Muneeza Rizvi
Overview
Muneeza Rizvi is an anti-Israel activist who has promoted violence, expressed support for a terrorist and defended Hamas’s “March of Return.” She also participated in an anti-Israel rally organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).Rizvi indicated on Facebook and in the UC Davis student paper that she has been refused entry into Israel.
As of May 2018, Rizvi was listed as a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) closed Facebook group since June 2016.
As of March 15, 2018, Rizvi was a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at UC Davis where she was a teaching assistant in Spring 2017 and an associate instructor in Fall 2017.
Her LinkedIn page indicated that she is scheduled to graduate in 2019.
On March 13, 2018, Rizvi indicated on Facebook that she intended to conduct Anthropology fieldwork in the UK, but was having “visa-related issues.”
As of May 2018, Rizvi used the name “Mun Eeza” on Facebook.
Promoting Violence
On May 3, 2018, Rizvi posted on Facebook: “Molotov kites. Gotta love the people of Gaza, lol.” Rizvi’s post applauded a tactic protesters used in April 2018, during the fourth week of the “March of Return” protest in Gaza. (See below)The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
On the same day, she posted to Facebook commemorating “30 years” since the beginning of the first intifada.
More than 10,000 Israelis were maimed or murdered by the Palestinian terrorist violence of the first and second intifadas.
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
Supporting a Hamas Terrorist
another martyr.”Al Batsh was an engineer commanderand technology expert for Hamas' armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Al Batsh was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur, on April 21, 2018. His funeral was led by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Following reports of Al Batsh’s assassination, Rizvi posted to Facebook: “yet another scientist of the islamic movement gone...Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un [We are from allah and to him we return.]”
Defending Hamas’s March of Return
On March 30, 2018, Rizvi shared a post on Facebook about a “massive protest” in Gaza on “yom al ard” [Land Day].On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Gazan Palestinians approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” to kick off the “March of Return” — funded by Hamas and organized as a six-week campaign of violent protests along the border until May 15, 2018. The march aimed to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to return to parts of Israel their families were forced to flee during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused Israeli security forces to respond with live fire.
Agitators reportedly shot firearms and threw molotov cocktails, firebombs and rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.
On March 31, 2018, Rizvi shared a video claiming 14 people were killed and more than thousand injured during a protest near Israel’s Gaza border. The video omitted that ten of the 14 Palestinians killed at the border were confirmed as members of terror groups — including eight Hamas members and one member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On December 6, 2017, Rizvi posted to Facebook: “Hands off Jerusalem devils.”The hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” was created to protest United States President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On December 7, 2017, Rizvi posted to Facebook: “gotta love the palestinians… constantly making life difficult for the colonizer.” Her post was attached to a video of masked Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a screen of black smoke from burning tires. The clashes were part of a “Day of Rage” following Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.
On December 9, 2017, Rizvi posted to Facebook an article called: “Google declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel.” Rizvi added: “Another reason to despise Google.” On the same day she shared a video of Arab, Somali and Indonesian protests “in solidarity with Palestinians.”
On November 17, 2016, Rizvi posted on Facebook:”Israel seems to be much friendlier towards animals than to Black people and Palestinians. Happening in an hour...if anyone wants to umm...attend.”
SJP Activism
On March 15, 2018, Rizvi spoke to the UC Davis newspaper detailing her participation at SJP UC Davis’ anti-Israel rally and mock apartheid wall as part of Palestine Awareness Week (PAW).Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) is a re-branding for American audiences of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), originally presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On February 15, 2018, Rizvi indicated on Facebook that she “went” to an SJP event featuring SJP- founder Hatem Bazian.
During the event, Bazian denied [1:09:28] the national-historical connection of the Jewish people to Israel, alleged [00:49:55] that Jesus of Nazareth was “Palestinian” and claimed [1:25:02] that “investing in peace” with Israel is “supporting apartheid.”
On January 24, 2018, Rizvi indicated on Facebook that she “went” to SJP UC Davis’ 2018 Welcome Meeting.
On December 9. 2017, Rizvi indicated on Facebook that she “went” to a protest called “All Out for Palestine: Hands off Jerusalem!” hosted by GUPS SFSU, AMP Bay Area, AROC, SJP Berkeley and SJP San Jose.
The event description went on to assert that “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine,” and further added:
“US Out of Palestine!
No to White Supremacy Here or in Our Homelands!
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel!
End the colonial occupation of Palestine!”
On October 10, 2017, Rizvi indicated on Facebook that she “went” to SJP’s General Body Meeting. The event description said it was SJP’s “first general body meeting of the year and invited participants to “learn about what we do”! Come learn more about what we do, SJP’s plans for the year, and how to become involved.
Supporting BDS
On March 15, 2018 Rizvi told the UC Davis student newspaper: “As an anthropologist who researched Palestine and who was refused entrance into the country, I’ve observed first-hand how colonialism restricts academic research and believe academic boycott of Israel should be taken seriously.”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.
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
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muneeza-rizvi-8a9138117/ [Deleted]
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- California-Davis
- Organizations:
- AROC,
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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