Heidi Sipress

Overview

Heidi Sipress is a member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University (PSU) an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Sipress, a graduate of PSU, is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

She was a graduate of PSU as of July 16, 2016.

Supporting Terrorists and Incitement

On September 16, 2016, Sipress shared a Facebook image honoring terrorist Leila Khaled, a member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Khaled participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. In a 2014 interview, Khaled opined that the Second Intifada failed because it was not violent enough. On April 11, 2016, Khaled declared: "Negotiations will be held only with knives and weapons. That is what the Palestinian people is like."

On September 17, 2016, Sipress shared a Facebook link supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad member Malek al Qadi.

On September 14, 2016, Sipress stated her approval of a Facebook photo featuring SUPER member Layla Abdel-Jawad aiming an assault rifle and wearing a keffiyeh over her head. Abdel-Jawad said: "I see you haters." Sipress said: I LOVE THIS PICTURE!

On November 8, 2016, Sipress said "I want to see folks join revolutionary orgs" in an Instagram post supporting Marilyn Jean Buck, a member of the U.S. domestic terrorist groups The Black Liberation Army (BLA) and the May 19th Communist Organization (M19CO). Buck and her co-conspirators bombed the U.S. Capitol Building, three U.S. military facilities in Washington, D.C and four sites in New York City in the early 1980s. Among the sites in New York was the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building.

Posting Hatred of Israel

On September 16, 2016, Sipress posted on Facebook: "F**kers! yeah I said it! F**k the zionist israeli regime! This is what you will be voting for if you continue to believe in this rotten oppressive imperial regime called ameriKKKa!"

On September 19, 2016, Sipress referred to Israel as the "zionist settler occupation."

On September 2, 2016, Sipress shared a misleading map which distorts the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In February of 2016, publishing giant McGraw-Hill Education recalled and destroyed copies of a college textbook that contained copies of the map. MSNBC, which had aired the map, later apologized and retracted it.

On August 15, 2016, Sipress shared an AJ+ Facebook video featuring pro-Hamas propagandist Mads Gilbert.

On August 14, 2016, Sipress posted a Facebook photo of her wearing a shirt which said: "END ISRAELI APARTHEID. BOYCOTT. DIVEST. SANCTIONS."

On May 12, 2016, Sipress said: "If you are down with Palestine liberation and against Israeli occupation and apartheid, that racist Zionist regime, you need to join SUPER and get on board."

Supporting BDS

On October 24, 2016, SUPER authored a BDS resolution which passed the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government. Sipress was present for the vote.

The resolution, which attempts to portray the State of Israel as a modern incarnation of Apartheid South Africa, called on the university to divest from companies with ties to the Jewish state in an effort to discourage these companies from doing further business with Israel.

On May 29, 2011, Sipress participated in a pro-BDS flash mob at a Portland area supermarket. The protesters accused Israel of "apartheid and racism as well as having stolen land and committed atrocities.

SUPER - Honoring Terrorists

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted its Palestinian Cultural Night where the group set up multiple displays honoring terrorists. Among them were Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh.

Khaled hijacked airplanes with the PFLP in 1969 and 1970 while Odeh masterminded a 1969 bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket and 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.

The same event honored the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, as well as Haneen Zoabi — a member of Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) — who has been investigated for inciting violence on a number of occasions.

On November 19, 2014, SUPER hosted an event exclusively supporting Odeh.

On March 1, 2014, SUPER hosted another Palestinian Cultural Night where they honored Arafat.

SUPER - Bringing Anti-Israel Speakers to PSU

On May 23, 2016, SUPER hosted an event featuring Nada Elia who — in October of 2015, while Palestinians across Israel stabbed scores of Israeli civilians during the "Knife Intifada" — wrote an article titled “Why Be Afraid of an Intifada?” where she said “Intifadas are good.”

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi who is known for his aggressively anti-Israel performances.

On April 9, 2015, SUPER hosted Professor Steven Salaita, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

On February 24, 2015, SUPER hosted BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

On May 13, 2014, SUPER hosted anti-Israel propagandist Ali Abunimah, who said in 2010: "Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit."

On December 13, 2013, SUPER hosted terror supporter Eva Bartlett.

On May 25, 2012, SUPER hosted blood libel propagator Jasbir Puar who has claimed that Israel harvests Palestinian organs and stunts Palestinian growth.

On February 25, 2012, SUPER hosted conspiracy theorist As’ad Abu Khalil who said two weeks earlier that among the "anti-Semitic kooks" within the Palestinian movement were possibly “infiltrators to sabotage our cause and smear our campaigns.”

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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