Hassan Abdinur

Overview

Hassan Abdinur has expressed support for terrorists, defended violent protesters, demonized Israel and endorsed anti-Israel agitators. Abdinur was the co-chair of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at San Diego State University (SDSU SJP) in 2014.

Abdinur is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Abdinur was an SDSU SJP activist from 2013 to 2015 and he attended the National SJP (NSJP) Conference in 2014 and 2015.

From 2013 to 2014, Abdinur was the president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) chapter at SDSU.

As of October 2021, Abdinur’s LinkedIn page said he was an “MD Candidate” at Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) in Bridgetown, Barbados, slated to graduate in 2021. Abdinur’s LinkedIn also said he received a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from SDSU in 2015.

As of October 2021, Abdinur’s Twitter bio read: “Medical Student (M4) | Interested in Anesthesiology & Healthcare Policy.” He used the handle “docxasan” on another Twitter account.    

In 2014, Abdinur was reportedly vice-chair of the University Affairs Board at SDSU and and listed as a “Campus Community Commission Representative” for the Associated Students Campus Life Council (ASCLC), part of SDSU’s student government.

Support for Terrorists

Abdinur retweeted a May 22, 2017 tweet from the anti-Israel organization the Dream Defenders (DD) that read: “Dream Defenders stand with the 1500 Palestinian political prisoners who are on Day 36 of their hunger strike. ✊🏿🇵🇸#DignityStrike36.”

Terrorist Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to five consecutive life terms for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. In 2017, he initiated the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners known as the “Dignity Strike.” He headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which carried out many terror attacks against Israeli civilians.

Abdinur retweeted a May 8, 2017 tweet from anti-Israel agitator Diana Buttu that read: “Gandhi's longest hunger strike lasted 21 days. Palestinians are on their 22nd day without food. We have 1600 Gandhis. #dignitystrike.”

Former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesperson Diana Buttu served in the PLO during the second intifada when the PLO, under the auspices of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, carried out terror attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.

On May 4, 2017, Abdinur tweeted: “Help spread the solidarity with the thousands of Palestinian hunger strikers.” 

Abdinur’s tweet included a May 4, 2017, SDSU SJP tweet that read: “Raise awareness and take part in the #SaltwaterChallenge!”

The “Saltwater Challenge” was held in solidarity with Palestinian inmates hunger-striking in Israeli prisons. Barghouti’s son Aarab Barghouti was credited with starting the “Saltwater Challenge.”

On October 10, 2015, Abdinur tweeted: “Rasmea Odeh: ‘I've spent the better part of my life dedicated to organizing’ #NSJP2015.”

Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
 
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind. 


In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States. In 2017, Odeh was deported to Jordan and stripped of U.S. citizenship, after admitting to immigration fraud.


Defending Violent Protesters

On April 3, 2018, Abdinur tweeted: “Punish a Muslim Day happened on March 30 when Palestinians were punished for exercising their human right to return home.”

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 violent demonstrations were instigated by Hamas on the Israeli-Gaza border. Participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”

March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Rioters also made numerous attempts to breach Israel’s border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.

Agitators also threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires. 

Demonizing Israel

On May 18, 2021, Abdinur tweeted: “You desecrate our sacred places, murder innocent people and make a mockery of our religion This is what this entity is, was and always will be https://twitter.com/IsraelArabic/”

Abdinur retweeted a May 16, 2021 tweet that read: “I am a physician and I call for a #FreePalaestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to my ethics, advocacy, and practice.#MedTwitter #GazaUnderAttack.”

Abdinur retweeted a May 14, 2021 tweet that read: “i cant focus on work today in light of whats happening in palestine, and i cant imagine how palestinians are feeling. another atrocity in the books. the world blinks.palestinians around the world continue to mourn.”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

On September 28, 2015, Abdinur tweeted: “‘...only a mass movement against Israeli apartheid (similar to South Africa’s) will work.’” His tweet linked to an article titled “September 28, 2000: Ariel Sharon Visits the Temple Mount, Sparking the Second Intifada.”

Palestinian officials have admitted that Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada well before Israeli leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, an ancient site holy to both Jews and Muslims that houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes

Endorsing Anti-Israel Agitators

On November 29, 2014, Abdinur posted an Instagram photo of him posing next to Mads Gilbert. In the post, he wrote: “I have few heroes and tonight I met one of them, Dr. Mads Gilbert. He is a doctor, activist and politician… It's been a while since I've been inspired…”

Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership. In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014, Gilbert acted as a propagandist for Hamas.

In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.”  

In his Instagram post, Abdinur mentioned that Gilbert’s “last two trips to Gaza were in 2008 during Operation Cast Lead and in 2014 during the Gaza massacre.”

Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.  


On October 21, 2014, Abdinur featured in an SDSU SJP Facebook post, posing next to Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi. The post read: “Our SJP welcoming Bassem Tamimi to San Diego. Baseem is the head organizer of the popular protests in the West Bank that have attracted world attention and praise…”

Bassem Tamimi has exploited young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers. In 2011, he was jailed for organizing violent rallies and inciting minors to commit violent crimes such as rock-throwing.

Tamimi’s United States visa was revoked in 2015, for his failure to disclose his prior arrest and conviction. Prior to the revocation of his U.S. visa, Tamimi delivered a controversial presentation to third-graders in Ithaca, New York. The presentation was geared to foster hatred of Israel and Tamimi concluded by encouraging [00:11:29] the children to become “freedom fighters for Palestine.” 


On October 18, 2014, Abdinur was featured in an Instagram group photo posted by SDSU SJP, which was captioned: “Thank you Dr. Rabab Abulahdi and Dr. Simona Sharoni for coming out last night and giving such a great talk.”

Professor Rabab Abdulhadi has, since 2014, sought to cultivate alliances between SFSU and two Hamas-dominated Palestinian universities.


Simona Sharoni has been described as a "vanguard supporter" of BDS. In an April 13, 2016 interview, Sharoni stated that it “makes sense" strategically to link rape on college campuses with the state of Israel in order to promote BDS.

SJP Activism

On October 15, 2015, Abdinur featured in multiple SDSU SJP Facebook photos from the 2015 National SJP Conference. 

On September 9, 2015, Abdinur promoted the National SJP conference on Facebook.

On November 21, 2014, Abdinur was featured in an SDSU SJP Facebook photo. The post read: “Checking out the Mexican-American border and connecting the dots behind American/Israeli settler-colonialism.”

On that same day, Abdinur featured in another SDSU SJP Facebook photo, posing with other “local activists.”

On October 27, 2014, Abdinur was tagged on Facebook in an SDSU SJP group photo taken at the 2014 National SJP Conference at Tufts University (Tufts). Among the speakers was Sa’ed Atshan, then the Tufts SJP faculty advisor, who blamed Israel for Palestinian honor killings and persecution of LGBTQ+ people within Palestinian society.

On October 2, 2014, SDSU SJP tagged Abdinur in a Facebook group photo wearing an SJP T-shirt alongside other activists. The activist next to Abdinur held up a sign that read: “BOYCOTT ISRAEL STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE SAVE GAZA.” The Facebook post read: “We remember you Gaza, we stand with you Palestine, and we will never rest until you are free.” 

On August 26, 2014, Abdinur featured in a SDSU SJP Instagram photo alongside fellow SJP activist Osama Alkhawaja. The photo’s caption said: “Co-chairs✌️#freepalestine.”

On the same date, Abdinur featured in several SDSU SJP Facebook photos from a post that read: “First day of tabling went great! Loved seeing new and returning members!”

On December 7, 2013, Abdinur featured in an SDSU SJP Instagram photo where he was identified as an SJP officer. He was posing next to anti-Israel activist Max Blumenthal

Blumenthal’s 2013 book, “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel,”was dubbed “The Israel Hater’s Handbook” by Eric Alterman of the progressive magazine The Nation.  


Promoting BDS

On August 29, 2013, Abdinur was quoted in an SJP West article titled: “San Diego State University – Student Groups Support UC Divestment.” In the article, he said: “As students we are not going to support funding of projects or companies that are complicit in the occupation of Palestinian people, complicit in human rights violations.”

In February 2014, SDSU SJP launched its campus divestment campaign, called SDSU Divest. According to its Facebook page, SDSU Divest was a group of “SDSU students” who “are calling on our university to divest from companies that enable & profit from violations of Palestinian rights.”

On February 26, 2014, the ASCLC posted “Meeting Minutes” that showed Abdinur gave council members copies of an anti-Israel divestment resolution. He also told council members of a “Divestment Open Forum,” scheduled for March 4. 

Abdinur reported that the “Resolution in Support of Divestment for the Human Rights of the People of Palestine” would be presented to the ASCLC, pending approval by the Student Diversity Commission (SDC).

On March 19, 2014, Abidnur featured in an SDSU SJP Instagram photo alongside other activists. The post read: “The Resolution is supported of Divestment for the Human Rights of the Palestinian People has just passed in SDC at #SDSU 11 yes, 3 no and 6 abstentions! We going to UC👏👏👏👏#freedom #Palestine #BDS #SJP.”

On April 24, 2014, Abdinuar was tagged in an SDSU SJP Facebook photo with fellow activists. The Facebook post read: “Thanks to everybody who came and supported us today. #SDSUDivest.”

On April 28, 2014, the resolution failed after 16 members of the council voted against the proposition, three voted for it and three abstained from the vote.

On January 21, 2015, SDSU Divest launched an online petition titled: “Divest from Corporations Violating Palestinian Human Rights.” The petition called on SDSU students “to VOTE YES on divestment” and “to not make further investments, in any entities knowingly and consistently complicit in the violations of international law and human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

Also on January 21, 2015, Abdinur changed his Facebook cover profile to a graphic that read: “I BELIEVE WE WILL DIVEST… SPREAD THE WORD + SIGN THE PETITION.”

On February 19, 2015, Abdinur was featured in an SDSU SJP Twitter photo. The post read: “Phase 1 completed. 2,000+ SIGNATURES! #DivestSquadGoals #SDSUDivest.”

On February 20, 2015, Abdinur was tagged in an SDSU Divest Facebook photo. The post read: “Dinner celebration for getting our 2,000+ signatures for the petition. Thank you to all who aren't pictured and helped our cause.”

On March 23, 2015, Abdinur changed his Facebook cover photo to a graphic promoting divestment at SDSU. The text on the graphic read: “vote yes to divest” and “SDSU Students Are Calling On Our University To Divest From Companies That Profit Off The Violation Of Palestinian Human Rights.”

On March 24, 2015, SDSU Divest postedto Facebook: “Watch and learn why so many of your peers support divestment.” The Facebook post linkedto a YouTube video that featured Abdinur promoting [00:01:30] SDSU’s divestment campaign.

In 2015, SDSU SJP again submitted their divestment resolution directly to SDSU’s student body as a referendum, to be voted on via a special ballot. The resolution proposed that SDSU “divest from companies involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” (including Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Lockheed Martin).

On April 9, 2015, the resolution failed to garner the two-thirds majority required for the measure to pass, with 53% of the students voting in favor and 47% voting against.

On April 10, 2015, Abdinur posted to Instagram a photo of himself along with fellow SDSU Divest activists on Instagram. He wrote in the post: “To do great things you need great ppl. The Divestment Fam is filled with the most creative, intelligent and bad**s activists at SDSU. Truly an honor #SDSUDIVEST #WOEgoals.”

On April 11, 2015, Abdinur appeared in several Facebook group photos, posing with other SDSU Divest activists. One photo showed Abdinur and others in front of a mock version of 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.


On July 19, 2016, Abdinur tweeted: “Anyone who voted against divestment is taking massive Ls [losses] after college.”

SJP SDSU Hosting Anti-Israel Agitators 

On November 19, 2014, SDSU SJP held an event featuring anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi

Kanazi has justified terrorism, belittled the Holocaust and demonized Jews. He has also supported terrorists, compared Zionists to the KKK and spread hatred of Israel.

On October 22, 2014, SJP SDSU sponsored an event featuring anti-Israel agitator Alison Weir. 

Weir is the founder and executive director of the anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK). She has reportedly been “a repeat guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show.” The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has exposed Weir’s propagation of numerous anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories.  


On October 21, 2014, SDSU SJP posted on Facebook about hosting Bassem Tamimi. 

Bassem Tamimi has exploited young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers. In 2011, he was jailed for organizing violent rallies and inciting minors to commit violent crimes such as rock-throwing.

Tamimi’s United States visa was revoked in 2015, for his failure to disclose his prior arrest and conviction. Prior to the revocation of his U.S. visa, Tamimi delivered a controversial presentation to third-graders in Ithaca, New York. The presentation was geared to foster hatred of Israel and Tamimi concluded by encouraging [00:11:29] the children to become “freedom fighters for Palestine.” 


SDSU SJP’s Facebook post said: “Our SJP welcoming Bassem Tamimi to San Diego. Baseem is the head organizer of the popular protests in the West Bank...Baseem explained to us the symbolic nature behind a child and a rock...the children of Palestine have no fear in the face of their oppressor and will never stop resisting…” 

SJP SDSU - Dropping Evacuation Leaflets  

In November 2014, SJP SDSU dropped approximately 500 leaflets from the top of the student hall, ordering students to evacuate immediately and warning that “Those who fail to comply with the instructions will endanger their lives and the lives of their families.”

According to SDSU’s student newspaper, the Daily Aztec, the dropping of the leaflets “was seen by university officials as a violation of the student code of conduct. Several police officers and administration arrived before the leaflets were dropped.” 

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.  


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.



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“To do great things you need great ppl. The Divestment Fam is filled with the most creative, intelligent and bad**s activists at SDSU. Truly an honor #SDSUDIVEST #WOEgoals.”