Malak Shahin

Overview

Malak Shahin has spread hatred of Zionists, demonized Israel and shown solidarity with terrorists.

Shahin has also promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and endorsed an anti-Israel agitator.

As of October 2019, Shahin’s LinkedIn page said she graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN) in 2018, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Shahin indicated on Twitter that she was president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UMN, in 2018.

Also as of October 2019, Shahin’s LinkedIn page said that she was an “At Large Representative” for the UMN “Minnesota Student Association” from “Sep 2016 - Dec 2016.”

Shahin’s LinkedIn page also said that she was an “Intern Investigator at Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia,” in Washington D.C. from “Aug 2018- Feb 2019.”

As ofOctober 2019, Shahin used the name “Mal Sam” on Facebook.

Spreading Hatred of Zionists

On May 25, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “inshallah all Zionists choke ameen.”

On December 23, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “(TW SA) and many were raped. Zionist forces used rape as a weapon of colonization as well.”

On March 27, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “This zio on the train had a necklace of the shape of palestine with an Israeli flag over it. Me and my bro were sitting there like.”

The term "Zio" is a common derogatory reference to Zionists, as well as an often-used anti-Semitic slur among white supremacists.

On March 8, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “You cannot be both a Zionist and a feminist.”

On February 28, 2017, in response to a BuzzFeed post calling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “hot,” Shahin tweeted: “HE IS ZIONIST IMPERIALIST GARBAGE STOP DOING THIS.”

In 2016, the Canadian Parliament passed a motion formally condemning BDS. Trudeau reportedly said to The Canadian Jewish News in a Q&A published in October 2015: “I’m opposed to the BDS movement. I think that it’s an example of the new form of anti-Semitism in the world.”

He reportedly went on to say: “I’m all for freedom of speech and expression in Canada, and we need to be sure we’re defending that. But when Canadian university students are feeling unsafe on their way to classes because of BDS or Israel Apartheid Week, that just goes against Canadian values …”

Demonizing Israel

On July 23, 2018, Shahin was featured at an event co-hosted by SJP UMN, at the bookstore Moon Palace Books, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Shahin spoke alongside anti-Israel activist Ramah Kudaimi, the Director of Programs and Operations for U.S. Campaign to end the Occupation (ETO).

Kudaimi has promoted violence, decried the outlawing of Holocaust denial and spread hatred of Israel.

At the event, Shahin said [00:04:19]: “the fact that Israel and America have such a ‘special relationship’ and have these ‘shared values’, you have to look at the fact that they’re both violent genocidal settler colonial states.”

On June 26, 2018, Shahin wrote multiple tweets protesting the participation of UMN student leaders, on a trip to Israel called the: “Fact Finders Leadership Mission,” in June 2018.

One of Shahin’s tweets said: “While Palestinians are protesting for their right to return to their land and being massacred for it your UMN president and student representatives are on a propaganda trip to Israel.”

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.

The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.

Agitators threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.

On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during a May 14 protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.

Shahin also tweeted: “your school [UMN] still voted for divestment while you’re actively supporting colonization and genocide, so you can go and f*ck yourselves.”

Also on June 26, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “don’t let them talk about ‘sides’ and wanting to learn about the Zionist perspective. Being in America you’re constantly hearing the Zionist perspective and to present this as a two sided issue ignores power relations & the reality of settler colonization.”

On May 14, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “f*ck Israel”

On December 3, 2017, Shahin tweeted: Exactly!! This is lowkey what my thesis is on I’m seeing if settler colonialism or apartheid (or both) work better to define Israel and what that means for liberation.

Supporting Terrorists

On October 14, 2015, Shahin was featured on Facebook participating in an SJP UMN die-in eventdescribed by the group as part of an “International Day of Solidarity.”

In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.

During the die-in, SJP UMN activist Motaz Nashawaty spoke, accusing [00:00:05] Israel of an escalation in “state violence” and [00:00:32] of “extrajudicial murders.”

Nashawaty continued [00:00:41]: “We will pay respects to the Palestinian martyrs executed by Israeli forces” and recited [00:01:57] the names of Palestinian terrorists, such as Fadi Aloon and [00:02:03] Muhannad Halabi.

Fadi Aloon stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy after posting “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page and Muhannad Halabi murdered two Israelis and injured two others, including a 2-year-old, during a stabbing spree. Halabi posted on his Facebook page “[t]he third Intifada is here…Let the revolution erupt.”

Nashawaty continued [00:02:43] “our people are dying in streets now in Palestine, but they are not helpless - they are resisting.”

On October 30, 2015, Shahin featured in a SJP UMN group Facebook photo participating in an SJP UMN-organized “Silent Protest.”

The Facebook event page description said: “In light of the recent escalation of Israeli state violence against the Palestinian population, SJP will hold a silent protest.”

The description continued: “Zionist Israel's vicious occupation over the Palestinian people is in a critical moment with over 30 reported Palestinian deaths… We pay respects to the Palestinian martyrs executed by Israeli forces, and shed light on the ongoing illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Supporting BDS

Shahin retweeted a July 22, 2019 tweet from Remi Kanazi, that said: “RT @Remroum: Israel is a garbage apartheid state that should be boycotted until Palestinians are free.”

Poet Remi Kanazi is known for his aggressively anti-Israel spoken-word performances. He has supported terrorism and has compared Israel to both ISIS and the Ku Klux Klan.

On October 4, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “for the record, I think respecting BDS is more important than studying abroad but I’m not gonna overlook how the violence of the settler state is enacted on Palestinians regardless.”

On July 23, 2018, Shahin said [00:07:18] at an event co-hosted by SJP UMN: “I just graduated, but I was a part of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota. We’ve done two divestment campaigns, both successful.”

Shahin was reportedly president of SJP UMN during the group’s 2018 divestment campaign. The UMN campus newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, quoted Shahin promoting the campaign, stating: “We believe that this University shouldn’t be invested in companies that commit human rights violations.”

The Minnesota Daily reported that the 2018 UMN SJP divestment resolution passed.

Shahin was featured in a 2016 UMN Divest campaign video, where she said: [00:01:03] “We demand that our university abide by their socially responsible investment policy and divest from four targeted companies as well as any other companies complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

UMN Divest was launched by SJP UMN on February 15, 2016 and reportedly “put forward a resolution” in 2016, “...calling for divestment from ‘four particular companies profiting from human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.’”

On March 17, 2017, Shahin shared a post from the BDS National Committee Facebook page that said: “This may well be the very first beam of light that ushers the dawn of sanctions against Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.”

On March 5, 2017, Shahin shared an event page to Facebook titled: “Support the BDS Movement Rally” and wrote: “I won't be able to go unfortunately, but if you can come out please do!! It's vital that we remind the legislature that they answer to us and we see them passing unconstitutional laws.”

On August 21, 2016, Shahin tweeted: “Pray for Palestine, yes but more than that join boycotts against Israel. Write to your representatives in states that make it illegal.”

SJP UMN Activism

On August 20, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “me: writes thesis on Palestine, president of sjp, thinks of nothing else them: laughs nervously.”

On November 24, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “I make up all of my sjp agendas as I walk into the room BC I forget to send it out before hand. I’ve never written a rally speech before hand I just do it on the spot and hope for the best. I launched a lit mag knowing nothing about literature or magazines.”

On April 20, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “Want to be a part of the coolest group on campus? Apply now to be part of SJP...”

On April 4, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “Minneapolis friends: sign up for SJP's open mic during Israeli Apartheid Week.”

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented internationally as a “series of events that seeks to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people.” One of its goals is to build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. IAW has been renamed Palestine Awareness Week.

On November 24, 2016, Shahin shared to Facebook a SJP UMN event, that was part of Palestinian Awareness Week 2016.

On April 8, 2016, the SJP UMN Facebook page posted: “Attention UMN Students!...SJP endorses the following candidates for the position of At Large Represenative [sic] for the 2016-2017 school year:...Ra'Wi Mahamud, and Malak Shahin…”

Endorsing an Anti-Israel Agitator

On August 1, 2018, Shahin tweeted: “We will see a liberated Palestine in our life time. The youth are resilient and incredible.” The tweet featured several images of Ahed Tamimi.

Ahed Tamimi has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers. Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem Tamimi, who is known for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

On December 22, 2017, Shahin tweeted: “#FreeAhedTamimi and stand against Israel’s practice of taking children prisoner by supporting @BettyMcCollum04 ‘s bill HR 4391. Call your reps now!!”

SJP UMN - Praising Violence

On October 20, 2017, SJP UMN shared on Instagram a graphic that featured a Palestinian woman carrying an assault rifle. The graphic was based on a poster originally published by the terror group, the Palestinian Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The graphic shared by SJP UMN had the caption: “Glory to the Women of the Intifada.”

“Intifada” has carried the connotation of violence since the early 2000’s.

SJP UMN wrote on their Instagram post: “..come learn about Palestinian women’s resilience, contribution to the movement, and what a Palestinian feminist vision for liberation looks like…”

SJP UMN - Supporting a Terrorist 2018

On July 8, 2018, SJP UMN shared to Facebook a post that read: “This week marks the anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani. A writer, intellectual, and spokesperson for the Palestinian resistance, he is remembered as one of the most significant literary and political figures of the 1960s-70s Palestinian revolution.”

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during their formative years. Kanafani was also involved in the Lod Airport Massacre near Tel Aviv, for which PFLP took responsibility.

SJP UMN - Promoting BDS 2018

The 2018 UMN Divest campaign launched a petition calling to “demand that the University of Minnesota Investment Committee and any other responsible bodies authorized to make investment decisions divest fully from the companies mentioned in the UMN Divest campaign.”

On February 25, 2018, SJP UMN shared to Instagram a post launching the UMN Divest 2018 campaign that said: “UMN Divest is back and this time we’re doing a campus wide referendum. March 5-7 all undergraduate and graduate students can vote ‘yes’ to divest.”

SJP UMN’s “explanation statement” in support of its proposed “campus-wide” referendum claimed that UMN had investments in companies “that violate human rights” and called on UMN to divest from G4S, Boeing and Raytheon and Elbit Systems for being “complicit in Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights, 2) maintaining and establishing private prisons and immigrant detention centers, or 3) violating Indigenous sovereignty.”

In March 2018, the divestment referendum reportedly was passed by the UMN “All Campus Elections Commission” and sent to the UMN Board of Regents for review.

It was reported that 6,567 people out of UMN’s 51,367 students who were eligible to vote on the referendum actually voted upon the divestment referendum, representing less than 13% of eligible voters.

The resolution reportedly passed by 217 votes, with a total of 3,392 voting "yes" and 3,175 voting "no" on divestment. The “yes” votes represented 6.18% of the eligible voters.

SJP UMN - Hosting National SJP 2019

On September 16, 2019, SJP UMN shared a flier on Instagram announcing that the chapter would be hosting the 2019 National SJP Conference on November 1-3, 2019.

SJP UMN wrote on their Instagram post: “We are excited to officially announce that the 9th annual national SJP conference, Beyond Struggle: From Roots to Branches Towards Liberation, will be hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (SJP UMN) on Fri.-Sun., November 1-3, 2019 in the Twin Cities, MN…”

SJP UMN Honoring Terrorists: 2015 - 2016

On January 27, 2016, SJP UMN posted on Facebook support for Muhammad Al-Qiq. Al-Qiq was detained by Israel for his involvement in Hamas terror activity.

On October 14, 2015, SJP UMN held a “die-in” in support of Palestinians who were conducting a wave of stabbing attacks on Israelis, known as the “Knife Intifada.”

During the die-in, SJP UMN activists lay on the ground, while SJP UMN activist Motaz Nashawaty, spoke accusing [00:00:05] Israel of an escalation in “state violence” and [00:00:32] of “extrajudicial murders.”

Nashawaty continued: [00:00:41] “We will pay respects to the Palestinian martyrs executed by Israeli forces” and recited [00:01:57] the names of Palestinian terrorists, such as Fadi Aloon and [00:02:03] Muhannad Halabi, who he described [00:02:07] as “young Palestinians whose lives were unjustly taken away from them by Israeli security forces.”

Aloon stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy after posting “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page, and Halabi murdered two Israelis and injured two others, including a 2-year-old, during a stabbing spree. Halabi posted on his Facebook page “[t]he third Intifada is here…Let the revolution erupt.”

Nashawaty continued [00:02:43] “our people are dying in streets now in Palestine, but they are not helpless - they are resisting.”

On October 14, 2015, SJP UMN posted to Facebook photos from a rally in support of Rasmea Odeh and wrote: “Thank you to our friends for keeping us updated with some pictures from Rasmea's appeal today.” Participants in the rally held signs that read:“I support RASMEA” and “Minnesota stands with Rasmea Odeh.”

Odeh was a key military operative with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket.

One of the photos of Odeh that SJP UMN shared on Facebook was captioned: “This is what you call a #Warrior.”

On October 12, 2015, SJP UMN shared on their Facebook page a video that claimed Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara), purportedly “bled to death” and suffered abuse by Israeli soldiers.

Mansara was wounded while he engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem, critically wounding a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounding a 25-year-old man.

Manasra was successfully treated at the same Israeli hospital as his victims and later convicted of attempted murder.

SJP UMN wrote in their Facebook post: “We cannot ignore these constant, heinous crimes, acts of racism, hatred, and inhumanity Palestinians are subjected to by Israeli settlers.”

SJP UMN Spreading Incitement: 2015

On November 1, 2015, SJP UMN tweeted: “Israel is a colonial bully, trying to take Al Aqsa under the guise of ‘sharing.’”

The allegation that Jews will destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, has been applied to Jews as a pretext for attacks by Arabs, even before the existence of Israel.

Such propaganda was the excuse for an upsurge in Palestinian violence in the fall of 2015, with Palestinian leaders fueling violence by promoting the libel that Israel intends to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque.

Hamas called on Palestinians to “take up arms” to defend Al Aqsa and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised those willing to martyr themselves. He also declared Jews would not be allowed to “desecrate” Al Aqsa with their “filthy feet.”

In October 2015, SJP UMN posted a photo on Instagram of their section on the Washington Avenue Bridge. One of their panels featured a map that erased Israel, portraying the whole country with no internal borders and entirely covered by a keffiyeh.

SJP UMN Campaigning Against a Jewish Heritage Trip: 2015

In February 2015, SJP UMN launched a campaign against the Jewish heritage trip to Israel, Birthright. Campaign flyers said: “FREE TRIP TO ISRAEL BUT WHO PAYS THE PRICE?”

The campaign condemned Birthright for presenting “a depoliticized image of Israel” and programming a trip that is “overall tailored to be pleasant experience devoid of conflict.” The campaign claimed that the program “would not discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” and that “topics such as illegal settlements in the West Bank and restrictions on Gaza will not be covered.”.

SJP UMN encouraged Birthright participants to extend their trip and join tours with political groups such as Breaking the Silence (BTS) and The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), whose director Jeff Halper has called for the end of Israel.

Breaking the Silence was discredited by Israeli investigative TV show, HaMakor, in July 2016, in a report revealing that a substantial number of BTS testimonies are untrue or distorted.

SJP UMN Disrupting an Israeli Speaker: 2015

On November 3, 2015, SJP UMN endorsed the disruption of an event where three activists were reportedly arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing.

The event was a talk on ethics and the law of war by Israeli law professor, Moshe Halbertal. The disruption was organized by the Anti-War Committee (AWC), whose campaigns mainly to end US aid to Israel.

Protesters reportedly sat in the audience and then stood and shouted chants, preventing Halbertal from speaking and accusing him of being a “war crimes apologist.” FightBack News said: “The lecture was scheduled for one hour, but most of that time was taken up by interruptions.”

The article also said that after protesters were removed from the hall by university police, they continued disrupting the event by shouting [00:00:01] chants including “free, free Palestine” and [00:01:55] “Israel is an apartheid state” in the hallway, which were audible from inside the lecture hall. Anti-Israel propagandist Sabry Wazwaz, who has called for the destruction of Israel and the U.S., spread anti-Semitism, compared Zionists to Nazis and expressed support for a terrorist, led the chants.

SJP UMN Demonizing Israel: 2015-2016

In April 2016, SJP UMN built a “mock apartheid wall” for its “Divest Week 2016,” which the group called a “divestment special edition of our annual Israeli Apartheid Week,” promoting the 2016 UMN Divest BDS campaign.

IAW is a series of events on university campuses that promote Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and claim to “raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system.”

On April 22 2015, SJP UMN wrote on Facebook that “Israel’s ‘birthday’ is established on the occupation and exile of an entire people,” in a post which also denied SJP involvement in the vandalism of a pro-Israel group’s display celebrating Israeli independence.

The next day, Rula Rashid, SJP UMN treasurer, reportedly approached a table set up by a pro-Israel campus group to educate students about Israel’s independence and said “you stole our land.”

On April 9, 2015, SJP UMN tweeted: “‘If it's centered around Judaism, why are only white Jews allowed to live in Israel? It's not a case about religion and Judaism.’ @MnarMuh.”

On March 4, 2015, SJP UMN hosted an event with Dan Cohen, a journalist with the anti-Israel Mondoweiss, speaking about his experiences reporting from Gaza during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE). OPE was launched by Israel to stop Hamas rocket attacks and destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

During his talk, Cohen reportedly said the war was “not an attack on Hamas....it was an attack on Palestinian society.” He also claimed that “Israeli soldiers were allowed to take revenge” and that they intentionally shot civilians.

SJP UMN Opposing Normalization: 2015

On April 23, 2015, SJP UMN posted on Facebook a “definition of normalization.” The definition said that normalization was “gathering (either directly or indirectly) Palestinians (and/or Arabs) and Israelis, whether individuals or institutions; that does not explicitly aim to expose and resist the occupation and all forms of discrimination and oppression against the Palestinian people.”

The policy of “anti-normalization” aims to ensure that all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians align only their agenda, including ending the occupation and a full right of return for Palestinians, which is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. The policies are shared with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

SJP UMN Hosting Anti-Israel Propagandists: 2015

On October 15, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” SJP UMN hosted anti-Israel propagandist Sabry Wazwaz at a vigil for “the Palestinian lives lost in the recent attacks.” The “Knife Intifada,” was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders.

Wazwaz has spread religious incitement, promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and called for intifada.

On April 20, 2015, SJP UMN co-sponsored an event featuring disgraced anti-Israel professor Steven Salaita on “how critique of American and Israeli colonization might be productively undertaken.” In 2014, Salaita had an offer employment retracted by the University of Illinois, after a series of anti-Semitic tweets he had posted were uncovered.

SJP UMN Promoting BDS: 2016

On February 15, 2016, SJP UMN launched a divestment campaign, calling for the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) and UMN to support divestment from companies that SJP UMN claimed “profit from human rights violations in Palestine/Israel.”

SJP UMN’s statement announcing the campaign said UMN’s investment in the companies targeted by the campaign showed “implicit support for…the killing of civilians, and violations of their basic human rights.”

UMN’s Chief Investment Officer reportedly told The Minnesota Republic, a student-run newspaper at UMN, that the university had “no direct exposure” to the four companies targeted by the campaign.

On March 8, 2016, the MSA voted [00:26:24] to strike down the divestment resolution from the MSA agenda.

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.