Jan Nicholas

Overview

Nicholas is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. On May 2, 2014, he shared on Facebook a petition promoting a divestment resolution rife with false and misleading rhetoric such as Israel’s "segregated roads" and “separation wall.” The petition called on the University of Washington not to “invest in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

On April 20, 2015, Nicholas shared on Facebook an image posted on the Israel-hating propaganda site, Mondoweiss. The image highlighted a misleading anti-Israel bus ad campaign, initiated by The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) and Free Palestine Movement (FPM), with the deceptive tagline StopFundingApartheid.org. The founder of FPM, Paul LaRudee, was deported from Israel in 2006 for entering under a fraudulent passport and providingmaterial support to terror groups under the guise of “charity.” The 9th Circuit U.S.Court of Appeals upheld the banning of the ad campaign on Seattle buses.

Nicholas is a 2014 graduate of TESC. He works as a general manager at the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle, Washington.

SJP TESC

SJP TESC was founded in November 2013 and was formerly known as the Mid-East Solidarity Project.

In February 2014, SJP TESC hosted TESC’s Israeli Apartheid Week. The week-long event featured false claims that Israel is an "apartheid state" and showcased the construction of a mock “Apartheid Wall" to mischaracterize Israel’s security fence.

SJP TESC - Supporting Financers of the Terror Organization Hamas

On February 26, 2014, SJP TESC co-hosted an event called “Letter Writing Day to Pro-Palestinian Political Prisoners.” SJP TESC encouraged participants to write letters of support to former officers of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) — who were found guilty of funneling $12 million dollars to Hamas. HLF’s founders received sentences ranging between 15 and 65 years in federal prison in the United States.

SJP TESC - Lying to Demonize Israel

On December 20, 2013, SJP TESC shared a Facebook post mischaracterizing as “ethnic cleansing” a proposed Israeli government plan (the Begin-Prawer Plan) to officially recognize and register the vast majority of Bedouin settlements throughout southern Israel and relocate and compensate the residents of 35 unrecognized villages. SJP TESC also set up on-campus events to protest the Prawer Plan and called on its Facebook followers to attend a “Day of Rage” protest against the plan. 

SJP TESC - Honoring Human Shields

On March 17, 2014, SJP TESC honored the memory of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie on Facebook. The ISM, founded in 2001, is a movement ostensibly “committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.” However, the group has been accused of supporting terrorism and it encourages its foreign volunteers to act “as human shields in cities, towns and refugee camps.”

ISM has encouraged activists to break curfew and disregard Israeli directives prohibiting access to closed military zones. That policy resulted in the death of Rachel Corrie, who was accidentally killed while interfering with an Israeli military operation in 2003. A wrongful death suit brought by Corrie’s family was dismissed, because the judge ruled that Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in danger. SJP TESC wrote in the Facebook post that Corrie, a former TESC student, was “murdered” by the Israeli Defense Forces.

SJP TESC - Spreading Hate and Disinformation

In May of 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, SJP TESC held campus events commemorating "al-Nakba day" and propagating the historically and currently false claim that Israelis are committing an “ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”

SJP TESC - Embracing Hate Speech and Mocking

On December 9, 2013, SJP TESC posted a video called “Sh*t Zionists Say,” that mocked and ridiculed pro-Israel supporters for feeling attacked and unsafe (0:16).

On February 19, 2014, and again, on April 2, 2015 SJP TESC shared a video called “This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings” featuring anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi. Kanazi is notorious for his aggressively anti-Israel poetry and spoken-word performances. On April 2, 2015 SJP TESC hosted Kanazi on campus and again shared Kanazi’s “Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings” video on Facebook.

On May 21, 2014, during a student’s speech against a divestment resolution targeting Israel, SJP TESC wrote on Facebook "’hurt feelings’ all I hear is blah blah blah.”

Supporting BDS at the Expense of Palestinian Jobs

On November 30, 2013, SJP TESC called on Facebook for a Boycott of the Israeli company Sodastream.

500 Palestinians eventually lost their jobs when Sodastream moved its factory from Judea and Samaria to southern Israel. Although the company denied that BDS had an impact on the decision, the BDS movement took credit for the factory’s closure and the large job losses for Palestinians.

 

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

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