Huda Massarueh

Overview

Huda Massarueh a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, (SJP).

On October 4, 2015, following a month of spiraling violence against Israeli civilians, Massarueh misrepresented Palestinian terrorist Fadi Aloon as an innocent civilian who was followed by a "mob of settlers" and “murder[ed].” In fact, Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces, after he tried to stab to death a 15-year old Israeli civilian. Several hours before the stabbing, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.

On July 22, 2015, Massarueh shared a Facebook post falsely presenting the eviction of Palestinian Bedouin for illegally squatting in Susya as an illegal demolition of a Palestinian village by Israel.

On November 4, 2014, Massarueh participated in an SJP poetry reading in support of convicted terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh.

Massarueh is is a student at Brown University (Brown), majoring in Mass Media. Massarueh is also a gap year peer adviser. According to Massarueh’s Linkedin, she is scheduled to graduate in 2018.

Siding with Terrorist Violence

On March 8, 2016, Massarueh posted on her Facebook page a graphic created by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to celebrate International Women’s Day.

The PFLP is designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, tthe United States and Israel and promotes the violent destruction of Israel. The PFLP has claimed "credit" for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'ev i, the 2011 butchering of the Fogel Family (including two boys, aged 4 and 11 — and a three month old girl.)

SJP Brown Applauding PFLP Terror

On November 8, 2015, SJP Brown’s Facebook page approvingly featured an article originally posted on the PFLP website. The PFLP’s website calls for "resistance until victory," “revolutionary violence” and is replete with pictures of armed militants and other violent images, such as burning molotov cocktails.

The article urged the "liberation" of “occupied Palestine 48” — a call to eradicate the state of Israel and delegitimize the Jews’ claim to sovereignty in their ancestral national homeland. The article further proclaimed that “occupied land cannot be recovered except through resistance and confrontation of the occupation.”

On November 19, 2014 — one day after PFLP terrorists murdered six more people, with a gun, axes and and a butcher knife, during morning prayers in a West Jerusalem synagogue — SJP Brown posted on Facebook an article complaining that the killings received undue condemnation as "pure terror" from United States officials. Hani Thawbta, a PFLP leader in Gaza praised the massacre, as “heroic.”

Defending PFLP Terrorists

On November 4, 2014, SJP Brown held a gathering in support of terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh — who was a key military operative for the PFLP.

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.

Covering for Terrorists

On December 7, 2015, SJP Brown also posted on Facebook that an Israeli military court sentenced Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar to 15 months in jail — omitting that Jarrar was charged with inciting violence and being a member of PFLP.

SJP Brown

Since its founding in 2009, SJP Brown has promoted the boycott of Israel at Brown and also pressured Brown to divest from Israel.

In 2010, SJP Brown began bringing Israeli Apartheid Week to Brown’s campus, to smear Israel with accusations of "apartheid policies" and “to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

In March 2010, SJP Brown set up a 75-foot long banner on Brown’s Main Green, asking students the misleading, rhetorical question, "Do you want your University profiting from apartheid?"

Spreading Hate and Disinformation

In November of 2014, SJP Brown slammed Israel for banning anti-Israel propagandist Dr. Mads Gilbert from entering Gaza through Israel.

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 was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.

In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.” In December of 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.

In October 2015, SJP Brown shared on Facebook an article falsely blaming Israel for the death 54-year-old Palestinian agitator Hashem Azzeh.

In October 2015, Al Azzeh died of a chronic cardiac condition. On October 21, 2015, Al Azzeh suffered chest pains and was taken to a nearby hospital, which claimed his death was due to heart failure. Palestinian news sources later claimed his death was caused by the IDF’s use of tear gas nearby.

Promoting Disruption over Dialogue

On April 2, 2014, Brown Hillel, an independent, apolitical Jewish organization, hosted a talk with former IDF soldier Benjamin Anthony. Hillel invited student leaders from a wide variety of campus groups to participate in the discussion.

SJP Brown demanded that Hillel cancel the event; the group, circulated a petition and held a protest before the lecture and marched outside Hillel — chanting, waving signs and Palestinian flags.

SJP Brown’s co-leader and protest organizer Josette Souza alleged that Hillel’s invitation of "student leaders" to the event was not meant to stimulate dialogue, but rather to influence those who will go on to make domestic and international policy” — and labeled the event “insidious.”

On January 28, 2016, Brown Hillel hosted former Soviet "refusenik" Natan Sharansky and actor Michael Douglas, who came to discuss their Jewish identities. Sharansky, who heads the Jewish Agency for Israel Israel’s immigration agency and Douglas have both expressed pro-Israel views. SJP Brown released a statement announcing that it would hold a rally and picket the event, inviting students to “... protest this egregious display of Settler Colonial apologism.” SJP released a statement describing the lecture as an “affront to academic freedom” of Brown students.

SJP disrupted the Sharansky-Douglas event with loud chants of "free, free, Palestine" from the lobby of the lecture hall, harassing, bullying and shouting at attendees.

Security guards prevented SJP’s from hanging Palestinian flags and posters while the group’s members shouted "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — a call for Israel’s destruction. However, SJP Brown members did manage to distribute inside the lecture hall, a handout falsely accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and libeling Mr. Sharansky as “an infamous anti-African racist.” SJP Brown fraudulently represented its flier as a “program addition.”

Disguising Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

On March 16, 2016, SJP Brown forced Brown Hillel to cancel an event featuring American transgender activist Janet Mock, who was scheduled to talk about her experiences as a transgender person of color. Mock withdrew from the event after SJP Brown circulated a petition demanding that the event either exclude Hillel sponsorship or be canceled. On March 20, 2016, Brown’s President issued a statement in response to the event’s cancellation, writing that "it is counter to Brown’s norms and values for expressions of dissent to be targeted at a student group because of its religious affiliation."

On March 18, 2016, anti-Semitic and homophobic messages were discovered written on the walls of Marcy House, a Brown student dormitory. Marcy House is home to the campus’ Jewish fraternity and houses many LGBT students. The graffiti read "Gay will die" and “Holocaust 2.0,” and was written directly across from a Jewish student’s room that had a mezuzah and Hebrew writing on its door.

Demonizing Israel

In February 2014, SJP Brown published an op-ed in the Brown Daily Herald, calling on the university to adopt the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and criticizing Brown President Christina Paxton for denouncing the boycott. SJP Brown claimed that the aim of the academic boycott is to "put pressure on Israeli universities that play a central role in the maintenance of a settler-colonial project in Palestine based on ethno-racial supremacy."

In November 2015, SJP Brown launched a petition to boycott the sale of Sabra, a hummus brand partially owned by the Israeli Strauss Group, in Brown’s dining hall.SJP Brown posted on Facebook "who pays $4.00 for hummus that tastes like apartheid?" In response, Brown’s Dining Services began offering another hummus option.

Brown Hillel Hosts anti-Israel "Nakba Day" Event

On May 11, 2016, on the eve of Israel Independence Day, Brown Hillel hosted an event called "Jews Facing the Nakba." The event featured a film by Zochrot — an NGO that seeks to “de-colonize” Israel, blames its “Jewish target audience” exclusively for Palestinian “refugeehood” — and dubs Israel’s founding “the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.” Zochrot promotes the right of all Palestinian refugees to return, and dissolving Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Although initially cancelled, the event was secretly held, in violation of Hillel International’s Israel Guidelines.

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.