Haroon Mussa

Overview

Haroon Mussa has spread hatred of Israel and was the president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) in 2013-2014 at San Jose State University (SJSU).

In 2018, Mussa was affiliated with the Muslim American Society (MAS)’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter, MAS Bay Area.

As of February 2021, Mussa’s LinkedIn page said he was a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Cisco in Milpitas, California, since April 2019 and interned at the “Alternate Public Defender's County” in Santa Clara, CA from “Jan 2014 - Jun 2014.”

Mussa’s LinkedIn also said he graduated from Mission College (Mission) with an associate’s degree in Liberal Studies in 2012 and in Computer Network Technology in 2016, and graduated from SJSU with a bachelor’s degree in Justice Studies in 2015.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On July 7, 2014, Mussa posted to Facebook: “Israel state shouldn't exist.”

On July 11, 2014, Mussa posted to Facebook: “I don't know what is worse the U.S prior to Civil Rights or the current racist state of Israel.”His Facebook post included a link to anti-Israel agitator David Sheen’s Twitter account.

David Sheen is a Canadian-Israeli 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 advertisements to make Israelis appear racist.

Sheen has also spread hatred of Israel on American college campuses and in European Parliaments, and has reportedly been permanently banned from entering the German parliament after harassing a parliament member who opposed Sheen’s activism.

Mussa featured in a February 9, 2014 YouTube video titled “Donate to SJSU MSA - Spring 2014, while he was SJSU MSA’s President, and referred [00:00:18] to anti-Israel agitators Hatem Bazian and Zahra Biloo as “great scholars and knowledgeable speakers.”

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.