Musabika Nabiha

Overview

Musabika Nabiha joined in an illegal college encampment and spread hatred of Israel. Nabiha expressed support for terrorism and promoted hatred of America and Israel as a speaker at rallies organized by the pro-terror activist groups Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and Al-Awda. She has also spread incitement and shown support for violent protests.

Nabiha’s participation in the encampment was during Israel’s war against Hamas after the October 7, 2023 attacks when terrorists murdered over 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes against civilians included torture, rape and beheadings. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

In April 2022, Nabiha was an activist with CUNY for Palestine, an anti-Israel group at the City University of New York (CUNY), which is located in New York, New York.

In September 2019, Nabiha was an activist [slide 3] with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice (John Jay SJP).

Nabiha is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of April 2024, Nabiha’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from John Jay with a bachelor’s degree in “Imperial History & Postcolonial Studies.” According to a May 2021 Facebook post, she graduated from John Jay that month. In 2018-2019, she was listed as the secretary of the John Jay chapter of the Muslim Student Association (MSA).

Also as of April 2024, Nabiha’s LinkedIn said she was located in Brooklyn, New York.

As of June 2023, Nabiha went by the username “saf” on Twitter and the handle “@mblaka_.” In May 2023, she went by the username “مسابقة [Musabika]” on Twitter and had the same handle.

Participating in an Illegal Encampment

Nabiha participated in an illegal anti-Israel encampment on the campus of City College of New York (CCNY), part of the CUNY system. She also advocated for the encampment’s objectives during an interview with news program “Democracy Now.”

The encampment was set up on April 25, 2024 and dismantled on April 30, 2024 after the New York City Police Department (NYPD) conducted mass arrests while they cleared out the encampment. The six-day protest took place in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks and subsequent war against the terror group.

The CCNY encampment was one of many, the first being at Columbia University (Columbia), also in New York, New York.

On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up what they called the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university's main lawn. The encampment was the first of its kind and reportedly inspired a wave of as many as 140 protest encampments across North American campuses and over 20 globally.

Encampment participants protested Israel’s war against Hamas and demanded that the universities “divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation…” At least 14 schools pledged to meet a number of the protester's demands. Some allowed police to dismantle the encampments, which led to mass arrests in a number of cases.

Protesters reportedly harassed Jewish students. Some blocked Jews from campus facilities, while others restricted access to only those wearing special wristbands or who declared they were "not a Zionist." Some Jewish students were told [00:00:02] to “go back to Poland” and [slide 3]: “Yahoodi [Jew], f**k you!” as they walked on campus.

In May 2024, Nabiha gave a video interview about the CCNY encampment where she said [00:03:28]: “The encampment put forward five demands. The first one was for CUNY to divest its 8.5 million dollars from weapons and surveillance technology that perpetuates the colonization of Palestine. The second demand was for CUNY to institute an academic boycott of Israeli universities that are complicit in this genocide and in the broader colonization of Palestine.”

Nabiha continued [00:03:51]: “The third demand was for CUNY to express solidarity with the Palestinian resistance struggle…The fourth demand was for CUNY to demilitarize its campuses. So to get IOF [Israeli Occupation Forces] members, cops, policemen and the US military off of our campuses. And finally, the fifth demand was for CUNY to return to being a fully-funded, tuition-free, people's CUNY that offers a fair contract to all of its workers.”

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.

“IOF” stands for Israeli Occupation Forces, a derogatory name used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army in place of its official name, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The accusation that Israeli law enforcement teaches American police brutal tactics during police exchange programs is used to demonize Israel. Participants in these programs have stated [00:02:14] that the training in Israel focuses [00:13:36] on public policy, counterterrorism and leadership training in the form of lectures and discussions.

Hatred of Israel and Zionism

On May 24, 2023, Nabiha tweeted: “rting [retweeting] this for the quote (

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Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.

On May 13, 2022, Nabiha spoke at a rally organized by Al-Awda where she referred [00:00:08] to Israel as “the fake Zionist colonial entity called Israel” and accused [00:00:16] Israel of “controlling information…to maintain their control.”

On August 22, 2021, Nabiha appeared [Slide 6] in a photo posted to WOL’s Instagram page holding a sign that read: “Globalize the Intifada.”

On August 16, 2021, Nabiha tweeted: “normalize not normalizing zionism.”

Proponents of the “anti-normalization” policy seek to police all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians and shut down all conversations and interactions perceived as being ideologically unaligned with their own agenda. They believe “liberal Zionist” dialogue with Palestinians “normalizes” entrenched power dynamics. This policy was originally dictated by the BDS National Committee (BNC), which prioritized the “Monitoring & Rapid Response” against interactions that recognize or cooperate with “Israel’s regime.”

On May 30, 2021, Nabiha tweeted: “‘As CUNY continues to invest, Israel continues to kill.’” The tweet was a quote taken from a speech by WOL founder Nerdeen Kiswani at a rally at John Jay, titled: “CUNY Must Divest.”

On May 21, 2021, Nabiha tweeted: “On the delusion that zionists are under is actually sickening. delusion is probably too kind a term…”

On May 17, 2021, Nabiha tweeted: “i am genuinely horrified the more i learn about how deeply entrenched american jews are in zionism - not just ideologically but materially, physically…sadaqah [Charity] for the idf [Israel Defense Forces]????”

On May 10, 2021, during OGW, Nabiha tweeted: “burn in the deepest pits of hell filthy zionist.”

Nabiha’s tweet was in response to a tweet from US politician Andrew Yang that said: “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.”

Also on May 10, 2021, in another tweet to Andrew Yang’s tweet, Nabiha tweeted: “the bodegas you love to visit would spit on you for supporting khara [s**t] israel.”

On the same date, Nabiha tweeted: “interfaith with zionists should *never* have happened. this is too late. how many palestinians have to die before we take a stance?”

5/28/2021 - Support for Terrorism as a WOL Rally Speaker

On May 28, 2021, Nabiha was featured as a speaker at a WOL rally on the John Jay campus titled: “CUNY RALLY FOR PALESTINE.” At the rally, she showed support for terrorists when she gave a speech and led multiple chants. WOL held the rally one week after the end of an Israeli operation against terrorists in Gaza.

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 “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

At the rally, Nabiha said [00:00:17]: “In addition to adopting various measures, we demand that CUNY stand in complete and total solidarity with Palestinian resistance.”

Nabiha led [00:33:00] the crowd in chanting: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!”

The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.

Nabiha also led the chant [00:01:55]: “Resistance is justified when people are colonized!”

4/16/2022 - Hatred of America & Israel as an Al-Awda Speaker

On April 16, 2022, Nabiha was featured as a speaker at an anti-Israel rally organized by Al-Awda in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, titled: “Defend Palestine.”

In her speech, Nabiha said [00:01:25]: “We must remember that American settler-colonialism and the Zionist entity are mirror images of each other. That’s why Zionism is so comfortable on our streets, in our campuses and in this nation of settlers.”

Support for Terrorists and Spreading Incitement

On September 12, 2021, Nabiha participated [slide 7] in a WOL rally titled: “Prisoners Revolt from Attica to Gilboa - Globalize the Intifada.”

On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.

“Globalize the Intifada” is an anti-Israel campaign launched by Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in the summer of 2021, intended as an “ongoing strike at the heart of empire [sic] with Palestine as its compass.” The movement seeks to “break free from the genocidal grip of U.S. imperialism and Zionism” and advocates “liberation by any means necessary.”

On August 16, 2021, Nabiha participated [00:00:35] in a WOL rally titled “Globalize the Intifada,” where she said [00:01:40] in an interview: “This land was stolen from Palestinian people. And you know, recently with what’s been happening in Sheikh Jarrah…the truth is that all of so-called Israel was one Sheikh Jarrah and what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah is happening all over Palestine. So we need to resist the settler-colonialism…we need to be fighting this ongoing settler-colonialism all the time until Palestine is free.”

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Support for Violent Protests

On March 30, 2019, Nabiha appeared [slides 2, 6] in a photo posted to WOL’s Instagram account from a March 29, 2019 rally commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return.

On March 30, 2018, about 30,000 Gazans approached Israel’s border fence to join in “Land Day Protests,” which were also called the “March of Return.” The march was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the “right of return,” a policy discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

Media reports confirmed [00:00:20] the March of Return protesters’ breaches and attempted breaches of Israel’s border fence, some by armed Palestinians. One Hamas leader declared [00:00:30]: “We will take down the border [with Israel] and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.”

Anti-Israel Activism (WOL, BDS)

On June 20, 2023, Nabiha led [slide 6] anti-Israel protestors in disrupting a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting and chanting in support of WOL activist Fatima Mohammad.

On May 12, 2023, anti-Israel activist Fatima Mohammed spoke as the student body-elected commencement speaker for the City University of New York Law School (CUNY Law) class of 2023. During her speech, Mohammed promoted [01:26:51] violence, spread [01:26:40] hatred of Israel and the police [01:23:08], honored [01:25:40] terrorist financiers and showed [01:20:59] support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Following public backlash, the CUNY board of trustees released a statement condemning the speech.

On July 25, 2021, Nabiha participated [slides 1, 3, 6] in a BDS rally organized by WOL titled: “#BlockTheBoat Globalize the Intifada.” She was featured [slide 1] in a photo posted to WOL’s Instagram page where she stood next to Kiswani while holding a large banner that read: “We Will Free Palestine Within Our Lifetime.”

The “Block the Boat'' campaign is a BDS initiative founded by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in 2014. The campaign’s goal is to disrupt the Israeli shipping company Zim from accessing American ports in both the east and west coasts.

WOL

Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is a pro-terror activist group in New York City dedicated to Israel’s destruction within the lifetime of its members.

Acts of violence and physical confrontations with police have frequently occurred at WOL protests and marches. WOL uses harassment campaigns to target pro-Israel organizations or companies that do business with Israel, making it a part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Multiple activists who have either burned Israeli flags or led chants at WOL rallies were later jailed for violent anti-Semitic hate crimes, including Saadah Masoud and Waseem Awawdeh. In Masoud’s case, he received 18 months in jail for an anti-Semitic assault at an April 2022 WOL rally and two other anti-Semitic assaults in 2021.

WOL promotes “resistance” against Israel “by any means necessary,” calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” spreads incitement and idolizes [00:34:06] Palestinian terrorists like Leila Khaled and others at rallies and online events.

WOL was founded by Nerdeen Kiswani and Dan Cione in 2015. Kiswani is a frequent speaker at WOL rallies where she has promoted terrorism against Israelis and called for the death of Zionists. She has also provided support for Masoud and other activists following their arrests.

WOL began as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP, but changed its name in 2018. The group is not found to be registered in any U.S. state as a nonprofit organization under its official name. Nor is there any listing for WOL under its name on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website for tax-exempt organizations.

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.