Morgan Flake
Overview
Morgan Flake has demonized Israel as a 2017 board member with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Florida State University (FSU).Flake has also supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and defended inciters to terror.
Flake has been a member of the closed Facebook group “SJP South” since April 27, 2016. She attended the National SJP conference (NSJP) in 2016 and indicated on Facebook that she “went” to NSJP in 2017 (NSJP 2017).
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.”
Flake was affiliated with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at FSU and is a member of the closed Facebook group “FSU MSA Community.”
As of January 2018, Flake was also a member of the Facebook group “Americans Against Genocide In Gaza (AAGG).”
In January 2018, Flake posted on GoFundMe.com that she graduated FSU with a B.A. in August of 2017.
Flake wrote: “I'm a 36yr old divorced woman, graduated from FSU with my BA this past August, and have been a very outspoken community activist supporting marginalized and minority communities such as PoC, LGBTQIA+, Muslims, and other oppressed groups for years.”
As of January 14, 2018, Flake’s Facebook page said that she studied Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic at FSU.
Demonizing Israel
On March 31, 2017, Flake repeatedly demonized Israel in an interview she gave with fellow FSU SJP board members on the "411 Teen" talk radio at WFSU.During the interview, Albert Kishek — FSU SJP President — claimed [00:23:46] that Israel has a “long long history of colonization,” and is [00:25:06] getting away with “crimes of apartheid, crimes of war and genocide.”
Flake then asserted [00:25:32] that “out of all the countries that are guilty of this kind of criminal behaviour, Israel is pretty much the worst.” She added [00:27:03] that the Israeli government is a “colonizing force” and “they don’t even recognize Palestinians as human being.”
Promoting BDS
On March 31, 2017, during the interview with “411 Teen,” Flake promoted [00:44:11] the BDS movement and encouraged [00:44:27] the boycott of the cosmetics brand Garnier Fructis for supplying facial products to female Israeli soldiers during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — which she labelled “the Gaza genocide.”Flake added [00:44:29] “because of course they had to look pretty while they were bombing civilians.”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Defending Inciters to Terror
In November 2017, FSU’s Student General Assembly (SGA) considered suspending funding for an FSU SJP panel event featuring Nerdeen Kiswani, Noura Farouk and Dan Cione of New York City (NYC) SJP.Kiswani, Farouk and Cione are all notorious for spreading hatred of Israel.
On November 9, 2017, Flakejoined FSU SJP activists sat in at an FSU SGA meeting to protest the proposed defunding.
During the hearing, which FSU SJP posted on its Facebook page, the group’s secretary and treasurer Albert Kishek acknowledged his group was accused [00:42:45] of hate speech and anti-Semitism.
But Kishek claimed [00:46:00] that Kiswani and Farouk were “feminist organizers” of Palestinian background “who are playing a useful part to the building of the anti-war movement.”
FSU SJP’s post stated the group would “not tolerate infringement upon rights to school funding for our events and ended with the hashtags #RightToResist and #AIPACOutOfFSU.”
Draken also spoke on behalf of FSU SJP, expressing [00:07:32] support for SJP, and calling Kiswani “a great speaker” with “a lot of important things to say.”
SGA voted 24-10 with 4 abstentions to provide funding to FSU SJP for the panel.
On that same day, Flake commented on a photo of herself taken during the event: “Despite all of the Zionist screwballs, justice came out ahead and we won!!”
On November 16, 2017, Flake attended the FSU SJP panel featuring Kiswani, Farouk and Cione.
During the panel, Kiswani accused Israel of committing [00:08:29] “mass rapes” and claimed that [00:9:08] “to this day there is daily assault and sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Zionists.”
Kiswani also stated [01:45:52] “...we see in Israel, when Ethiopian Jews are trying to integrate themselves into the white settler colonial project of Israel, they put on the uniform and kill Palestinians and then their babies still get stabbed by Israelis and they still don’t see a day of justice in the court.”
Cione noted [00:26:14] that, after the Oslo accords, the United States gave the Palestinian Authority “over 32 billion dollars… for state building institutions.” Cione then condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for not funding radicals.
Cione said that [00:24:42] “when they were dumping all this money into Palestine” USAID included a “terror clause, which said that none of this money can go to “anyone that… is a terrorist organization as defined by Israel or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist.”
At the end of the panel, the attendees and panelists chanted [01:48:48] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”
SJP Activism
Flake participated in eleven FSU SJP events from 2016-2017.On February 22, 2017, Flake indicated on Facebook that she to an “went” to an SJP event that promoted the BDS movement.
On January 18, 2017, Flake indicated on Facebook that she “went” to SJP’s first General Body Meeting of the Spring Semester.
On October 14, 2016, Flake indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an SJP lecture titled “US-Israeli Imperialism.” The event description accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinians and claimed Israel is “colonialist” with “imperial ambitions.”
On September 16, 2016, Flake indicated on Facebook that she “went” to SJP’s first meeting of the Fall Semester. The event description invited students to learn about American funding of “Israel’s settler colonial project.”
On July 23, 2016, Flake indicated on Facebook that she“went” to a workshop titled “Overcoming Obstacles: for Palestine in Jax & Beyond” co-hosted by FSU SJP.
The workshop featured Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida Legislative & Government Affairs Director Laila Abdelaziz and U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO) Policy Director Josh Ruebner.
CAIR has been accused of being connected to terrorist activity.
The United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)— formerly ETO — is a coalition of American-based anti-Israel organizations that lobby the United States Congress to adopt anti-Israel policies and end government support for Israel.
On April 15, 2016, Flake indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an SJP event titled: “Racism in Colonialist Societies.”
The event description labelled Israel “racist” and “colonialist” and blamed “unprecedented increase in brutality, murder, and incarceration” of “people of color here in the states” on the “Western-Israeli complex.”
FSU SJP Incitement to Terror
On October 27, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a “PALESTINIAN YOUTH INTERNATIONAL CALL TO SUPPORT THE INTIFADA.”The declaration called for an “international mobilization” of Palestinian youth in exile and their allies to “support the resistance,” and glorified the Knife Intifada terrorists as “heroic.”
FSU SJP Defending the Knife Intifada
On October 5, 2015 — at the beginning of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP shared an article to Facebook claiming a “Palestinian teen” was “executed” as a “death-chanting” mob rejoiced. The teen was Fadi Aloon.Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.
On November 5, 2015 — following the first month of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “October. Was. Scary. For. Palestinians. How are things looking for November? How about 2016? ... Something's gotta give!! #BDS.”
On November 7, 2015, FSU SJP shared a photo to Facebook of Dania Irsheid after she was shot, commenting: “Lost for words…”
Dania Irsheid was shot by an Israeli police officer after she attempted to stab him.
On November 24, 2015, FSU SJP shared a video misrepresenting terrorists Hadeel and Nurhan Awad, as having been “executed” by Israel. The video was titled “execution of civilians - what Israeli settlers do best.”|
Hadeel Awad and her cousin Nurhan Awad were shot after they stabbed two people — including a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem — near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Hadeel was shot by police as she was slashing at other Israeli civilians with scissors.
On November 22, 2015, during Israel’s “Knife Intifada,” Ashraqat Taha Qatanani was run over and shot during her attempt to stab an Israeli woman. According to the Donia Al-Watan Palestinian newspaper, Qatanani died as “a Martyr as she wished.”
On November 26, 2015, FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “Brutal military occupation uses violence to quell peaceful resistance. And we wonder why resitance [sic] turns to armed struggle? To knives?"
On April 25, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post defending Dima Al-Wawi, adding “Her face says it all.”
On April 24, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post in defence of Al-Wawi, presenting her arrest as “discrimination against Palestinians.”
On April 13, 2016, FSU SJP defended Al-Wawi on Facebook, claiming: “This is how the Israeli government and illegal settler forces demonize Palestinians and their children.”
12-year-old Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred,” she said.
Jasmine Rashad al-Zaru [Yasmeen Rashad al Zaro] attempted to stab an Israeli Border Policeman before she was shot.
FSU SJP Honoring Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
On April 13, 2017, FSU SJP posted to Facebook several photos of convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh after a court ordered her deportation from the United States. FSU SJP referred to Odeh as a “Palestinian freedom fighter” and added the hashtag #HonorRasmea.FSU SJP Defending Terrorists
On December 12, 2015, FSU SJP commemorated the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, tweeting: “PFLP marks 48th establishment anniversary in Gaza.”On December 13, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook an article reporting the PFLP’s celebration in Gaza. the article added that during the festivities, the PFLP “re-asserted its commitment to the new Palestinian Intifada.”
On March 9, 2017, FSU SJP posted a photo of Leila Khaled to Facebook in honor of International Women’s Day.
On March 14, 2017, FSU SJP posted an illustration of Basel Al Araj to Facebook with the caption “Long Live Basil Al-Araj! Long Live the Resistance! Until Victory.”
On May 27, 2017, FSU SJP celebrated the end of the hunger strike on Facebook, commenting: “Victory to the #DignityStrike!”
FSU SJP Defending the 2017 Shooting Attack at al-Aqsa Mosque
On July 21 2017, FSU SJP claimed on Facebook that the al-Aqsa Mosque was “taken hostage by Israel” and that Israel was “murdering innocent devotees who dared question the seizure.”The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.
The Israeli government removed the detectors on July 25, 2017.
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.
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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