Mohamad Fattouh
Overview
Mohamad Fattouh has used “Jew” as an insult, expressed support for terrorists, led a disruption of a campus event and defended terror financiers. He also demonized Israel, glorified the violent March of Return and promoted anti-Israel agitators.Fattouh attended the 2018 National SJP Conference. The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”
Fattouh also attended the 2017 National SJP Conference and promoted that conference on Facebook.
Fattouh was a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UH (UH MSA). He attended the 11th Annual American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) 2018 Conference.
In December 2018, Fattouh shared on Facebook a Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) fundraising video featuring SJP activist Sara Mahmoud.
Fattouh is also a member of the “Americans Against Genocide In Gaza (AAGG)” Facebook group since August 2014.
As of June 2023, Fattouh’s LinkedIn page said he was a “J.D. Candidate at University of Houston Law Center, Class of 2023.” On May 13, 2023, a YouTube video titled “UH Law Center Commencement Ceremony” showed [01:13:06] Fattouh wearing a graduation cap and gown among other JD graduates.
In November 2017, Fattouh went by “Mohamad Said” on Facebook. As of April 2019, he went by his real name on Facebook.
Using “Jew” as an Insult
On August 15, 2014, Fattouh tweeted: “@zayfa72 @Yasir__Shaikh damn I was just trying to make peace.. You freaking Jew.”Supporting Terrorists
On May 24, 2017, Fattouh promoted on Facebook an SJP UH-organized event titled: “Houston Stands with Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike” and used the hashtag “#DignityStrike.”The event’s Facebook description said: “we will assemble in front of the Consulate General of Israel in Houston. Participants will contribute to the global #SaltWaterChallenge...we demand that Israel end its policies of apartheid, colonization, military occupation, displacement, dispossession, and mass incarceration.”
“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.
Protesters at the demonstration chanted [00:00:01] “Hey, Israel, you will see...our prisoners will be free!” and “We want justice, you say ‘how?’ — Free the prisoners, right now!”
Disrupting a Campus Event
Mid-speech, Fattouh stood up and shouted [00:00:11] “Nikki Haley! The blood is on your hands! You continue to sign off on the genocide of a native people! You are an accomplice to terrorists and colonizers.”
Another SJP UH activist led protestors in chanting [00:00:25] “Nikki Nikki can’t you see? You allowed a killing spree” as well as [00:00:33] “Haley Haley you can’t hide, you signed off on genocide!” and [00:00:56] “Nikki Haley you will see, Palestine will be free!”
After security officials escorted them out of the auditorium, SJP UH protestors chanted [00:01:55] “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
As the protest against Haley continued outside the building, Fattouh claimed [00:01:19] in a video interview with UH student newspaper The Daily Cougar, that Haley signed off “on the genocide of a people.”
Also on May 22, 2018, Fattouh tweeted a video of the disruption and wrote: “Nikki Haley works with terrorists and colonizers. We will NOT accept her presence on our campus. #NikkiSidesWithGenocide #FreePalestine @nikkihaley @UHpres @UHouston.”
On May 24, 2018, Fattouh posted a video about the disruption to Facebook and wrote: “The University of Houston wanted to give U.S Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, a warm welcome...But we, the people of conscience, had a different plan in mind. The blood is on her hands. #NikkiSidesWithGenocide #FreePalestine.”
On May 25, 2018, Fattouh posted another video about the disruption to Facebook and wrote: “
#NikkiSidesWithGenocide #FreePalestine.”Prior to the disruption, on May 19, 2018 Fattouh tweeted: “Sadly there’s no room for dialogue with someone like Haley... she’s not someone who’s open-minded & willing to have dialogue. People HAVE been voicing their concerns to her for the last 4 years and she gives the same political answers continuing to dehumanize Palestinians…”
That same day, Fattouh tweeted: “Same concept: we wouldn’t see any room for dialogue with a white supremacist coming to campus.”
Fattouh also tweeted: “Shame on UH for welcoming Nikki Haley to come speak on Tuesday! As U.S ambassador to the UN, she claimed that Israel ‘showed restraint’ in the Gaza massacre of 109 protesters & walked out on a Palestinian rep in a meeting. DM me if you’re down to respond to her coming
.”Defending Terror Financiers
The HLF5 were five individuals associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) indicted for funnelling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.
The men were were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.
Demonizing Israel
On October 19, 2017, Fattouh shared to Facebook a video by anti-Israel activist Robert Martin from the Facebook page titled: “I acknowledge apartheid exists." In the video, Martin described [00:00:22]Israeli security policies as “complete racism” and portrayed [00:01:35] Israeli soldiers as “racist right to the heart.”
On August 26, 2017, Fattouh shared a video on Facebook of an interview with journalist Abby Martin. Martin propagated [00:02:14] multiple libels and false allegations about Israel (these were later debunked in a video by Chloe Carson from the Israel Advocacy Movement).
On April 20, 2016, Fattouh posted a photo to Facebook of himself and other activists, one of whom held a sign likening late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Adolf Hitler. The sign read: “What’s the difference between Hitler and Sharon? About 60 years!”
On August 7, 2014, Fattouh shared to Facebook a video that featured members of Neturei Karta demonizing Zionism.
Neturei Karta is an anti-Israel Jewish fringe group whose leader, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, was excommunicated from many Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups for participating in a 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran. The group opposes Zionism on religious grounds and has called to dismantle Israel.
Glorifying the March of Return
On September 7, 2018, Fattouh was featured tabling in a photo on Twitter posted by SJP UH taken during an event that glorified the violent March of Return.
SJP UH’s tweet said: “Each flag at last week’s tabling event honored one of the 195 martyrs that had fallen while fighting at the forefront of the Great Return March. We carry the martyrs with us each and every day as we revive their commitment to the Palestinian cause.”
On May 14, 2018, Fattouh tweeted: “Over 50 Palestinian peaceful protesters killed today including 8 CHILDREN, bringing the death toll since March 30 to over 90 Palestinian with over 6000 injured. Who’s the # 1 supporter of the Israeli terrorist government? The U.S. Your tax dollars. #TheBloodIsOnOurHands.”
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.
Fattouh’s tweet included a graphic promoting the SJP UH-organized event titled: “Emergency Protest.”
On May 15, 2018, Fattouh promoted the protest on Facebook, calling Israel a “terrorist apartheid state” and said: “Come out to make your voices heard.”
The May 15, 2018 event’s Facebook description said: “Israeli forces murdered 55 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 2,700 more...as the US renewed its support of the genocide with a new embassy in occupied Jerusalem.”
The Facebook description continued: “Students for Justice in Palestine at UH...bring our voice to the Zionist Consulate in Houston calling for justice and an end to the genocide.”
Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators
During the meeting, Hill reportedly whitewashed Palestinian violence and accused Israel of “state violence and ethnic cleansing.” He also called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
In September 2018, during a U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) conference, Hill insinuated [00:31:01] that Israel poisons Palestinian water and seemingly approved [00:30:34] of violence against Israelis.
On July 9, 2015, Fattouh shared on Facebook a video interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, in which Gilbert compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa and urged viewers to support the BDS movement.
Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership.
In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 Gilbert was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.
In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.” In December of 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
SJP Activism
The session reportedly “compared Israel with Nazi Germany and equated the movement for Jewish self-determination with white supremacy and genocide.” Fattouh was tagged in a photo from the session in front of a series of maps known as “The Map That Lies.”
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On September 12, 2018, Fattouh posted to Facebook: “
For anyone trying to get a general framework on the Palestinian struggle!” and embedded the SJP UH-organized event titled: “Palestine 101: Understanding Israel as a Settler Colonial Project.”The event’s Facebook description said: “SJP's ‘Palestine 101’ event where you can learn about…[the] ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”
On May 8, 2018, Fattouh wrote on Facebook: “From the start of the [Zionist] movement...we have seen nothing short of an ongoing settler-colonial project with the goal of establishing an exclusively white Jewish state which aims to wipe out the native Palestinian population, and nothing less.”
Fattouh’s post shared a SJP UH-hosted event titled: ���Nakba Day 2018. Fattouh also wrote that in 1948 “Over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and numerous war crimes were committed including widespread massacres, rape, and mass imprisonment.”
On May 7, 2018, Fattouh tweeted: “the apartheid state of Israel was founded on the genocide of the Palestinian people, still continuing today and funded by our tax dollars” and a link to the SJP UH-hosted “Nakba Day 2018” event.
On March 28, 2018, Fattouh wrote on Facebook: “Next week
#CoogsAgainstApartheid #IsraeliApartheidWeek.” The post featured a graphic that promoted SJP UH’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).On April 12, 2018, Fattouh was posed for a photo posted by SJP UH on Facebook, in front of SJP UH’s “mock apartheid wall” during IAW. The wall at UH was meant to represent Israel’s security barrier.
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Fattouh also posed for multiple group photos taken in front of a selection of the wall that featured illustrations of a series of maps known as the “Map That Lies.”
On May 8, 2017, Fattouh participated in IAW organized by SJP UH. Fattouh held a sign that read: “Ask me about Palestine.”
The event featured a “mock apartheid wall.” Text on the wall included: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child” and: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”
Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference
On November 22, 2018, Fattouh appeared in a photo of the 2018 National SJP Conference Steering Committee members.On September 25, 2018, Fattouh shared on Facebook a fundraiser titled: “UCLA 2018- National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference.”
2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
SJP UH - Spreading Anti-Israel Propaganda
UH’s IAW featured a mock apartheid wall, erected on campus. Text on the wall read: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child.” Another piece of text read: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”SJP UH - Pushing BDS
On November 1, 2015, SJP UH shared an event on Facebook announcing plans for a UH Divest campaign and new Facebook page. The event aimed to discuss “all potential strategies” to bring BDS to UH. Proposed strategies included:Revamped tabling and silent demonstrations
SJP UH - Spreading Propaganda
On October 1, 2017, SJP UH shared a Facebook post that read: “17 years ago today, 12yr old Muhammad Al-Durra was shot dead on LIVE TV in his father's arms.#Coogs4Palestine #FreePalestine.”
The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, fabricated on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada by a France 2 reporter.
On May 8, 2017, SJP UH organized Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) on UH’s campus. One IAW event featured a mock “apartheid wall” erected on campus. Text on the wall read: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child.” Other text read: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas’ continued deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged gazans to act as human shields, to specifically frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
SJP UH - Supporting Terrorists
On September 5, 2017, SJP UH shared a graphic on Facebook of an image and quote by Leila Khaled.Khaled is a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau.
Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister.
On May 25, 2017, SJP UH rallied behind convicted Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike, by organizing a “symbolic hunger strike” and participating in a Saltwater Challenge. The event organizers wrote on the Facebook event page: “we demand that Israel end its policies of apartheid, colonization, military occupation, displacement, dispossession, and mass incarceration.”
The hunger strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings — and shooting attacks that killed five Israelis during the second Intifada. Barghouti led the the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Barghouti also financed the guitar-case bomb used in the Sbarro Cafe massacre where 15 civilians were killed and 130 injured.
More than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners participated in the hunger strike — most of whom were also convicted for acts of terrorism.
According to CNN , the “Saltwater Challenge” appears to have been started by Aarab Marwan Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti.
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.
SJP UH - Disrupting Campus Events
On November 3, 2017, SJP activists disrupted a lecture by David Horowitz at UH. SJP activists stood up holding a Palestinian flag and a Pan African/Black Liberation flag and yelled [00:07:04] at Horowitz. The protesters began shouting, “Zionists! Off our campus! Racists! Off our campus! Islamophobes! Off our campus!” and walked out of the lecture hall as they continued to chant.The protesters included members of other campus organizations that comprised the Cougar Voice Coalition (CVC), such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Muslim Students Association (MSA), United Muslim Relief (UMR) Houston and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Houston.
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.
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.
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