY IS THE WORLD SILENT!?”
On November 14, 2012, Bastan tweeted “Ladies and Gentlemen of this generation, You are now witnessing a live genocide. What will you do about it? #Gaza.”
On the same day, Bastan tweeted: “WEAR BLACK FROM HEAD TO TOE TOMORROW TO SHOW THAT YOU WILL NOT IGNORE THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA. Also if you have a kūfiyyah, proudly wear it.”
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.
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.
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