Max Geller
Overview
Max Geller has idealized and supported terrorists, spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and demonized Zionism. Geller was a spokesperson for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Northeastern University (Northeastern) and has condemned the group’s suspension in 2014.Geller was also a member of the National SJP (NSJP) steering committee in 2015 and a featured speaker at the 2014 NSJP Conference.
Geller is an organizer with the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), and has been involved with the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organization. Geller is also a member of the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee (NOPSC).
Geller is also an activist and organizer for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In September of 2014, Geller was a panelist for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) (formerly the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO) National Organizers’ Conference.
He also a led a workshop at the 2015 American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) conference, entitled “Dealing with false accusations of anti-Semitism.”
Geller is a contributing author to the anti-Israel publication Palestine in America (PiA). He is also contributor to the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss.
As of December 2017, Geller’s LinkedIn page said he was a law student at Northeastern from 2012-2015.
As of October 2017, Geller was based in New Orleans where he is “building radical community based on resisting Zionism and antiblack racism.”
Idealizing Terror
On October 24, 2013, a photograph of Geller wearing a t-shirt that featured the flag of Hezbollah was posted on Facebook. Later that same day, Geller later posted the photo to his Facebook page.
At an anti-Israel rally in 2012, Geller reportedly wore a headband with the insignia of the Islamic Jihad - a terrorist organization with the goal of destroying the State of Israel.
Supporting Terrorists
On October 14, 2015, Geller urged his Facebook followers to donate money to Rasmea Odeh’s legal fund, adding: “I urge you all to support Rasmea Odeh in any way you can.”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 May 27, 2017, Geller posted to his Facebook page: “May the victory of the Palestinian Hunger Strikers ease the fasts for all my friends observing Ramadan!”
Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On September 19-21, 2014, during USCPR’s 13th Annual National Organizers’ Conference, Geller presented a workshop titled: “1% & State of Israel’s Agenda to Silence Criticism of Israel & Promote Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Racism.”At the workshop, Geller listed [00:00:30] major Jewish organizations in the U.S. and claimed [00:01:15]they were were “vehicles for the 1% to have even more influence over the Israeli-Palestinian conversation in this country.”
Geller also suggested [00:02:40] that pro-Israel forces intentionally destabilize the Middle East to protect their financial interests, stating [00:02:50]: “As we all know, a very strong Israel means a destabilized Middle East.”
Geller blamed American Zionists for Islamophobia, stating [00:05:09]:“What’s important to understand is that this Islamophobia network is motivated by Zionists. It’s funded by Zionists. And Zionism is what drives the concerted effort to demonize and ‘other’ American Muslims in this country.”
Geller also claimed [00:04:49]: “It’s very important that we realize that no 18 year-old Jewish student wakes up one day — without any sort of pushing along — and says ’you know what, today is the day I’m going to write a pro-Israel op-ed in my school newspaper. That just doesn't happen.’”
During a June 2014 IJAN panel, Geller accused [01:05:50] “The Zionist Network of the U.S.” of targeting “all Muslims.”
On October 23, 2012, Geller posted on Facebook an rant featuring crude and sexually explicit language accusing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of controlling President Barack Obama and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Demonizing Zionism
On June 26, 2017, Geller tweeted: “If Anti-Racism are going to be a foundational tenet of any formation you are a part of, and it obviously should, Zionists can't be a part.”On the same day, Geller tweeted: “I Want A Dyke For President Because They know Zionism Is Racism and Anti-Zionism is Anti-Racism.”
On June 8, 2017, Geller posted a photo of a NOPSC billboard campaign to Facebook, adding: “Check out this cool billboard we did about the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”
On March 23, 2017, Geller referenced US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in his tweet: “Now that racist radical-expansionist Friedman is confirmed, lets [sic.] resume talking about how nobody should have relations w/ an Apartheid State.”
On October 12, 2016, Geller published an article in PiA in which he claimed Israel has committed and continues to commit “ethnic cleansing, colonization, massacres, and Apartheid” against Palestinians.
Geller also labelled Israel as “settler colonial,” based on “structural oppression,” and wrote that “we must acknowledge that Zionism is racism.”
On October 25, 2015, Geller posted to his Instagram a photo of himself speaking into a megaphone during an anti-Israel demonstration. Geller’s comment on the photo read: “Taking on the JNF [Jewish National Fund] takes on the central logic of Zionism: Racism, Land Theft, Dispossession and Ethnic Cleansing.”
On August 1, 2014, — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Geller referred to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Facebook post, writing “Ay yo, aside from Bibi, the only person I can think of who's trying to bomb hospitals is Heath Ledger's the Joker. Of course, both men are psychopathic clowns.”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Hamas fired rockets from Shifa Hospital (Shifa) at Israeli population centers during Operation Protective Edge. Hamas misfires also struck Shifa and the nearby al-Shati refugee camp. Hamas cleanup crews then concealed the evidence of the misfires, as was confirmed by Amnesty International and an independent Italian journalist.
Condemning SJP Suspension
In response, Geller wrote an article for the Boston Globe in April of 2014 defending SJP and condemning SJP's suspension.
Geller also gave interviews about the incident to Democracy Now! and to the Revolution, the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.”
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.
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