Layla Quran
Overview
Layla Quran [Layla K Quran] has spread hatred of Israel, promoted anti-Israel agitators and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.In 2014, Quran was reportedly the President of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of North Carolina (UNC).
As of October 2019, Quran’s LinkedIn page said she was a “Reporter/Associate Producer” at PBS NewsHour, from “August 2019 - Present” in Arlington, Virginia.
Quran’s LinkedIn page also said she received her master’s degree in 2017 from New York University (NYU), in “Near and Middle East Studies, Journalism.” Quran’s LimkedInalso said she received her bachelor’s degree, in 2015, from UNC, in “International Relations, Journalism.”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On May 9, 2019, Quran tweeted: “...the Palestinians in Israel are delegated to second-class status by every means.”On July 13, 2014, Quran tweeted: “She was at the camp playing piano.She was a piano prodigy, I've never heard anything so beautiful. Her blood is cheaper to apartheid Israel.”
On August 7, 2013, Quran tweeted: “EU parliamentarian urges Palestinian intifada http://aje.me/1cuTyJf via @AJEnglish #yallah.”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On March 11, 2012, Quran tweeted: “‘#USWeaponsBombGaza Palestinians are a ‘security threat’ to Israel, Jews were a ‘security threat’ to Hitler. Zionism is Apartheid.’”
On March 7, 2012, Quran tweeted: “And my upmost respect 2 Hana Shalabi on her 22nd day of hunger strike.Imprisoned w/o trial/cause by the Israeli government #hungry4justice.”
Hana Shalabi is reportedly a supporter of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Shalabi was arrested in 2012 for alleged “involvement in planned attacks” by PIJ.
On February 11, 2012, Quran tweeted: “Tomorrow Israeli Politicians and settlers are reportedly storming al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in attempts to topple it to the ground.”
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda served as the excuse for an upsurge in Palestinian violence that flared in the fall of 2015 and incited Palestinians to attempt mass casualty attacks on Israeli civilians in July 2016.. On December 27, 2011, Quran tweeted: “Today is the third anniversary of #OperationCastLead, Israel's massacre on Gaza. I'll never forget where I was.Three years later, #GazaLives.”
Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.
On December 10, 2011, Quran tweeted: “@theDalz There's been an occupation for over 60 years, whether the US sees that or not. #Palestine #Israel #moderndayapartheid.”
On August 31, 2011, Quran tweeted: “I'm #Israel and I tell the world I want peace while bombing the neighborhood park.The park might have had weapons,I couldn't take a chance.”
On August 18, 2011, Quran tweeted: “It takes an entirely different level of monster to kill a child #Israel.”
On August 12, 2011, Quran tweeted: “When the British colonized America we were called revolutionaries, when #Israel occupied #Palestine, we were suddenly terrorists.”
On August 6, 2011, Quran tweeted: “RT ‘@TheJewgro: @LaylaQuran i mean that u claim the jewish lobby is stopping media from reporting the israel protets.’ How is tht offensive?”
On July 21, 2011, Quran tweeted: “If it looks like apartheid and smells like apartheid.....then it's not democracy. #Israel.”
Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators
On February 6, 2015, Quran shared a photo on Facebook of herself with disgraced anti-Israel professor Steven Salaita and wrote: “Steven Salaita selfie! Read what happened to him here.”In a February 26, 2014, Daily Tar Heel article titled: “Poet and activist Remi Kanazi to speak on Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” Quran reportedly said: “We’ve been trying to get him for years now, so we’re really excited he’s coming.”
Poet Remi Kanazi is known for his aggressively anti-Israel spoken-word performances. He has supported terrorism and has compared Israel to both ISIS and the Ku Klux Klan.
Quran reportedly added: “He’s not just a spoken word artist — he’s an activist.”
Supporting BDS
As a graduate student of NYU, Quran signed a letter calling to divest from companies that do business in and with Israel, including Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and G4S.On August 25, 2014, Quran wrote on Facebook: “We are a UNC student group organizing around human rights and justice for Palestinians. We follow the Palestinian Civil Society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel.”
Quran’s Facebook post linked to an SJP UNC-organized Facebook event page, titled: “TONIGHT: UNC Students for Justice in Palestine Fall Interest Meeting.”
In an August 17, 2014 article about an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, appearing in UNC’s student newspaper, , Quran reportedly said: “The academic boycott and any cultural and economic boycott are really important ways to hold Israel accountable when politicians and the media—and really the international community—has failed to do so.”
In September 2014, while Quran was reportedly the president of SJP UNC, the group organized an event, with the stated goal of severing the connections UNC had with institutions and academic programs in Israel, including conferences and study abroad programs.
On June 5, 2013, Quran tweeted: “. @aliciakeys Alicia, cancel your concert n apartheid Israel.The apartheid regime will eventually collapse w/artistic & economic isolation.”
On May 30, 2013, Quran tweeted: “Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is performing in Memorial Hall next April. Can't wait to not attend! #BDS.”
On March 30, 2013, Quran tweeted: “Help get Alicia Keys to cancel gig in apartheid Israel by tweeting at @aliciakeys w/ hashtag #SetTheWorldOnFireTour.”
SJP Activity
On February 27, 2014, while Quran was reportedly the president of SJP UNC, Quran published an article in UNC’s student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, titled: “UNC Israeli Apartheid Week is taking place.”Quran claimed: “Eviction notices are routinely given to Palestinian families living under oppressive Israeli occupation. The goal is to confiscate Palestinian land for Israeli settlements and make life so miserable for Arabs that they have no choice but to eventually leave their land and homes.”
Quran also said: “The U.S. has provided over $200 billion in military funding to Israel over the past six decades, and all that we seem to have gotten from it is this apartheid system.”
Quran concluded: “Use the hashtag #UNCMockeviction to let us hear your thoughts on the mock eviction notice, and please come out to the events for UNC Israeli Apartheid Week next week!”
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
Facebook: www.facebook.com/100000200816282Twitter: https://twitter.com/laylak_q
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/laylaquran/
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- North-Carolina-Chapel-Hill,
- more...
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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