Jenna Mahmoud
Jenna Mahmoud was an officer of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter that showed support for Hamas terrorists after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, when terrorists murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds hostage.
Jenna Mahmoud also spread hatred of Israel in her SJP activism in 2023 and 2024.
Jenna Mahmoud served (p. 17) as president of the SJP chapter at Wayne State University (Wayne State) (sjpwsu) since April 2024, and served as vice president of the sjpwsu since November 2023. Wayne State is located in Detroit, Michigan.
Mahmoud’s SJP chapter showed support for Hamas following a series of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The Hamas terror attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”For more information on the October 7, 2023 attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Jenna Mahmoud is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On October 10, 2023, sjpwsu hosted an event titled: “How to advocate for Palestine: Introduction to BDS” featuring guest speaker Huwaida Arraf.
On March 3, 2024, spjwsu posted on Instagram: “...Come take part in one of our many events for Palestine awareness week…PS PS.” The post included a graphic which said: “WSU SJP / SHOW UP / SHOW OUT
… INTRO TO BDS / MARCH 4…” The watermelon has been appropriated by anti-Israel activists as a symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to "Israeli occupation," as it shares the Pan-Arab colors.
Mahmoud’s sister is anti-Israel activist and former SJP board member Lina Mahmoud.
Support for Terrorists
On October 7, 2023, sjpwsu reposted an Instagram post from Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) that read: “In the past several hours, the resistance in Gaza stormed the illegitimate border fence, rentering [sic] 1948 Palestine for the first time in many of our lives … the resistance has taken occupation soldiers hostage, firing thousands of rockets onto occupied Palestinian land…The post continued: Today's events are without precedent in the 21st century. The days of our fedayeen advancing into occupied territory beyond the 1967 borders have returned. With these developments come new equations in the Palestinian struggle, and a shifting of the ground beneath our feet, the reverberations of which we can only begin to imagine. Gaza, the cradle of our resistance and the lifeblood of our struggle, is pushing us closer to the hour of liberation than ever betore [sic]…the struggle for liberation and return continues…”
Included in the post was a photograph of a captured Israeli military jeep with dozens ofHamas-supporting Gazan men and boys in civilian clothing sitting and standing in and on the jeep, arms raised making the “V” for “victory” sign, with the caption: “PALESTINE LIVES! / THE RESISTANCE / LIVES!”
PYM
In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”
PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”
On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”
On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
Included in the post is a photograph of a Palestinian man holding up the Palestinian flag in one arm and making the victory sign with his other arm, while standing on top of a captured Israeli military tank, captioned: “ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE” promoting a Dearborn/Detroit rally.
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
On October 18, 2023, SJPWSU posted on Instagram a flyer titled: “EMERGENCY GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION: STOP THE GAZA GENOCIDE” with a photograph of two Palestinian youth throwing stones, captioned in Arabic جيل الانتفاضة [“intifada generation”], and an illustration of two armed Hamas terrorists in a paraglider.
Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence.
In the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, numerous terrorists infiltrated into Israel in motorized paragliders. Hamas terrorists descended in gliders on the Nova Music Festival, where they slaughtered over 360 unarmed young men and women. In the wake of the atrocities, images of Hamas militants on paragliders served to symbolize and glorify the deadly attacks.
On January 12, 2024, SJPWSU posted on Instagram: “Falastin post is officially moving to our account!...PSPS” Included in the post was a graphic that read: “Falastin Post Update!...Any type of submission is appreciated and encouraged, Free Palestine PS
”The graphic also included the masthead of The Falastin Post, Issue 2, November 13, 2023, with the tagline: “Resistance Until Reclamation, Generation After Generation, Until Total Liberation, From the River to the Sea.”
The first issue of the Falastin Post, published on November 7, 2023, featured a photograph captioned: “Members of the Black Panther Party with members of the PLO in their main office in Algeria, 1969” as well as poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, with the excerpt: “...Put it on record at the top of page one…if I were to become starved, I shall eat the flesh of my usurper. Beware, beware of my starvation, and of my anger!...”
The PLO’s stated goal in its 1968 Charter was the “liberation of Palestine” through “armed struggle.”
On January 27, 2024, sjpwsu posted on Instagram: “...HANDS OFF YEMEN AND FREE PALESTINE The post referred to an event sjpwsu hosted in response to the United States Department of State designation of the Yemenite Houthis as a specially designated global terrorist group on January 17, 2024.
Following the outbreak of Israel’s 2023 war against Hamas, Houthi terrorists attacked commercial ships off Yemen’s Red Sea coast and launched missiles into southern Israel. Like Hamas, the Houthi movement is backed by Iran, and is designated as a terror group by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The Houthi slogan translated into English reads: “God is the Greatest / Death to America / Death to Israel / A Curse Upon the Jews / Victory to Islam.”
Hatred of Israel
In March 2024, sjpwsu hosted Palestine Awareness Week, which included an event called “Intro to BDS”.On February 28, 2024, sjpwsu posted that for the “National Week of Action,” they held a banner drop in the WSU Student Center. The banner they displayed featured the words “END THE GENOCIDE WSU” and “DIVEST NOW!”
On February 5, 2024, sjpwsu posted on Instagram: “The Falastin Post issue 3!......Our president, provost, and dean are all responsible for silencing and ignoring their students. They have refused to support the BDS resolution...and they are responsible for enabling the genocide in Gaza.”
On November 23, 2023, TV20Detroit.com reported that Mahmoud was part of a group of protestors who interrupted a Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit “to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and the freedom of the Palestinian people.” When interviewed [00:00:55], Mahmoud stated [00:01:07]: “...we are celebrating a holiday built on the genocide of an indigenous people, while we are protesting the funding of the genocide of an indigenous people in Palestine…”
On October 25, 2023, sjpwsu hosted an event in remembrance of October 7, 2023, along with a number of WSU student groups. The Instagram caption for the event post concluded: “may Allah liberate the land of Palestine and the beloved Masjid Al-Aqsa.”
On October 16, 2023, sjpwsu posted on Instagram a call for for students to wear keffiyehs for the week of October 16-20, 2023, in order to: “show your solidarity for Palestine as they continue to face settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing by the Zionist Entity backed by our tax dollars”.
The keffiyeh is a Palestinian headdress traditionally worn by men, which has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
On October 7, 2023, sjpwsu posted on Instagram: “...In the past 24 hours, Palestinian militants carried out attacks in Israel…Israel has subsequently bombed Palestinians in Gaza…Mainstream news coverage of what's happening in Palestine and Israel needs crucial context: Israel's violent, decades-long military occupation and apartheid system against Palestinians. For over 75 years, Israel has brutally attacked Palestinians daily…this daily violence receives little or no mainstream news coverage…”
Included in the post was a series of slides labeled: “CRUCIAL CONTEXT ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL RIGHT NOW” over a photo of Hamas terrorists breaking through the wire border barrier in a Caterpillar tractor to attack Israel. Slide 5 read: “The root cause of violence in Israel and Palestine is Israel’s decades-long violence and oppression against Palestinians.”
The modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.
On January 18, 2023, sjpwsu hosted an event titled: “Palestine 101: History of Palestine and Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” in which Mahmoud presented on the “early history of the conflict” and the Nakba.
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
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 Student 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.
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