Joshua Valentino
Overview
Joshua Valentino has spread hatred of Israel on campus with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Houston (UH).On November 2, 2017, National SJP shared a photo on Facebook of Valentino at the 2017 National SJP Conference.
Spreading Hatred of Israel on Campus
On April 12, 2018, Valentino featured in SJP UH Facebook photos posted during the group’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).One photo posted on Facebook by SJP UH that day featured Valentino holding a sign that said: “ISRAEL. RACIST APARTHEID STATE.”
Among the activists participating in SJP UH’s IAW was Tarek Abdoh, who has threatened violence against Jews and demonized Jews on Twitter.
On April 28, 2015, Abdoh tweeted: “I am gonna throw rocks at yahood [Jews] this summer and no one is stopping me.”
On June 26, 2015, Abdoh tweeted: “I need to go throw some rocks at the yahood [Jews].”
Other SJP activists protesting at SJP UH’s IAW included Mamoon Hindi and Jasmine Shaath who have spread hatred of Jews and Israel on social media.
On May 26, 2015, Hindi tweeted: “F**king Yahood [Jews] man.”
On June 29, 2015, in reply to a tweet that read: “Shia LaBeouf looks like a dirty cave dweller now.” Hindi tweeted: “for a dirty yahoodi [Jew], yes he does.”
On July 28, 2012, Shaath tweeted: “FALASTEEN BLADNA WIL YAHOOD KLABNA <3 [Palestine is our country and the Jews are our dog].”
On March 6, 2013, Shaath tweeted: “Allah yil3an el yahood!” [May Allah curse the Jews!]— a phrase she tweeted on at least two other occasions.
In another photo posted on Facebook by SJP UH, SJP activist Omar Hussein was featured holding a sign that read: “The IDF is a terrorist organization.” In another photo shared on Facebook by SJP UH that day, Hussein was wearing a hat and holding a sign that read: “MAKE ISRAEL PALESTINE AGAIN.”
SJP UH activists also held signs that read “Zionism is Racism,” while another activist held a sign that read: “IT’S NOT WAR IT’S GENOCIDE.”
SJP Activism
Valentino retweeted a May 22, 2018 tweet that read: “Nikki Haley walked out on the Palestinian rep so we walked out on her #NikkiSidesWithGenocide #FreePalestine.” The tweet featured a video of SJP UH activists who disrupted a speech given by former United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, at UH on May 22, 2018.Mid-speech, Mohammed Fattouh, an SJP UH activist, stood up and shouted [00:00:11] that Haley is “continuing to sign off on the genocide of a native people,” adding “You are an accomplice to terrorists and colonizers.”
Another SJP UH activist led protestors in chanting [00:00:25] “Nikki Nikki can’t you see? You allowed a killing spree” as well as [00:00:33] “Haley Haley you can’t hide, you signed off on genocide!” and [00:00:56] “Nikki Haley you will see, Palestine will be free!”
After law officials escorted them out of the auditorium, SJP UH protestors chanted [00:01:55] “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!”
On that same day,in a video interview with UH student newspaper The Daily Cougar, Fattouh claimed [00:01:19] that Haley signed off “on the genocide of a people.”
On November 2, 2017, Valentino appeared in a photo with SJP UH members Dina Hamadi, Mohammad Abdel-Aziz, Sarah Abdulmooti, Brant Roberts and Mohamad Fattouh at the NSJP 2017 conference.
On October 26, 2017, Valentino attended an NSJP “Prep Rally,” hosted by SJP UH. The rally’s event page said the event was “MANDATORY” for all UH student attendees and volunteers for NSJP 2017.
On October 5, 2017, Valentino attended an NSJP Conference information session ahead of NSJP 2017. The Facebook post announcing the session said: “We'll be introducing the theme of the conference, what exactly goes on, and how you can volunteer.”
On September 23, 2017, Valentino attended an SJP UH event titled “Palestine 101,” led by anti-Israel agitator Mohammed Nabulsi.
On September 14, 2017, Valentino attended SJP UH’s first general body meeting for 2017-2018.
On May 8, 2017, Valentino posed for a photo standing in front of SJP UH’s 2017 mock apartheid wall during the group’s IAW 2017. Text on the wall accused Israel of committing “murder.”
The wall also featured a series of maps purporting to document Palestinian land loss since 1946.
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.
SJP UH - Spreading Anti-Israel Propaganda
UH’s IAW featured a mock apartheid wall, erected on campus. Text on the wall read: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child.” Another piece of text read: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”SJP UH - Supporting Violence
On November 1, 2015, SJP UH shared a post on Facebook promoting demonstrations supporting anti-Israel violence. The rallies, held in both Houston and Austin, were co-organized by SJP UH and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at Austin, TX (PSCAT) and urged: “…Long Live the Resistance! Long Live the Intifada!”October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab scores of Israeli civilians.
On August 18, 2014, SJP UH and UH MSA co-organized an event featuring Sheikh Omar Suleiman. SJP UH’s Facebook announcement billed Suleiman as a “vocal human rights supporter.”
SJP UH - Pushing BDS
On November 1, 2015, SJP UH shared an event on Facebook announcing plans for a UH Divest campaign and new Facebook page. The event aimed to discuss “all potential strategies” to bring BDS to UH. Proposed strategies included:Revamped tabling and silent demonstrations
SJP UH - Spreading Propaganda
On October 1, 2017, SJP UH shared a Facebook post that read: “17 years ago today, 12yr old Muhammad Al-Durra was shot dead on LIVE TV in his father's arms.#Coogs4Palestine #FreePalestine.”
The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, fabricated on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada by a France 2 reporter.
On May 8, 2017, SJP UH organized Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) on UH’s campus. One IAW event featured a mock “apartheid wall” erected on campus. Text on the wall read: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child.” Other text read: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas’ continued deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged gazans to act as human shields, to specifically frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
SJP UH - Supporting Terrorists
On September 5, 2017, SJP UH shared a graphic on Facebook of an image and quote by Leila Khaled.Khaled is a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau.
Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister.
On May 25, 2017, SJP UH rallied behind convicted Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike, by organizing a “symbolic hunger strike” and participating in a Saltwater Challenge. The event organizers wrote on the Facebook event page: “we demand that Israel end its policies of apartheid, colonization, military occupation, displacement, dispossession, and mass incarceration.”
The hunger strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings — and shooting attacks that killed five Israelis during the second Intifada. Barghouti led the the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Barghouti also financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe massacre where 15 civilians were killed and 130 injured.
More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike — most of whom were also convicted for acts of terrorism.
According to CNN , the “Saltwater Challenge” appears to have been started by Aarab Marwan Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti.
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.
SJP UH - Disrupting Campus Events
On November 3, 2017, SJP activists disrupted a lecture by David Horowitz at UH. SJP activists stood up holding a Palestinian flag and a Pan African/Black Liberation flag and yelled [00:07:04] at Horowitz. The protesters began shouting, “Zionists! Off our campus! Racists! Off our campus! Islamophobes! Off our campus!” and walked out of the lecture hall as they continued to chant.The protesters included members of other campus organizations that comprised the Cougar Voice Coalition (CVC), such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), United Muslim Relief (UMR) Houston and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Houston.
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.
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- Houston
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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