Leen Dweik
Overview
Leen Dweik [Leen Mahmood] celebrated Hamas terrorism on October 7, 2023. She has also called for Israel’s destruction, expressed support for terrorists, spread hatred of Israelis, Israel, and Zionists, expressed support for violent protests and promoted bigotry after confronting Chelsea Clinton.As of January 2024, Dweik was affiliated with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and The People’s Forum.
In 2018-2019, Dweik served as the president of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at New York University (NYU SJP). In October 2018, she posted a fundraiser on Twitter for her to attend the National SJP Conference in California. In 2017-2018, Dweik was an organizer for NYU SJP.
Dweik co-authored and proposed a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution to the Student Government Assembly (SGA) at NYU in 2018. In March 2019, she served as an Alternate Senator-at-Large for Middle Eastern and North African Students and Documented Non-citizen Students.
In March 2019, Dweik was affiliated with the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) when she spread hatred of a Jewish heritage trip to Israel.
In May 2019, Dweik indicated on Instagram that she graduated from NYU, which is located in New York, New York.
As of February 2024, Dweik used the name “Lee Queen” on Facebook.
Celebrating Hamas Terrorism on October 7, 2023
On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas murdered 1,200 Israeli Jews, Dweik tweeted: “see the thing is we are going to win. you cannot kill the palestinian spirit, you cannot kill our steadfastness. resistance will never stop.”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 and encourage 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.
Also on October 7, 2023, referring to the naval blockade of Gaza, Dweik tweeted: “gaza is destroying the prison walls israel built and sustained for decades.”
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Calling for Israel’s Destruction
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.
On August 29, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “people who don't support the abolition of the state of isr*el........... wyd [what you doing].”
On April 24, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “a zionist on campus said that the time when all the bds/tel aviv resolution stuff was happening was the ‘worst week of [her] life’ like lmao sis just wait until we dismantle the entire state of israel.”
Support for Terrorists
On November 3, 2024, Dweik posted on X: “zionists cannot comprehend that [Yahya] sinwar fighting to his dying breath, starving alongside his people, makes him even more heroic.”Yahya (Yehiya) Sinwar masterminded the October 7, 2023 terror attacks on Israel and had been a Hamas leader since the 1980s. Sinwar was nicknamed the “Butcher of Khan Younis” after he admitted to killing 12 suspected Palestinian “collaborators,” and was sentenced to four life terms in Israeli prison for crimes including the killing of two Israeli soldiers.
On October 18, 2024, Dweik posted on X: “yahya sinwar is a hero who was killed while fighting for liberation. may he rest in peace and power. resistance never dies.”
Hatred of Israelis, Israel and Zionists
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On October 17, 2023, the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fired rockets at Israel from Gaza, one of which misfired and fell on the parking lot of the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital. Initial media reports blamed Israel. Following the incident, U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib immediately accused the Biden administration of funding Israel’s “genocide” of Palestinian people.
On October 16, 2023, Dweik tweeted: “can y’all please get it through your skulls that even if every single person in gaza voted for hamas in an election TODAY that it still would not excuse genocide.”
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks. In several cases, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike. In a March 2024 poll, 71% of Gazans supported the terror attacks, up from 57% in December 2023. Among the Palestinian respondents in the West Bank, 71% supported the attacks, down from 82% in December 2023.
On March 20, 2020, Dweik reportedly shared a tweet about the first person in Israel who died from the coronavirus, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor. In response, she tweeted: “anyway should I paint my nails red or green today,” a reference to two of the four colors of the Palestinian flag.
On May 9, 2019, Dweik participated [00:02:53] in an NYU SJP “die-in” next to Realize Israel’s annual celebration of Israeli Independence Day. Dweik posted a photo of herself at the event a day later on Instagram and commented: “skipped the first hour of my last ever class of undergrad today to protest the celebration of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.... the nakba is ongoing, and we will not be complacent…” She concluded her post by calling zionists “racist pieces of sh*t. long live palestine.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On March 15, 2019, Dweik tweeted: “THIS IS CLASSIC IDF PROPAGANDA!!! framing the attack as an assault on terror is a way to justify indiscriminate destruction and killing of palestinians. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR BOMBING DENSELY POPULATED AREAS.”
Dweik’s tweet embedded a tweet from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that said: “We have just started striking terror sites in Gaza. Details to follow.”
On March 6, 2019, Dweik tweeted: “to be clear: there is more to criticize about israel than just [prime minister Benjamin] netanyahu’s government. it’s a settler-colonial project whose *explicit* purpose is to disenfranchise native palestinians & create an ethnoreligious state. israel’s right doesn’t sugarcoat that the way its liberals do.”
On March 1, 2019, Dweik tweeted: “f**k israel x1000000.”
On November 14, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “zionists are so exhausting.”
In the same November 14, 2018 thread, Dweik tweeted: “y'all steal our land, bomb our cities, murder our people, confine and separate us, limit our movement, install an apartheid regime, steal our resources, burn our crops, then go around with bulls**t talking points trying to justify ethnic cleansing...”
On August 18, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “zionists love to play this bulls**t game of discrediting bds by shouting ‘target the politicians only’ as if they aren't clamoring for sanctions against iran.”
On July 9, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “hi plz stop buying gushers/fruit roll ups/fruit by the foot they are made by a company that profits off israel's occupation of palestine xoxo.”
On July 1, 2018,Dweik tweeted: “wOw!!!!! women kill children and commit ethnic cleansing too
now that's what i call femnism!!!!!” Dweik’s tweet embedded a tweet about “the first four female #IDF tank commanders.”On June 16, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “bds extends to not rting tweets from zionists.”
On June 11, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “hate to be that person (lol no i don't) but if u go to israel for fun ur complicit in apartheid.”
On May 30, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “F**K israel f**k the occupation forces f**k zionists and f**k anyone who supports this pathetic excuse of a nation you are all complicit in ethnic cleansing and war crimes.”
On April 10, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “my fave thing is when zionists try to discredit bds by being like, ‘bds supporters don't think israel has a right to exist!’ like lmfao yeah what's ur point.”
On April 9, 2018, Dweik commented on an NYU SJP Facebook post: “lmao who said israel has a right to exist tho.”
Dweik also commented: “Any and all violence committed by the oppressed in service of liberation against the oppressor is justified...Israel is the true terror state, and it is seeking to slowly wipe out an entire group of people so it can take over their land.”
Dweik continued: “No matter what Palestinian leadership is, it is Israel who is at fault. This is still an issue of occupation, no matter who is at the helm of Palestinian government.”
Support for Violent Protests
On May 14, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “my heart hurts for all the gazans murdered so far in the #greatreturnmarch and the many more who will inevitably be killed by the zionist occupation forces before the day ends.”On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
Also on May 14, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “there is no justification for shooting protestors. none. not hamas, not stones, not kites, nothing. may the martyrs rest in peace. #GreatReturnMarch.”
Dweik indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event co-sponsored by NYU SJP titled: “Emergency Rally:Solidarity with Gaza #GreatMarchofReturn” on March 30, 2018.
The event’s description said: “Join us...in solidarity with Gaza and the 12 that were martyred today as part of the Great March of return, a 45 day protest demanding the right of return ...What is happening right now in Gaza is nothing short of a massacre.”
Most of the Gazans who died between March 30 and April 6, 2018, were identified as terror operatives who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks, rioting against IDF forces or attempting to breach the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
3/15/19 - Promoting Bigotry & Confrontating Chelsea Clinton
On March 15, 2019, Dweik confronted former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton at an NYU vigil held for victims of a terrorist attack in New Zealand earlier that day. Also that day, Dweik claimed it was “CAUCASITY” for Clinton to attend the vigil.“Caucasity” can be defined as “the audacity of white people. Meaning, the willingness to take bold risks only white people feel safe doing.”
Clinton was invited to attend the vigil due to her founding role in NYU’s multifaith organization, Of Many Institute.
After the vigil, Dweik approached Clinton and blamed her for inciting the New Zealand terrorist attack. Dweik accused [00:00:13] Clinton by claiming the deaths commemorated at the vigil were “the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words that you put out into the world.”
Rose Asaf, a fellow NYU SJP activist, videotaped the incident and posted it on Twitter.
Dweik, pointing at Clinton, said [00:00:21]: “I want you to know that and I want you to feel that deep inside. Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put out there.”
Later that day, Dweik tweeted: “the CAUCASITY that chelsea clinton has showing up to a vigil for the 49 muslims massacred in an islamophobic hate crime after STOKING ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM surrounding [congresswoman] ilhan omar.... f**king ridiculous.”
Also on March 15, 2019, Dweik tweeted: “i was on the verge of tears all day today and actually cried on my into and during prayer but the charade of a vigil where more non-muslims than muslims spoke and chelsea clinton was invited made me so viscerally angry and i will not apologize for that.”
On March 16, 2019, Dweik tweeted: “i didn’t corner chelsea clinton, i didn’t approach her with anyone else, i didn’t ask people to record me. the confrontation wasn’t planned, though i was going to disrupt her if she spoke and say the same things that i said to her face.”
Also on March 16, 2019, Dweik and Asaf wrote an editorial for Buzzfeed News and said they were “shocked” by Clinton’s presence at the vigil due to Clinton’s condemnation of controversial comments made by Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar several weeks earlier, which many condemned as anti-Semitic.
Ilhan Omar was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2018. In February 2019, top Congressional leaders denounced Omar for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks.
Asaf and Dweik also said in their Buzzfeed editorial: “Just weeks before this tragedy, we bore witness to a bigoted, anti-Muslim mob coming after Rep. Ilhan Omar for speaking the truth about the massive influence of the Israel lobby in this country.”
They also said: “Chelsea hurt our fight against white supremacy when she stood by the petty weaponizers of antisemitism.” They also said: “We want you to know that it is dangerous to label valid criticisms of Israel and its lobby as anti-Semitic.”
The “Israel Lobby” is a conspiracy theory alleging Israeli and Jewish control over the U.S. government. Proponents of the theory decry the negative effects on American interests, particularly in foreign policy.
Asaf and Dweik addressed Clinton directly in the editorial: “We hope that our intentions in confronting you are now clear. We believe that you still owe an apology: not only to Rep. Omar, but also to Palestinians for using your platform to defame their cause.”
11/1/2018 - Co-Authoring a BDS Resolution at NYU
On November 1, 2018, along with fellow NYU SJP activists Rose Asaf and Bayan Abubakr, Dweik co-authored and proposed a divestment resolution to the NYU Student Government.The resolution titled: “Resolution on the Human Rights of Palestinians” demonized Israel as practicing apartheid and invoked the “threefold” goals of the BDS movement, including “ending Israel’s occupation and colonization of all Arab lands.”
The authors also listed claims of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the allegation that “Israeli air strikes also carried out ‘deliberate and premeditated attacks on civilian infrastructure... according to a UN report.”
Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored the report, expressed “regrets about his report” and retracted its central thesis.
In an October 12, 2018 interview with NYU News, Asaf explained: “A lot of the times at other universities, they’ll try to separate it from the BDS movement and say this is just divestment. We are explicitly saying that this is a result of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.”
Dweik later reportedly clarified that “it is a divestment bill, not a boycott bill.”
During her presentation of the BDS resolution to the SGA, Dweik accused [00:04:21] NYU of violating its ethical code of conduct by “investing in the destruction of Palestinian communities.”
Dweik also accused [00:10:25] Israel of “deliberate and premeditated” attacks on Palestinians during Operation Cast Lead (OCL).
Israel commenced Operations Cast Lead (OCL), Pillar of Defense (OPD) and Protective Edge (OPE) in 2008-09, 2012 and 2014, respectively, in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians.
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.
The BDS measure was passed by the SGA on December 6, 2018, using a secret ballot.
12/3/2017 - Protesting Against a Jewish Heritage Trip
Dweik helped lead the JVP co-sponsored event titled: “Boycott Birthright: Protest Birthright Gala & Sheldon Adelson” on December 3, 2017, outside the Birthright offices in New York City.The event’s Facebook description said: “Birthright...serves an agenda of racism and exclusion championed by the Israeli government and out-of-touch donors like Adelson...We know that, after 50 years of occupation and 70 years since the Nakba, there’s nothing to celebrate.”
Dweik was later featured [00:00:47] in a JVP video about the event.
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
Dweik chanted [00:00:57] anti-Birthright slogans with protestors outside the Birthright offices.
In September of 2017, JVP issued its #ReturntheBirthright campaign manifesto, calling on American Jews to boycott the Birthright Israel (Birthright) program. Birthright was founded by Jewish philanthropists “in 1999 to address the growing divide between young Diaspora Jewish adults and the land and people of Israel.”
Anti-Israel Activism (SJP, BDS)
Dweik indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an event sponsored by NYU SJP and NYU JVP, titled: “Rally for Palestinian Right of Return,” on April 27, 2018.The event’s Facebook description said: “Zionists at NYU celebrate 70 years of Israel's existence...We refuse to let such a disturbing public celebration of colonialism and apartheid on our campus and in our park go by without a response.”
Two activists were reportedly arrested and “charged with reckless endangerment, assault.” One activist [00:00:41] grabbed a microphone and an Israeli flag out of the hands of a student participating in the event celebrating Israel’s independence.
Dweik indicated on Facebook that she went to NYU SJP and SYU JVP’s event titled:“NYU Israel Apartheid Week 2018” (IAW) held from April 15-21.
The event’s Facebook description said: “This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’...IAW will be an opportunity to...further advance BDS campaigns.”
On April 9, 2018, Dweik tweeted: “to all those who said we couldn't make bds on campus happen:”
Dweik‘s tweet embedded a tweet from Asaf that said: “NYU Jewish Voice for Peace & Students for Justice in Palestine announce a coalition of 50 on-campus clubs who pledge to support BDS; they won't work with pro-Israel group or spend university funds on Israeli goods, and they support university divestment.”
Dweik also indicated on Facebook that she “went” to IAW at NYU in 2017.
Zochrot, is an NGO in Israel that calls for the right of return for Palestinian refugees and promotes that idea “that peace will come only after the country has been decolonized.”
A Mondoweiss article published on April 11, 2017, quoted Dweik when reporting favorably on the disruption of a keynote address of Israeli Ambassador Ido Aharoni, during a Brand Israel conference at NYU.
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 Student 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.
JVP
JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.”
JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish values.”
The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”
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