Muhammad Anani
Overview
Muhammad Anani [Mahmoud Abdel Fatah Anany] has spread hatred of Israel and he also helped launch a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement campaign at McGill University (McGill) in 2016 as an organizing member of the McGill BDS Action Network (McGill BDS).Anani was affiliated with Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at McGill (SPHR McGill) in 2014 and 2015. SPHR is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
In 2015, Anani was reportedly a "U2 Science student" at McGill.
Hatred of Israel
On February 9, 2015, Anani contributed to an article in the McGill Daily student newspaper titled: “Voices of Palestine,” with a subheading that read: “Palestinian diaspora at McGill discuss their roots and identity.”Anani wrote that he visited “apartheid walls and illegal settlements next to my hometown, Hebron, checkpoints, and the displacement of tens of thousands of people.” His reference to “apartheid walls” was about 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.
Israeli checkpoints were built to prevent terror attacks, such as suicide bombings, against Israel's civilian population.
Anani also wrote that he had “screamed ‘Free Palestine’ at protests” and that he “won’t stop screaming, I won’t stop calling people out, I won’t apologize for my activism until I return home; but with a Palestinian passport, through Palestinian borders, on the same bus as my Palestinian brothers and sisters.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Anti-Israel Activism (BDS, SPHR)
In February 2016, Anani reportedly helped organize McGill BDS’s 2016 campaign. According to Anani, the 2016 campaign “explicitly” called on the General Assembly of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) to “support BDS campaigns on campus, and to lobby the McGill Board of Governors to divest from corporations complicit in the occupation of the Palestinian territories.”On February 22, 2016, the McGill BDS Action Network proposed its BDS motion to the SSMU. The motion was endorsed by SPHR and 19 other student groups at McGill. The vote passed 512 to 357, in support of BDS.
On February 23, 2016, the McGill Daily reported that Anani had been a speaker at the pre-vote debate.
On February 27, 2016, the BDS initiative lost a subsequent online ratification vote by 57 to 43 percent. Following the announcement of the vote, McGill Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier issued a statement to the university opposing BDS.
On February 23, 2015, Anani reportedly attended an event co-hosted by SPHR McGill and the SSMU titled: “Boycotting Apartheid States: A Panel on BDS.” The event featured pro-BDS McGill professors Jon Soske and Michelle Hartman.
At the event, Soske reportedly “drew similarities between the conditions that Israel enforces on Palestinians and the conditions enforced by white South Africans on the black community under the apartheid regime.”
The event also included Professor Samia Botmeh, a visiting Palestinian professor from Birzeit University and coordinator for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
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.
McGill BDS
On March 15, 2015, the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) presented the General Assembly of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) with a motion calling on McGill to boycott five companies doing business in Israel. The motion failed by 64 votes after an “intense” 45-minute debate. SPHR is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).On February 22, 2016, the McGill BDS Action Network presented a “motion to support BDS” to the General Assembly of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU).
The motion called for the SSMU to “support campaigns associated with the BDS movement.” It also called for the SSMU president to recommend to McGill’s board of governors “no less than the complete divestment of holdings” in companies doing business in Israel. According to one source, the motion reportedlypassed 512 to 357.
On February 25, 2016, BDS supporters reportedly targeted Jewish students on social media with anti-Semitic remarks such as: “Little Zionist jewboys not happy that McGill students don’t support their genocide.”
The Montreal Gazette reported that after the vote, one student was “followed home and verbally harassed,” while another “was going to the police” to report an attempt to hack his Facebook page. A campaigner against the initiative said he knew of at least 10 students who sought counseling due to “intolerable situations” caused by their opposition to the motion.
On February 27, 2016, the BDS initiative lost the subsequent online ratification vote when 57 percent of the voters voted against it. Following the announcement of that vote, then-McGill principal and vice-chancellor Suzanne Fortier issued a statement confirming that the university’s administration “continues to steadfastly oppose” and “will have no part of” the BDS movement.
In 2016, the Algemeiner ranked McGill fourth on a list of North America’s 40 “worst” campuses for Jewish students.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/muhammad.anani.33 [Deleted]Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/3anani/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://ca.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-anani-033523107 [Deleted]
- Status:
- Unknown
- University:
- McGill
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SPHR (SJP)
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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