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Malak Hamed
Malak Hamed was secretary of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter that expressed support for Hamas after the terror atrocities of October 7, 2023.
Hamed has also engaged in anti-Israel activism and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamed’s SJP chapter at Ohio State University (SJP OSU) has also spread antisemitism, celebrated terrorism and promoted hatred of Israel.
In February 2024, Hamed reportedly served as the secretary of SJP OSU. OSU is located in Columbus, Ohio.
As of May 2024, Hamed was listed as the “Secondary Leader” of SJP OSU.
Hamed’s activism took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war, called “Swords of Iron,” after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings. The atrocities were executed on October 7, 2023, and left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
As of July 2024, Hamed’s LinkedIn profile said she was studying for a bachelor’s degree in psychology at OSU, slated to graduate in 2025.
Also as of July 2024, Hamed’s LinkedIn said she had attended Columbus State Community College (CSCC) in 2021-2022.
As of the same date, Hamed’s LinkedIn said she was located in Westerville, Ohio.
On October 8, 2023, the day after Hamas terrorists perpetrated multiple atrocities against Israelis, SJP OSU hosted an “Emergency Rally” titled: “Stand with Gaza.” The protest took place outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
The flyer promoting the rally included the well-known picture of a Hamas terrorist standing on top of an Israeli army tank captured that day, with a Palestinian flag in one of his raised arms. The flyer said: “PALESTINE RESISTS OCCUPATION.”
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.
At the protest, then SJP OSU co-president Heba Latif reportedly said [00:00:40]: “This is a response to the 75 years of a brutal occupation an apartheid system…”
The modern State of Israel was founded 75 years earlier, in 1948.
One local news station reported [00:00:59]: “Latif calls the Hamas attack a resistance movement against the occupation.”
At the protest, one anti-Israel activist held [00:00:04] a sign that said, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “...#netanyahuishitler.” Another protestor held a sign that said [00:00:11]: “EXISTENCE IS THE RESISTANCE,” while another protester held a sign that said: “STOP U.S. FUNDING FOR ISRAELI APARTHEID.”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
On December 6, 2023, the group set up [slide 3] an anti-Israel display on campus to protest Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
On display were several signs stuck into the ground, including ones that said [slide 6]: “NEVER AGAIN?,” “GENOCIDE UNIVERSITY” and “...#Lift the Siege on Gaza NOW / #End the Israeli Occupation NOW…” Some of the signs had red paint and red handprints on them to symbolize blood.
The phrase “Never Again” is deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.
The display also included [slide 8] body-shaped bundles splashed with red paint to represent those allegedly killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza while the IDF was engaged in combat with Hamas terrorists. There was also a Palestinian flag made up of several hundred smaller flags stuck into the ground, also representing those killed.
On October 12, 2023, SJP OSU held an anti-Israel event at the Ohio Statehouse titled: “Day of Resistance - Protest for Palestine.”
At the event, Mohammed Mubarak, then co-president of SJP OSU, was seen holding a large sign at the front of the march that said: “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA / عاشت الانتفاضة [Long live the intifada!].”
“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.
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.
On October 14, 2023, SJP OSU posted a statement that read [slide 3]: “We stand in solidarity with Palestinians and their right to resist the 75-year occupation, settler-colonialism, and ethnic cleansing…It is crucial that the University acknowledge the…occupation, including the 16-year blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, controlling the area from land, sea, and air.”
The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces.
Following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the Israeli military discovered that Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
On November 30, 2023, SJP OSU posted a “Recap” on Facebook of an SJP-led “die-in,” which had taken place the previous day outside OSU’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law (Moritz Law).
Among the demands SJP OSU listed as the purpose of the die-in were that OSU “Cease educational programs to universities in the occupied territories” and “Divest and cut ties with Israeli corporations, which fund and uphold the illegal illegitimate apartheid state of Israel.”
On February 8, 2024, as part of “The National Day of Action” organized by National SJP (NSJP),” SJP OSU led a walkout on the OSU campus, during which anti-Israel activists chanted: “‘Free, free Palestine!” and “‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’”
Participants also reportedly chanted: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” and “Justice is our demand, no peace on stolen land!”
One way anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by denying [00:17:45] Jewish history, with the aim of delegitimizing restored Jewish sovereignty, attacking Israel’s legitimacy and portraying Jews as foreign to the Land of Israel.
Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack against Israel, Hamed signed [no. 33] a pro-BDS “Statement in Solidarity with Palestine: A Letter to Our University Community.”
The letter, which was published on November 1, 2023 by “faculty at The Ohio State University in solidarity with Palestine,” said: “We must not lose sight of the fact that the root cause of this cycle of violence is Israeli settler colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid.” The statement also called on the university to support the BDS movement.
On October 16, 2023, Hamed participated [00:00:30] in an anti-Israel rally at a Columbus City Council meeting “to demand justice for Palestinians.”
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.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
