Manar Alrjub

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. 

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) is a nonprofit organization reportedly set up to “provide urgent humanitarian care for Gaza’s children.” It has been financially linked with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which was shut down by the U.S. government for funneling donations to a terrorist organization.  

As of June 2024, Alrjub’s LinkedIn said she was located in Columbus, Ohio.

Support for Hamas Terrorists 

On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas terrorists perpetrated multiple atrocities against Israelis, Alrjub promoted on Facebook an “EMERGENCY RALLY FOR PALESTINE,” organized by SJP OSU, that would take place the next day. Alrjub wrote: “...Join [SJP OSU] as they represent the support of Columbus for the Palestinian resistance against the occupation, colonialism, and apartheid in Palestine, and celebrate the unprecedented and historic efforts led by our people.”

Alrjub, who was serving as vice president and “Primary Leader” of Moritz Law SJP at the time, attached a flyer for the emergency rally that 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 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.

On October 11, 2023, while Alrjub was serving as vice president of Moritz Law SJP, the group promoted an event titled: “DAY OF RESISTANCE / Protest for Palestine,” taking place the next day outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The post called the protest a “national Day of Resistance to protest against the inhumane crimes committed on the people of Gaza and Israel’s apartheid regime.” The event was co-organized by SJP OSU.

On October 14, 2023, one week after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israeli citizens, Moritz Law SJP 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 modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.

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 flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. 

As of June 2024, Alrjub’s Instagram bio said: “المجد لشهدائنا و لأسرانا و للمقاومة [Glory to our martyrs, our prisoners and the resistance ].”

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.

Hatred of Israel

On December 6, 2023, while Alrjub was serving as vice president of Moritz Law SJP, the group set up [slide 3] an anti-Israel display on campus to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

The display 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.

Also 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 often deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.

Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)

Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack against Israel, Alrjub signed [no. 1992] 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 April 20, 2022, during Alrjub’s tenure as internal outreach chair of SJP OSU, the group’s Facebook promoted an April 22, 2022 rally they were organizing titled: “Columbus Protest.” The post said: “WE MUST push the Ohio State University to take further action and withdraw from all the companies complicit in violating Palestinian Human Rights! We must stand in solidarity with all Palestinians as this occupational settler colonial violence escalates during the holy month [of Ramadan], from REFUGEE CAMPS TO HOLY SIGHTS DURING PRAYERS! HANDS OFF AL AQSA! “

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

On April 8, 2022, Alrjub celebrated on Facebook the passing of a BDS resolution by the OSU student government. Alrjub wrote that the resolution “encourages OSU to divest from…their funds in corporations…which are credited with providing the Israeli forces and their governing body with the tools necessary to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Palestinian land and force them under an apartheid system. These corporations are therefore complicit in human rights violations against the Palestinian people.”

Alrjub later received a “Hero Award” from CAIR-Ohio as one of the “Champions of the Divestment Resolution at The Ohio State University.”

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.

MSA

The MSA was  established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations." 

The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.

The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.  

CAIR

CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”

CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.

CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.

Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.

In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.

CAIR was also listed  as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.  

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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