Jihane Haddou

Overview

Jihanne Haddou has expressed support for terrorists, demonized Israel and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Haddou was an activist with George Mason University (GMU)’s chapter of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (GMU SAIA), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). She was also reportedly a videographer and has produced videos for GMU SAIA.

In March 2014, Haddou participated in a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at the Washington Convention Center.

As of May 2019, Haddou used the name “Jihane Al-Quds” on Twitter. In 2015, Haddou used the name “Jihane Quds” on Facebook.

Supporting Terrorists

On February 14, 2016, Haddou posted to Facebook a video of Yasmin Rashad Al-Tamimi, who was reportedly wounded after she tried to stab an Israeli soldier in Hebron.

Haddou commented: “And the whole world remains silent...imagine that if that girl was Jewish and the aggressor/shooter was Palestinian. CNN, Fox News, etc. will all cover it, but unfortunately, she’s Palestinian.”

On July 30, 2014, Haddou posted on Facebook “If you ever encounter a conversation with a Zionist who keeps whining about Hamas being a terrorist organization and how Israhell is only defending itself, just remind them that Israhell was created by an ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and that it committed numerous massacres way before Hamas was even born.”

On January 23, 2013, Haddou tweeted: “FREE Samer Issawi. Prisoner of CONSCIENCE. Prisoner of INNOCENCE. Prisoner of FREEDOM. #Samer183.”

Samer Issawi is a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who received a 26-year prison sentence in 2002. During the second intifada, Issawi manufactured and distributed pipe bombs and fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles. In December 2013, Issawi called for the kidnapping of Israelis, saying: “The [Palestinian] prisoners' release will be brought about by kidnapping and [prisoner] exchanges. Nothing will happen without that.”

Demonizing Israel

On October 22, 2015, Haddou posted on Facebook: “...Israel is murdering Palestinians and the world remains silent. #FreePalestine.”

On July 22, 2014, Haddou posted to Facebook a music video and a song she wrote in 2010, called: “It’s A Place Called, Palestine.” Haddou commented: “it's still very relevant to what Israhell is doing to Palestine.”

The lyrics of the song repeatedly claimed [00:00:21] [00:00:35] [00:00:40] [00:00:44] [00:00:49] [00:00:53] that Israel “ethnic cleansed Palestine” and called out [00:02:34] “Let’s get together against apartheid.”

The video also showcased [00:00:29] a series of misleading maps of Israel known as “The Map That Lies.”

The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.

On June 6, 2013, Haddou tweeted a GMU SAIA video showing Tareq Radi and other SAIA members as they disrupted [00:00:18] a speech given by Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. Haddou tweeted: “Students Against Israeli Apartheid Interrupt Ehud Olmert: http://youtu.be/847zKQg0wTo via @youtube.”

On May 13, 2013, Haddou tweeted: “Join us this Wednesday, May 13th in front of the White House to commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe : 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 often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

Haddou’s tweet promoted a “Nakba Day” event hosted by GMU SAIA. Her tweet also shared a GMU SAIA video titled: “Students Against Israeli Apartheid- Nakba Day.”

The event’s Facebook description stated: “May 15, 1948...The mother of all catastrophes. Millions of Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed since then in matters of displacement and slaughter. Israel has committed actions of indecency, indignity and fabricated many lies on the international plateau.”

Support for BDS

On April 5, 2014, Haddou co-wrote a piece published on the BDS movement website, titled: “Video: Bricks from the Wall - Dave Lippman, Jihane al Quds and Harlem Anti-Wall Chorus.”

The video in the April 2014 piece was a parody of American musician Pink Floyd’s famous song “Another Brick in the Wall.” The video opened [00:00:05] with the lyrics: “We don't need no occupation (Divest! Divest!) We don't need no swat patrol (Divest! Divest!) Cat's bulldozing West Bank classrooms (Divest! Divest!).”

Haddou’s BDS movement piece described the video as a “Collaboration between lyricist/singer Dave Lippman, videographer Jihan al Quds, and the Harlem Anti-Wall Chorus, ‘Bricks From the Wall,’ urging pension giant TIAA-CREF to divest from companies profiting from colonialism and ethnic cleansing by Israel in Palestine.”

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.