Ntebo Mokuena
Overview
Mokuena was the president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at American University (AU) in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, Mokuena reportedly served as the AU SJP Vice President.
Mokuena indicated on Facebook that she “went” to the 2016 National SJP Conference, held at George Mason University (GMU) on November 4-6, 2016.
In April 2020, Mokuena was listed as a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Action leader (JVPA) in Washington D.C.
Mokuena also expressed support for United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, after Omar was denounced by Congressional leaders for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks.
As of March 2021, Mokuena’s LinkedIn page said she was a full-time “Campaign Director” at Daily Kos, from “Jul 2020 - Present,” in Washington D.C.
Mokuena’s LinkedIn page also said she studied Political Science and Government at AU, from “2013 - 2017.”
Mokuena also wrote on LinkedIn that she was a “Communications Intern” for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), from “Jan 2014 - May 2014.”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On May 14, 2018, in reference to violent riots taking place on Israel’s border with Gaza, Mokuena tweeted: “Israel must stop attacking Palestinian protestors and journalists on the ground. Trump has emboldened Netanyahu and Israeli govt to continue killing civilians. #FreePalestine #EmbassyMove.”On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official, Salah al-Bardawil, stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
On December 10, 2016, during a Code Pink Summit on Gun Violence Prevention where Mokuena was a speaker, Mokuena claimed [00:11:50] that “Palestinians are victims of gun violence” and that “some of the major ways are unlawful killings by IDF soldiers. Over 120 Palestinians have been killed in the last year by gun violence and this included children.”
Mokuena added [00:12:43]: “Another method is extrajudicial killings. So in addition, there are executions happening unlawfully.”
Mokuena went on to blame police gun violence against blacks in the U.S. on Israel, claiming U.S. Police were trained in the West Bank and “exchanging tactics and applying them on [U.S.] citizens, People of Color in the U.S.”
In a November 5, 2014, post on the Facebook page of the African Students' Organization at American University, Mokuena promoted an AU SJP event that hosted the Ramallah-based Birzeit University’s Right to Education tour.
The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas.
The GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Facebook page shared photos from the rally to their page. One photo showed a sign that read: “Israel is the real terrorist,” other signs read: “END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL” and “World’s Leading Terrorist: Netanyahu,” as well as “RESIST: Zionism and Imperialism.”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
On December 18, 2013, Mokuena wrote on Facebook: “Israel is an apartheid state.”
Promoting the “Deadly Exchange”
On August 14, 2020, Mokuena tweeted to the Mayor of Washington, D.C. Muriel Bowser, objecting to the arrest of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters and calls to “Defund the Police.”Mokuena wrote: “You are responsible for displacement and murder of Black folk in DC, you collaborate with ICE, & you train w/ Israeli military. We see what you’re doing & that’s precisely why we continue to demand.”
JVP’s video also blamed [00:04:04] US-based Jewish organizations for violence that occurs against Black and Brown communities, immigrants and activists in the U.S.
Mokenu added: “That @councilofdc #DefundMPD #DefundThePolice #DefundDCPolice/.”
On October 30, 2019, Mokuena tweeted: “Y’all tonight I had to confront @MayorBowser and @ChiefNewsham for their racist practices. Justice for St Elizabeths and end the #DeadlyExchange
.”JVP’s “Deadly Exchange” campaign page also claimed that these “policies” included: “extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill policies, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention.”
Mokuena’s tweet featured a “still’ from a video of herself harassing D.C. Chief of Police, Peter Newsham. In the video, Mokeuena accused Newsham of racist police tactics, claiming they were connected to Newham’s Anti-Defamation League training in Israel, “with the Israeli military.”
Mokeuna also called the D.C. police a “racist police force” which was unneeded. Mokuena went on taunting Nesham and telling [00:01:17] him he was “the number one jerk in the city.”
On May 18, 2019, Mokuena tweeted: “Dont mind me just tryin to end #deadlyexchange US police & Israeli military police, support an immigration non-profit, fight for climate justice with @350_DC and NONE of that is my day job... Just out here organizing for a better future while enduring life as a black femme too.”
On December 10, 2016, during a Code Pink Summit on Gun Violence Prevention where Mokuena was a speaker, she claimed [00:14:00] a“method” of Israeli gun violence against Palestinians was the “training of police forces in the West Bank” and then went on to suggest there was a causal connection between trainings in Israel and U.S. police violence.
Mokuena continued [00:14:25]: “Yes, so, the Baltimore Police Department was trained in the West Bank and they are exchanging tactics and applying them on black citizens, people of color here and people of color abroad. This is a problem and this is why intersectionality is so important.”
Mokuena added [00:15:00]: “This is why it is important to continue working on this as national organizations because it is touching every part of the United States and when we stop the killing of Palestinians, we stop the killing of Black Lives here…”
On May 7, 2015, Mokuena featured in an article published on Electronic Intifada, standing alongside GMU SAIA activists Tareq Radi, Mohammad Abou Ghazala and Sarah Soliman.
The photo was taken following their participation in the 2015 Baltimore protests. The article was titled “Israeli-trained police invade Baltimore in crackdown on Black Lives Matter.”
Mokuena was quoted in the article claiming that there were “parallels with militarization of police” between Baltimore and “Palestine,” including “the tactics they use to take over space in other people’s land.”
Supporting BDS
On April 27, 2020,a JVPA press release reported Mokuena endorsed then-congressional candidate McKayla Wilkes, in Maryland’s 5th District.The press release said that: “Wilkes is calling for massive cuts to U.S. military spending and wars abroad, including leveraging and cutting U.S. military funding for Israeli oppression of Palestinians.”
On May 1, 2018, AU’s student newspaper, The Eagle, reported Mokuena “weaved together a list of demands” to AU, made by several AU Black Student Diaspora organizations, including SJP. The list, which was created in 2017, “covered a broad range of topics” and called on the university to “Divest” from “the Israeli Apartheid State...”
On November 15, 2017, Mokuena tweeted: “@umdsga stand on the right side of history and join 69 other universities to divest from companies profiting from Israel's occupation of Palestine. #UMDdivest.”
UMD Divest was a BDS campaign organized by SJP at the University of Maryland (UMD) that reportedly called on the UMD “administration to boycott companies and institutions that promote the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.”
UMD Divest’s resolution reportedly failed to pass on November 16, 2017, with a vote of 1-21 and three abstentions.
On December 10, 2016, Mokuena featured as a panelist at a Code Pink Summit on Gun Violence Prevention which was aired on C-Span, where she said [00:10:53]: “Hello everyone, my name is Ntebo Mokuena, I am a student here at American University and I am a member of Students for Justice in Palestine here at American University.”
The subtitle on the screen informed [00:11:10] the audience that Mokuena was the “Students for Justice in Palestine - President.”
Mokuena went on to say [00:11:16] that SJP supports “Palestinian Sovereignty and Self determination” and that they do this through [00:11:30] “the BDS movement… economically targeting Israel, and you know U.S. and other businesses. Our goal is to disrupt their complicity in the occupation.”
In January 2015, Mokuena signed a letter that called for the boycott of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), sponsored by Israel’s Shalom Hartman Institute.
MLI "invites North American Muslim leaders to explore how Jews understand Judaism, Israel and North American Jewish identity through a Zionist lens," and to expand their understanding of Jewish “ethics, faith, and practice.” According to MLI founder Imam Abdullah Antepli, “MLI aims to put mainstream North American Jewry in conversation with their Muslim counterparts.”
The letter Mokuena signed pledged: “to not give a platform to any MLI participant to speak about their experiences at our community centers, places of worship, and campuses and call on a complete boycott of MLI.”
In a November 12, 2013 post on the Facebook page of The African Students' Organization at American University, Mokuena wrote: “Please support SJP's petition against Sabra Hummus! Here's the link http://www.change.org/…/american-university-dining-services…”
Mokuena’s post linked to a petition started by AU SJP demanding that the AU Dining Services: “Stop Sales of Sabra Hummus.” Sabra Hummus is partially owned by an Israeli company, the Strauss Group.
The petition claimed that Sabra Hummus products “openly support the Israeli army” and accused the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of being “involved in mass expulsions, massacres and mass rapes” as well as having allegedly “invaded and slaughtered refugees in civilian refugee camps.”
Support for Ilhan Omar
On April 13, 2019, Mokuena tweeted: “#IStandWithIlhanOmar because she continues to speak truth to power about US complicity in Israel’s human rights abuses and both country’s oppression of marginalized communities. The far-right continues to attack a brilliant black Muslim women and the @TheDemocrats are silent.”AU SJP - Expressing Support for a Terrorist - 2014
Odeh was a military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an internationally designated terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
AU SJP - Promoting Incitement - 2015
Masked Palestinian rioters barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa Mosque on September 13, 2015. The rioters set off fireworks, starting a small fire and threw stones and debris stored inside at Israeli police. Pipe bombs were later found by Israeli police. The rioters had prepared the pipe bombs to launch at Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount plaza.
AU SJP - Hosting Anti-Israel Agitators - 2014
On October 16, 2014, AU SJP posted on Facebook an event they had organized hosting Bassem Tamimi. The event was titled: “Bassem Tamimi on Nonviolent Resistance.”Bassem Tamimi had his United States visa revoked in 2015, for failing to disclose his prior arrest and conviction. Before having his visa revoked he gave a controversial presentation to third-graders in Ithaca, New York, that was geared to foster hatred of Israel.
Tamimi finished the presentation by encouraging [00:11:29] the children to become “freedom fighters for Palestine.” He has exploited young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers and in 2011, was jailed for organizing violent rallies and inciting minors to commit violent crimes such as rock-throwing.
The event’s Facebook description said Tamimi “has a strong background in nonviolence organizing,” who was “convicted by an Israeli military court in 2011 for ‘sending people to throw stones.’”
Rock throwing is a deadly form of violence, despite being romanticized as a form of “popular resistance.”
On September 9, 2014, AU SJP posted on their blog a post in support of anti-Israel professor Steven Salaita, titled: “In solidarity with Steven Salaita.”
The University of Illinois (U of I) rescinded a job offer made to Steven Salaita in 2014, after becoming aware of anti-Semitic tweets he made. Not long after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped by Hamas, Salaita tweeted: “You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.”
During Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014, Salaita tweeted: “There's something profoundly sexual to the Zionist pleasure w/#Israel's aggression. Sublimation through bloodletting, a common perversion.”
Salaita was ultimately unable to find a teaching position and claimed that he took a job as a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C. area.
AU SJP - Disrupting Student Events - 2014
On November 14, 2014, AU SJP wrote a blog post about their staged “walkout” from a “Bipartisan Discussion on the US Israel Relationship event.”AU SJP’s blog post said Israel was a “false democracy” with a “mask of progressiveness.” The blog also said the event they disrupted “failed to mention the numerous struggles Israel causes” including “the occupation.”
The blog concluded: “If we got your attention last night and if you find these facts upsetting, we encourage you to learn more. Question what you know and strive to learn more. Visualizing Palestine, Humanize Palestine, If Americans Knew, and Electronic Intifada are some great resources to start with.”
If Americans Knew (IAK) is an anti-Semitic organization that was founded by anti-Israel agitator Alison Weir. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as well as the anti-Israel U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), have bothcondemned IAK for anti-Semitism.
Electronic Intifada (EI) is an online publication that has spread a wide variety of anti-Israel propaganda, describing Israel as a “racist” or “apartheid” state that carries out “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” against Palestinians.
Also on November 14, 2014, AU SJP shared their blog about their walkout on Facebook.
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.
JVP
JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.”
JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish value.”
The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”
Social Media and Weblinks
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntebo-mokuena/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ntebamanos/ [Private]
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Blog: https://m.dailykos.com/blogs/Ntebo%20Mokuena
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