Lila Sharif
Overview
Lila Sharif [Lila Adib Sharif] has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, promoted incitement and expressed support for terrorists. She has also celebrated intifada, demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.Sharif was affiliated [00:03:27] with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (SJP UIUC). Sharif was a featured speaker at the SJP’s annual “Palestine 101” seminars in between 2016 and 2020 while she was a professor at UIUC.
As of February 2019, Sharif was a member of the Facebook group for the General Union of Palestinian Students, the SJP chapter at San Francisco State University (SFSU).
In November 2018, Sharif attended the 2018 National SJP conference.
As of October 2023, Sharif was an assistant professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University’s (ASU) School of Social Transformation (SST).
As of the same date, Sharif was a member of Facebook groups for two chapters of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).
Sharif received a PhD in sociology and ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2014. She graduated from UCSD with a master’s degree in sociology in 2008.
As of October 2023, Sharif was listed as a co-founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, and a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.
As of July 2024, Sharif’s Facebook page said she was located in Tempe, Arizona.
As of the same date, Sharif went by the handle “Lay La” on Facebook.
Spreading Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On March 21, 2022, Sharif was a featured speaker at an SJP UIUC event titled: “Palestine 101,” where she claimed [00:13:12] that “for strategic reasons, historic Palestine became the place that the Jews were going to establish a homeland, an exclusive homeland, on the native population.”On July 24, 2017, Sharif commented on a Facebook post: “the israel of the Bible (Judea and Samaria, home of the Israelite tribe, indigenous canaanites, etc etc) is not related to the settler colonial apartheid state of Israel. The latter is a state formed in 1948 by European colonizers by hijacking the Jewish religion to consolidate a makeshift national identity…”
One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is to claim [00:06:46] that Jews, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, do not descend from the ancient Israelites. This claim alleges that Jews are white Europeans who lack a connection to the Land of Israel. The Khazar myth is a common version of this claim which is used to delegitimize [00:02:16] the existence of the modern State of Israel.
Promoting Incitement
On June 18, 2021, Sharif co-authored an article published in The New Arab, titled: “This Juneteenth, we honour Black and Palestinian liberation as one.”In the article, Sharif wrote: “Juneteenth 2021 comes on the heels of a violent raid in Gaza…These attacks followed the racist, colonial and armed expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and Israel’s raid on Palestinian worshippers in the Al-Aqsa mosque….”
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.
On May 17, 2021, Sharif shared on Facebook a poster promoting an event titled: “DAY OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING AND STRIKE.”
Support for Terrorists
On October 19, 2017, Sharif shared a Facebook post from Electronic Intifada (EI) supporting Khalida Jarrar.On August 11, 2017, Sharif shared a Facebook post about a farewell event for Rasmea Odeh and wrote: “Excited to attend this event tomorrow in Chicago. Join me!”
Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
On March 3, 2016, Sharif shared on Facebook a link to a PYM scholarship named after PFLP spokesman Ghassan Kanafani.
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On October 16, 2015, Sharif shared a Facebook post in support of PFLP Secretary General Ahmad Sa’adat.
Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is in an Israeli prison for terror activities, including his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
On October 5, 2015, Sharif shared a Facebook post with a link to an article defending terrorist Fadi Aloon.
Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
Celebrating Intifada (Violent Uprising)
On March 15, 2022, a video was posted to YouTube featuring Sharif speaking at an SJP UIUC event titled: “Palestine 101,” where she said [00:09:48]: “I will highlight a couple of key sort of moments and one of them is a 1987 to 1993 intifada or uprising…And the idea was that we had to sort of shake up this occupation…”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.
Sharif further stated [00:10:50]: “When we say ‘non-violent’ in the media, often times that means that there are a lot of brutalities. We just don’t breathe over them. And, unfortunately, in this peaceful intifada we see 1,200 Palestinians’ lives perished.”
Sharif was a featured speaker at SJP’s annual “Palestine 101” seminars in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020.
Demonizing Israel
On May 18, 2021, Sharif shared on Facebook a statement from the UIUC Department of Asian American Studies made during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas, which accused Israel of “ongoing seventy-three years of settler colonial violence against Palestine and the Palestinian people.”The statement also said: “As a department focused on the critical study of settler colonialism, racism, and empire, we condemn Israel’s ongoing settler colonialism of Palestine and brutal militarized violence on the Palestinian people. We view this latest upsurge in violence as part of the ongoing process of the militarized settler colonialism of Palestine and Palestinians.”
In 2021, Sharif signed [no. 3637] a “Pledge that Palestine is a Feminist Issue,” sponsored by the Palestinian Feminist Collective. The pledge called Israel a “Zionist settler colonial project,” promoted the “right of return” and claimed that Palestinians continued to face an “enduring Nakba.”
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.
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
On July 3, 2020, Sharif was featured on “The Roundtable Perspective” podcast. Referring to the “Deadly Exchange” campaign, she said [00:23:08]: “The police department, which was trained by Israel, was using ammunition, including tear gas, bullets, etc., on the residents that were protesting in honor of Mike Brown’s murder…”
In 2017, anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) launched the “Deadly Exchange (DX)” campaign, which accused American Jewish organizations of promoting human rights abuses. JVP also released a video that blamed [00:04:04] U.S.-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.
Michael Brown was an 18-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Brown’s killing was one of several incidents which led to nationwide protests against police brutality across the U.S. and galvanized the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
On May 31, 2017, Sharif was interviewed on a podcast titled “Imagine Otherwise.” During the interview, she said [00:09:52]: “When we think about Palestine, we think about checkpoints, we think about watchtowers, we think about an apartheid wall .”
Israeli checkpoints were built to prevent terror attacks, such as suicide bombings, against Israel's civilian population.
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Attending the National SJP 2018 Conference
Sharif indicated on Facebook that she “attended” the 2018 National SJP (NJSP) Conference.On November 10, 2018, Sharif wrote on Facebook: “National Students for Justice in Palestine conference at UCLA next weekend...Please come and show your support, attend...and learn how to mobilize beyond divestment.”
That same day, Sharif shared a fundraiser on Facebook titled: “UCLA 2018- National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference.” She wrote: “Please consider attending the conference and/or donating toward the effort!”The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
SJP UIUC Chapter Overview
SJP UIUC has a history of hate-filled anti-Israel protests on campus, including in April 2022 when someone threw a rock at Jewish students. SJP UIUC leads an annual anti-Israel divestment campaign where other anti-Semitic incidents have occurred.In November 2020, SJP UIUC featured [pp. 3-8] prominently as a source of anti-Semitism on campus in a civil rights legal complaint filed against UIUC.
SJP UIUC speakers show support for terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists and Israel. Speakers use chants that call for Israel’s destruction and other chants for “intifada,” which is a call for violence.
SJP UIUC - Creating a Hostile Campus Environment 2015-2020
In October 2020, SJP UIUC was cited [pp. 3-8] in six different incidents in a civil rights legal complaint against UIUC documenting anti-Semitic incidents on campus as early as 2015. Jewish groups filed the complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The complaint said [p.12]: “UIUC has also failed to combat anti-Semitism as vigorously as it has combated other forms of bigotry on its campus prohibited by Title VI.”
One cited incident [p.4] was from 2019 when SJP UIUC members and supporters approached pro-Israel students. At least one SJP supporter spat on a pro-Israel student. Other Israel supporters were called “Nazi” and “white supremacist” and were told they had “dual loyalty” since they were “not a true citizen of the United States.”
SJP UIUC - Hatred of Israel 2020-2021
On November 18, 2020, SJP UIUC wrote on Facebook that Zionists “advocate for white supremacy and racism,” and that Zionism was a “racist ideology.” The post also said: “The Zionist state in Palestine has carried out and continues a massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”On May 10, 2021, SJP UIUC hosted an anti-Israel protest where protesters chanted [00:03:25]: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” They also chanted [00:27:31]: “Stop the killing, stop the hate! Israel is a terror state!”
SJP UIUC - Supporting Terrorists 2019-2020
On November 15, 2019, SJP UIUC held a protest where Sarah El Zayyat, then an SJP UIUC member, read [00:18:57] names from a list of “martyrs.” One of the names she read was Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander in Gaza targeted by Israel in an airstrike who was reportedly planning terror attacks.In November 2019, Israel launched “Operation Black Belt” to stop rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. The rockets were sent by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group on November 12-14, 2019, targeting Israel’s biggest civilian population centers.
At the rally, an activist held [00:00:46] an Israeli flag defaced with the text “GENO
CIDE” and red handprints meant to signify blood.SJP UIUC protest was titled: “EMERGENCY RALLY: #GazaUnderAttack.” The Facebook event page said: “In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes have killed over 32 Palestinians and injured over 100 in the last 24 hours. Come stand with us in solidarity against Israel's continual genocide and violation of Palestinian human rights.”
SJP UIUC BDS Activities
During the 2019-2020 academic year, SJP UIUC launched a BDS campaign by authoring a student government resolution asking the university to divest funds from companies that are either based in Israel or do business in Israel.In February 2020, SJP UIUC created the group UIUC Divest to promote BDS on campus and present BDS as an intersectional effort from different campus advocacy groups. In that academic year and each year since then, SJP UIUC or individual SJP UIUC board members authored a divestment resolution.
SJP UIUC BDS Activities - 2019-2020
On February 5, 2020, former SJP UIUC presidents Buthaina Hattab and Dunia Ghanimah, as well as then president Ahlam Khatib, collectively authored an Illinois Student Government (ISG) anti-Israel divestment Resolution 03.61, titled: “Violations of Human Rights in University Investments.”On February 12, 2020, a female Jewish student spoke [01:56:58] at an ISG meeting held to discuss the divestment resolution, to discuss an incident where someone held a sign that said [p. 7]: “F**K NAZIS SUPPORT PALESTINIANS.”
The female Jewish student said that she attended an ISG meeting during the fall semester that addressed a separate anti-Israel resolution. She said [01:56:58]: “When I walked into the room I was confronted by a huge sign held up by SJP that said ‘F**k Nazis’. They called us Nazis!”
Somone in the crowd then shouted [01:57:07] at the same female Jewish student: “They’re right!”
On February 15, 2020, UIUC Divest tweeted: “...UIUC Divest passes 20-9-7! ISG resolution 03.61 “Violation of Human Rights in University Investments” calls on UIUC to divest from corporations that engage in human rights abuses including Israeli war crimes in Palestine.
#UIUCDivest.”On February 17, 2020, UIUC Divest tweeted a letter signed by SJP UIUC criticizing the ISG President Connor Josellis for vetoing the resolution one day earlier.
On February 19, 2020, Josellis said [00:37:31] that he vetoed the resolution because of “a level of hate that I have not previously seen firsthand and on behalf of the student government, I condemn any hateful rhetoric that led to students feeling unsafe in this environment.”
SJP UIUC - BDS Activities 2020-2021
On September 23, 2020, UIUC’s student government voted [03:31:41] during a live streamed ISG meeting in favor of a BDS resolution titled: “RES.04.22 Human Rights Violations in University Investments and Police Forces.” Former SJP UIUC presidents Sofia Sinnokrot and Buthaina Hattab authored the resolution.SJP UIUC’s statement on the vote claimed that “both the BDS and the BLM [Black Lives Matter] movement resist the fundamental racism that Israeli and American entities need to survive.”
During the live stream, Sophia Giakas Ayesh, a former SJP UIUC activist, commented [02:36:58]: “Honestly bruh, Zionism is a political agenda that’s racist and supports genocide so bye.”
Zionism is defined as the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, Israel, and the right to develop their national culture
SJP UIUC - BDS Campaign 2021-2022
On February 7, 2022, SJP UIUC launched a divestment campaign to get the UIUC student body to vote on an anti-Israel divestment measure via a referendum in March 2022.On February 14, 2022, SJP UIUC authored a “revised resolution” titled: “Human Rights Violations in University Investments.” SJP UIUC called on the Illinois Student Government (ISG) to approve a “referendum question” for that spring’s student government ballot.
The question that SJP UIUC wanted students to vote on said: “Should the University of Illinois divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from or engage in human rights violations in US Prisons, at the US-Mexico Border, and in Occupied Palestine?”
On Februrary 23, 2022, ISG held a meeting to address the possibility of the question being posed to the student body.
Malaak Yehya, a former SJP executive board member, said [00:05:23] at the meeting: “The question of Palestine and what is going on in Palestine is so simple and is nothing new. It is an ongoing struggle against colonialism, it is ethnic cleansing on display.”
On February 23, 2022, the ISG Senate reportedly passed the bill with a vote of 17 to 14 and two abstentions.
On March 9, 2022 the ISG Judiciary reportedly nullified the resolution due to three violations of the ISG Constitution, including that it passed using a secret ballot. The question was excluded from the ballot of the 2022 student senate election.
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.
PYM
In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”
PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”
On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”
On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
GUPS
The General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) is the only GUPS chapter operating in the United States. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an offshoot of GUPS.
GUPS is an international organization, initially administered by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). PLO leader Yasser Arafat officially founded GUPS in Cairo in 1959. GUPS was founded at SFSU in 1973.
GUPS has reportedly describedits overall goal as organizing student activists to achieve justice and freedom for the Palestinian people. To this end, GUPS formed an umbrella organization for Palestinian student groups and to form alliances with non-Palestinian groups.
GUPS’s focus, however, is almost entirely on its anti-Israel campaigns, which have included harassment, anti-Semitic libels, celebrating violence and glorifying terrorists. GUPS members have also intimidated pro-Israel students, shut down pro-Israel events, supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and held “Israeli Apartheid” events. The group has also held "die-ins,"rallies and protests.
SFSU graduate and GUPS activist Hatem Bazian created SJP while working as a professor at UC Berkeley in 2001.
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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