Muaz Aznan
Overview
Muaz Aznan [Muaz Al-Hanif Aznan] has demonized Israel and participated in an anti-Israel rally organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).Aznan is a member of the UC Davis Muslim Students Association (MSA) closed Facebook group, a member of the MSA “Brotherhood of Davis” Facebook group and has promoted MSA events at UC Davis.
In 2016, he attended the 18th MSA West conference as a member of MSA at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His LinkedIn indicated that he was the president of MSA at Cupertino High School from August 2012 to June 2015.
During that time, on June 9, 2014, Aznan was asked on Ask.fm “If you could have dinner with any political figure, dead or alive, who would you pick?” He answered: “hitler”
As of March 2018, Aznan’s Facebook page indicated that he attended UCSB from September 20, 2015 to June 16, 2017. His Linkedin said that he transferred to UC Davis at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year.
As of March 2018, the UC Davis student directory listed Aznan as a student at UC Davis majoring in Microbiology. His LinkedIn page said he was slated to graduate in 2019.
Also as of March, 2018 Aznan went by the name “Muaz Amir” on Instagram and Facebook. As of April 1, 2018, however, he deleted the Facebook account with that name and opened a new one, using the name “Muaz Aznan.”
Demonizing Israel
On May 15, 2017, Aznan shared an AJ+ video on Facebook titled: “Where did the Palestinians Go?” The video distorted the history of the conflict and implied that Israel is practicing apartheid [00:00:34] and carrying out ethnic cleansing.On March 16, 2017, Aznan shared a post on Facebook that reported a United Nations agency had accused Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime.” Aznan wrote: “Nothing new here.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On March 7, 2018, Aznan participated in an anti-Israel rally at SJP’s mock apartheid wall, as part of Palestine Awareness Week. He also featured in a group photo in front of the wall.SJP UC Davis - Demonizing Israel
On March 5, 2018, SJP at UC Davis erected a mock-apartheid wall, a representation of Israel’s security barrier, on the campus quad.Text on one red panel on the wall implied that Israel deliberately targeted United Nations buildings in Gaza and misleadingly cited the terrorist group Hamas’ propaganda figures concerning the number of Gazan children killed during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE).
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Following OPE, it was reported that Hamas had used UNRWA schools and other densely populated civilian areas to fire rockets from and had threatened UNRWA workers at gunpoint to hide weapons in the schools. Hamas rocket attacks were often based in civilian areas.
Another panel on the mock-apartheid wall depicted an Israeli flag with bloody handprints and the words “Stop US Aid to Israel.”
SJP UC Davis held a protest in front of the barrier in which 40 to 50 students participated. One protester held a sign that said: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.”
Protesters also promoted BDS with a sign that read “Divest, Resist, Liberate.”
On November 2, 2017, SJP UC Davis members tabled on campus to promote itself and to “teach more about the Balfour Declaration.”
SJP UC Davis posted on Facebook, urging readers to visit its tableand implied that the Balfour Declaration “led to the expulsion, killing and dispossession of Palestinians.” The post went on to accuse Israel of apartheid and called Gaza an “open prison.”
On March 20, 2017, SJP UC Davis shared to Facebook an AJ+ video called: “UN Removes Report Accusing Israel of ‘Apartheid’”
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.
