Mona El-Falou

For more information, see the SJP TMU Chapter Profile. TMU was known as Ryerson University (Ryerson) until April 2022.

El-Falou is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

In 2015, El-Falou served as the Muslim Students Association (MSA) “Sisters’” vice president for TMU’s chapter, known as Toronto MET MSA. 

As of August 2023, El-Falou’s LinkedIn said she graduated from TMU with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and has been working as a software engineer at Microsoft since February 2022. She wrote that she was located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Hatred of Israel

On September 4, 2022, El-Falou posted on LinkedIn: “#NoTechForApartheid / The Apartheid State of Israel has already been using surveillance technologies… / The amount of information the apartheid government and IDF [Israel Defense Forces] could obtain and process will be contributing directly to what I’m calling ‘digital apartheid’...” 

On May 17, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas, El-Falou posted on Facebook an email she wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau.

In the letter, El-Falou demanded the Canadian government to “take a stance and call the situation for what it is - an occupation.” She also demanded that the Canadian government call “Israel for what it is -an apartheid state based on the systematic oppression of the Palestinians.”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

On May 17, 2021, El-Falou commented on her Facebook post writing: “#FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah #GazaUnderAttack #AlAqsaUnderAttack.”

In May 2021, calls to “save” Sheikh Jarrah, a Jerusalem neighborhood at the center of a property dispute, led to violence against Israelis and were one of the leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel that month. Israel responded by launching Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), carrying out targeted military strikes against the terrorists and their infrastructure in Gaza.

On May 15, 2018, El-Falou tweeted: “70 years of oppression. 70 years of exile. 70 years of murder and genocide. 70 years of occupation. 70 years of imprisoning. 70 years of separation. 70 years of apartheid. #Part1of4 #MyRightofReturnTo #Nakba70 #Palestine.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

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.

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.  

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/mona.elfalou
 
Twitter:https://twitter.com/FalouM 

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/monafalou [Private]

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/monaelfalou

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpg0BPkJmrd41807hzUWgzQ