Noor Fawzy

Fawzy ended her post by calling to “take matters into our own hands” and to “[s]upport BDS.”  

Supporting Terrorists

In an April 17, 2012 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy shared an image of Khader Adnan and wrote: “Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan has just been released from prison!”

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

In a February 8, 2012 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “Please sign the petition demanding the release of Khader Adnan” and shared a petition that demanded: “the Immediate Release” of Adnan.

Adnan was among the 2000 Palestinian prisoners participating in the 2012 hunger strike. Other prisoners included membersof the PIJ and convicted terrorists Tha'er Halahleh and Bilal Diab, Hamas military commander, Abdullah al-Barghouti, who was sentenced to 67 life sentences for his significant role in multiple terrorist attacks. 

Another hunger striker was Palestinian terrorist Samer Issawi, who received a 26 year prison sentence for shooting at Hebrew University students and Israeli police in 2002, as well as for manufacturing and distributing pipe bombs. 

Disrupting a Campus Event

In April 2013, Fawzy led a disruption of an event at FAU where Israeli Colonel Bentzi Gruber, spoke about the “Ethics in the Field: An Inside Look at the Israel Defense Forces.” 

Following Gruber’s opening remarks, Fawzy and other SJP activists got up [00:00:21] and stood [00:00:41] in front of the speaker’s podium, while other activists held a banner with “War Criminals” written across it.

Fawzy read “facts about Operation Cast Lead...that Gruber participated in,” according to an article published by FAU’s student-run newspaper, University Press (UP). 

UP reported that after the activists were “told to leave by FAU police officers,” they continued their protest outside until the event concluded.

Following the disruption, Fawzy and other activists were reportedly investigated for “disruptive behavior.” Fawzy and her co-authors claimed: “two of the three of us still at FAU are on indefinite probation for the remainder of our undergraduate careers, two of us are barred from holding any leadership positions in official student organizations…”

Fawzy and her co-authors continued: “...and three of us are required to take part in a mandatory University Campus of Difference training program based on a curriculum created by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).”

Fawzy and her co-authors described the ADL’s training program as: “officially sanctioned re-education...” 

They added: “The injustice of it is magnified because the co-sponsoring organization, the ADL, has been vocal in attempts to malign us for our Palestinian rights activism and has pressured the University to take action against us, has a history of spying on advocates for Palestinian rights...”

They also claimed: “One of us, in addition to the mandatory training, is required to complete 25 hours of community service. Two of us who already graduated will also be subject to similar sanctions if we ever decide to come back to FAU to study.”

Fawzy also co-authored an “FAU Students for Justice in Palestine Statement,” published in UP in August 2013, about the event. Fawzy and her co-authors claimed Gruber’s “speech was propaganda,” that he was “guilty of committing serious war crimes” and “spread falsehoods about what happened in Gaza.”

Whitewashing “Intifada” Violence

In a December 9, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “After watching countless video clips exposing Israeli criminality during the Second Intifada, I now understand why Israel advocates find it necessary to direct discussion away from the human rights situation in Palestine and redirect it towards ‘peace,’ ‘peace talks’ and ‘negotiations’.”

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

The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.

In another December 9, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “‘December 9, 1987 – exactly 24 years ago – is the day Palestinians remember as the start of the first Intifada, or uprising, against Israel’s brutal and unending occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip that had begun 20 year earlier.’”

Spreading Hatred of Israel

In an August 4, 2013 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “The members of the FC Barcelona football team don't look too happy standing next to Israel’s apartheid leaders. I dont think Messi and the others like Israel. Hehe.”

Attached to Fawzy’s post was an article about Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona), visiting Israel as part of a “Peace Tour.”

UP reported on November 19, 2012, that during an SJP event protesting Israel’s OPD, Fawzy said: “What FAU students should understand is this aggression is being funded with their tax dollars” and “The United States is very much involved in this issue. It has basically given Israel the green light to unleash the destruction...”

In a August 26, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “Israel is de-legitimizing itself. Israel’s US-sustained criminal, immoral, and inhumane oppression of Palestinians will not guarantee its existence in the near future.”

Anti-Israel Activism

In an October 21, 2013 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote about the ADL: “So, just recently, the ADL (Always Defamatory League) [sic] issued a report titled: ‘The Top 10 Worst Anti-Israel Groups in America,’ and guess what they decided to include as representative of national SJP activity? OUR MOCK EVICTION NOTICE!...I forgot to mention that SJP made the top 10 list.”

Fawzy’s post was in reference to an ADL report released in 201, titled: “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in 2013.” The ADL list noted that, at the time of the report’s release, SJP was “almost singularly responsible for on-campus anti-Israel programming.”

The ADL report included an image of a mock eviction notice that SJP at FAU that was distributed in campus dorms in 2012, while Fawzy was president of the group. SJP at FAU had distributed “some 200 mock eviction notices.”

Fawzy wrote an article published in the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss, in 2013, about the 2012 mock eviction notices. She wrote: “Residential students at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida responded in shock, dismay, and intrigue...as they learned that their dorms were scheduled for demolition.” 

Fawzy added: “It is hoped that other Palestine solidarity activists across the country will initiate similar actions.”

Then-FAU senior vice president for student affairs Charles G. Brown released a statement that said: “The recent mock eviction postings did not comply with the policies of University Housing and Residential Life or the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership concerning the distribution of printed material, and therefore the postings were removed.”

On February 12, 2013, Fawzy was listed as an organizer and a co-host for an SJP at FAU event called: “Why has the United States Failed to Achieve Israeli-Palestinian Peace? A Teach-In on the US-Israel Relationship with Josh Ruebner.”

Reubner, was the former policy director for anti-Israel organization US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). 

The event’s Facebook description said: “In particular, he will expose the role of AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] and the greater Zionist lobby in disproportionately influencing US policy on the Middle East…” 

The stated mission of AIPAC is to “strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the United States and Israel.”

The event’s Facebook description also accused AIPAC of “influencing our universities, including minority student groups and student government officials. This is done in a clandestine effort to create a pro-Israel campus leadership base, at the expense of the overall interests of the student body.”

In 2013 Fawzy co-hosted “Gaza Awareness Week,” along with fellow SJP activist, Matthew Schneider and Gabi Aleksinko, which included an event featuring Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement (FGM). 

In a January 15, 2013 post on the Gaza Awareness Week’s Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “Recently, we were offered, and responded positively to, the opportunity to host Greta Berlin, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement and Audrey Bomse, attorney of the Free Gaza Movement...SO EXCITED!”

The Free Gaza Movement, launched by anti-Israel activist Huwaida Arraf, says it aims to “break the [sic] Israel’s illegal siege…on Gaza” by sending flotillas, including the May 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, dubbed the “Freedom Flotilla.”

The “Freedom Flotilla” consisted of six ships that attempted to sail to Gaza in May 2010, the lead ship was the Mavi Marmara. Activists aboard the Mavi Marmara chanted “Khaibar, khaibar ya yahud,” a slogan glorifying the killing of Jews.

Berlin said: [00:00:24] in a June 4, 2010 YouTube video about the Mavi Marmara: “They [Israeli Soldiers] started to shoot, they were shooting at unarmed civilians who were taking 10,000 tonnes of supplies into Israel. They shot without any provocation…” 

Activists aboard the ship attacked Israeli security forces with iron bars, metal chairs, knives, stun grenades and firearms, rocks and bottles, as soon as they boarded the Marmara. The Mavi Marmara itself was found to be carrying no humanitarian aid, only weaponry.

In an April 2, 2012 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “We're being monitored by the Anti-Defamation League! Woooooo!!!!!!” She commented on her post: “I think they really liked our wall. Haha!”

Earlier that year, SJP FAU constructed a “Mock Israeli Apartheid Wall,” meant to represent Israel’s security barrier.

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.

In a March 2, 2012 post to the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “I am sad to say that Palestine Awareness Week has come to an end but it was an EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL WEEK!!!...Many students signed up to join SJP! We are growing! We are making a great impact! Be proud of yourselves!!!!!!”

Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) is a re-branding for American audiences of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), originally 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 an October 12, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy promoted a fundraiser for SJP at FAU.

In a September 15, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “WHAT AN AMAZING FIRST EVENT SJP HAD! THE RALLY WAS TRULY A SUCCESS!...AND WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN SOON! SJP! SJP! SJP!”

Supporting BDS

Fawzy wrote a Letter to the Editor in response to a March 2016 op-ed in which she criticized a Florida anti-BDS bill.

The March 2016 op-ed referred to SB-86, which was signed into law on March 17, 2016 by then-Governor of Florida, Rick Scott. Florida’s House of Representatives voted 112-2 and the Senate approved the measure unanimously. 

SB-86 requires that the Florida State Board of Administration “identify all companies that are boycotting Israel or are engaged in a boycott of Israel” and prohibits “a state agency or local governmental entity from contracting for goods and services” with such companies. 

In her Letter to the Editor, Fawzy defended anti-Israel boycotts, writing that the BDS movement is “inspired by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.” She also accused “pro-Israel groups” of working “covertly with Florida politicians to punish and silence Florida BDS activists.”
 
In a September 23, 2014 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “Clearly, FAU is in violation of the academic boycott by partnering with the Technion, an Israeli university that is complicit in the commission of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians.”

In a March 14, 2013 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “A BIG congratulations to Palestine solidarity activists at UCSD [University of California, San Diego] for the successful passage of their divestment bill! #BDS.”

In a February 23, 2013 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy shared a petition that called for Alicia Keys to cancel her performance in Israel and wrote: “Apartheid is to be punished and dismantled, not entertained. Sign the petition now! It takes 30 seconds.”

In an April 30, 2012 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “There's nothing entertaining about Apartheid. Sign the petition and demand that the Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel their performance in Apartheid Israel!!!” and included the petition.

In an August 20, 2011 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy wrote: “Learn about BDS!” and shared an article published by the Palestinian BDS National Committee.

Praising an Anti-Israel Agitator

In a January 22, 2013 post on the SJP @ FAU Facebook page, Fawzy shared a photo of Haneen Zoabi and commented on her post: “This woman is awesome!”

Haneen Zoabi, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, has a long history of inciting violence. In 2014, she was suspended from the legislature after defending the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by the terror group Hamas, and who were later found executed in a field. In 2015, a criminal investigation was opened against Zoabi after she reportedly condoned anti-Israel violence and called for a new intifada.

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.

CAIR

CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”

CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.

CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.

Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.

In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.

CAIR was also listed  as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.  

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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