Nariman Shehaiber
Overview
Nariman Shehaiber was the 2016 president and primary contact for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Loyola University (Loyola). Shehaiber was an activist with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and pushed divestment efforts at Loyola while SJP president.As of September 2020, Shehaiber was a member of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at Loyola’s Facebook group “Loyola MSA,” since March 2015.
Shehaiber was also a 2016-2018 contributor to the anti-Israel magazine Palestine in America (PiA).
In November 2016, Shehaiber’s LinkedIn page said that she served as a Student Senator at Loyola, between August and December 2015 and that she was a Committee Chair for the Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC), between January and May 2016.
As of September 2020, Shehaiber’s LinkedIn page said that she was the Event Coordinator for the Network of Arab American Professionals (NAAP), since February 2016.
As of the same date, Shehaiber’s LinkedIn page stated that she was a Consultant and Business and Technology Analyst at Accenture, in Chicago, Il, since October 2019.
Shehaiber’s LinkedIn page also listed her as a “Law Clerk” with Ramadan and Associates, from May 2018 to October 2019 and a “Legal Intern” with Ramadan and Associates, from August 2017 - May 2018.
Her LinkedIn page also said that she received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Loyola, majoring in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management.
SJP Activism
In 2003, 2015 and 2016, Birzeit University students elected Hamas’ student wing to power. As a result, Bilal Barghouti, who is serving 16 life terms in prison for his role in a series of suicide attacks against Israel, was made the "Honorary Chairman of the Bir Zeit University Student Council."
Shehaiber wrote that the campaign was “to bring ten students to U.S. campuses this spring to speak about life and education under the Israeli occupation.” Shehaiber added: “to support the tour, make a donation at www.nationalsjp.org/donate.”
On January 29, 2016, SJP Loyola shared a photo of Shehaiber and fellow SJP Loyola activist Nadine Darwish to Facebook. Shehaiber wore a scarf with an illustration of the Al Aqsa mosque and wording in Arabic that said: “Al-Quds [Jerusalem] is ours.”
SJP Loyola added: “Come to mundelein 514 for our first GBM [General Board Meeting]of the semester! Nadine Darwish and Nariman Shehaiber will be giving a detailed presentation on the history of Palestine!.”
On April 5, 2016, Shehaiber promoted SJP Loyola’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) on Facebook and wrote: “RSVP!!! #SJPLoyolaIAW #EndIsraeliApartheid.”
Beginning on April 11, 2016, the four-day event included a talk by Professor Sa’ed Atshan of Swarthmore College, titled: “Tel Aviv Night Clubs and West Bank Checkpoints: The Politics of Being Fabulous in the Holy Land.”
Pushing Divestment at Loyola
On March 3, 2016, Shehaiber posted to Facebook: “#LoyolaDivest has relaunched its campaign to pressure faculty on University Senate to vote yes on a resolution demanding the university divest from the occupation of Palestine.”In 2015, LoyolaDivest stated on their website “about” page that they passed a 2015 divestment resolution targeting “corporations [are] complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights” and profit from the “furthering the oppression of Palestinians through mass destruction and overall degradation of human rights.”
Shehaiber featured in a photo posted to the website “about” page, along with other 2015 LoyolaDivest activists.
The website also posted a copy of the 2015 divestment resolution and stated on their timeline that Loyola’s student government passed the divestment resolution, but Loyola’s Senate rejected a proposal to discuss divestment.
Shehaiber’s Facebook post linked to LoyolaDivest’s March 2, 2016 media release regarding the re-launching of their campaign.
The media release said that their goal was to “pressure [the] University Senate to vote on a resolution that urges the university to remove its investments from corporations involved in human rights violations against Palestinians.”
The media release claimed that these unnamed corporations were “aiding the killings of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children” and the “displacement, dehumanization, and the massacre” of Palestinians.
The media release condemned Associate Professor and Chair of University Senate, Noah Sobe, for refusing to put divestment on the University Senate’s agenda in 2015. It stated that they would pressure faculty to put divestment on the Senate’s 2016 agenda.
On March 3, 2016, Shehaiber appeared numerous times in the Facebook photo album“#LoyolaDivest Relaunch Action,” speaking into a bullhorn while leading a student demonstration.
On March 4, 2016, Shehaiber was again featured in a photo posted to Facebook by Loyola Divest, at the same demonstration.
That same day, Shehaiber updated her Facebook cover photo to a photo of the same demonstration to Facebook and wrote: “#LoyolaDivest.”
BDS Activism
On January 7, 2018, Shehaiber authored a blog post in PiA interviewing Ahmad Saadaldin, the “Progressive for Palestine” candidate to the Florida House of Representatives.Shehaiber quoted Saadaldin stating that his campaign had included “divestment from the occupation of Palestine” and wrote that he was the former SJP president at the University of South Florida (USF) and a USF Divest member.
On April 1, 2016, Shehaiber authored an article in PiA about the divestment efforts at Ohio State University (OSU Divest).
On March 18, 2016, Shehaiber authored an article in PiA about the divestment efforts at Northwestern University (NU Divest).
On February 24, 2016, Shehaiber authored an article in PiA about the divestment efforts at the University of Minnesota (UMN Divest).
Shehaiber stated in the article that UMN Divest targeted four corporations: Caterpillar, Elbit Systems, Group 4 Securicor (G4S) and Raytheon, that she claimed: “are complicit in various human rights abuses against Palestinians.”
On February 3, 2016, Shehaiber wrote an article for PiA condemning American record producer, DJ, and radio personality DJ Khaled for a performance endorsing Sabra. Sabra Hummus is partially owned by an Israeli company, the Strauss Group.
Shehaiber wrote: “Both DJ Khaled and Sabra boasted about the performance on Snapchat and Twitter, which inspired Palestine advocates to inform the Palestinian DJ that in adherence to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s call to action issued by the Palestinian Civil Society in 2005, Sabra Hummus is to be boycotted.”
Shehaiber also wrote that Sabra is “a group that provides financial support and supplies to the Golani and Givati brigades of the Israeli military—which have been found by the United Nations to be violators of human rights.”
She also quoted from an Alternate article that accused Israel of “[w]idespread human rights abuses and possible war crimes” during Operation Cast Lead (OCL) in 2008-09.
Israel commenced Operation Cast Lead (OCL)in 2008-09 in order to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. In 2010, Hamas admitted that nearly 700 of the Palestinian casualties in OCL were combatants.
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/n.shehaiber [Deleted]
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- Loyola
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- MSA,
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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