Nadin Sofia
Overview
Nadin Sofia [Nadine Sofia] has expressed support for terrorists, demonized Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
In March 2015, Sofia was an activist on campus with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC).
Supporting Terrorists
On December 28, 2012, Sofia posted to Facebook a graphic of Leila Khaled and late communist leader Che Guevara. The graphic said “www.che-leila.org Youth Brigades.”Khaled is a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau.
Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister.
On July 31, 2014, Sofia posted to Facebook a graphic of Leila Khaled holding an assault rifle. Sofia wrote: “Leila Khaled ❤️”
On August 20, 2014, Sofia posted to Facebook a PFLP link from the terror group’s website. The link featured a story titled: “PFLP salutes the Black struggle in the US: The empire will fall from within.”
The story was published by the Marxist-Leninist Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) In FightBack News! as a “Statement by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine“ and featured PFLP leader Khaled Barakat, who called for “an alternative political system that will bring U.S. empire to defeat.”
Khaled Barakat is reportedly [p. 24] a “Central Committee member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” In October 2022, Barakat was banned by the Netherlands, along with his wife, anti-Israel agitator Charlotte Kates, from entering the European Union (EU). In February 2020, Barakat was deported from Germany and placed under a 4-year entry ban.
Ahmad Sa’adat is the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He is currently sentenced for terror activities, including his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi and is in an Israeli prison. Under Sa’adat’s leadership, the PFLP perpetrated many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians during the second intifada.
Demonizing Israel
On December 1, 2012, shortly after the end of Israel’s “Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD)” in Gaza, Sofia posted to Facebook a cartoon titled “The New Goliath,” purporting to represent Israel as Goliath.The cartoon portrayed the “Israeli Military” as a gigantic soldier in a Nazi-style helmet, with feet made of armored tanks, holding airplanes and dropping bombs. Below the giant soldier was a small man, purporting to present the Palestinians as David, throwing a rocket at the giant.
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
On April 11, 2014, Sofia posted to Facebook a photo of two people holding signs that said: “Welcome to PALESTINE Not Israel …”
On July 27, 2014, Sofia suggested on Facebook that Israel had “ethnically cleansed” villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Anti-Israel Activism
On March 7, 2015, Sofia featured in two UCSC SJP Facebook photos where she participated in a mock Israeli checkpoint.On March 4, 2015, UCSC SJP activists dressed up as Israeli soldiers and set up four mock “checkpoints” on campus. The activists blocked students from entering a main library before final exams until they showed “proper identification.” UCSC administration received multiple “hate/bias” reports after the incident, where some students felt “particularly targeted.”
Israeli checkpoints were built to prevent terror attacks, such as suicide bombings, against Israel's civilian population.
On February 22, 2015, Sofia featured in a Facebook photo with Steven Salaita after UCSC SJP co-hosted a talk Salaita gave on campus.
In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Steven Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: “You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.”
UCSC SJP - Whitewashing Terrorism
On November 8, 2015, UCSC SJP members held a “die-in” to oppose a pro-Israel student group’s show of solidarity with Israelis who were murdered during a wave of terror attacks that Fall.October 2015 saw a wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” where young Palestinians throughout Israel were stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The upsurge in violence across Israel was incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
At the same die-in, UCSC SJP members laid down in front of the student group’s table for the protest, along with signs that said, “Resistance is Not Terrorism” and “Why Can’t Israel Colonize Palestine in Peace?”
UCSC SJP - Spreading Hatred of Israel
On August 4, 2016, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook: “Beautiful to see the official Black Lives Matter platform recognize Israel as an apartheid state and endorse BDS!” The post also quoted a story stating that the platform also accused Israel of “genocide.”On April 29, 2016, UCSC SJP hosted an event titled, “Legacies of Ethnic Cleansing,” featuring anti-Israel activists Lara Kiswani and Ilan Pappe.
Lara Kiswani has called for Israel’s destruction “to benefit everyone in the world," demonized Israel as well as America and expressed support for terrorists. As of April 2021, Kiswani had been the executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in the San Francisco Bay Area, as early as 2014.
In August 2016, BDS leader Ilan Pappé admitted that BDS was not initiated by a “call” from Palestinian civil society; rather, it was initiated by a small number of radical anti-Israel extremists.
On October 21, 2015, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook an article titled: “A New Generation of Resistance.” UCSC quoted the article’s subtitle: “In showing that Palestinians won't submit to Israeli violence, the ongoing youth uprising has given the rest of Palestine hope.”
On May 12, 2014, UCSC SJP hosted an event titled: “Apartheid Israel - Oral Histories of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid.”
On August 5, 2013, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook: “Stop the Prawer plan - it is ethnic cleansing!!!”
On August 4, 2016, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook: “Beautiful to see the official Black Lives Matter platform recognize Israel as an apartheid state and endorse BDS!” The post also quoted a story stating that the platform also accused Israel of “genocide.”
On April 29, 2016, UCSC SJP hosted an event titled, “Legacies of Ethnic Cleansing,” featuring anti-Israel activists Lara Kiswani and Ilan Pappe.
In August 2016, BDS leader Ilan Pappé admitted that BDS was not initiated by a “call” from Palestinian civil society; rather, it was initiated by a small number of radical anti-Israel extremists.
On October 21, 2015, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook an article titled: “A New Generation of Resistance.” UCSC quoted the article’s subtitle: “In showing that Palestinians won't submit to Israeli violence, the ongoing youth uprising has given the rest of Palestine hope.”
On May 12, 2014, UCSC SJP hosted an event titled: “Apartheid Israel - Oral Histories of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid.”
On August 5, 2013, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook: “Stop the Prawer plan - it is ethnic cleansing!!!”
Also on March 4, 2015, UCSC SJP posted to Instagram a photo with its activists taking part in a mock Israeli checkpoint. One hashtag accused Israel of “#apartheid” and another was “#bringdownthewall,” referring to Israel’s security barrier.
Israeli checkpoints were builtto protect Israel's civilian population against terror attacks, such as suicide bombings.
Israel’s security barrier, built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks, is 97% low chain-link barrier. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
UCSC set up four mock checkpoints that day where its activists dressed up as Israeli soldiers and blocked students from entering a main library before final exams until they showed “proper identification.” UCSC administration received multiple “hate/bias” reports after the incident where students felt “particularly targeted.”
On January 28, 2015, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook a video of protesters trying to enter a campus pro-Israel event. The post said that after several of them entered, they read a message which included the line: “Participating in a study abroad program in Israel means participating in the ongoing apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people.”
UCSC SJP member Katherine Berjikian participated in the protest where she held a sign that said, “LONG LIVE INTIFADA” and protesters chanted, “Long live the Intifada!”
The term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence, since the early 2000’s.
On January 28, 2015, UCSC SJP posted to Facebook a video of protesters trying to enter a campus pro-Israel event. The post said that after several of them entered, they read a message which included the line: “Participating in a study abroad program in Israel means participating in the ongoing apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people.”
UCSC SJP member Katherine Berjikian participated in the protest where she held a sign that said, “LONG LIVE INTIFADA” and protesters chanted, “Long live the Intifada!”
The term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence, since the early 2000’s.
UCSC SJP - Supporting BDS
On November 18, 2015, UCSC SJP members spoke at a meeting of the UCSC Student Union Assembly (SUA) where it adopted an anti-Israel divestment resolution. The resolution framed BDS as a successor to a boycott of apartheid South Africa and called Israel’s security barrier an “Apartheid Wall in the West Bank.”The SUA originally passed the resolution in May 2014, but was later nullified by the SUA chair on procedural grounds. In early November 2015, UCSC SJP appealed the nullification and on November 18, 2015, the SUA held a hearing where it upheld the initial May 2014 passage of the resolution.
When the 2014 resolution passed, UCSC SJP was called Committee for Justice in Palestine (UCSC CJP). In October 2014, the group changed its name to UCSC SJP.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001587834081 [Deleted]Twitter:https://twitter.com/mejorserzurda
Blog:http://nadine-sofia.blogspot.com/
- Status:
- Unknown
- University:
- California-Santa-Cruz
- Organizations:
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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Infamous Quotes
“The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stands with the Black struggle in the U.S. The anti-racist movement and anti-Zionist movement are not and cannot be separated. Fighting against racism means fighting capitalism; fighting against capitalism means fighting for socialism.”
“If anyone has truly violated "humanitarian law to protect civilian life" it is Israel itself.”
“In other words, he (President Obama) was effectively giving the OK for Israelis to massacre Gazans indiscriminately under the pretext of “fighting militants” and “combatting terrorism.”
