Helal Jwayyed

Overview

Helal (Hal) Jwayyed was the president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Saint Xavier University (SXU) and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. He was also part of SJP Chicago and a member of SJP at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

On November 4-6, 2016, Jwayyed attended the 2016 SJP National Conference, held at George Mason University (GMU).

Jwayyed was also a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at SXU and is affiliated with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Jwayyed graduated from SXU with a degree in Business Administration in 2016 and from Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) in 2013, where he was a member of the Arab Student Union (ASU).

Jwayyed is the vice president and author at the online Palestine in America publication, has a job as a paralegal at the Law Offices of Reem H. Odeh in Chicago and works as a student support manager at Online Trading Academy.

Demonizing Israel

On August 19, 2016, Jwayyed tweeted: "When Israel can't stop taking sh*t that isn't theirs. #palestine"

On July 28, 2016, Jwayyed tweeted: "@HillaryClinton ‘Stands up against gun lobby’ allows AIPAC to fund Illegal Apartheid. #palestine"

On February 27, 2016, Jwayyed posted on facebook: "Mossad admits to faking Anti Semitic posts. #bds is not Anti Semitism."

On February 25, 2016, Jwayyed tweeted: "@marcorubio Palestinians don't hate Jews. We hate the state of Israel for the same reason Jews hated Hitler. #freepalestine"

On July 31, 2014, Jwayyed tweeted: "I don't always make signs, but when I do... #freepalestine #isupportgaza #endtheoccupation #chicagostandswithgaza"

The tweet was attached to a photo of Jwayyed holding a sign at a protest that read: "Israel we’re sick of your S**T"

Supporting Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

On August 15, 2016, Jwayyed was tagged in a photo with Rasmea Odeh.

Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college 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 [00:10:53] Odeh 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.

On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 

In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.

On April 12, 2016, Jwayyed posted a photo on Instagram of himself together with Rasmea Odeh. Jwayyed commented: "I keep bumping into this lady left and right #justiceforrasmea."

On March 7, 2016, Jwayyed posted a photo on Instagram of Rasmea Odeh. Jwayyed wrote: #justiceforrasmea #iwd#women #power #blm

On January 27, 2016, Jwayyed tweeted a picture of himself with Rasmea Odeh with the hashtag #Justice4Rasmea.

On March 12, 2015, Jwayyed tweeted: "I hope they get the appeal on Rasmea. #Justice4Rasmea."

Supporting BDS

On March 4, 2017, Jwayyed posted on Facebook: "BDS wins again" in reference to a divestment resolution passed at the University of South Florida.

On July 1, 2016, Jwayyed shared an AJ+ video that claimed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s anti-BDS executive order to be unconstitutional and an affront to free speech.

On February 24, 2016, Jwayyed wrote an article justifying the disruption of a lecture given by Bassem Eid by SJP members at the University of Chicago. Eid is the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and opposes the BDS movement. During the talk, Eid was threatened with physical violence.

On February 21, 2016, Jwayyed tweeted: "#bASSemeid is a f**king traitor to the #Palestinian people."

On April 13, 2015, Jwayyed participated in an event called "Make Hummus not Walls" held by SXU SJP during Palestinian Awareness Week on campus. The event was an “alternative Hummus tasting” to encourage students to boycott the “immoral, socially irresponsible Sabra Hummus” brand that was sold on campus.

SJP SXU - Supporting Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

On February 3, 2015, SJP SXU promoted a fundraising dinner organized by SJP Chicago to support Rasmea Odeh.

On March 12, 2015, SJP SXU tweeted "We want #Justice4Rasmea NOW.’’

Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college 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 [00:10:53] Odeh 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.

On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison. 

In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.

SJP SXU - Demonizing Israel

On April 11, 2016, SXU SJP erected a display as part of Palestine Awareness Week, featuring a series of maps that presented lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous "Palestinian land" purportedly stolen by Israel.

In February of 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled and destroyed copies of a college level textbook that contained the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, the United States cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.

On October 5, 2015, SXU SJP posted on Facebook an article by Electronic Intifada that reported on terrorist Fadi Aloon as "being shot in cold blood while posing no threat." Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year old Israeli boy in his chest and back. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.

SXU SJP quoted from the article in their post saying ‘’mainstream US media outlets are actively concealing the alarming displays of genocidal racism emanating from Israeli Jewish society.’’

On July 23, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge (OPE), SXU SJP tweeted "SJP at SXU stands in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza. We condemn the acts of genocide Israel is partaking in #GazaUnderAttack"

SJP SXU - Supporting BDS

In 2015, SXU SJP supported divestment campaigns at a number of universities, including DePaul University, UC Davis and Northwestern.

On May 13, 2015, SXU SJP posted on Facebook, urging followers to ‘’Testify Online Against IL Anti-Boycott Bill! [SB1671] Stop the Politicizing of Our Pension System!’’

On April 13, 2015, SXU SJP held an event called "Make Hummus not Walls" during Palestinian Awareness Week. The event featured an “alternative Hummus tasting” to encourage students to boycott the “immoral, socially irresponsible [Israeli] Sabra Hummus” brand that was sold on campus.

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.

AMP

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian as a vehicle to generate mainstream support in the United States for the Palestinian national cause.

On its website, the organization lists Bazian as the chairman of its national board and describes itself as “a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.” 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused AMP of promoting “extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans” about Palestinians. The ADL further stated that AMP is directly involved in campus-based anti-Israel activity through Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Prior to founding the AMP in 2006, Dr. Bazian created SJP together with fellow UC Berkeley Professor Snehal Shingavi in 2001. The close working relationship between AMP and SJP has been documented several times over the years by several organizations, including NGO Monitor and StandWithUs. 

In addition to providing financial, public relations and legal assistance to SJP, AMP has also been accused of having connections to Hamas. The AMP national board includes former members of both the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation (HLF), both of which were found liable for aiding and abetting Hamas. The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas.

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

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