Rayan Galaidos

As of February 2023, Galaidos’s LinkedIn page said he was located in the “Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.”

As of February 2023, Galaidos went by the username “rayan” and the handle “@yandoce” on Twitter.

Supporting Terrorists

On April 28, 2017, Galaidos featured in an SJP UCI Facebook video alongside other activists participating in the “Saltwater Challenge.” 

Galaidos retweeted a June 23, 2020 tweet from anti-Israel activist Noura Erakat eulogizing her cousin Ahmad Erakat. The tweet read: “Israeli soldiers shot to kill my baby cousin, Ahmed, left him to bleed out for 1.5 hours. He was 27, he deserved to live. Israeli cowards claim it was a car ramming incident…”

Ahmad Erekat [Ahmad Moustafa Erekat; Ahmed Erakat] was killed by Israeli security forces after he accelerated and rammed his car into soldiers at a checkpoint. One female soldier was injured. The incident was captured on video.  

Disrupting a Campus Event

On May 10, 2017, Galaidos and other SJP UCI activists disrupted [00:04:46] a campus event, yellinganti-Israel chants in an attempt to silence a panel of visiting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists. The event was titled: “The Truth About Israel: From the perspective of Israeli veterans.” 

At the event, Galaidos joined [00:07:35] in the chant: “Israel, Israel, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!” and [00:07:41]: “Israel, Israel, what do you say? How many people have you killed today?!”

Galaidos applauded [00:07:59] former SJP UCI leader Celine Quissy after she yelled at the reservists: “You people are colonizers or occupiers and you should not be allowed on this f**king campus. You’ve been stealing our land since 1948…You have the guns, you would kill me if you could, f**k you!” 

The protesters left the room but remained outside in the hall, blocking the main exit while chanting [00:02:49]: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” 

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle 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.

The protesters then chanted [00:02:56]: “Intifada, Intifada! Long live the Intifada!”  

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

Police later escorted [00:01:23] the protestors out of the building.

In September 2017, UCI reportedly sanctioned SJP UCI with a two-year probation, requiring its members to “meet with the dean of students 12 times to discuss free speech issues and…consult with a representative of the dean’s office before hosting or co-hosting any campus event.”

Anti-Israel Activism

Since May 4, 2017, Galaidos’s Facebook cover photo featured a flyer for an event titled: “Anti-Zionism Week [AZW].” The four-day event began on May 8, 2017, and was co-hosted by SJP UCI, MSU UCI and two other groups. 

Galaidos featured [00:00:20] in a May 11, 2017 YouTube video from the event, standing [00:01:05] in front of SJP UCI’s mock apartheid wall while handing out flyers.



Galaidos featured in a May 12, 2017 Instagram photo, posing in front of the mock apartheid wall with other activists. The post read: “A successful AZW! JazakAllah Khayr [May Allah reward you with goodness] to everyone that came out and to everyone that organized! #azw.”

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/galaidos
 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yandoce

Twitter 2: https://twitter.com/ryngld0s [Deleted] 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bimp.co/ 

Instagram 2: https://www.instagram.com/ryngld0s/ [Deleted]

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yandoce

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayangalaidos/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX8s4an7DepwAFq5ThV2f9g