Genevieve Nevin
Overview
Geneviève Nevin spread incitement, expressed supportfor terrorists, demonized Israel and supported an anti-Israel agitator.Nevin was the 2017-2018 co-president [00:01:38] of the anti-Israel organization Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)’s student chapter at Carleton University (Carleton) and the University of Ottawa (UOttawa).
As of May 3, 2018, Nevin was a member of the closed Facebook group of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at UOttawa, called: “SPHR Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights uOttawa 2018-2019.”
As of May 2018, Nevin’s LInkedIn page said she was an undergraduate French Immersion, International Development and Globalization student at UOttawa, slated to graduate in 2018.
Nevin’s LinkedIn also said she was Assistant Project Coordinator at Parks Canada, in Sidney BC, since June 2017.
Nevin commented: “Important action for people in Ottawa! From Gabi Ghannoum.” The event description called“for solidarity with the Palestinian people who have announced three days of rage.”
The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
During the Ottowa rally, protesters yelled [00:00:36] “بالروح بالدم نفديكي يا فلسطين [In spirit and in blood we will redeem you, oh Palestine],” a chant Yasser Arafat used to incite Palestinians against Israel.
Demonstrators held [00:00:31] a large poster behind a speaker that featured the “Map that Lies,” declared President Trump’s decision “a religious war,” and labeled the United States “The Founder of Terror.”
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
Support for Terrorists
On May 16, 2017, Ashton posted to Facebook photo of herself speaking at a demonstration in support of a Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike.During the demonstrations, protesters also held up signs featuring Ahmed Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike — most of whom were also convicted for acts of terrorism.
On May 19, 2017, Nevin posted to Facebook a statement titled “Jewish Canadian support for Recognition of the Palestinian Narrative.”
The statement was made in support of the Nikki Ashton, an NDP Member of Parliament, who posted on Facebook that it was “powerful to join many at a rally in solidarity with those on hunger strike in Palestine today.”
In her post, Nevin thanked Ashton for her “truth and courage” and encouraged “self identifying Jewish Canadians” to “sign/share” the statement.
Demonizing Israel
On March 30, 2018, Nevin shared a post to Facebook comparing Israel's response to “the non-violent Palestinian protesters marching today” to “South Africa's 1960 “Sharpeville massacre.”Nevin’s post also featured the hashtag: “#TheGreatReturnMarch.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
On March 31, 2018, Nevin shared on Facebook a post that defended the “Great March,” adding the hashtag “#GreatReturnMarch.”
The post called students to “make the connection between white supremacy and political Zionism” and condemned “anti-racism activists who fight white supremacy and call themselves ‘progressive,’ yet vote down BDS.”
On April 4, 2018, Nevin shared a petition to Facebook signed by forty Canadian anti-Israel organizations “calling for economic sanctions to be imposed on Israel.” Nevin wrote: “#LandDayMassacre” and “Proud to see Independent Jewish Voices Canada on this list!”
The petition accused Israel of committing a “horrific massacre” of Palestinians who “gathered peacefully near the fence separating Gaza from Israel,” and claimed that Israel has “ abject disregard for international humanitarian law.”
Nevin is a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)’s Facebook group since January 23, 2018.
IJAN’s group description calls for a “struggle against Zionism” and its “historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people” as part of the commitment to the struggle against “colonization and imperialism.”
On January 1, 2018, Nevin expressed support for the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) on Facebook.
Supporting an Anti-Israel Agitator
On February 18, 2018, Nevin and other anti-Israel protesters stood during the New Democrat Party (NDP)’s 2018 convention holding signs that read “Free Ahed Tamimi.”On January 2, 2018, Nevin posted to Facebook: “Free Ahed, and all Palestinian political prisoners
” and shared a Al-Jazeera video glorifying Ahed Tamimi and the Tamimi family.On January 5, 2018, Nevin posted to Facebook: “It is incumbent upon the international Jewish community to fight for peace and justice in Palestine. #FreeAhed.”
On January 19, 2018, Nevin posted to Facebook a photo of herself holding a sign that read: “Free Ahed.” She also claimed thatIsrael “routinely arrests, interrogates and tortures Palestinian children,” and concluded by calling for “Freedom for Ahed and freedom for all political prisoners.”
Pushing BDS at the NDP
On February 16, 2018, Nevin, together with IJV as well as Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) activists tried to push through an anti-Israel BDS resolution at the NDP’s 2018 convention. The resolution called for the NDP to campaign in support of BDS movement.On January 31, 2018, one month before the NDP conference, Nevin posted to Facebook a link to a blog post she published on rabble.ca, calling on the NDP to support the motion.
In her blog post, Nevin labeled Zionism “settler colonialism” and claimed that “contemporary Zionism” requires Jews to “conform to a narrow, monolithic narrative of Jewishness, one that conflates Judaism and Zionism and advocates for the maintenance of ethno-nationalism over the freedom and basic rights of Palestinians."
On February 13, 2018, Nevin posted to Facebook an invitation to sign up for IJV’s “email blasts” and attached to her post an IJV update that described the group’s intense promotion of the BDS resolution.
During the NDP convention, the BDS resolution was placed near the bottom of the agenda and failed to make it to the floor for discussion and vote.
Pushing BDS at UOttawa
In March 2018, Nevin advocated for a divestment resolution against Israel on the Uottawa campus.The divestment initiative was jointly proposed by IJV, SPHR and the Revolutionary Students Movement (RSM) at UOttawa, during the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) General Assembly (GA)’s winter session on March 13, 2018.
This divestment proposal called on the SFUO to revise its policy manual and mandate that the SFUO “support this [BDS] movement as well as take a Pro-Palestine stance.” The proposal also called for the SFOU to “put pressure on the Board of Governors of UOttowa to support BDS campaigns.”
The proposal called for the SFUO to divest from companies “complicit in violation of Palestinian human rights,” to boycott Israeli artists and to “work for the cancellation of all forms of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions.”
Nevin advocated [00:01:25] for the resolution and declared [00:03:33]: “[a]s a Jewish person, I will not let my Jewish identity be utilized and co-opted in order to justify the human rights violations and war crimes of the Israeli state.”
The divestment proposal failed to garner the required two-thirds majority to pass, with 241 votes for and 231 votes against.
After the vote, SPHR posted on Facebook ”... this moment remains a victory for all students who stand in solidarity with Palestinian human rights.”
On the same day, Nevin posted on Facebook: “IJV congratulates student activists at uOttawa for the landmark mobilization in favour of #BDS!”
Nevin then posted a video of her speech promoting divestment on Facebook, adding: “We won the vote (241 to 231), but due to a technicality requiring 2/3 majority, the motion was not adopted and will be presented to the Board of Administrators at a later date.”
On March 25, 2018, SPHR UOttawa attempted to push the failed BDS motion at the SFUO BOA meeting following the SFUO GA’s winter assembly. Once more, it failed to reach the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the resolution.
During the SFUO BOA meeting, Nevin spoke in favor of the resolution and alleged [00:01:16] that Zionism “advocates for the maintenance of ethno-nationalism.”
The following day, UOttawa President and Vice-Chancellor, Jacques Frémont, released a statement strongly denouncing the SFUO BDS campaign:
“This issue is divisive and a detriment to an open and welcoming campus environment,” said Frémont. “The University of Ottawa will have no part of the BDS movement nor any movement that boycotts academic institutions.”
IJV Carleton-UofOttawa
In 2018, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) at Carleton University (Carleton) and the University of Ottawa (UOttawa) worked closely with Students for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at UOttawa to co-host anti-Israel events, including Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) and a BDS initiative.Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) is 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. IAW has been re-named Palestine Awareness Week.
IJV has also promoted Holocaust denial and has been accused of peddling “antisemitism under the guise of radical anti-Zionism.”
SPHR/IJV/RSM UOttawa - Pushing BDS
On November 5, 2017, Leila Moumouni-Tchouassi — a member of SPHR UOttawa’s Facebook group and Vice-President of Equity (VP Equity) for the SFUO — proposed [00:02:45] a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution during a SFUO Board of Administration (SFUO BOA) meeting.Students were notified of the upcoming resolution vote only two days prior, on a Friday, hours before the onset of the Jewish Sabbath.
The resolution sought to amend the SFUO policy handbook to explicitly adopt and promote BDS and that its purpose was to guide the student union and its actions, particularly in terms of purchasing.
The initial BDS motion read, “The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa will support [the BDS] movement as well as take a Pro-Palestine stance.”
However, before the vote took place, Moumouni-Tchouassi proposed an amendment, changing the wording of the resolution to read “the SFUO will divest from industries and companies who actively support war and occupation including the apartheid regime of the State of Israel against the Palestinian population.”
The BOA rejected the amendment. Following pushback, Moumouni-Tchouassi amended [01:14:00] the resolution to remove all references to BDS. The amended resolution committed the SFUO to do “all in its power to peacefully resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Moumouni-Tchouassi clarified [01:14:22] that the amendment would not change then-current purchasing policy, which was already being conducted [00:09:01] in line with BDS.
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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