Nadir Bouhmouch

Overview

Nadir Bouhmouch was the co-chair of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at San Diego State University (SDSU) for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Using his filmmaking skills, Bouhmouch created a propaganda video on behalf of SJP.

During his term as co-chair, Bouhmouch was actively involved in a SJP SDSU's divestment resolution as part of the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which ultimately failed to pass.

Bouhmouch is a Moroccan filmmaker. He is a graduate of SDSU where he studied Film and International Conflict Resolution.

SJP SDSU

In 2015, SDSU was named as one of the ten United States universities with the most anti-Semitic activity, much of this stemming from SJP SDSU’s campus activity.

SJP SDSU’s campus programs have included workshops promoting BDS hosted by anti-Semite Miko Peled and staging “die-ins.”

A week after a 2014 "die-in," SJP SDSU dropped approximately 500 leaflets from the top of the student hall ordering students to evacuate immediately and warning that “Those who fail to comply with the instructions will endanger their lives and the lives of their families.” Several police officers and members of the campus administration were present at the time of their disruption, which was considered by university officials as a violation of the student code of conduct.

In September 2013, SJP SDSU joined in support of a lecturer who used a map depicting Arabic-speaking countries that left Israel unnamed and labeled the area as Palestine. Their involvement followed an outcry from pro-Israel groups that the map was misleading and against Israel. As a show of endorsement for continuing revisionist anti-Israel positions in the classroom, SJP members drafted a resolution intended to reaffirm support for academic freedom at SDSU. The resolution was voted on by the Associated Students University Council and rejected.

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.