Hannan Danon
Overview
Hannan Danon promoted an anti-Semitic event, expressed support for terrorists and spread hatred of Israel on social media andis a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.As of September 2019, Danon’s LinkedIn page said she was the “social media specialist” for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of South Florida (USF), where she updated the SJP USF Facebook page. Her LinkedIn page also said she graduated from USF in 2016, with a bachelor’s degree in Communications.
On May 6, 2018, Danon posted on Facebook that she received a master’s degree in Education from USF.
As of September 2019, Danon’s LinkedIn page said she was an academic counselor at the Universal Academy of Florida. The page also said she was a “private tutor” and tutored children between the ages of 8-12.
Promoting an Anti-Semitic Event
On November 18, 2013, Danon promoted on Facebook an SJP USF event that contained a blood libel as part of the programming. Danon, in two Facebook posts, encouraged followers to watch the event on the SJP USF ustream.tv page.The USF Oracle, the USF student newspaper, reported that the event was a game modeled on the TV show, "Jeopardy!"
One question that SJP USF asked students was to name the “type of poisons that Israeli settlers put in Palestinian water supplies to make them undrinkable,” a modern variation of a medieval anti-Semitic blood libel that Jews poison water supplies. Another question suggested that Israel has been “snatching” Palestinian children from their beds.
The USF Oracle also reported: “The contestants were asked what the Jewish derogatory term for ‘African’ was. They were later asked to repeat the slur, when asked what Israelites called President Barack Obama.” Another question claimed that “only Jews” can use “the primary motorway that links Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
Supporting Terrorists
On June 23, 2014, Danon tweeted: “#SamerIssawi has been arrested, he is a former prisoner that went on a hunger strike for 266 days.”Samer Issawi is a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who received a 26-year prison sentence in 2002. During the second intifada, Issawi manufactured and distributed pipe bombs and, in several incidents, fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles.
Danon retweeted an April 24, 2014 tweet from the Twitter account “@KhaderAdnan.” The account was named after a terrorist who has gone on multiple hunger strikes to protest his detention. The tweet said: “200 Palestinian prisoners in Israel go on hunger strike http://bitly.com/1jFcqnM via @worldbulletin”
Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On May 13, 2014, Danon shared a Facebook post comparing Israel’s security barrier to the Berlin wall. She wrote: “The Israeli apartheid wall is TWICE the size of the Berlin wall, but that doesn't matter because Israel is the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East.”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.
During Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Danon retweeted a July 7, 2014 tweet that said: “The terrorists are not the ones living in an open-air prison. The terrorists are the ones bombing it. #Gaza.”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 8, 2014, Danon tweeted: “Operation Protective Edge in #Gaza in order to ‘stop the terror #Israel's citizens face on a daily basis’ obvs israelis have it real bad.”
Danon retweeted a July 26, 2014 tweet that said: “We are angry abt genocide in #Gaza;we should be equally angry with the silence/complicity of neighboring Arab nations (Saudi,et …”
Danon retweeted an August 19, 2014 tweet that said: “Gaza...The genocide continues. #GazaUnderAttack #PrayForGaza.”
Danon retweeted an August 26, 2014 tweet that said: “Israel's extermination of whole families in Gaza reflects genocidal impulse.”
On September 5, 2014, Danon posted to Facebook an SJP USF event titled: “The Hidden Genocide: The Story of Palestine.” The event’s Facebook description said the evening would include poetry from anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi.
Poet Remi Kanazi is known for his aggressively anti-Israel spoken-word performances. He has supported terrorism and has compared Israel to both ISIS and the Ku Klux Klan.
On October 8, 2014, Danon posted an image to Facebook promoting an SJP USF event. The image said that SJP “Presents David Sheen ‘Israeli Incitement’ - How Israeli leaders have incited hatred toward Palestinians, Africans, and non-Jews.”
David Sheen is an anti-Israel activist and filmmaker who works to portray Israel as an extremist racist state. To this end, Sheen has been accused of purposefully mistranslating Hebrew articles and other media to make Israelis appear racist.
Danon retweeted a December 7, 2017 tweet from Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leader Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The tweet protested the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the president of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The Wall Street Journal reported that the council has used the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a basis for some of its legal-theological deliberations.
In a January 9, 2009 sermon shown on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed: "O Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. O Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people. O Allah, do not spare a single one of them. O Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."
Promoting BDS
On September 6, 2014, Danon wrote on Facebook: “Remi Kanazi performs his poem ‘This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings’ #BDS #Boycott #USF4HumanRights” and shared an SJP USF Facebook video of Kanazi during a BDS campaign at USF.Kanazi has also justified terrorism, belittled the Holocaust and demonized Jews.
On August 4, 2014, Danon tweeted: “#BoycottIsrael Which companies profit from #Israel|s #Occupation #gazaunderattack #Gaza #BDS http://vimeo.com/86345489.” The link she shared was an SJP USF video promoting a BDS campaign at USF.
On May 15, 2014, Danon wrote on Facebook: “This is such a cool website that explains exactly how SodaStream violates human rights. #USF4HumanRights http://www.burstthebubble.org/.” The link Danon shared supported a boycott of the Israeli soft drink company, SodaStream.
SJP USF - Spreading Anti-Semitism
On July 30, 2014, SJP USF posted an image to Facebook showing Adolf Hitler performing a Nazi salute with text reading: “WE ARE THE MASTER RACE,” next to an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his hand raised and text reading: “WE ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.” SJP USF commented: “Justifications.”On November 18, 2013, SJP USF reportedly hosted and sponsored a game show “about Palestinian culture, geography and history” modeled on the TV show, "Jeopardy!"
SJP USF - Demonizing Israel
As of August 2019, an SJP USF Facebook post from February 14, 2015, remained on the group’s Facebook page. The original SJP USF shared an article and quoted the story’s headline: “Israeli authorities usually open the floodgates to their dams in the direction of the Gaza Strip - without prior notice - in order to discharge the enormous quantities of water that had accumulated due to the heavy rains in the region. #Gaza.”Less than two weeks later, Al Jazeera retracted a similar story, noting: “In southern Israel, there are no dams of the type which can be opened.”
On February 25, 2016, SJP USF members reportedly joined with other BDS supporters to disrupt a talk at USF given by two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. One of the protesters called the soldiers “murderers and child killers” and was eventually was escorted out by police.
On September 5, 2014, SJP USF held an event titled: “The Hidden Genocide: The Story of Palestine.” The Facebook event page referred to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas earlier that year as a “summer of atrocious massacres.”
Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
One of the speakers at the event was Hamas supporter Sheikh Monzer Taleb, who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) terrorism finance trial. Taleb was not brought to trial.
However, five other defendants were brought to trial and were indicted for funneling funds to Hamas. These five, known as the Holy Land Five (HL5), were convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms from 15 to 65 years.
SJP USF - Promoting BDS
On February 10, 2014, SJP USF posted a video to Vimeo promoting its “Divest 2014” campaign. The video claimed that USF invested in companies that made “fighter jets and rockets that the IDF uses against civilians in the Gaza strip.”On May 28, 2014, the USF Foundation, which manages USF investments from donor contributions, reportedly rejected an SJP USF petition calling on the school to divest from multiple companies doing business with Israel.
On January 14, 2015, SJP USF purchased [00:05:18] space on a Tampa, Florida billboard to demand that USF stop its investments “in Apartheid Israel.”
On January 20, 2016, the USF Oracle, USF’s student newspaper, reported that a BDS resolution passed in the student government, as a result of SJP USF’s BDS campaigning the previous two years.
On January 25, 2016, SJP USF President Rahma Elmohd posted a Facebook video urging the USF student government president to sign the resolution.
On January 27, 2016, the USF Oracle reported that the USF student government president and vice president both vetoed the resolution.
On February 4, 2016, the USF Oracle reported that a second BDS resolution was submitted by USF student senator and member of SJP USF Hala Alkattan. That resolution was identical to the previous one which was supported by SJP USF but was categorized differently so that the USF student government president and vice president could not veto it.
On February 11, 2016, the USF Oracle reported that the second BDS resolution was struck down by the USF student government supreme court since it violated the USF Constitution’s equal protection clause. The USF Oracle reported that the university’s supreme court found that “the resolution violated the racial and national origin elements of the clause by specifically targeting companies that have business in Israel.”
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
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LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannan-danon-347b14105
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- South-Florida
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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