Isra Khuja

Overview

Isra Khuja is the 2017-2018 secretary of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University (WSU).

As of December 2017, Khuja’s LinkedIn page said she would graduate from WSU in 2018.

In a September 25, 2017 post on the SJP WSU Facebook page, Khuja stated that she wanted to attend law school and reported that she had just completed a summer internship with the Third Circuit Court of Michigan.

SJP WSU - Anti-Semitic Tweets  

SJP WSU founder and 2015-2017 president Summer Baraka and 2017-2018 president Mayssa Masri have both expressed forms of anti-Semitism on social media.

On June 24, 2015, Masri tweeted: “We need to open our eyes to who controls the media. We need to open our eyes to #WhiteSupremacy and #Zionism.”

On August 21, 2013, Baraka tweeted: “Allah yin3an al yahood ou bas [May Allah curse the Jews, and that's all.]" Masri liked the tweet.

SJP WSU - Leadership Idolizing Terrorists  

On March 29, 2016, Baraka referred to terrorist Ghassan Kanafani, tweeting: “Just tryna marry a modern day Kanafani.”

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.

On October 4, 2015, Rafeef Hamad — the 2016-2017 SJP WSU vice president — tweeted: “يارب تكتبهم عندك من الشهداء    #فلسطين_تنتفض [Please O god inscribe them as martyrs #Palestine_Revolting]”

October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.

SJP WSU - Supporting Terrorists  

On November 11, 2016 and 2017, SJP WSU posted photos to Facebook memorializing terrorist Yasser Arafat on the anniversary of his death.

The 2017 post included an Arafat quote, reading: “The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”

Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the "father of modern terrorism." Arafat called for children to “martyr” themselves during the second intifada. In 1996, he told Arab diplomats: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."

On April 8, 2017, SJP WSU posted a photo to Facebook of a painting honoring terrorist Leila Khaled, displayed at an SJP Palestinian cultural event.

Khaled was a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and 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 Palestinian second intifada failed because it was not violent enough.

On November 25, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted and posted on Facebook in support of terrorist Rasmea Odeh.

Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.

SJP WSU - Denying Jerusalem’s Jewish History

On December 8, 2017, SJP WSU shared a Facebook video of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stating [00:00:15]: “Jerusalem is a city that is Palestinian, Arab, Christian, Islamic and the eternal capital of Palestine.“

Abbas was protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On October 19, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted a picture taken at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, stating: “Victory of Palestine against Israel: Jerusalem Holy Site Declared Muslim, Not Jewish, in United Nations Resolution.”

SJP WSU - Nazi Propaganda Methods

On April 9, 2017, SJP WSU officers posed for a Facebook photo before a mock Israeli security wall that featured a call to boycott Israel and a quote associating Israel with Nazi propaganda methods.

The “separation wall” bore a quote often attributed to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.”

SJP WSU revised the quote, by replacing the word “truth” with the word “politics” and then crossed out “politics” and substituted the word “Israel,” written with blood dripping from the letters. Below the quote appeared the hashtag: “#BOYCOTTISRAEL.”

The quote embodied an anti-Semitic idea known as the “Big Lie,” which was used by Nazi Germany to demonize Jews and to promote the boycott of Jewish businesses."

SJP WSU used the wall as early as March 2016.