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Maymouna Sissoko Thiam

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Maymouna Sissoko Thiam has called for intifada, supported terrorists, protested an Israeli ambassador and spread hatred of Israel.

Thiam is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Columbia University (Columbia).

Thiam attended [00:55:28, 00:56:03] the 2017 National SJP (NSJP) Conference. 

NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”  

She also attended the NSJP 2016 conference, held at George Mason University on November 4-6.

Thiam is also an activist with Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement coalition of SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) members that promotes BDS at Columbia.

Thiam is the media coordinator for Columbia University Students for Human Rights (CUSHR) and serves as the Marketing Chair on the 2016-2017 Executive Board of the African Students Association (ASA) at Columbia.

As of July 2017, Thiam listed herself on Facebook as a student at Barnard College (Barnard) studying Human Rights and History.

In an August 20, 2015 Facebook post, Thiam wrote that she is slated to graduate Barnard in 2019.

On July 1, 2018, Thiam’s Facebook said she started an internship at the Muslim ARC-Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative.  

Calling for Intifada

On December 15, 2015 — during a wave of Palestinian terror in Israel — Thiam posted a photo of herself on Facebook holding a sign that read: “There is only one solution. Intifada.”

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.

Supporting Terrorists

On May 20, 2017, Thiam participated in a CUAD hunger strike to show solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers. Thiam held a sign that read: “In solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike #CUADhungerstrike.”

The hunger strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings — and shooting attacks against Israelis that killed five people during the Second Intifada. 

Barghouti financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe massacre. Also among the hunger strikers was Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Secretary General Ahmad Sa’adat.

More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike — most of whom were also convicted for acts of terrorism.  

On May 13, 2017, Thiam participated in CUAD’s “Salt Water Challenge.” Thiam held a sign that read “#Dignity Strike” as CUAD activists drank salt water-filled glasses claiming that Palestinians in Israeli prisons are given saltwater instead of freshwater.

According to CNN, the Salt Water Challenge appears to have been started by Aarab Marwan Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti.

Protesting Israeli Ambassador

On February 13, 2017, Thiam attended an event titled: “Racists Not Welcome: Protest the Israeli Ambassador at Columbia.” 

The event was created to protest a presentation at Columbia given by Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon. 

During Danon’s speech, several groups of protesters interrupted and shouted down the ambassador down, seven times. 

Other groups also interrupted [00:38:24] Danon and chanted [00:32:11]: “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free. Other chants [00:28:31] included:“One, two three four, occupation no more, five six, seven eight, Israel is a terror state.”

Approximately 50 protesters, comprised of members from CSJP, CUAD, JVP, Barnard Columbia Socialists and Columbia Against Trump, also gathered outside Danon’s presentation and chanted [00:03:47]: “Danny Danon, you can’t hide we charge you with genocide.”

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On March 16, 2017, Thiam changed her cover photo on Facebook to a photo of a message that read: “A new United Nations report accuses Israel of having established ‘an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominated the Palestinian people as a whole.’”

The report was later withdrawn. 

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.



Maymouna Sissoko Thiam
Status:
Student
University:
Barnard Columbia
Organizations:
BDS,
SJP

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Last Modified:
06/23/2025

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