Nadine Kawas

Overview

Nadine Kawas has promoted incitement, expressed support for terrorists, shown support for violent protesters and demonized Israel. Kawas is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Kawas was listed on the 2019 Palestine Lives Conference web page as the “Solidarity officer of Within Our Lifetime, formerly known as New York City Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Kawas is also a former president of SJP at the College of Staten Island (CSI), part of the City University of New York (CUNY) (CSI SJP).

Kawas attended the 2016 National SJP Conference and fundraised for the 2015 National SJP Conference.

Kawas has been listed as a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at CSI (CSI MSA) Facebook group since February 2014 and has participated in CSI MSA events until 2017.

Kawas is a community organizer with the Muslim American Society (MAS) and has been involved with MAS since 2011.

Kawas has been involved from 2015 to 2019 with Know Thy Heritage (KTH), “a leadership program” designed “to explore and serve Palestine” and teach diasporic Palestinians “how they as diaspora can help to reach the goal of getting Palestine back.”.

As of September 2019, Kawas indicated on Facebook that she worked at the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), under which KTH was founded in 2011.

As of September 2019, Kawas’s LinkedIn page said she was a “Sales Specialist at Miu Miu-Prada Group” from “Mar 2019 - Present.”

Kawas’s LinkedIn page also said she graduated from CSI in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in “Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services.”

As of September 2019, Kawas used the name ”Nadine Kay” on Facebook.

Promoting Incitement

On October 19, 2015, during the ”Knife Intifada” then occuring in Israel, Kawas posted on Instagram: “They said the old would die & the young would forget .. Never forget 1948 #FreePalestine #intifada #WeWillReturn.”

In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.

On October 7, 2015, Kawas posted on Instagram: “From New York to Palestine heart PS #intifada.”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.

On May 16, 2016, Kawas led [00:00:12] protesters at a co-sponsored NYC SJP Nakba Day Rally in chanting [00:03:51] : “1-2-3-4- Occupation no more. 5-6-7-8 Smash the Settler Zionist State.”

She also led [00:00:43] protesters in the chant [00:00:48]: “We don't want no two state, we want ‘48,” as well as [00:04:22] “from the river to the sea palestine will be free.”

Expressing Support for Terrorists

On July 30, 2019 Kawas posed for a photo that was posted to Facebook at Yasser Arafat’s tomb and visited his museum.

Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."

Also on July 30, 2019, Kawas posed in a photo with Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Executive Committee Member of the PLO.

That same day, Kawas posed in front of a mural featuring Rasmea Odeh, Leila Khaled and Basel Al Araj.

Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.

Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind.

In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States. In 2017, Odeh was deported to Jordan and stripped of U.S. citizenship, after admitting to immigration fraud.

Leila Khaled is a leading member 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 [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.

Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.

On May 16, 2017, Kawas led the “Saltwater Challenge,” along with other CSI SJP activists. Kawas posted a video of the event to Instagram and wrote: “#Day29 #SaltWaterChallenge #69Years #LongLiveTheResistance #FreePalestine #CSISJP.”

The “Saltwater Challenge” was held in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prison inmates convicted of terrorism. The strike was initiated by Marwan Barghouti, who was serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in suicide bombings that killed five Israelis during the second intifada. Aarab Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti, launched the "Saltwater Challenge."

Supporting Violent Protesters

On May 18, 2018, Kawas led and participated [00:07:34] in a demonstration hosted by WOL titled: “Nakba Day 2018: Great Return March.”

In May 2018, terror group Hamas instigated violent riots on the Israeli-Gaza border. Thousands of rioters attempted to breach Israel’s border fence, declaring their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”

Kawas posted multiple photos from the demonstration on Instagram and wrote: “Resistance Until Return | المقاومة حتى العودة 🇵🇸🗝⏳#WithinOurLifetime #GreatReturnMarch #Nakba70.”

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

On May 15, 2019, Kawas held a sign that said: “WE WILL RETURN.” Kawas posted the photo to Instagram of her holding the sign, which also featured a map of Israel overlaid with the palestininan flag, at a WOL Great Return March Rally held in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, NY.

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.

During the rally, Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani, aWOL co-founder, repeatedly [00:04:53] led demonstrators [00:03:58] in the chant: “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” Agitators also chanted “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

Demonizing Israel

In May 2019, Kawas was scheduled to lead an activity at the second “Annual Palestine Lives” conference, which was co-hosted by WOL, as well as the anti-Israel group Existence Is Resistance.

The conference featured multiple anti-Israel speakers and included events that accused Israel of ethnic cleansing, genocide, apartheid and “the targeted assassinations and imprisonment of scientists, students, and technicians.”

On May 15, 2018, Kawas posted on Instagram: “🇵🇸❤️ 50+ villages that were displaced or destroyed in 1948, over 500 villages were affected by this catastrophe 70 years ago today, and we are still fighting for our right of return everyday. We Will Return Within Our Lifetime #Nakba70 #GreatReturnMarch #WithinOurLifetime @wolpalestine 🇵🇸❤️.”

Kawas’s Instagram post included a photo her holding a sign that said: “WE WILL RETURN.”

On August 31, 2017, Kawas appeared [00:00:39] in an NYC SJP fundraising video, [00:02:51] to enable SJP members in New York to attend [00:02:15] the National SJP Conference in San Diego.

The video featured Leena Widdi leading NYC SJP members at a protest in chanting[00:01:07] “How do you spell ‘murderers!’ I-D-F.”

On July 28, 2015, Kawas posted on Instagram an image from Israel’s security barrier, of a map of the State of Israel, overlaid with the Palestinian flag, with the text: “We will return.”

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.

Kawas’s post accused Israel of “constantly” shooting at UN schools and Palestinian water tanks, referred to the barrier as an “illegal apartheid wall” and Israel as “colonizers that have taken over” Palestinian villages.”

On July 14, 2014, Kawas, along with other activists, disrupted [00:00:15] a New York City Council press conference called by two dozen federal, state and city elected officials who rallied at New York's City Hall to show their support for Israel during Operation Protective Edge (OPE).

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

Activists chanted [00:01:32] “Free Free Palestine” and “Shame on you City Council” and displayed [00:01:43] signs that read: “Israel = Klu Klux Klan.”

In an interview during the disruption, with the Iranian media outlet Press TV, Kawas referred to Gaza as [00:01:02] “an open air prison.”

On March 6, 2014, Kawas was featured in a photo posted to Facebook, standing in front of CSI SJP’s “apartheid wall,” which was meant to represent Israel’s security barrier.

On July, 30, 2014, Kawas updated her cover photo on Facebook to a photo from CSI SJP’s March 2014 “Israeli Apartheid Week.”

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is 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.

SJP Activism

On November 4 - 6, 2016, Kawas attended the 2016 National SJP Conference.

On April 19, 2016, Kawas posed for a CSI SJP photo that was posted to Facebook, while “Tabling at the spring cultural festival!”

On November 12, 2014, Kawas posed for an SJP CSI group photo posted to Facebook, with Eran Efrati. SJP CSI’s Facebook post said: “College of Staten Islands SJP after our Soldier and Refusenik event!”

Efrati is a former researcher with Breaking the Silence (BtS) and a board member of the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organization.

Supporting BDS

On July 1, 2016, Kawas promoted BDS during a presentation at an NYC SJP event.

On August 27, 2014, Kawas posted to her Instagram a photo of the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural with text that promoted BDS and commented: “The Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural was so beautiful yesterday - To Gaza With Love ❤️ #ApartheidWall #BDS #FreePalestine.”

On March 5, 2014, Kawas posed for a photo that was posted to Facebook, wearing a banner that said: “ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK. JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT SANCTIONS.”

Endorsing Anti-Israel Agitators

Kawas posed for a photo posted by CSI SJP to Facebook on November 19, 2014, at a November 18, 2014 event titled: “Silencing Dissent: a discussion on Academic Freedom with Steven Salaita.”

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.”

The Facebook announcement of the CSI SJP event featuring Salaita claimed: “Salaita was fired by U of I ‘BECAUSE of pressure from big money donors to the University of Illinois.’”

The Facebook description of the event said: “...Professor Salaita is going on the offensive – against academic censorship, and against the continuing colonial domination of the Palestinian people that this censorship covers for…”

CSI SJP - Supporting Intifada

On October 15, 2015, during the Palestinian “Knife Intifada,” CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest in “Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising.” The protest was called to preempt an October 18, 2015 “Jewish Lives Matter” rally scheduled to take place in Times Square.

The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.

CSI SJP’s Facebook post said: “Join us loudly in proclaiming that Resistance is not Terrorism, Occupation and Colonialism are Terrorism!”

On October 6, 2015, CSI SJP shared on Facebook an NYC SJP “statement of solidarity” with a “Day of Rage” rally held at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.

At the bottom of that statement was a graphic of a keffiyeh-masked man throwing a rock, with the caption: “Palestine Let the Intifada pave the way for people’s war!”

Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:16] “Long live the intifada! Intifada, intifada!” as well as [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and [00:01:18] “Settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!"

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.

CSI SJP - Defending Terrorists

On May 16, 2017, CSI SJP participated in the “Saltwater Challenge.”

On June 3, 2016, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a “Justice for Rasmea Rally & March,” hosted by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City SJP (NYC SJP). The event’s Facebook description said the rally was organized to “demand a new trial and justice” for Rasmea Odeh.

Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.

On March 5, 2016, CSI SJP shared an NYC SJP blog post on Facebook that praised Leila Khaled for “committing her life to be a freedom fighter in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.”

Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.

On August 16, 2015, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest by NYC SJP supporting Mohammad Allan. Mohammed’s relative Ziad Allan, demonized Israel at the protest.

Allan is a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terror group “whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state.” Allan was first jailed by Israel in 2006 for trying to recruit a suicide bomber to carry out an attack in Israel. He was detained in 2014 for similar reasons. PIJ is backed by Iran and has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.

CSI SJP - Spreading an Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theory

On February 22, 2015, CSI SJP posted on Facebook an article stating: “Hundreds of Palestinians flee as Israel opens dams into Gaza Valley.”

The article claimed that “hundreds of Palestinians were evacuated from their homes after Israeli authorities opened a number of dams near the border, flooding the Gaza Valley in the wake of a recent severe winter storm.”

Al-Jazeera shared and later retracted the story, admitting: “In southern Israel, there are no dams of the type which can be opened.”

CSI SJP - Supporting Anti-Israel Agitators

On March 10, 2015, CSI SJP shared a photo campaign organized by SJP at Hunter College to support Lina Khattab.

Khattab was detained on December 13, 2014, and sentenced to six months jail time on February 16, 2015 for throwing rocks, while celebrating the 47th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)’s founding.

On January 29, 2015, CSI SJP posted an article on Facebook supporting disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita. The CSI SJP Facebook post said: “Down with foreign government lobbies bribing universities to silent dissenters and organizers against settler-colonial states!”

WOL (Former NYC SJP) - 2018

New York City Students for Justice in Palestine (NYC SJP) was consolidated in 2014 from various SJP chapters in NYC, with the intention of strengthening the SJP presence on campuses, and to leading anti-Israel activism off-campus.

NYC SJP was renamed Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in February, 2018, with the intention of further expanding the organization.

On February 28, 2018, WOL published a statement on their website saying that “Within Our Lifetime” is “a call to action” to fight for the destruction [00:03:32] of the State of Israel.

WOL’s strategy is to widen their influence beyond university campuses, using “local and national networks,” to make “allies both inside and outside the Palestine solidarity movement.” WOL’s website says the group welcomes “any organization in the struggle to combat zionism.”

Rallies held by NYC SJP and later WOL, have incited [00:00:01] against Jews, called [00:04:53] for Intifada and [00:04:01] to “globalize the intifada.” WOL rallies and social media posts have also glorified terrorists and demonized Israel in support of violent protesters.

The Progressive Student Labor Front (PSLF) in Gaza, an organization politically linked to the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). expressed solidarity with their “comrades” - NYC SJP, in October 2015.

NYC SJP- Supporting Intifada (2015-2016)

On May 15, 2016, NYC SJP co-sponsored and promoted on Twitter a “Nakba Day March for Resistance and Return” rally, to be held the next day. NYC SJP’s tweet said: “From the river to the sea, intifada! Intifada!! #NakbaDay #Nakba68 #nyc.”

Scripted chants were distributed before the rally, where agitators yelled [00:00:18]: “Intifada Intifada” and “5-6-7-8 Smash the Settler Zionist State”, as well as [00:00:41] “we don't want a two-state [solution]; we want ‘48!” and [00:00:20] “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!”

Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani, NYC SJP co-founder and Chair, posted on Facebook a video recording of the protest that featured herself and other protesters inciting [00:00:01] against Jews who moved from New York to Israel, claiming [00:00:06] “The Brooklyn settlers, the New York settlers are the most violent.”

Protesters were also led in chanting [00:00:32]: “Settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!” and [00:00:52] "New York City you will learn, refugees will return!"

On October 18, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada,” NYC SJP co-hosted a protest “in solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising,” aimed at disrupting a “Jewish Lives Matter” rally scheduled for October 18, 2015 in Times Square.

The Jewish Lives Matter rally was to memorialize Israelis murdered that month in the October 2015 “Palestinian Uprising,” known as the “Knife Intifada,"

Tweets promoting NYC SJP’s support for the Palestinian Uprising were spread, urging people to attend the disruption.

During the rally, Kiswani led a crowd in chanting [00:00:36]: “1,2,3,4 occupation no more, 5,6,7,8 smash the settler-Zionist state!” followed by [00:01:21] “there is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution!”

Other protesters at the rally shouted [00:01:42]: “Falasteen ibladna Wel yahood ichlabna,” in Arabic, meaning: “Palestine is our country and the Jews are our dogs.”

WOL - Supporting Violent Protesters (2018)

On March 30, 2018 WOL hosted an event titled: “Emergency rally: solidarity with Gaza #GreatMarchofReturn.”

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests,” or the “March of Return.” The march was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the Palestinian demand to “return” to Israel. The “right of return” has since been discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.

At the rally, Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani, NYC SJP co-founder and Chair, led [00:08:32] attendees of the rally in the chant “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.

On April 6, 2018, WOL hosted another rally in support of the March of Return, where Kiswani led [00:20:15] the chant “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”

Most of the Gazans who died between March 30 and April 6, 2018, were identified as terror operatives who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks, rioting against IDF forces or attempting to breach the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

On April 14, 2018, WOL posted a video on their Facebook page of a rally they co-hosted with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) “in support of the #GreatReturnMarch.” During the rally, demonstrators were led [00:14:43] in the chant: “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

Participants at the March sent kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes, threw Molotov cocktails and firebombs and shot firearms.

On May 14, 2018, WOL promoted an anti-Israel rally that theyco-hosted on Facebook and said: “Over 50 people and counting have been martyred today by the Zionist forces,” that they were “murdered in cold blood.” During the rally Kiswani led [00:01:36] the chant “Long live the Intifada!”

On May 15, 2018, WOL posted on Facebook that “62 Palestinians were martyred in Gaza.” WOL also posted the names of “59 of yesterday's martyrs.”

On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.

On May 18, 2018, WOL hosted a demonstration titled: “Nakba Day 2018: Great Return March.” During the rally, Kiswani repeatedly [00:04:53] led agitators [00:03:58] in the chant: “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” Agitators also chanted “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

On January 5, 2018, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally to Free Ahed Tamimi and All Palestinian Prisoners” at Grand Central Station in NYC.

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:00:42] demonstrators in the chant “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” as well as [00:01:59]“Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!” and [00:01:39] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

On December 22, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a protest titled “Emergency Rally to End Child Detention: Free Ahed Tamimi!”

During the demonstration, Kiswani both led [00:28:24, 00:00:28] and joined protesters in chanting [00:05:45, 00:17:45] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!” and [00:06:13, 00:18:03] “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada!”

Ahed Tamimi has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers. Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem Tamimi, who is known for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

On December 8, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “laaaast christmas we said free palestine but the very next day, you cried your white tears.. THIIIISSS YEAR TO SAVE YOU FROM TEARS, HOW BOUT LONG LIVE THE INTIFADAAAA #RewriteTheNextLinesInSongs.”

On that same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “long live the intifada from the river to the sea ”

On December 6, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “long lived the intifada #WriteAHappyStoryIn4Words.”

On the same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “Long live the #Intifada #HandsOffJerusalem #HandsOffAlQuds ” along with a photo of a demonstrator burning an American and an Israeli flag.

The hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” was created to protest the U.S. government’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On November 3, 2017, NYC SJP posted on their Facebook pageseveral videos of demonstrators protesting, with the hashtag “#Balfour100.”

During the demonstration Kiswani [00:01:32] and other agitators repeatedly led [00:01:07, 00:01:36, 00:03:28, 00:07:58] protesters in the chants “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! Globalize the Intifada!” and [00:02:14] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

Protestors were also led [00:04:01] in the chant “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

On October 7, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally To Resist War and Racism At Home and Abroad,” protesting “16 years following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the start of the so-called war on terror.”

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:23:57] the demonstrators in the chant: “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

On August 27, 2017, NYC SJP posted on Facebook a photo of buttons they were selling, including buttons with the word “Intifada,” others featuring Leila Khaled, and others of a person wearing a Keffiyeh, grasping a machine gun and charging forward.

On May 14, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “There is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution! #WeWontForget #WeWillReturn #Nakba”

On October 6, 2015, NYC SJP co-sponsored a rally held at the Israeli consulate in New York with a number of anti-Israel organizations including NY4Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

The rally urged support for a “Day of Rage” called for by “Palestinian forces.” The same day, NYC SJP posted a “statement of solidarity” with the“Day of Rage” rally featuring a rock-throwing Palestinian, with the caption “Let the Intifada pave the way for People’s war! [sic.]”

Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and [00:00:16] “Intifada, intifada! Long live the Intifada!”

The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.

On January 5, 2018, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally to Free Ahed Tamimi and All Palestinian Prisoners” at Grand Central Station in NYC.

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:00:42] demonstrators in the chant “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” as well as [00:01:59]“Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!” and [00:01:39] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

On December 22, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a protest titled “Emergency Rally to End Child Detention: Free Ahed Tamimi!”

During the demonstration, Kiswani both led [00:28:24, 00:00:28] and joined protesters in chanting [00:05:45, 00:17:45] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!” and [00:06:13, 00:18:03] “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada!”

Ahed Tamimi has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers. Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem Tamimi, who is known for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

On December 8, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “laaaast christmas we said free palestine but the very next day, you cried your white tears.. THIIIISSS YEAR TO SAVE YOU FROM TEARS, HOW BOUT LONG LIVE THE INTIFADAAAA

#RewriteTheNextLinesInSongs.”

On that same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “long live the intifada from the river to the sea

”

On December 6, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “long lived the intifada

#WriteAHappyStoryIn4Words.”

On the same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “Long live the #Intifada #HandsOffJerusalem #HandsOffAlQuds

” along with a photo of a demonstrator burning an American and an Israeli flag.

The hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” was created to protest the U.S. government’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On November 3, 2017, NYC SJP posted on their Facebook pageseveral videos of demonstrators protesting, with the hashtag “#Balfour100.”

During the demonstration Kiswani [00:01:32] and other agitators repeatedly led [00:01:07, 00:01:36, 00:03:28, 00:07:58] protesters in the chants “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! Globalize the Intifada!” and [00:02:14] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

Protestors were also led [00:04:01] in the chant “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

On October 7, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally To Resist War and Racism At Home and Abroad,” protesting “16 years following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the start of the so-called war on terror.”

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:23:57] the demonstrators in the chant: “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

On August 27, 2017, NYC SJP posted on Facebook a photo of buttons they were selling, including buttons with the word “Intifada,” others featuring Leila Khaled, and others of a person wearing a Keffiyeh, grasping a machine gun and charging forward.

On May 14, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “There is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution! #WeWontForget #WeWillReturn #Nakba”

On October 6, 2015, NYC SJP co-sponsored a rally held at the Israeli consulate in New York with a number of anti-Israel organizations including NY4Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

The rally urged support for a “Day of Rage” called for by “Palestinian forces.” The same day, NYC SJP posted a “statement of solidarity” with the“Day of Rage” rally featuring a rock-throwing Palestinian, with the caption “Let the Intifada pave the way for People’s war! [sic.]”

Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and [00:00:16] “Intifada, intifada! Long live the Intifada!”

The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.

NYC SJP - Supporting BDS

On October 4, 2015, John Jay SJP posted on Facebook a NYC SJP statement on the BDS movement, which stated that the goal is the “the eventual establishment of a single Palestinian national state covering all of historic Palestine.”

The statement concluded that “SJP…cannot be divorced from a larger, off-campus movement that organizes for the progressive demands of the people, regardless if those demands are related to the university.”

NYC SJP then clarified in its statement on BDS, saying that the movement: “is not only fighting to drop israeli investments, but is fighting to change the content of the Zionist, imperialist education itself, by engaging in a struggle to liberate the university and democratically administer it to serve the oppressed communities from New York City to Palestine.”

WOL - Glorifying Terrorists

On March 9, 2018, WOL shared a series of photos of Palestinian women in honor of international women’s day, among them a photo featuring terrorist Leila Khaled, as well as a photo of a Palestinian women holding a handgun.

The post added: “On #InternationalWomensDay2018 we honor the brave Palestinian women, who have been struggling against colonial occupation since they were born!.”

Leila Khaled is a leading member 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 [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.

On March 8, 2018, Kiswani glorified Palestinian female terrorists during WOL’s co-hosted the “International Women’s Strike NYC: Palestine Contingent” protest.

Kiswani declared [00:05:03] Leila Khaled, as well as [00:03:21] terrorist Rasmea Odeh and [00:00:38] Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Khalida Jarrar as examples [00:00:20] of “revolutionary women that keep our struggle strong,” and a source of “revolutionary inspiration.”

Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.

On March 13, 2018, WOL tweeted: “ALL OUT AGAINST ZIONISM AND COLLABORATION, LONG LIVE MARTYR BASIL AL-ARAJ! https://nycsjp.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/all-out-against-zionism-and-collaboration-long-live-martyr-basil-al-araj …”

Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.

On March 6, 2018, WOL posted on Facebook: “One year ago today, Palestinian freedom fighter Basil Al-Araj was martyred,” and added “Today we honor his resistance and strive to carry on his struggle.”The post added an illustration of Al Araj and the caption “Long Live Basel Al-Araj! Long Live the Resistance! Until Victory!”

On August 14, 2017, NYC SJP promoted a rally to support Rasmea Odeh, adding “All out today for Rasmea Odeh at 4:30 pm in union square! #HonorRasmea.”

On August 2, 2017, NYC SJP promoted a Farewell event for Rasmea Odeh on Facebook, adding: “Rasmea should be honored - not deported! #HonorRasmea.”

On January 8, 2017, Kiswani praised, on Facebook, Palestinian celebrations of a vehicular ramming attack that killed four people and injured 17 others on a Jerusalem promenade.

Kiswani encouraged celebrations of the murder writing: “While Palestinians and ‘allies’ in the west scramble to condemn, apologize, explain, hide, rationalize, etc what happened this morning, Palestinians in Palestine are giving out sweets in celebration. I will not hide from this. I will not be ashamed or embarrassed by this. These celebratory actions are what keep the resistance moving forward, they are what keep it alive.”

Kiswani continued: “In a world that’s trying to quell our liberation and self determination, the biggest “F you” to that are Palestinians celebrating actions that 1) remind settles [sic] that there will never be peace on stolen land 2) remind the world we are still here 3) galvanize other Palestinians to fight. There’s your rationalization no apology needed.”

On January 11, 2017, The Algemeiner newspaper contacted NYC SJP for a comment following Kiswani’s comment. NYC SJP representative Alexi Shalom reportedly responded by threatening to sue The Algemeiner.

On July 12, 2016, Kiswani posted photos of buttons printed by NYC SJP to her Instagram featuring Leila Khaled as well as Bilal Kayed.

PFLP terrorist Bilal Kayed was incarcerated for 14 years for terror attacks and attempted terror attacks committed during the second intifada, in 2002.

On March 9, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted a photo of Leila Khaled taken via a computer screen, adding: “Comrade Leila Khaled @ jjay

.”

WOL -Supporting Terrorists

On April 9, 2018, WOL held a candlelight vigil “for Yassir Murtaja and the other 29 Palestinians who have been martyred in Gaza since the #GreatReturnMarch was launched last Friday, March 30.”

Yasser Murtaja, a photojournalist, was reportedly a Hamas spy who used drones to film Israeli military positions. Murtaja was shot and killed on April 6, 2018, as he filmed the 2018 Hamas-led “March of Return” protest in Gaza.

On August 27, 2017, NYC SJP posted a commemoration of the “16 years since the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, killed by Israeli forces due to his political activity and belief in the struggle to liberate all of Palestine.” The post added the hashtags: “#FreePalestine #ByAnyMeansNecessary #RightToResist.”

Abu Ali Mustafa, also known as Mustafa Zibri, was the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Mustafa was involved in multiple bomb attacks, including in central Jerusalem, when he was the terror group's Secretary General.

Following his death, the PFLP renamed their armed wing after him, as the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.

On May 27, 2017, NYC SJP celebrated the end of the Palestinian prisoners hunger strike, posting on Facebook: “Victory to the Hunger Strike! Long Live Palestine!”

On May 25, 2017, NYC SJP participated in a rally on behalf of the hunger strike, posting on Facebook “rallying in the heart of the empire tonight in support of the heroic Palestinian political prisoners.”

“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.

On May 2, 2017, NYC SJP members demonstrated on behalf of “a thousand Palestinian political prisoners have been living on salt and water alone without any food for almost two weeks,” using the hashtag “#DignityStrike.”

In November of 2015, NYC SJP co-sponsored a demonstration that called for the release of five individuals — the “HLF5” — convicted by a U.S. federal jury for financing terrorists.

Those convicted were all members of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development who funneled millions of dollars to Hamas.

The HLF5 were five individuals associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) indicted for funnelling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.

The men were were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.

WOL - Disrupting City Council Meetings

On September 16, 2016 NYC SJP members repeatedly disrupted a NYC City Council meeting discussing anti-BDS legislation, prompting the organizers tocall security personnel to have them removed from the hall.

Towards the end of the meeting, Kiswani stood up and screamed [01:16:04] : “Yes, we want to shut down Zionists, because Zionism is racism... As a Palestinian I can’t go back to my country because of you people. F**K Israel and F**K Zionism!”

Kiswani also added [01:17:00]: “That sh*t just pi***ed me off and I’m leaving now because I’m f**king shaking and I’m so f**king disgusting [sic.] I didn’t want to be in the room with the f**king Israeli consulate” and the people inside, I hope they disrupt too, because we shouldn't f**king lend credibility to these pieces of sh*t. They need to be shut down. I hope they f**king clear the entire chambers cuz I want people to shut this sh*t down.”

NYC SJP - Praised for Calling for Intifada

On October 9, 2015, the Progressive Student Labor Front (PSLF) in Gaza, an organization politically linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), issued a statement via the PFLP website showing solidarity with their “comrades,” NYC SJP.

The PFLP is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, Israel, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Australia.

The PSLF statement praised NYC SJP for leading “a march through the streets of New York calling for ‘Intifada’ and the liberation of Palestine.”

The statement also said: “We urge the development and escalation of BDS campaigns at an international level just as we urge the escalation of resistance in all forms and all means here in Palestine ....” and ended with an affirmation that the PSLF is “proud to call them [NYC SJP]...comrades in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.”

WOL - Spreading Hatred of Israel

On April 22, 2018, WOL shared a video on Facebook of burning miniature Israeli flags.

On March 8, 2018, during a WOL co-hosted “International Women’s Strike NYC: Palestine Contingent,” Kiswani addressed the crowd, declaring [00:04:01] “Women’s liberation must be anti-Zionist.”

Kiswani also claimed [00:01:25] “Zionism is the ideology that thrives off of the kidnapping and torturing of our women” and [00:01:48] “Israel is a state that was built on the murder and rape of Palestinian women.”

On January 15, 2018, NYC SJP glorified Manal Tamimi on Facebook, sharing a post that labelled Tamimi a"super mother" and a “superwoman.”

Manal Tamimi has spread anti-Semitic blood libels and support for terrorists.

Manal and her husband Bassem Tamimi are Palestinian propagandists and provocateurs, notorious for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

On December 22, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a protest titled “Emergency Rally to End Child Detention: Free Ahed Tamimi!”

During the protest, one speaker accused [00:18:19] Israel of targeting a three-year-old Palestinian child with teargas.

On December 6, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “the fall of israhell #WriteAHappyStoryIn4Words.”

On November 16, 2017, NYC SJP members Kiswani as well as Noura Farouk and Dan Cione were panelists for an event hosted by SJP at Florida State University (FSU).

During the panel, Kiswani accused Israel of committing [00:08:29] “mass rapes” and claimed [00:9:08] that “to this day there is daily assault and sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Zionists.”

Kiswani’s also stated [01:45:52] “...we see in Israel, when Ethiopian Jews are trying to integrate themselves into the white settler colonial project of Israel, they put on the uniform and kill Palestinians and then their babies still get stabbed by Israelis and they still don’t see a day of justice in the court.”

Cione noted [00:26:14] that, after the Oslo accords, the U.S. gave the Palestinian Authority “over 32 billion dollars… for state building institutions.” Cione then condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for not funding radicals.

Cione said [00:24:42] that “when they were dumping all this money into Palestine” USAID included a “terror clause, which said that none of this money can go to “anyone that… is a terrorist organization as defined by Israel or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist.”

At the end of the panel, the attendees and panelists chanted [01:48:48] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

On October 7, 2017, Farouq demonized [00:26:42] Israel during a WOL co-hosted rally “To Resist War and Racism At Home and Abroad,” that was protesting “16 years following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the start of the so-called war on terror.”

Farouq claimed [00:26:43] that the New York Police Department (NYPD) is trained by Israel, “sharing tactics to treat our people as subhuman.”

On July 27. 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “The Zionist entity of israhell #WhatIHateIn5Words.”

On June 16, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “.@SenatorMartins #WeBDSUntil Zionism is relegated to the dustbin of history.”

On April 26, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted a graphic showing the map of Israel overlaid entirely with the colors of the Palestinian Flag and superimposed with the text “Je Suis One State.”

The comment on the graphic read “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free. #1948.”

On November 12, 2015, NYC SJP published a statement on their website which blamed tuition costs on CUNY’s “Zionist administration” that “invests in Israeli companies, hosts birthright programs and study abroad programs in occupied Palestine, and reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout CUNY through Zionist content of education …”

On March 1, 2015, NYC SJP members Atika Al Bashir, Leena Widdi, Cione and Kiswani were panelists in an event titled “Revitalizing the One-State Solution.”

WOL - Palestine Lives Conference - 2018

WOL’s 2018 “Palestine Lives” conference was held on May 12, 2018 at Hunter College (Hunter), part of City University of New York (CUNY). The official conference poster featured a photo montage of armed men in Keffiyehs, with the caption: “Resisting Settler Colonialism Since 1948.”

The conference advertised a panel titled "MEEN ERHABE (WHOS THE TERRORIST)? - What is Zionism? Breaking down the origins and history of Israel and its Terrorism.”

Also advertised was a panel with “Revolutionaries from various movements speaking on the importance of international solidarity” and one titled “THE OSLO AGREEMENTS: The biggest setback for the Palestinian struggle.”

SJP

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.

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