Mahmoud Al-Thabata

Overview

Mahmoud Al-Thabata is an anti-Israel campus organizer who spread hatred of Israel during its war against Hamas terrorists in February 2024.

As of the same date, Al-Thabata was an organizer with the anti-Israel campus group Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at Harvard University (Harvard). PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Al-Thabata is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Al-Thabata spread hatred of Israel in the wake of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.

The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

Hatred of Israel during a Hamas War

On February 20, 2024, Al-Thabata co-authored an anti-Israel editorial with Violet Barron in Harvard’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson (the Crimson), titled: “Dissent: With New Protest Guidelines, Free Speech Again Stops at Palestine.”

In the article, Al-Thabata and Barron wrote: “To in any way legitimize the creation and implementation of Harvard’s new protest guidelines is to give a blank check to the University’s McCarthyist campaign against pro-Palestine organizing.”

Al-Thabata and Barron also wrote about Israel: “Harvard is financially and morally invested in the apartheid state students protest against.” They went on to claim that campus anti-Israel organizers faced “racist scrutiny,” and further said: “The retaliation we have faced for our organizing is evidently and prejudicially excessive.”

Biographical Information

As of February 25, 2024, Al-Thabata’s LinkedIn profile said he was a member of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) at Harvard.

Also as of February 25, 2024, Al-Thabata’s LinkedIn said he was an editorial board staff writer at the Crimson.

As of the same date, Al-Thabata’s LinkedIn also said he was the speaker series coordinator at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Harvard.

Al-Thabata also goes by by Mahmoud Mohammad Al-Thabata II.

As of February 25, 2024, Al-Thabata’s LinkedIn said he was studying for a bachelor’s degree in social studies and Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard, slated to graduate in 2027.

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, Al-Thabata’s LinkedIn said he was located in Orlando, Florida.

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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

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/_mahmoood_/ [Private]

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-al-thabata/