Jenan Abas

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. 

Also while Abas was the UCF-PSA social media coordinator, the group expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on social media.

Hatred of Israel during a Hamas War

On October 31, 2023, UCF-PSA issued an anti-Israel statement during Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group. The statement claimed [slide 3] that Israel was committing a “silent genocide” and that there was “ongoing oppression and colonialism taking place.”

The statement also accused [slide 2] Israel of “ongoing apartheid and ethnic cleansing” and demonized [slide 1] Israel for “Building walls and checkpoints,” a reference to Israel’s security barrier.

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.

Israeli checkpoints were built to prevent terror attacks, such as suicide bombings, against Israel's civilian population.

UCF-PSA also claimed [slide 1] in the statement that Israel’s founding was a “Nakba,” and it further stated that “Gaza is the largest open-air prison” and that Gazans are “held under a suffocating blockade.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

Biographical Information

As of January 3, 2024, Abas’s LinkedIn profile said she had been an “Application Request Engineer” at Threatlocker in Orlando, Florida, since October 2023.

As of the same date, Abas’s LinkedIn said she graduated from UCF with a bachelor’s degree in computer science in May 2023.

However, in September 2023, Abas said in a UCF-PSA Instagram post announcing its 2023-2024 school year officers: “Hello everyone! I’m excited to be part of PSA! I am majoring in Computer Science here at UCF.” Additionally, she was also listed in UCF’s “FALL 2022” commencement brochure as a computer science graduate.

As of January 3, 2024, Abas’s LinkedIn said she graduated from Valencia College (Valencia) in 2020 with an associate of arts degree. Valencia listed Abas as graduating in Summer 2020.

Also as of January 3, 2024, Abas’s LinkedIn profile said she was located in the greater Orlando area.

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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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