Iqra Iftikhar
Overview
Iqra Iftikhar participated in a protest supporting Hamas terrorist war crimes as secretary of the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of Mary Washington (UMW SJP) in October 2023.The protest occurred after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left about 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Participating in a Protest in Support of Hamas War Crimes
Iftikhar participated in an anti-Israel protest in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on October 12, 2023. Iftikhar marched [00:00:34] with protesters and chanted [00:00:51]: “Free, Free Palestine!”On October 12, 2023, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of Mary Washington (UMW SJP) held a “Decolonize Palestine Protest” at Market Square in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The event was in support of the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that targeted Israeli civilians for murder, torture and kidnapping. A day before their protest, UMW SJP issued a statement justifying Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians.
UMW SJP’s event was part of a National SJP (NSJP) “National Day of Resistance” which mobilized anti-Israel student groups in the U.S. and Canada to hold protests condemning Israel’s response to Hamas as “genocidal.” NSJP’s event tool kit called for “dismantling Zionism” and described Hamas’s war crimes as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and “both morally just and politically necessary.”
Protesters at the UMW SJP event held signs accusing Israel of “war crimes” and “genocide.” One protester held a sign that read: “Resist and Liberate.”
”“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
Iftikhar also appeared in a UMW SJP Instagram photo at the protest that showed fellow activists holding signs that read: “To exist is to resist,” “Freedom for Palestine” and “USA STOP Funding Israel…”
On October 12, 2023, UMW SJP issued a statement which alleged the October 7 Hamas massacre was due to Israel’s “ethnic cleansing and brutal expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian people from their historical homeland over 75 years ago” and the “inevitable result” of the current Israeli government’s attempt to “create the conditions for a new Nakba.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
On October 11, 2023, UMW SJP posted on Instagram a statement co-signed by several other anti-Israel groups, which said they “stand in support of the decolonization of Palestine and the liberation of the Palestinian people.”
The statement justified Hamas’s October 7, 2023 war crimes, claiming: “...blatant oppression will warrant a resistance that requires more than words and peaceful protest to achieve liberation.” The statement also accused Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid” and called on American universities to “cease any collaboration with Israel.”
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
Biographical Information
As of November 26, 2023, Iftikhar’s LinkedIn said she was the secretary of UMW SJP, president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at UMW and vice president of the UMW’s South Asian Association.Also as of November 26, 2023, Iftikhar’s LinkedIn profile said she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Mary Washington (UMW), slated to graduate in 2024.
As of the same date, Iftikhar’s LinkedIn said she had been a pharmacy technician at CVS Health in Virginia since January 2022.
As of November 26, 2023, Iftikhar’s LinkedIn said she was located in Stafford, Virginia.
UMW is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/iqra.i_/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/iqra-iftikhar-80360a250/ [Deleted]
