Jannine Masoud

Masoud chaired a session at the National SJP Conference, held November 4-6, 2016,at George Mason University (GMU). In 2015, Masoud attended the National SJP Conference in San Diego, California.

In 2016, Masoud served as the “co-conference coordinator” of CU Turath, the Arab students association of Columbia University (Columbia) and Barnard College (Barnard). Also in 2016, Masoud participated as a student honoree at the 14th Anniversary Banquet of the Network of Arab-American Professionals of NY (NAAP-NY).

Masoud served as the 2014-2015 events coordinator for the Columbia Muslim Students Association (MSA) board, and she remained active with Columbia MSA from 2016 to 2017.

Masoud was reportedly a Student Government Association (SGA) candidate for Representative of Diversity for the 2014-2015 academic year.

As of April 2023, Masoud’s LinkedIn said she had been a legal extern at the “Federal Defender Organizations” at the office of the Federal Public Defender, District of New Jersey, since January 2023.

Also as of April 2023, Masoud’s LinkedIn said she was a law student at Rutgers Law School (Rutgers Law), slated to graduate in May 2024, and a staff editor at Rutgers University Law Review. Masoud’s LinkedIn also said she graduated from Barnard with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and statistics in 2017.  

As of April 2023, Masoud’s LinkedIn said she was located in the “New York City Metropolitan Area.” As of the same date, Masoud’s Medium account said she was a “NJ based organizer.”

Also as of April 2023,Masoud went by the username “Jannine Salman” and used the handle “@jannine.mas” on Facebook. She went by the username “Lil Sugarcane جنين [Janine]” and the handle “@j_an9” on Instagram, and she went by the username “Jannine M” on LinkedIn.  
“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. 
On May 13, 2017, Masoud led [00:00:49] CUAD’s “Saltwater Challenge,” in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners hunger striking in Israeli prisons. 

Masoud nominated [00:00:55] “Hunter Palestine Solidarity Committee, NYU SJP, Columbia Mobilize African Diaspora and Columbia University Students for Human Rights” to take part in the Salt Water Challenge.

The “Saltwater Challenge” was held in solidarity with the Palestinian inmates hunger-striking in Israeli prisons. 

Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
 
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind. 

In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States. In 2017, Odeh was deported to Jordan and stripped of U.S. citizenship, after admitting to immigration fraud.

Protestors repeatedly [00:24:59] disrupted Danon’s speech, chanting “Racists not welcome!,” as well as [00:32:11] “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!” and [00:38:22] “Stop the murder stop the hate, Israel is a terror state!” 

“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.

Masoud, along [00:46:35] with Columbia SJP activists Nadine Talaat and Jeffrey Jacobs, was seen holding [00:46:38] a banner that read: “Boycott Israel.” They also chanted [00:56:35]: “One, two, three, four, occupation no more! Five, six, seven, eight, Israel’s an Apartheid State!” as they were escorted from the room.On July 14, 2015, Masoud reportedly helped organize, promote and lead a Columbia SJP event titled “Israel, Racism, and Apartheid” that featured Haneen Zoabi.

Haneen Zoabi, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, has a long history of inciting violence. In 2014, she was suspended from the legislature after defending the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by the terror group Hamas, and who were later found executed in a field. In 2015, a criminal investigation was opened against Zoabi after she reportedly condoned anti-Israel violence and called for a new intifada.

On July 17, 2015, the Gadfly Buzz, a blog runby a Columbia journalist student interviewed Masoud about the “Israel, Racism, and Apartheid” event. Masoud wa quoted saying: “There is no way to have a democratic Jewish state” and described Israel as an “apartheid” state.

BDS Activism

Masoud made her statement while the deadly Knife Intifada was underway in Israel with an average of one stabbing attack per day. On March 8, 2016, an American graduate student, Taylor Force, was killed and nearly a dozen others were injured near Tel Aviv, by a 22 year-old Palestinan on a stabbing rampage. 

On February 1, 2016, Masoud promoted Columbia SJP and Columbia/Barnard JVP’s joint divestment campaign to Facebook, writing “Demand Columbia divest from apartheid. Sign our petition today.”

In 2016, Columbia SJP and Columbia/Barnard JVP launched a joint divestment campaign titled: “Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) campaign, with a petition and inaugural event titled: “BDS 101,” scheduled for February 4, 2016.

CUAD’s Facebook post stated that the campaign was “embedded in the larger BDS movement.” 

CUAD also described the campaign in its Facebook post as a “call for the University to divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from the State of Israel's ongoing system of settler colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid law.”

CUAD said in its Facebook post that the campaign targeted companies including Caterpillar, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hapoalim, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. CUAD said that by failing to divest from these companies, Columbia was supporting: “continued occupation of and assaults against the Palestinian people,” by Israel.

The CUAD petition that Masoud shared stated: “We demand that Columbia University end its investments in Israeli Apartheid. We call upon the Columbia community to support Palestinian human rights.”

On April 3, 2016, the student council at Columbia voted down the divestment resolution, 26-5, with one abstention.

On April 19, 2018, Masoud posted to Facebook: “9 years ago Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine was founded 7 years ago we were suspended 4 years ago we were censored by administration #BannerGate 2 years ago we launched Columbia University Apartheid Divest And yet today, 64% of Barnard students said #YESTODIVEST.”

On April 20, 2018, Electronic intifada (EI) reported that “students at Barnard College in New York City voted nearly two-thirds in favor of a referendum supporting divestment …”

SJP Activism

Abdulhadi has cultivated ties with Hamas-dominated universities, glorified terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), spread hatred of Zionists and demonized Zionism as white supremacy.

On June 13, 2017, Masoud and other activists featured in a Columbia SJP photo, posted to Facebook, surrounding the Alma Mater statue in front of Columbia’s Low Memorial Library. Activists had wrapped a Keffiyeh around the statue’s neck.

On May 1, 2017, on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims, Masoud participated [00:00:29] in CUAD’s staged mock checkpoint.

The checkpoint was held in front of a mock separation wall, meant to mimic Israel’s security barrier, which had written on it: “End Israeli Apartheid.”

Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.

On November 4-6, 2016, at the National SJP Conference, held at George Mason University (GMU), Masoud chaired a session that featured anti-Israel activists Ramah Kudaimi andAmer Zahr. 

On March 21, 2015, Masoud promoted the IAW 2015 schedule to Facebook, including times scheduled for the “Mock Apartheid Wall.”

On March 14, 2014, Masoud hosted a Columbia SJP’s IAW event titled: “ Confronting Colonial Borders on Indigenous Lands.”

On February 26, 2014, Masoud promoted IAW USA on Facebook.
The banner was reportedly removed after “students, their parents and alumni” said it made them “feel uncomfortable and unsafe in the space” and that it gave the impression Barnard was “endorsing SJP's message that Israel as a Jewish state does not have the right to exist.”

Anti-Semitism at Columbia 2016-2017  

A 2017 report by AMCHA Initiative found that Columbia, which includes Barnard College (Barnard), had the highest overall anti-semitic activity (35 incidents) in 2016, the highest rate of incidents of anti-Semitic expression (23 incidents) and the highest rate of BDS activity on campus (22 incidents).

The AMCHA Initiative documents anti-Semitism at U.S. colleges, using “the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the U.S. State Department definitions to identify” anti-Semitic incidents.

CSJP Demonizing Israel 2015  

In December 2015, CSJP promoted a video, originally produced by Al-Jazeera, that referred to Israel’s security fence as “The Apartheid Wall.” The video also suggested that a non-binding, advisory opinion on the security fence issued by the International Court of Justice is binding international law. 

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.  

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.

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