Guillermo Hava

Biographical Information

In October 2023, Hava was a member of Harvard PSC, the group that co-organized the October 2023 statement blaming Israel for Hamas war crimes. PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). 

Hava was also an organizer for Harvard PSC in September 2023. 

On October 17, 2023, Hava wrote an op-ed in Harvard’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson (The Crimson), justifying Hamas’s war crimes. The op-ed was titled: “To Kill a Child.” Hava wrote that “we all must acknowledge the factors that triggered Hamas’s attacks.” Hava also claimed: “Israel treats Palestinian lives as disposable.”

As of October 2023, Hava’s LinkedIn profile said Hava was an editorial chair of The Crimson from January 2022 to January 2023. Hava served on The Crimson’s editorial board when it endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and promoted Harvard PSC in 2022. 

As of October 2023, Hava was reportedly a “joint Government and Philosophy concentrator” at Harvard. 

Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/guillermo.s.hava.1 

Twitter:https://twitter.com/guille_hava [Private]

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/guille_hava [Private]

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermo-s-hava-250a4114a/