Jabrane Labidi
Overview
Jabrane Labidi has equated Israel with Nazi Germany spread violent hatred of Zionists and bragged of defacing private property. He has also spread hatred of Israel, demonized America on social media and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Labidi indicated on Facebook that he attended the 2018 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Conference.
As of August 2019, Labidi’s LinkedIn page said he was a “postdoctoral researcher” at UCLA, since June 2017. As of the same date, his UCLA postdoctoral page indicated he was in the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Department in the College of Physical Sciences. However, on June 1, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Quit ucla today and had to clear my office.”
Labidi’s LinkedIn page also said he received his Ph.D. in “planetary formation and evolution” from the Université Paris Diderot in France in 2013.
As of August 2019, Labidi went by the name “Jabrane Cassius” on Facebook and Flickr.
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany
On May 9, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “We need this nazi nation israel to disappear.”On April 5, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “A zionist nazi mad that we be talking about race? Groundbreaking.”
On November 17, 2018, Labidi posted on Facebook: “Ari Zudkewich when a terrorist that support literal nazis in an illegal ethnostate murdering natives and children playing on the beach think they can run their filthy mouth.” He wrote his comment on the SJP at UCLA Facebook page.
Violent Hatred of Zionists
On April 17, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “actually i meant only zionists needed that gulag experience. and?”The term “Gulag” refers to the system of forced-labor prison camps throughout the Soviet Union.
On March 17, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “zionist is not a race you dumb whitey. the collective punishment is what palestinians are enduring because of the thugs you love defending, you zionist filth. gulag for your a**.”
On December 22, 2018, Labidi tweeted: “I feel like figthting with zionists ugh.”
On the same day, Labidi tweeted a gif of a cockroach, dying after being sprayed with insecticide. He commented: “I’ve got french zionists in my mentions trying me lmfao, go away parasites.”
On December 26, 2017, Labidi tweeted: “my inner voice this morning, while i'm trying to remain chill (as opposed to mad violent) about zionists.”
Defacing Private Property
On November 16, 2018, Labidi tweeted: “Just heckled a bunch of zionist students at UCLA showing off their pride to support a terrorist state. Also i defaced a blue lives matter sticker on somebody’s car this morning. F**k a** people on this campus but my day is doubly made.”Spreading Hatred of Israel
On June 26, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Israel does not exist.”On May 9, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Israelis need to gtfo [get the f**k out of] palestine and go back to california and russia.”
On April 22, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Gorgeous palestine, will be free of the zionist parasites soon
On March 16, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Israel has no right to exist.”
On February 26, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “Israel is the most racist nation on earth, why using it in an argument and not mention this basic fact?”
On February 18, 2019, Labidi tweeted: “America sees itself in settler a** racist a** israel, murdering natives as a project for a nation.”
On November 30, 2018, Labidi tweeted: “israel has no right to exist tho period.”
Labidi was responding to a tweet that said: “[Bill] Maher and [Don] Imus are garbage but they didn't call for the end of a country (and thus genocide) like [Marc Lamont] Hill did (that's what the "sea to river" comment means).”
On January 1, 2018, Labidi tweeted: “my only resolution for 2018 is to keep working to destroy zionism.”
On September 29, 2017, Labidi tweeted: “right. please stop playing in israel, which only supports the genocide of palestinans @thundercat.”
On February 11, 2015, Labidi tweeted that there was “zionist ethnic cleansing.”
On October 3, 2014, Labidi wrote on Facebook that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), also known as “Tsahal” in Hebrew, was a “terrorist organization” that has “murdered” children.
On the same day, Labidi wrote about a Facebook photo of a child in Jerusalem: “i hope the kid will grow up and not be murdered by one of this zionist terrorist #FreePalestine.”
On March 23, 2013, Labidi tweeted: “http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/7418#israel has no right to exist. Roll it around your tongue, tweet it, –Delegitimization is here- @snarwani #palestine.”
Demonizing America
On January 21, 2019, Labidi tweeted a photo that showed U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He suggested that Harris was “associating with literal nazis to perpetuate american thugism…”On August 22, 2018, Labidi tweeted about the singer Lana Del Rey, writing: “i mean she has american flags in her video so been knowing that she trash.”
Supporting BDS
On May 9, 2018, Labidi tweeted: “Support bds, apologize to your palestinian and black fans.”On November 11, 2015, Labidi commented on a CODEPINK post, which showed its activists holding a sign supporting BDS and accusing Israel of “apartheid.” He wrote: “you are so real! #badass.”
2018 National SJP Conference
On November 16, 2018, Labidi was listed on Facebook as having attended the 2018 National SJP Conference.On October 19, 2018, Labidi commented on a Facebook post for SJP at UCLA about the 2018 National SJP Conference.
Labidi wrote he “would love to attend the conference and get informed on how to push BDS Los Angeles for Justice in Palestine as much as i can contribute on campus…” Labidi added that he was “not [yet] a member of SJP at UCLA.”
Labidi’s comment linked to the group BDS Los Angeles for Justice in Palestine.
2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
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.
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.
Code Pink
CODEPINK is a U.S.-based activist group founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and other activists to oppose the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The group actively opposes “U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine” and has been criticized for maintaining close ties to Hamas. CODEPINK also promotes the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
CODEPINK has led a number of solidarity delegations to Gaza under Hamas protection. In March 2014, CODEPINK also helped organize an “International Women's Day” delegation to Gaza. However, upon arriving at the Cairo airport on March 3, 2014, Benjamin was detained by Egyptian authorities and refused entry into Gaza. She was then forcibly deported to Turkey.
CODEPINKBDS campaigns have targeted RE/MAX, Ahava, SodaStream, Hewlett Packard and Airbnb. On November 20, 2016, CODEPINK leader Ariel Gold disrupted a speech given by the actor Ashton Kutcher, an Airbnb investor who defended the company. Gold was escorted off the stage by security.
In September 2008, a number of CODEPINK leaders met with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a notorious anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. CODEPINK reportedly initiated its anti-Israel campaign followeding meeting. In November 2008, Jodie Evans and a CODEPINK contingent visited Iran at the personal invitation of Ahmadinejad.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/648771155Twitter: https://twitter.com/jabrandarwich
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabrane-labidi-560079111/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/154030634@N06/
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