Rafeef Hamad
Overview
Rafeef Hamad has shared anti-Semitic propaganda, supported terrorists and spread hatred of Israel on social media. Hamad was the vice president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University (WSU) from September 2016 to August 2017.Hamad is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and was an SJP WSU board member as early as April 2015.
As of January 2018, Hamad’s LinkedIn page said she had been the treasurer of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) since September 2015.
Her LinkedIn page also said she planned to graduate from WSU in 2019, with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering.
Spreading Anti-Semitism
On December 7, 2016 Hamad retweeted a tweet linked to an anti-Semitic Youtube video titled “Palestine Story.” The video alleged [00:03:13]: “The Jews have a racist nature …”Accusing the Jews of global control, the video also demonized the attachment of Jews to their holiest sites in Jerusalem.
Early in the video, English-language subtitles said [00:01:24]: “Edmond Rothschild was the first supporter to the Jews.” The video then cut to a montage of red-tinted Rothschild family photos, accompanied by spooky music. The subtitles read: [00:01:27]: “The Rothschild family is a german- Jewish family. It is claimed that they own half of the world fortune and that thier power is spread a cross contients [sic].”
The video’s subtitles later accused [00:09:26] “the Haganah gang who made the most of war crime in Palestine” and cut to an image of Israeli soldiers praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
The subtitle text went on to claim [00:09:47]: “In 1945 USA took side with the Jews Because they supported Trueman’s [sic] campaign with 2 million dollars and suddenly they became friends with Zionism cause... and passionate supporters.”
The video again showed [00:15:30] Jews praying at the Western Wall as the video text referred to the site as “an important Islamic landmark, but a forgotten one... Al-Buraq Wall.” The subtitles continued: “today it is a temple where Jews practice their religious beliefs,” implying that Jews were intruders at the site.
At one point, the video presented an aerial photo of the Temple Mount, later known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif and claimed: “The whole space is the aqsa Mosque.”
The text of the tweet that Hamad retweeted read: “حكاية فلسطين |
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=HPstnELag60 …
في القلب غصّة ..
قسمًا ستعودين طاهرة من رجس المعتدين
جميلةً كما كنتِ يا أرض الرسالات ومهد الحضارات [“The story of Palestine In the heart there’s an ache… I swear you will return pure after the impurity of the aggressors. Beautiful like you were, O land of prophecies and foundation of civilisations]”
Supporting Terrorists
Hamad retweeted a November 7, 2016 tweet supporting teenage terrorist Ahmed Manasra.Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin Hassan went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015, during the Knife Intifada. They critically wounded a 13-year-old boy and moderately wounded a 25-year-old man. The spree ended when police shot Hassan and a passing motorist hit Ahmed. Ahmed was taken to an Israeli hospital. He admitted to investigators: “I went there to stab Jews.” He was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.
Hamad retweeted a January 2, 2016 tweet that showed dead bodies draped in various flags, including some in the Hamas flag.
The tweet said: “هذه جثامين شهدائنا التي احتجزها الاحتلال وقام بتسليمها اليوم!
سلام عليكم يا أجمل ما فينا. [These are the bodies of our martyrs which the occupation held and delivered today! Peace upon you O you most beautiful thing in us].”
Hamad retweeted an October 25, 2015 tweet defending Dania Irshid, who was shot dead after attempting to stab Israeli soldiers.
October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Hamad retweeted an October 10, 2015 tweet showing terrorist Amjad Al-Jundi’s mother kissing his body before burial. The tweet said: “She raised a Martyr.”
Amjad Al-Jundi stabbed an Israeli soldier on October 7, 2015. He then took the soldier’s rifle and ran to a nearby apartment building where he tried to shoot and stab a local woman in her home. Police responded and killed Al-Jundi during a shootout that transpired.
On October 4, 2015, Hamad tweeted: “يارب تكتبهم عندك من الشهداء
Hamad retweeted an August 19, 2015 tweet that said: “Rally for our cousin Muhammad Allan in NYC. #FreeMuhammadAllan.”
Allan is a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terror group “whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state.” Allan was first jailed by Israel in 2006 for trying to recruit a suicide bomber to carry out an attack in Israel. He was detained in 2014 for similar reasons. PIJ is backed by Iran and has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.
Hatred of Israel
Hamad retweeted a June 19, 2016 tweet propagating the Al-Durah hoax.The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, fabricated on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada by a France 2 reporter.
Hamad retweeted a June 3, 2016, tweet that said: “No matter how many Israeli flags you plaster on a building, it doesn't change the reality: you live on stolen land.” The tweet commented on a photo celebrating Israeli Independence Day.
Hamad retweeted a March 28, 2016 tweet that said: “بدنا ثورة تحمي شعبنا و تمحي إسرائيل [We want a revolution that protects our nation and erases Israel].”
Hamad retweeted a January 31, 2016 tweet that said: “Our demands are to live with dignity or else to die with honour; nothing in between. #Palestine #ThirdIntifada.”
Since the early 2000’s, the term “Intifada” has carried the connotation of violence.
Hamad retweeted a December 26, 2015 tweet that said: “The US media bends over backwards to present occupiers as victims, while saying nothing of Palestinians executed daily by a US-backed army.”
On July 7, 2015, Hamad tweeted: “ You're enjoying our land today but watch for what the future holds #TelAviv #FreePalestine
On that same day, Hamad retweeted a tweet that said: “Israelis have it so hard…living on stolen land, living off stolen resources, profiting off ethnic cleansing.”
On September 3, 2014, Hamad tweeted a Youtube video of a protest condemning Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE). The video was punctuated by periodic screens of red text against a black background. One screen, early in the video condemned [00:00:15] “Zionist crimes not only against Palestinians BUT AGAINST HUMANITY.”
The video used protestors to present its message. One speaker claimed [00:02:13] that Palestinians are “being butchered by a criminal who is a global terrorist and he [has] no respect for humans.”
Another speaker endorsed Hamas terrorism as the video panned across protesters holding signs that demonized Israel. One sign featured [00:03:23] a Star of David next to a Nazi Swastika, with text reading: “SAME S**T DIFFERENT PEOPLE.”
That visual was accompanied by protesters chanting the slogan [00:03:08]: “When people are occupied, resistance is justified!” The text of Hamad’s tweet repeated that slogan.
Israel commenced OPEin July 2014 in order to destroy Hamas attack tunnels and stop rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians.
Another slide of red text on a black screen claimed [00:01:26]: “Zionists Are Committing Palestinian GENOCIDE.” This was followed by snippets of protesters condemning Israel. One claimed [00:02:04]: “What is going on now is not only a pogrom but it is also ethnic cleansing.”
The video cited [00:03:30] If Americans Knew as the source of its allegations.
The anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK) was founded by anti-Israel agitator Alison Weir. IAK has been condemned for anti-Semitism by both the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the anti-Israel U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
On July 25, 2014, Hamad shared an image on Facebook from If Americans Knew. The post demonized Israel for launching OPE.
On July 22, 2014, Hamad tweeted a photo of Neturei Karta members protesting during OPE and wrote: “It says a lot when your own people protest against you!”
Neturei Karta is an anti-Israel Jewish fringe group whose leader, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, was excommunicated from many Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups for participating in a 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran. The group opposes Zionism on religious grounds and has called to dismantle Israel.
On March 30, 2014, Hamad tweeted an anti-Israel propaganda map and wrote: “InshAllah we will get it all back soon! #LandDay #Palestine.”
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.
SJP Activism
On April 9, 2017, Hamad posed with fellow SJP WSU officers in a Facebook photo before a mock Israeli security wall.The “separation wall” bore a quote often attributed to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.”
SJP WSU revised the quote, by replacing the word “truth” with the word “politics” and then crossed out “politics” and substituted the word “Israel,” written with blood dripping from the letters. Below the quote appeared the hashtag: “#BOYCOTTISRAEL.”
The quote embodied an anti-Semitic idea known as the “Big Lie,” which was used by Nazi Germany to demonize Jews and to promote the boycott of Jewish businesses.
SJP WSU used the wall as early as March 2016.
Hamad indicated on Facebook that she “went” to the 2017 National SJP Conference ((NSJP 2017).
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
SJP WSU - Anti-Semitic Tweets
SJP WSU founder and 2015-2017 president Summer Baraka and 2017-2018 president Mayssa Masri have both expressed forms of anti-Semitism on social media.On June 24, 2015, Masri tweeted: “We need to open our eyes to who controls the media. We need to open our eyes to #WhiteSupremacy and #Zionism.”
On August 21, 2013, Baraka tweeted: “Allah yin3an al yahood ou bas [May Allah curse the Jews, and that's all.]" Masri liked the tweet.
SJP WSU - Leadership Idolizing Terrorists
On March 29, 2016, Baraka referred to terrorist Ghassan Kanafani, tweeting: “Just tryna marry a modern day Kanafani.”Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
On October 4, 2015, Rafeef Hamad — the 2016-2017 SJP WSU vice president — tweeted: “يارب تكتبهم عندك من الشهداء
#فلسطين_تنتفض [Please O god inscribe them as martyrs #Palestine_Revolting]”October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
SJP WSU - Supporting Terrorists
On November 11, 2016 and 2017, SJP WSU posted photos to Facebook memorializing terrorist Yasser Arafat on the anniversary of his death.The 2017 post included an Arafat quote, reading: “The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”
Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the "father of modern terrorism." Arafat called for children to “martyr” themselves during the second intifada. In 1996, he told Arab diplomats: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
On April 8, 2017, SJP WSU posted a photo to Facebook of a painting honoring terrorist Leila Khaled, displayed at an SJP Palestinian cultural event.
Khaled was 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. In a 2014 interview, Khaled opined that the Palestinian second intifada failed because it was not violent enough.
On November 25, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted and posted on Facebook in support of terrorist Rasmea Odeh.
Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
SJP WSU - Denying Jerusalem’s Jewish History
On December 8, 2017, SJP WSU shared a Facebook video of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stating [00:00:15]: “Jerusalem is a city that is Palestinian, Arab, Christian, Islamic and the eternal capital of Palestine.“Abbas was protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On October 19, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted a picture taken at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, stating: “Victory of Palestine against Israel: Jerusalem Holy Site Declared Muslim, Not Jewish, in United Nations Resolution.”
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/626510768/Twitter:https://twitter.com/Rafeef_h [Deleted]
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rafeef_h/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafeef-hamad-7a26739b/
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