Luca Rubinstein
Overview
Luca Rubinstein has demonized Israel and disrupted a pro-Israel speaker as a member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL). SAIA is a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), employing an alternative name.As of October 2018, Rubinstein’s LinkedIn page said she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Fashion/Apparel Design at WUSTL, slated to graduate in 2019.
Demonizing Israel
In a November 1, 2018 interview with WUSTL’s Student Life newspaper, Rubinstein claimed that Israel “forcibly deports people for not looking the right way, for not being the right kind of Jewish, for being too brown, for not being religious enough, for opposing Israel in any way.”Disrupting Israeli Speaker
On October 29, 2018, Rubinstein and three other SAIA members disrupted a talk by pro-Israel speaker Hen Mazzig on the WUSTL campus. Mazzig’s talk was hosted by WUSTL Hillel, St. Louis Friends of Israel and Washington University Students for Israel.Mazzig’s talk reportedly centered on his experience of being a gay person of color who is also pro-Israel. He is of Iraqi and Tunisian background and served as an openly gay commander in the Israeli Defense Forces.
The SAIA activists shouted down Mazzig, with chants of “no pride in apartheid,” then walked out.
SAIA’s verbal assault on Mazzig came two days after a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, by a White Supremacist, which resulted in 11 deaths and seven injuries. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
WUSTL Chancellor Mark Wrighton reportedly released an email statement to the Washington University student body on October 27, 2018, acknowledging the killing as a “calculated, anti-Semitic attack driven by hate.”
On October 30, 2018, SAIA posted a defense of the disruption on its Facebook page writing: “Our protesting of Hen Mazzig’s zionist apology falls in line with our fight against the white supremacy that israel’s apartheid regime produces.”
SAIA’s post continued: “Anyone who attempts to glorify the IDF or the state to which it belongs is complicit with its atrocities. We condemn Hen Mazzig’s co-optation of queerness to cater to an apartheid regime, and recognize that identifying as a person of color does not dissolve his complicity in israel’s genocidal violence.
On October 30, 2018, Rubinstein defended SAIA’s post, commenting on Facebook: “...we simply condemn Hen Mazzig's usage of his queer identity to support apartheid.”
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100002916489633Twitter: https://twitter.com/prismatic_void
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/prismatic_void/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-rubinstein-49525a159/
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- WUSTL
- Organizations:
- SAIA (SJP)
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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