Lana Al-Tamim

SJP OSU Expressing Support for Terrorists

On August 12, 2022, while Al-Tamim served as the SJP OSU secretary, she attended [slide 8] an SJP OSU event titled: “EMERGENCY RALLY & CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL / In Honor of our Martyrs.” One of the martyrs listed was 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.

Tariq Qasem, then the SJP OSU fundraising chair, chanted [slide 9, 00:00:01] at the event: “From Columbus to Gaza, globalize the 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.

At the same event, the SJP OSU co-president reportedly called the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) the “Israeli Occupation Forces.” He also referred to Israel as “settler colonialist aggressors.”

“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory name for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army.  

One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by claiming that Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel.  

SJP OSU Spreading Hatred of Israel & Promoting BDS

On March 3, 2023, while Al-Tamim served as secretary of SJP OSU, the group hosted a series of events called: “Apartheid Week.” SJP OSU posted on Facebook: “During Israeli Apartheid Week, we hope to raise awareness of Israel’s brutal system of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and ethnic cleansing.”

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The IAW schedule included a session called “Israeli Aparthied 101” which discussed “how Israel enforces an apartheid system on Palestinians and how the West has for decades green lit the occupation and the apartheid regime.”

Another session discussed: “...BDS: No Appetite for Aparthied, we will be discussing food and beverage companies that are directly and implicitly involved in violating Palestinian rights.”

SJP OSU also posted on Facebook: “Thursday- Stop by the Oval to see our display of a mock Israeli Apartheid Wall, a reflection of the existing Apartheid Wall 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.

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