Manar Daghash
Overview
Manar Daghash has expressed support for terrorists and spread hatred of the United States and Israel. Daghash was a 2016 board member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC).Daghash was reportedly an organizer of SJP UIC’s Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement initiative on campus in 2016.
In 2016, Daghash performed at the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Conference, as well as [00:00:29] at a separate AMP event.
As of February 2021, Daghash stated on her square space website that she was the only staff member of “Manar’s Henna and Designs” in Orland Park, Il.
As of December 2021, Daghash was the cofounder of the online store Rise & Resist Apparel, as indicated on her Instagram.
Support for Terrorists
In 2003, Hamdouni shot an Israeli civilian to death. In 2016, Hamdouni died of a heart attack while serving a life sentence for murder.
On March 13, 2015, Daghash posted a selfie of herself and terrorist Rasmea Odeh to Instagram and added: “There's a lot going on in this selfie, but #Rasmea's smile makes the picture 😊.”
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]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. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.
On October 19, 2015, Daghash posted to Instagram a selfie she took of herself and Odeh: “Protesting through Chicago with #RasmeaOdeh ✌ #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupationNow #HandsOffAlAqsa #Chicity.”
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. The attacks were incited by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Hatred of America
On that same day, Daghash posted a photo of herself performing the poem to Instagram and added: “"My existence is a disturbance to the peace" #Activism #MyPassion #AAAN #USPCN #CPAC #Solidarity #Palestine #BlackLivesMatter.”
Hatred of Israel
The tweet was in response to a New York Times tweet that said: “Urged on by a Hamas leader, hundreds of Palestinian protesters tried to cross the security barrier from Gaza into Israel on Friday. Israeli troops defended the fence with lethal force.”
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 violent demonstrations were instigated by Hamas on the Israeli-Gaza border. Participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”
March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Rioters also made numerous attempts to breach Israel’s border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.
Daghash retweeted a May 14, 2018 tweet that said: “It takes an unbelievable sickness, and a willfulness blindness to Palestinian humanity, to be celebrating the US embassy opening in occupied Jerusalem while Israeli troops gun down unarmed people in Gaza. What a world.”
Daghash retweeted a May 14, 2018 tweet by anti-Israel activist Robert Martin that stated: “Of the 37 Palestinians killed, the ministry of health said at least five were below the age of 18, including one female. And, of the 1703 wounded, at least 122 were below the age of 18, 44 were women and 11 were journalists.”
On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
Daghash retweeted a May 15, 2018 tweet that said: “Benjamin Netanyahu” in response to the Twitter question: “I just bought a pig lol name suggestions? It’s a boy.”
Pushing BDS
In January 2016, SJP UIC launched UIC Divest, a campaign calling for UIC “to divest from companies that support the illegal occupation of Palestine such as G4S, Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and Boeing.
In February 2016, SJP UIC united with 23 other student groups to co-sponsor a BDS resolution that proposed “divestment from companies profiting from human rights abuses and violations of international law in Palestine.”
The resolution’s wording was later modified due to efforts to blunt its original anti-Israel focus and called on UIC to divest from “companies actively engaged in human rights violations in Palestine, Syria, China, United States, US-Mexican border, and Chicago.”
On February 15, 2016, the modified resolution passed unanimously.
Later that day, SJP UIC’s press release stated: “While tonight’s divestment vote is an important step in the divestment movement, we recognize that this is just the beginning. We are committed to working towards urging the university to divest wholly from the Israeli occupation....”
On February 18, 2016, the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada (EI) website interviewed Daghash about UIC Divest, where she reportedly stated that activists felt “an urgent need” to be part of the “nationwide movement calling for BDS on campuses.”
On February 19, 2016, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) published an article about the divestment efforts on UIC’s campus, where they identified Daghash as SJP UIC’s spokesperson.
The article quoted Daghash saying that “passing the bill represents a success for the BDS movement as it brings the University of Illinois in Chicago one step closer to maintaining and advocating human rights.”
In April 2016, SJP UIC celebrated on Facebook the resolution’s passing and suggested it called on “the university to remove all their investments in companies complicit in human rights violations of the Palestinian people and the occupation and colonization of Palestine!”
SJP Activism
On April 20, 2016, Daghash posted to YouTube a video of herself and fellow SJP activist Ahmad Hamad, performing a spoken word poem at UIC SJP’s Palestine Culture Night.On November 22, 2016, Daghash was featured in an SJP UIC Facebook photo, running SJP UIC’s Henna booth.
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.
AMP
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian as a vehicle to generate mainstream support in the United States for the Palestinian national cause.
On its website, the organization lists Bazian as the chairman of its national board and describes itself as “a national education and grassroots-based organization, dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused AMP of promoting “extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans” about Palestinians. The ADL further stated that AMP is directly involved in campus-based anti-Israel activity through Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Prior to founding the AMP in 2006, Dr. Bazian created SJP together with fellow UC Berkeley Professor Snehal Shingavi in 2001. The close working relationship between AMP and SJP has been documented several times over the years by several organizations, including NGO Monitor and StandWithUs.
In addition to providing financial, public relations and legal assistance to SJP, AMP has also been accused of having connections to Hamas. The AMP national board includes former members of both the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation (HLF), both of which were found liable for aiding and abetting Hamas. The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas.
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