Noor Al-Switi
Overview
For more information, see the McMaster SPHR Chapter Profile.
Al-Switi is also a supporter [00:00:32] of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Al-Switi was the “Events Co-ordinator” for McMaster Muslims for Peace and Justice (MMPJ) in the 2014-2015 academic year and was an activist in the group in March 2016. MMPJ co-hosted multiple anti-Israel events in 2014 and 2015 with McMaster SPHR, which Al-Switi attended.
As of August 2023, Al-Switi was listed as a “A/Team Lead, Staffing” for the government agency Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was previously human resources assistant for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, also part of the Canadian government.
In July 2017, Al-Switi’s LinkedIn profile said she graduated from McMaster with a bachelor’s degree in life sciences in 2017.
Anti-Israel Activism (BDS, SPHR, MMPJ)
On March 21, 2015, Al-Switi featured [00:00:32] in a video of McMaster BDS activists urging students to vote yes on a BDS resolution to be introduced at the McMaster Student Union (MSU) general assembly. In the video, Al-Switi called for a boycott of the company HP, which she said provided technology for Israeli security checkpoints that was “restricting the freedom of Palestinians.”Israeli checkpoints were built to prevent terror attacks, such as suicide bombings, against Israel's civilian population.
On March 23, 2015, the MSU voted to pass a BDS motion endorsed by McMaster SPHR and other student groups.
Al-Switi indicated on Facebook that she attended a March 9, 2016, Israeli Apartheid Week event titled “Apartheid: Live!” co-hosted by McMaster SPHR and MMPJ.
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.
In March 2015, Al-Switi participated in a McMaster SPHR IAW event and featured in a Facebook photo posing next to a wall meant to represent Israel’s security barrier. On the “barrier” was written: “Apartheid. Wrong for South Africa. Wrong for Palestine.”
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.
Also in March 2015, while she was MMPJ’s events coordinator, Al-Switi indicated on Facebook that she attended three IAW events co-hosted by McMaster SPHR and MMPJ.
Al-Switi also indicated on Facebook that she attended the 2014 IAW co-hosted by McMaster SPHR and MMPJ.
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.
Social Media and Web Links
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/noor.alswiti [Deleted]LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/noor-al-switi-5178a3104/ [Deleted]
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/al.switi/ [Private]
Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/noor-al-switi [Deleted]
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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