Jineen Musa
Overview
Jineen Musa expressed support for Hamas terrorists, equated Israel to Nazi Germany and spread hatred of Israel.Musa is a supporter [06:46] of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2024, Musa was listed as the primary leader of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Ohio State University (OSU). As of March 2023, Musa also served as the outreach director for SJP OSU.
Musa’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.”
As of May 2024, Musa’s LinkedIn profile said she was an Ambassador of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) chapter at OSU (PCRF-OSU) since August 2023.
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) was reportedly set up to “provide urgent humanitarian care for Gaza’s children.” It has been financially linked with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which was shut down by the U.S. government for funneling donations to terrorist organizations.
As of May 2024, Musa was listed as the Justice and Equity Legislative Coordinator of the OSU Undergraduate Student Government since May 2023. OSU is located in Columbus, Ohio.
As of the same date, Musa’s LinkedIn said she worked as a Guest Advocate at Target since November 2021.
As of May 2024, Musa’s LinkedIn said she was studying for a bachelor’s degree in health sciences at OSU, slated to graduate in 2026.
Support for Hamas Terrorists
On October 8, 2023, while Musa served as the SJP OSU outreach director, the group held a rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, titled: “Stand with Gaza.”On the same date, Heba Latif, then SJP OSU co-president, featured [00:00:42] in a video posted by a local news channel. A reporter said [00:00:59]: “Latif calls the Hamas attack a resistance movement against the occupation.”
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 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.
In the same video, Latif led [00:00:33] an anti-Israel chant and she said [00:00:40]: “This is a response to the 75 years of a brutal occupation and apartheid system.”
The modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
Also at the protest, one protester held [00:00:04] a sign that said: “...#netanyahuishitler.” Another protestor held a sign that said [00:00:11]: “EXISTENCE IS THE RESISTANCE” while another protester held a sign that said: “STOP U.S. FUNDING FOR ISRAEL APARTHEID.” Musa held a sign that said: [00:59:00]: “JUSTICE for MARTYRS.”
Equating Israel to Nazi Germany
On December 8, 2023, during Musa’s tenure as the outreach director of SJP OSU, the group set up a display with signs to protest Israel’s war against Hamas.The SJP OSU signs said: “NEVER AGAIN?,” “GENOCIDE UNIVERSITY,” “#Lift the Siege on Gaza NOW,” and “...#End the Israeli Occupation NOW…”
The phrase “Never Again” is often deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.
Israel and Egypt implemented a United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.
Hatred of Israel
On May 23, 2024, Musa featured [00:01:56] as the representative of SJP OSU on Season 2, Episode 8, Part 2 of the What’s Good in Ohio podcast titled: “What’s Good with the Movement for Palestine?” to discuss “the student protest movement calling for divestment and a free Palestine…[and] their experiences as part of the encampment and protests at The Ohio State University.”Musa said [06:46]: “On April 25th at 4:00 a.m., we went to the university and began trying to set up an encampment. Our main reasons…were for financial divestment, academic boycott…and acknowledgment of genocide…”
The encampment was one of about 140 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024 at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism.
Musa continued [07:01]: “This was the correct…escalation…we met with administration several times…presenting these demands, receiving nothing in response, so our only viable solution was…to set up an encampment.”
Musa also said [00:38:00] she’d participated in a National SJP conference call with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Wisam Rafeedie. Musa reported [00:38:41] that Rafeedie believes the SJP chapters are leading a “student intifada.”
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
On May 18, 2024, Musa represented SJP OSU in a virtual symposium titled: Palestine Solidarity Student Activism in the United States: Context, Prospects, and Challenges.” Led by Rabab Abdulhadi, Musa and other student activists discussed the “significance of student activism in defending Palestinian rights and to explore potential strategies for students aiming to influence university and societal policies…”
On February 8, 2024, as part of “The National Day of Action, a walkout organized by the national chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine,” Musa’s chapter of SJP at OSU led a walkout on OSU’s campus and sent an open letter to the university.
As reported in OSU’s school paper, participants chanted: “‘Free, free, Palestine’” and “‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’”
“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 January 27, 2024, anti-Israel news site Mondoweiss published an open letter titled: “Stop the suppression of Palestine advocacy across Big Ten Universities.” The letter was signed by SJP OSU and all other Big 10 Conference SJP chapters, accusing their schools of “complicity in the Palestinian genocide.”
On November 29, 2023, SJP OSU reportedly led a demonstration where Musa outlined the group’s demands for the university: “issue a comprehensive statement recognizing the killing of Palestinian children, take action to protect Palestinian students from bigoted attacks, cease educational programs to universities in occupied territories, and divest and cut ties with Israeli corporations.”
On October 21, 2023, SJP OSU reportedly organized a rally outside of the Ohio Statehouse to “demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians and the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine.” Leading the rally, Musa said: “...I have spent my whole life screaming ‘Free Palestine’ just like the generations before me…it is our generation that must free them from the inhumane occupation…”
On October 14, 2023, the SJP OSU posted to Instagram a statement titled: “Official statement urging the Ohio State University to Protect the Safety and Wellbeing of All Students Amid Ethnic Cleansing in Occupied Palestine.”The statement said [slide 3]: “We stand in solidarity with Palestinians and their right to resist the 75-year occupation, settler-colonialism, and ethnic cleansing…As students, we stand for the liberation and an end to the occupation of Palestine…”
On October 12, 2023, less than a week after the Hamas October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Musa’s chapter of SJP held an anti-Israel event at the Ohio Statehouse titled: “Day of Resistance Protest for Palestine.” The event was hosted by SJP OSU and the Palestinian Women’s Association.
At the event, Mohammed Mubarak, then-president of SJP OSU, was seen holding a sign titled: “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA / عاشتالانتفاضة [Long live the Intifada!].”
The event also featured a participant holding a sign that said: “STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE.” Other protestors held signs that said: “IT’S NOT ‘CONFLICT’ IT’S GENOCIDE” and said “‘FREE PALESTINE / RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE.’”
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/jineen.musa/ [Private]LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jineen-musa
