Mohammedi Khan
Overview
Mohammedi Khan has expressed support for terrorist Rasmea Odeh and was an organizer within the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement at Loyola University Chicago (Loyola).As of October 2018, Khan’s LinkedIn page said she graduated from Loyola in 2017, with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Khan’s LinkedIn also said that she was studying for her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP), slated to graduate in 2023.
She also listed herself as “Contracted Part-Time Faculty” teaching undergraduates at Loyola, since January 2018.
Khan’s LinkedIn page also said that she was an Editor and Advice Columnist at Beautiful Voyager since October 2017 and a Contributing Writer at Invisible Illness since May 2017.
Support for Terrorist
On November 4, 2014, Khan issued her support for Rasmea Odeh on Facebook, who she described as an “activist for Palestinian human rights and independence.” Khan also shared a link to an article that called for Odeh’s release, claimed “she never committed a crime” and charged that Odeh’s case reeked of “political payback”.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.
Kahn concluded her Facebook post, writing: “As for Rasmea's fight for truth and her legacy, your students/supporters will definitely carry that out.
”BDS Campus Activism
Khan promoted the 2015 Loyola Divest campaign on Facebook as an organizer of the Loyola Divest coalition.Khan posed fora photo published on Loyola Divest’s Facebook page in March 2015, to promote the group’s 2015 BDS campaign. In the photo, she held a sign reading: “I SUPPORT LOYOLA DIVEST.”
On March 10, 2015, Khan was featured [00:01:38] in a promotional video for Loyola Divest on Youtube. On that day, Khan updated her Facebook profile picture to a photo of herself wearing a Loyola Divest t-shirt that also featured the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
The Loyola Divest Facebook page, created on January 30, 2014, said that it was previously named “SJP Loyola” and listed the group’s email address as “sjpluc@gmail.com” and the group’s website as “http://sjployola.com. The SJP Loyola Facebook page history said the page changed its name to “Loyola Divest” on September 16, 2014.
The divestment effort culminated in a resolution, titled “Divestment from Companies Profiting from the Illegal Occupation of the Palestinian Territory To ensure adherence to Loyola’s University Chicago’s Socially Responsible Investment Policy.
The resolution resolved to urge the Loyola’s Chief Investment Office to collaborate with “students, faculty and staff” to “create and enforce a publicly available socially responsible investment policy and the Shareholder Advocacy Committee that will ensure that Loyola is upholding its Jesuit Catholic mission and Jesuit values in regard to investments” and divest from “corporations profiting from human rights violations committed against the Palestinian people.”
The resolution invoked the 2005 Palestine civil society call for BDS, and quoted Al Jazeera, claiming that “Israel had been buying and ‘weaponizing’ Caterpillar bulldozers then using them to demolish Palestinian homes, build settlements and the separation wall, clear land to build Jewish-only roads, uproot olive and fruit trees, and carry out military operation [sic].”
The resolution, which was the third such proposed in as many years, passed on March 24, 2015, after an initial tie vote.
In response to the resolution, Loyola University President Michael J. Garanzini wrote an open letter, titled “Endorsing a Community of Dialogue” to the student body.
Garanzini’s letter decried the divestment resolution as a divisive, harmful and ineffective way to conduct discourse about the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
On March 2, 2016, Khan promoted another Loyola Divest campaign via her Facebook profile picture. That day, Loyola Divest released a statement saying it was re-launching a campaign to “mobilize our faculty, administrators and staff to divest from the Israeli occupation,” after Associate Professor and Chair of University Senate, Noah Sobe, refused to put divestment on the University Senate’s agenda.
Khan promoted the 2016 Loyola Divestment campaign with additional updates to her Facebook profile picture on March 2 and February 29, 2016.
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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- Student
- University:
- Loyola
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- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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