Grant Seuser

Overview

Grant Seuser [Grant S. Seuser] opposed a South Carolina state bill addressing anti-Semitism, as the 2017 outreach coordinator with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). Seuser was also active with UofSC SJP since 2015.

As of November 2019, Seuser’s LinkedIn said that he was a “Postdoctoral Researcher” at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, since June 2019.

Seuser said on LinkedIn that he received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UofSC in 2018 and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Houston (UH), in 2013.

Opposing a State Bill Addressing Anti-Semitism

In 2017, UofSC SJP fought against SC H. 3643 “anti-Semitism bill” that sought to include the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism when evaluating hostile environment complaints.

On February 22, 2017, Seuser attended UofSC SJP’s event, titled: “Stop anti-Palestine Legislation at SC state house!” The event was held at the South Carolina legislature’s House Judiciary Special Laws Subcommittee hearing.

Seuser spoke [00:40:10] against the bill during the hearing. He went on to accuse [00:41:03] Israel of committing “innumerable human rights violations” against Palestinians and to call [00:41:20] Israel’s blockade of Gaza “illegal and immoral.”

Israel and Egypt implemented a United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

The bill did not pass in 2017, however, it was later placed in the 2018-2019 budget and currently applies on college campuses.

On May 11, 2017, Noura Al-Duaijani, a UofSC SJP member, tweeted at Seuser and fellow UofSC SJP activist Deoni Walker: “Congratulations Grant and Deoni...I am sure your hard work and commitment played a major role in the making of this decision👏👏.”

On October 3, 2017, Seuser tabled for UofSC SJP “Discussing anti-Palestinian bill H. 3643.”

UofSC SJP Activism

On March 17, 2016, Seuser tabled for a play, hosted by UofSC SJP, titled: “My name is Rachel Corrie.”

RCF was created to honor the memory of Rachel Corrie, a former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member who was accidentally killed while interfering with an Israeli military operation in 2003 during the Second Intifada. A wrongful death suit brought by Corrie’s family was dismissed when the judge ruled that Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in danger.

On November 10, 2015, Seuser posed in front of a collage of images of Israel, during UofSC SJP’s “Palestinian Culture Night.” The collage was titled: “Jerusalem - Capital of Palestine.”

On October 31, 2015, Seuser assisted in constructing and then posed with UofSC SJP’s “Mock Separation Wall,” demonizing Israel’s security barrier.

Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.

UofSC SJP - Defending Terrorists

On August 13, 2018, UofSC SJP shared an article to Facebook that defended several“Knife Intifada” terrorists, including Ahmed Manasra and Nurhan Awad.

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.

Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015, during the Knife Intifada. They critically wounded a 13-year-old boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. The spree ended when police shot Hassan and a passing motorist hit Ahmed. Ahmed was taken to an Israeli hospital. He admitted to investigators: “I went there to stab Jews.” He was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.

Hadeel Awad and her cousin Nurhan Awad were shot after they stabbed two people — including a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem — near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Hadeel was shot by police as she was slashing at other Israeli civilians with scissors.

The article shared by UofSC SJP on Facebook also praised Lama Hafez al-Bakri.

In December 2015, 16-year-old Lama al-Bakri drew a knife and attempted to stab a pedestrian in the Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Arba before she was shot. Bakri was then detained for 3 years.

UofSC SJP- Glorifying Violent Protesters

On May 14, 2018, UofSC SJP posted to Facebook: “Just today, the number of Palestinian martyrs doubled since the beginning of the #GreatReturnMarch as Israel opened live fire” and added: “demand the US and Israel put an end to this ruthless massacre.”

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in the “March of Return” protests. Organized and funded by Hamas, the campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border aimed to spotlight the Palestinian demand to “return” to Israel.

The “right of return” has been discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

On May 15th, 2018, UofSC SJP launched a photo campaign of UofSC SJP activists and members holding up signs in defense of the March of Return.

That day, UofSC SJP tweeted: “peaceful Palestinian protestors at the #GreatReturnMarch demanding basic rights are being massacred by Israeli snipers. Israel opened live ammunition murdering over 50 Palestinians yesterday.”

On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.

On September 21, 2018, UofSC SJP posted to Facebook: “We have now entered the 26th week of the #GreatReturnMarch where Palestinians...demand their right of return...israel has opened live ammunition and brutally murders and injuries (nonviolent- btw) Palestinian protestors….We will honor our martyrs.”

UofSC SJP - Promoting Supporters of Terror

On April 22, 2018, UofSC SJP co-hosted Joe Catron and Islam Marqa of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The event’s Facebook page noted that ISM volunteers acted as human shields, writing: “They stayed with resistance fighters trapped under siege in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem.”

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM), founded in 2001, is a movement allegedly “committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.”

However, the group has been accused of supporting terrorism and has encouraged its foreign volunteers to act “as human shields in cities, towns and refugee camps.” ISM has also encouraged activists to break curfew and disregard Israeli directives prohibiting access to closed military zones.

That policy resulted in the death of Rachel Corrie, who was accidentally killed while interfering with an Israeli military operation in 2003. A wrongful death suit brought by Corrie’s family was dismissed, because the judge ruled that Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in danger.

On March 4, 2018, UofSC SJP shared to Facebook an Electronic Intifada (EI) article titled: “How the US jailed five innocent Palestinians.” The UofSC SJP post featured the hashtag “#TheHolyLandFive” (HL5).

The HLF5 were five individuals associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) indicted for funnelling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.

The men were were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.

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.