Nooralhuda Sami

Overview

Nooralhuda Sami [Nooralhuda Omar Sami] led chants calling for violence, called for the elimination of Israel anddemonized Israel at a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) rally in January 2023 that was co-organized by various SJP chapters in Michigan.

The rally was held on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (UMich-Ann Arbor) campus.

As of February 2025, Sami’s LinkedIn profile said she had served as the “Education Director” at Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which is the name of the UMich SJP chapter, from January 2021 to August 2024.

Also as of February 2025, Sami’s LinkedIn said she was a student “enrolled in a joint Phlebotomy, Clinical Medical Assistant, and EKG Technician program” at the Phlebotomy Career Training (PCT), located in Dearborn, Michigan. She was slated to graduate in March 2025.

Sami’s LinkedIn bio also said: “...I intend to pursue an MD-PhD to combine clinical practice with anthropological research, addressing health disparities in my native Iraq.”

As of the same date, Sami’s LinkedIn said she graduated from UMich with a bachelor’s degree in medical anthropology in 2024.

As of the same date, Sami’s LinkedIn said she was located in the Detroit Metropolitan area, Michigan.

As of April 2025, CNN reported that Sami was “originally from Iraq."

Calling for Violence at an Anti-Israel Rally

On January 12, 2023, Sami, along with fellow UMich students Joseph Fisher and Salma Hamamy, led anti-Israel chants during a rally and march.

The event was organized in protest against a visit that day by U.S. vice president Kamala Harris. Harris was due to appear on the UMich-Ann Arbor campus for “a conversation about the climate crisis.”

The rally was co-organized by SAFE; University of Detroit Mercy SJP (UDM SJP); Wayne State University SJP (SJP WSU) and Students United for Palestinian Rights (SUPR) at Michigan State University (MSU).

SUPR is the name of MSU’s SJP chapter.

Other participants in the rally included Seliman Ali, Yousef Turk and Lina Mahmoud.

As rally participants marched toward the auditorium in which Vice President Harris was scheduled to speak, Fisher and Sami led [00:00:01] the chants: “Justice is our demand, no peace on stolen land!” and [00:00:07]: “Intifada, intifada! Long live the intifada!”

The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
Hamamy marched alongside Fisher and Sami holding [00:00:01] a sign that read: “THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION, Intifada Revolution!”

Sami and Fisher then led [00:00:22] the chants: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution!” and [00:00:28]: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.

When the crowd arrived outside the auditorium, Fisher and Hamamy led rally participants in chanting [00:00:01]: “Hey hey, ho ho, the Zionists have got to go!”

Fisher then gave a speech where he called [00:00:17] Israel “the violent Zionist entity” and accused [00:00:36] Israel of being “one of the most vicious perpetrators” of environmental destruction.

Fisher also claimed [00:01:02] Israel was continuing to “murder Palestinians and steal more of their land,” calling [00:01:27] Israel a “violent settler apartheid regime.”

Sami also referred [00:01:06] to Israel as “the Zionist entity,” claiming [00:01:08] Israel was engaging in “ethnic cleansing.”

Upon leaving the auditorium, rally participants walked along a public street chanting [00:00:01]: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!”

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

Sami led [00:00:01] the chant: “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes!”

Sami and Fisher then led [00:00:13] the chant: “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide!”

Fisher and Sami also led rally participants in chanting [00:00:01]: “Kamala, Kamala, don’t you know, greenwashing has got to go!”

"Greenwashing" is a claim by anti-Israel activists that Israel manipulates the environmentalist agenda to deflect international attention from Israel's alleged "persecution of the Palestinians."

Hamamy and Mahmoud held [slide 3] a sign with the claim: “ISRAEL DUMPS WASTE IN PALESTINIAN NEIGHBORHOODS EXPOSING PALESTINIANS TO HAZARDOUS TOXINS.”

Turk held [slide 4] a sign that said: “Israel is a settler colonial state.” Another activist held [slide 7] a sign that read: “RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED! WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED!”

Ali wore [00:00:04] a Palestinian flag as a cape [slide 5] while waving another Palestinian flag and marching with demonstrators.

SAFE UMich’s Instagram post promoting the rally claimed: “The Biden-Harris administration has unwaveringly stood with Israel, an apartheid entity that has caused immense ecological destruction as it continues to commit crimes against humanity.”

Included in the same Instagram post was a flyer that said: “IN PROTEST OF KAMALA HARRIS’S APPEARANCE IN ANN ARBOR AND SUPPORT FOR ISRAELI APARTHEID.”

Anti-Israel Activism

On December 31, 2022, Sami featured [slide 6] in an Instagram post speaking in front of a display known as a “mock apartheid wall” that was erected by SAFE UMich activists during “Israeli Apartheid Week.”

The “mock apartheid wall” is a series of panels meant to represent Israel's security barrier, which was built to deter and respond to Palestinian terror and sniper attacks. Panels feature misleading statistics and “facts” that present a skewed image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The “wall" is often featured at the so-called Palestinian Awareness Week (PAW), formerly Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which is organized annually by SJP chapters on more than 200 North American university campuses.

On October 4, 2022, Sami appeared [slide 1] in an Instagram group photo with other SAFE UMich activists in front of the mock apartheid wall.

The right-most panel of the mock apartheid wall featured a graphic showing terrorist Leila Khaled holding an assault rifle and text reading “Power To Our Freedom Fighters Glory To Our Martyrs.”

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 September 30, 2022, Sami appeared [slide 2] in an Instagram post posing in front of SAFE’s “mock apartheid wall.” She stood in front of a panel featuring [slide 3] a series maps popular with anti-Israel activists, alleging Israeli “LAND THEFT” and “APARTHEID.”

The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.

Another panel said [slide 9]: “We will return,” alluding to the “right of return.”

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.

On June 29, 2022, Sami appeared [slide 9] in an Instagram post in a group photo where she sat among SAFE UMich activists next to a giant boulder with an anti-Israel message painted on it. On the boulder, the word “Conflict” was crossed [slide 3] out and next to it was the text: "It's Apartheid. It's Occupation."

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 Student 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.