Khalid Dada
Overview
Also in 2022, Dada co-authored a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution at OSU.
As of October 2022, Dada was listed on OSU’s website as a “Senator” in the Undergraduate Student Government (OSU USG) for the 2022-2023 academic year. He was reportedly the “Deputy Director of Justice & Equity” in the OSU USG.
In a September 2022 Instagram post, SJP OSU announced that Dada would be its 2022-2023 co-president.
As of the same date, he was listed as president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at OSU (MSA OSU). He was also MSA OSU co-president in 2021.
As of July 2023, Dada’s LinkedIn said he had served as an outreach intern for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio) from June 2021 to April 2023. He served at CAIR’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C., as an operations intern from May to August 2022.
Also as of July 2023, Dada’s LinkedIn profile said he had served as secretary of the Hidayah Institute since January 2019, an organization he co-founded.
As of July 2023, Dada’s LinkedIn also said he had served as a part-time youth coordinator for the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, Ohio’s largest mosque, from June 2019 to April 2023, in Dublin, Ohio.
Also as of July 2023, Dada’s LinkedIn said he graduated from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in public management, leadership and policy in May 2023. His LinkedIn also said he was “pursuing a Juris Doctor Degree” from the Indiana University (IU) Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
As of July 2023, Dada’s LinkedIn said he was located in Dublin, Ohio.
Supporting Terrorists (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
On August 12, 2022, Dada spoke [slide 3] at an SJP OSU event titled: “EMERGENCY RALLY & CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL,” held “in Honor” of terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi.Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, a “commander” of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was known as “the lion of Nablus.” On August 9, 2022, he was killed [p. 5] in a gun battle with Israeli forces. The Brigade is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department.
Also killed in the fighting were Islam Soboukh and Hussein Taha, two other reported members of the Brigade. They all died after opening fire on Israeli troops who attempted to arrest Al-Nabulsi.
Also on August 12, 2022, the OSU student newspaper The Lantern published an article about the event and quoted Dada referring to Al-Nabulsi as a “resistance leader.” In the article, Dada was also quoted as saying: “SJP hopes their support reaches beyond Ohio State to the people of Palestine…”
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is the armed wing of Fatah, the main group in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The Brigade has been listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department since March 2002 and was responsible for multiple suicide bombings [00:13:37] during the second intifada, in 2002-2004.
Anti-Israel Activism (SJP, BDS)
Dada reportedly “worked closely” with the “lead sponsor,” student senator Rama Naboulsi, to write SJP OSU’s 2022 BDS resolution.The BDS resolution [54-R-39] called on OSU to divest from Caterpillar Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, claiming that these companies “aid in upholding a system of apartheid and oppression within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
SJP OSU also claimed [slide 2]: “Our single demand outlined within the resolution is modest: support the Palestinian people by withdrawing investments from companies responsible for their oppression and genocide.”
On March 30, 2022, OSU USG held a General Assembly meeting where students spoke for and against SJP OSU’s proposed BDS “emergency resolution.”
On April 6, 2022, the resolution was reportedly voted on “by a secret ballot at 10:23 p.m. — 22 minutes before the building closed” and passed [slide 2] with “two abstentions, eight no’s and 14 yeses [sic].”
Following the vote, Dada was quoted in an April 7, 2022 article by The Lantern saying: “Our plan is to go and raise this resolution to University Senate; that’s kind of where our head is at…” He also said that his “focus right now is working with the administration to figure out what’s next.”
According to an April 12, 2022 article published by The Lantern, the resolution was reportedly left “unsigned” and was therefore not “enacted since former President Jacob Chang did not sign it before his administration’s term ended…”
In an April 13, 2022 article published by The Lantern, Dada reportedly said “Palestinian students will continue their advocacy for divestment…”
On April 22, 2022, Dada spoke [slide 4] at an SJP OSU rally titled: “Columbus Protest.” The event flier read: “OHIO STATE TO FURTHER SUPPORT RESOLUTION 54-R-39 & DIVEST FROM COMPANIES COMPLICIT IN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PALESTINE…” One of the protesters held [slide 3] a sign that said: “We talk about the holocaust that happened 80 years ago But not the one that’s happening TODAY.”
Also on April 22, 2022,Dada shared [slide 8] to his Instagram Highlight called: “Free
” of himself and SJP OSU co-president, Daoud Al-Ahkras at the event, standing together in front of the crowd. Al-Ahkras held a megaphone and chanted: “FREE FREE SHEIKH JARRAH.”In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The April 22, 2022 rally reportedly started outside the Ohio Union before moving inside the building, where protestors “occupied the building for about 45 minutes as they sat, chanted and listened to speeches.”
Protestors also reportedly attempted to enter OSU’s Bricker Hall. However, “the doors were locked” so they continued to chant outside the building. OSU spokesman Chris Booker said: “Public Safety and OSUPD [OSU Police Division] determined the size of the crowd would overwhelm the lobby of Bricker Hall, posing a safety risk to the assembled demonstrators and the building occupants and made the decision to lock the door.”
On April 22, 2022, Dada posted [slide 9] another video clip to his Instagram Highlight called “Free
”featuring himself saying: “Lindsay from the office of the president kicking us out the building” and captioned the video: “osu scareddddd 
ANWAY FREE PALESTINE 
.”On April 23, 2022, an Instagram user posted a series of photos from the event whichfeatured [slide 4] a photo of Dada speaking through a megaphone.
Dada also featured [slide 4] in an April 24, 2022 Instagram photo from the event, standing on the steps inside a building and speaking through a megaphone.
In an August 12, 2022 article published by The Lantern about the SJP OSU vigil for the terrorist Al-Nabulsi, Dada was quoted as saying: “since the resolution was passed but never enacted, SJP hopes to educate students on the events in Palestine and hold the university accountable…”
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.
MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
CAIR
CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.
CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.
Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.
In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.
CAIR was also listed as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.
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.
