Huda Jbarah
Overview
For more information, see the McMaster SPHR Chapter Profile.
As of September 2023, Jbarah was a member of the SPHR National Facebook group and had joined “about 9 years ago.” In June 2017, she was also a member of the McMaster SPHR Facebook group.
As of the same date, Jbarah was also a member of the Facebook groups for McMaster’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) and MacMSA Sisters.
As of September 2023, Jbarah’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from McMaster with a master’s degree in international relations in 2018 and a bachelor's degree in political science in 2016. While she was studying for her master’s degree, she was also a teaching assistant at McMaster from September 2017 to April 2018.
Jbarah’s LinkedIn also said she worked for Alfan as a public relations manager from September 2020 to December 2021, and that she was located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Anti-Israel Activism (SPHR, BDS)
Jbarah wrote on Facebook: “‘Apartheid: Live’, TODAY!!!! Come join us on BSB [Burke Science Building] Field for a public art installation featuring Occupied Palestine. Get a glimpse of the daily struggles Palestinians have to face under the apartheid regime.”
The Facebook event page description read: “Being the nice people that we are we are going to show you how apartheid manifests in Palestine.”
On the same day, Jbarah featured in several Facebook photos taken at the event, where activists had assembled a display often known as a “mock apartheid wall.”
On March 23, 2015, Jbarah featured in a group Facebook photo posted by former SPHR president Salah Abdelrahman. The Facebook post read: “The team that made it happen. Team BDS at McMaster.”
On the same date, Abdelrahman mentioned Jbarah in a tweet, referring to her as one of the “true leaders behind BDS…”
On March 23, 2015, the McMaster Student Union (MSU) voted to pass a BDS motion endorsed by SPHR McMaster and other student groups. The motion called on the MSU to “commit to identifying and divesting from companies that support or profit from Israeli war crimes, occupation and oppression of Palestinians.”
On March 24, 2015, Jbarah appeared in a group Facebook photo with other students holding up voting cards in favor of BDS. The photo was captioned: “#WeSaidYestoBDS.”
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/huda.jbarahInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/huda_jbarah [Private]
Alfan:https://alfan.link/Huda
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hudajbarah/
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/130873736-huda-jbarah
Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/Hudajbarah/
- Status:
- Unknown
- University:
- McMaster
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- MMPJ,
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- MSA,
- SPHR (SJP)
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