Jana Salah

Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015, during the Knife Intifada. They critically wounded a 13-year-old boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. The spree ended when police shot Hassan and a passing motorist hit Ahmed. Ahmed was taken to an Israeli hospital. He admitted to investigators: “I went there to stab Jews.” He was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.

On February 26, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Israel violates international and basic human rights laws by detaining Palestinians without trial. #HanaHungerStrike.”

Hana Shalabi is reportedly a supporter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) who was reportedly arrested for alleged “involvement in planned attacks by Islamic Jihad.” 

On February 21, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Khader Adnan will be released April 17th. It has been confirmed that he has ended his hunger strike as well. Via @intifada HamduAllah!”

On February 20, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Israel is holding #KhaderAdnan w/o charge and w/o far trial. #KhaderAdnan is fighting for the basic right of all prisoners.”

On the same day, Salah tweeted: “I wonder what would happen if the US cut funding to Israel. #HungerStrikingfor65Days”

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On July 16, 2017, Salah shared a photo on Facebook from an anti-Israel protest in Amsterdam and wrote: “The Israeli Zios are known to the Dutch activists, and regularly harass them at every turn. They even have a restraining order against them.”

The term "Zio" is a common derogatory reference to Zionists, as well as an often-used anti-Semitic slur among white supremacists.

In a December 24, 2014 Twitter debate over Jewish history in Israel and the existence of the First and Second Jewish Temples on the Temple mount in Jerusalem, Salah tweeted: “Btw scientific proof that the First Temple is not where AlAqsa Mosque stands today.”

Salah continued: “you realize that the Zionists tried to ethnically cleanse Christian Palestinians too?”

Salah later added: “we have our own sacred sites, in our homeland which is occupied by a Zionist apartheid state.”

On the same day, Salah tweeted: “again, I want to abolish apartheid altogether. The state is named Israel, where Arabs are occupied and tortured regularly.”

On July 22, 2014, Salah tweeted: "I like Jews, and so do Palestinians. We don't like Zionists, though.”

On the same day, Salah tweeted: “@IDFSpokesperson You spelled Israel wrong. #Israelistheterrorist”

On May 16, 2013, Salah tweeted: “Israel is a terrorist state, that started out by terrorising an entire country.”

On March 3, 2013, Salah tweeted: “In case y'all didn't know, Israel is an illegal aggressor that is also an apartheid state. #BDS #BoycottSodaStream #FreePalestine”

On November 9, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Sign Open Letter to Obama: US aid to Israel shouldn't be used to violate Palestinian human rights @jvplive .”

On October 19, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Working on an argument paper: Why America should stop paying Israel.”

On July 2, 2012, Salah tweeted: “#ToMyFutureKids... Once upon a time, there was a ‘state’ called Israel.”

Salah retweeted a tweet from May 14, 2017, that read: “The world is slowly but surely waking up to the genocidal and apartheid tactics the Israelis implement #Nakba_Awda
#راجعين”

On the same day, Salah retweeted a tweet that read: “‘Israel are intent on destroying the next generation of young Palestinians! #راجعين #Nakba_Awda.’”

Also on May 14, 2017, Salah retweeted a tweet that read: “peace cannot be established unless Israel is vanished. #Nakba_Awda  #راجعين’”

SJP Activism

On October 18, 2013, Salah tweeted a link to a fundraiser she started in order to raise money to send SJP at RU’s leaders to the 2013 NSJP conference in California.

The page said: “SJP at RU is new this year on campus, and getting its leaders to the conference is important in keeping SJP involved on campus and in the community.”

The NSJP conference hosted by Stanford University (Stanford) announced that the conference would include “workshops and critical discussions” to "hone our organizing skills for better BDS campaigns" and to "discuss how we can improve our connections to the broader movement for Palestinian liberation.”

Supporting BDS

On July 26, 2017, Salah tweeted: “Awkward moment when the Israelis bring dates to the potluck... so like, the dates that were grown on stolen land? No thanks, I'm good. #BDS.”

On June 4, 2014, Salah tweeted: “I just supported Boycott Israeli dates! on @ThunderclapIt // @AMPalestine http://thndr.it/1rHyw2q”

On March 20, 2013, Salah tweeted: “#BDS #BoycottSodaStream.”

On March 20, 2013, Salah tweeted: “In case y'all didn't know, SodaStream sell Israeli products. #BDS #BDSSodaStream #BoycottSodaStream.”

On February 6, 2012, Salah tweeted: “Am I the only one that wanted to throw something at the tv when I saw the Sabra dips commercial? #BDS”

On June 2, 2017, Salah tweeted: “Feminists hailing Gal Gadot as a feminist hero, but did you know that when she served in the Israeli army makeup was part of her UNIFORM?”

Salah continued: “She called for the slaying of Palestinian women &children in 2014. How women can still call themselves feminists +support her.” Salah added: “#BoycottWonderWoman.”

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.

AMP

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian as a vehicle to generate mainstream support in the United States for the Palestinian national cause.

On its website, the organization lists Bazian as the chairman of its national board and describes itself as “a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.” 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused AMP of promoting “extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans” about Palestinians. The ADL further stated that AMP is directly involved in campus-based anti-Israel activity through Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Prior to founding the AMP in 2006, Dr. Bazian created SJP together with fellow UC Berkeley Professor Snehal Shingavi in 2001. The close working relationship between AMP and SJP has been documented several times over the years by several organizations, including NGO Monitor and StandWithUs. 

In addition to providing financial, public relations and legal assistance to SJP, AMP has also been accused of having connections to Hamas. The AMP national board includes former members of both the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation (HLF), both of which were found liable for aiding and abetting Hamas. The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas.