Hatem Mohtaseb
Overview
Hatem Mohtaseb has glorified leaders from the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), endorsed other terrorists, promoted the violent March of Return and expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Mohtaseb is affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and attended 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.”
In March 2018, Mohtaseb was reportedly the Director of the local Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) brach in San Diego, California.
Mohtaseb is also affiliated with Al Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition.
As of March 2019, Mohtaseb was a member of the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) Facebook group.
As of November 2019 Mohtaseb’s LinkedIn page said he was “Project Engineer at CelTeq-HPC” from “Dec 2016 - Present” and a 2017 graduate of San Diego State University-California State University (SDSU), where he studied “Construction engineering.”
Also as of November 2019, Mohtaseb used the name “Hatim Hatim” on Facebook.
Glorifying PFLP Terrorists
On January 25, 2019, Mohtaseb tweeted a photo memorializing PFLP icon, George Habash, holding an assault rifle. Mohtaseb wrote: “‘Palestine, all of Palestine, from the river to the sea.’”George Habash, who has been called“the godfather of Middle East terrorism,” founded the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1970, Habash was the mastermind behind the hijacking of four Western airliners known as the Dawson Field hijackings. In 1972, the PFLP collaborated with Japanese Red Army terrorists to massacre 24 people at Israel's Lod International Airport (renamed Ben Gurion International Airport).
On November 8, 2018, Mohtaseb shared to Twitter a photo of George Habash, with a quotation by him: “‘The enemy planes can bomb our camps, kill our elders and children, and destroy our homes, but they can not kill the revolutionary spirit inside us’ -George Habash.”
Mohtaseb retweeted a December 19, 2018 tweet that glorified terrorist Samir Kuntar.
On November 11, 2018, Mohtaseb quoted PFLP personality Ghassan Kanafani, on Twitter: “‘Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution’ - Ghassan Kanafani.”
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On October 10, 2018, Mohtaseb tweeted a photo of two masked men holding automatic rifles and reading books and commented: “‘The intellectual is the first to fight and the last to be broken’ Ghassan Kanafani.”
On June 8, 2018, Mohtaseb posted on Facebook: “ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS for 2018 Scholarship: the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship is accepting submissions from June-August 15. Check out our criteria and spread the word!!”
On August 26, 2018, Mohtaseb tweeted: “August 27th is the 17th anniversary of the martyrdom of Abu Ali Mustafa. http://youtu.be/-605rKBbr68.”
Endorsing Terrorists
On March 20, 2019, Mohtaseb shared to Twitter a montage of photographs that memorializing six individuals, including Ahmed Jarrar. Mohtaseb’s tweet described Jarrar and other the men in the photographs as “martyrs.”Ahmad Jarrar, the son of a senior Hamas commander Nasser Jarrar, was reportedly the head operative behind the drive-by shooting murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, in January 2018.
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.
On October 14, 2018, Mohtaseb shared an article on Twitter that praised terrorist Basil Al Araj: “pymusa.com/live-like-a-porcupine-fight-like-a-flea-basel-al-araj/…#BasilAlaraj.”
Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.
The article that Mohtaseb shared in his Tweet said: “This year marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Basel Al Araj, killed at the hands of a Zionist/ Sulta collaboration. Al-Araj was perhaps one of the most critical contemporary minds serving the resistance….It is thus with great honor that we bring the translation of this work to our youth.”
On October 9, 2018, Mohtaseb shared to Twitter a photo of two keffiyeh-masked men, sitting near a wall marked with Arabic graffiti that read: “peace upon Basil Ala’araj.”
On August 8, 2018, Mohtaseb tweeted: “Carry with you our peace for the occupied land. #Resistance #اطلق_نيرانك_لا_ترحم [Open fire and don’t have mercy].” The tweet included an image of vapor trails after rockets have been launched and text in Arabic that said: “And carry our regards to the occupied land.”
That same day, over 150 rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel, injuring 19 people.
On July 26, 2018, Mohtaseb tweeted: “And i saw the martyrs standing, each on his own star, happy for the hope they give to those who are alive, yet dead.” Mohtaseb’s tweet featured a photo of Mohammad Tareq Dar Yusuf.
On July 26, 2018, Mohammad Tareq Dar Yusuf killed one person and injured two others in a stabbing attack in Israel. He was shot and killed by one of the people he stabbed.
“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.
In a March 7, 2017 post to the PYM - San Diego Facebook page, Mohtaseb wrote: “A young Palestinian writer and resistance fighter, Basel Araj, was martyred yesterday at the hands of the Zionist colonial forces...in his own final words: ‘the action of martyrdom conveys much more than words.’”
Promoting the March of Return
On October 11, 2018, Mohtaseb tweeted:“‘Tomorrow we make our glory, and no excuse for those who realize the idea and abandoned it’ Unknown.” The tweet included an image of Great March of Return protesters trying to breach the Israeli security barrier.Support for BDS
On September 25, 2018, Mohtaseb shared a post on Facebook that called for support of the “academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”On April 12, 2015, Mohtaseb appeared in a group photo with SDSU Divest. On that same date, Mohtaseb posed for another group photo with SDSU Divest. The second photo showed the group 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.
According to its Facebook page, SDSU Divest is a group of “SDSU students” who “are calling on our university to divest from companies that enable & profit from violations of Palestinian rights.”
In 2014, SJP led the #SDSUDIVEST campaign “to urge university officials to divest from companies they say profit from anti-Palestinian Israeli policies.”
On March 23, 2014, Mohtaseb was tagged in an SDSU SJP Facebook post that supported divestment. The post said: “This Tuesday we will be having an Open Forum on Divestment. This time we will be joined by students who are leading divestment efforts...See you there! #SDSUdivest”
Al Awda Activity
As of January 2019, Mohtaseb was a member of three Al-Awda Facebook groups: Al-Awda San Diego, Al-Awda News, and Al-Awda Los Angeles. Al-Awda, The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, advocates for BDS and the destruction of Israel.On May 17, 2018, Mohtaseb was tagged in a Facebook post about the Al-Awda 13th Annual Conference that said: “I would like to personally thank all who've attended our 13th annual conference this past weekend.”
On October 16, 2015, Mohtaseb attended the Al-Awda event titled: “SoCal Rally in Solidarity with Palestine-Day of Rage.”
The event’s Facebook description said: “Our youth are giving their lives to our just cause, the least we can do is...protest this surge of Zionist aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque, mass youth arrests, continuous displacement, home demolitions, and vigilante settler violence.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Attending the National SJP 2018 Conference
2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
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.”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.
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.
GUPS
The General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) is the only GUPS chapter operating in the United States. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an offshoot of GUPS.
GUPS is an international organization, initially administered by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). PLO leader Yasser Arafat officially founded GUPS in Cairo in 1959. GUPS was founded at SFSU in 1973.
GUPS has reportedly describedits overall goal as organizing student activists to achieve justice and freedom for the Palestinian people. To this end, GUPS formed an umbrella organization for Palestinian student groups and to form alliances with non-Palestinian groups.
GUPS’s focus, however, is almost entirely on its anti-Israel campaigns, which have included harassment, anti-Semitic libels, celebrating violence and glorifying terrorists. GUPS members have also intimidated pro-Israel students, shut down pro-Israel events, supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and held “Israeli Apartheid” events. The group has also held "die-ins,"rallies and protests.
SFSU graduate and GUPS activist Hatem Bazian created SJP while working as a professor at UC Berkeley in 2001.
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LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hatem-mohtaseb-652a9a100/
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