Habiba Maher
Overview
Habiba Maher has spread hatred of America and is an activist with UofT Divest and Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at the University of Toronto St. George (UofT St. George).SAIA is an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) employing an alternative name.
Maher attended [00:01:04] the 2018 National SJP Conference.The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”
As of December 2018, Maher was a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Toronto.
As of December 2018, Maher was listed as a 2018 graduate of UofT on the UofT website.
As of December 2018, Maher was listed as a 2018 graduate of UofT on the UofT website.
Hatred of America
On December 30, 2016, Maher shared a photo on Facebook of herself with friends, standing in front of a mural of a United States flag and wrote: “Love you twooo (f**k that settler-colonial flag tho:p)”SJP Activism
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “Toronto Rally for Gaza and Commemorating 70 Years of Nakba” on May 12, 2018. The event was co-hosted by multiple SJP chapters, including SJP Ryerson, SAIA at York University, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Queen's and SPHR McMaster.SPHR is an affiliate of SJP employing an alternative name.
The event’s Facebook description said Israel’s founding in 1948 was an “ethnic cleansing campaign” and “On March 30, 2018...thousands of Palestinians in Gaza marched to the militarized boundary fence to demand their right to return and an end to Israel’s illegal blockade. They were met with violence as Israeli snipers took position behind the fence and above the hills to shoot at the protesters. So far, at least 45 Palestinians have been killed and 5,500 injured.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests,” or the “March of Return.” The march was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the Palestinian demand to “return” to Israel. The “right of return” has since been discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
Maher indicated on Facebook that she“went” to an event titled: “IAW 2018: Nakba, Resistance, Return - Arts & Culture Night.” The event was co-hosted by SAIA UofT St. George on March 13, 2018.
The event’s Facebook description said the event was to mark “70 years of popular resistance to the ongoing Nakba...The Nakba is ongoing and still translates into ethnic cleansing and dispossession on a daily basis.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “IAW 2018: ‘Jerusalem: The East Side Story’ - Film Screening” on March 12, 2018. The event was organized by UofT Divest and the “Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Faculty4Palestine, the UTGSU BDS Committee and the CUPE 3902 BDS Political Action Committee” as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
Israeli 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.
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “Palestine’s Right to Education: The Politics of the Academic Boycott” on March 27, 2017. The event was co-organized by SAIA UofT St. George as part of IAW.
The event’s Facebook details said: “Israeli universities have...have a crucial role in maintaining occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid...an academic boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions is...to refuse to be complicit in and normalize Israel’s war crimes, ongoing occupation, oppression and apartheid.”
On March 22, 2017, Maher was credited by tatreezandtea.com for photographs taken at “SAIA 13th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week – University of Toronto.”
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “13th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week: 100 Years of Settler-Colonialism” on March 9, 2017. The event was co-organized by UofT Divest and SAIA at UofT St. George.
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “Palestine’s Right to Education: The Politics of the Academic Boycott” on March 27, 2017. The event was co-organized by SAIA UofT St. George as part of IAW.
The event’s Facebook details said: “Israeli universities have...have a crucial role in maintaining occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid...an academic boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions is...to refuse to be complicit in and normalize Israel’s war crimes, ongoing occupation, oppression and apartheid.”
On March 22, 2017, Maher was credited by tatreezandtea.com for photographs taken at “SAIA 13th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week – University of Toronto.”
Maher indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event titled: “13th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week: 100 Years of Settler-Colonialism” on March 9, 2017. The event was co-organized by UofT Divest and SAIA at UofT St. George.
Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference
On November 19, 2018, Maher appeared [00:01:04] in a video taken during the 2018 National SJP Conference.2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
During the 2018 National SJP conference, anti-Israel activist Mohammed Nabulsi led the attendees in the chant [00:00:52] “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
Abudayyeh added that he was asked [00:08:45] to talk about Odeh’s case, and praised SJP and SDS students who organized [00:09:15] “absolutely valuable” events on behalf [00:9:11] of Odeh, “as she was fighting to stay in the U.S.”
2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
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.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
Social Media and Weblinks
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