Jinane Arbain

Jinane Arbain expressed support for Hamas terrorism and spread hatred of Israel as a president of an anti-Israel student group.

Arbain's anti-Israel activism occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, which Israel launched after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks when Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds.

In 2023, Arbain served as the president of the anti-Israel campus group, Middle Eastern and North African Association (MENA TJU), at Thomas Jefferson University (Jefferson).

Arbain was also an activist with the anti-Israel campus group Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapter at Jefferson (Jefferson MSA), while in college.

As of June 2025, Arbain’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from Jefferson with a bachelor's degree in architecture in December 2023.

Also as of June 2025, Arbain was listed as a designer at JKRP Architects. Her bio on the company's website said she was "born and raised in Tangier, Morocco" and "moved to Philadelphia in 2019 to pursue her education."

As of the same date, Arbain's LinkedIn said she was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On October 16, 2023, during Israel's war against Hamas terrorists, MENA TJU posted on Instagram: "Let us come together to reflect, support, and share our thoughts through these difficult times following the tragic events of Gaza, Palestine. This is an opportunity for us to come together in support and learn more about Palestine and the Palestinian struggle...."

On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.

For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

On October 18, 2023, MENA TJU posted on Instagram an anti-Israel letter co-written with Jefferson MSA.

The letter accused [slide 2] Israel of an "ongoing military occupation, apartheid, illegal settlements, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity."

The letter further said [slide 3]: "The Israeli military's brutal and vicious continuous bombardment of the Gaza strip - besieged by Israel for the past 17 years, known to be the largest open air prison in history."

Referring to Gaza as an “open-air prison” is a way to delegitimize the UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Israeli military discovered that Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.

The letter also compared [slide 3] Gaza to "an extermination camp" and accused Israel of committing "a genocide against Palestinians."

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.

Anti-Israel activists compare Israel to Nazi Germany to insinuate that the plight of Palestinians has eclipsed Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

On October 23, 2023, MENA TJU posted on Instagram a flyer promoting the anti-Israel protest titled: "National Student Walkout for Palestine," to be held on October 25, 2023. The flyer said: "END THE SIEGE ON GAZA NOW / STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE / LETS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE."

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