Raymundo Valentin
Overview
Raymundo Valentin has glorified terrorism and demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment (BDS) movement.Valentin was an activist with New York City Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from 2016- 2018. In February 2018, NYC SJP was renamed Within Our Lifetime (WOL).
Valentin was also an activist with SJP at the College of Staten Island (CSI) in 2014-2015.
As of September 2019, Valentin’s LinkedIn page said he studied History at City University of New York (CUNY) from “2009 — 2014.”
In January 2017, Valentin’s now-defunct Google+ page said he was a student at CSI, where he studied history from 2011.
In 2012, Valentin was affiliated with the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC) and in 2015 was an activist with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at CSI.
Glorifying Terrorism
On January 14, 2017, Valentin was cited by a user on Facebook for posting a graphic from the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Facebook. The graphic featured keffiyeh-masked Palestinians, holding assault weapons with text reading, in Arabic and English: “LET THE INTIFADA PAVE THE WAY FOR THE PEOPLE’S WAR.”On August 18, 2016, Valentin featured in a photo shared on Facebook by NYC SJP, holding a sign that read: “I Stand with Bilal Kayed and all Political Prisoners NYC SJP.”
PFLP terrorist Bilal Kayed was incarcerated for 14 years for terror attacks and attempted terror attacks committed during the second intifada, in 2002.
Demonizing Israel
In January 2015, Valentin signed a letter that called for the boycott of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), sponsored by the 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.”
This letter also rejected the notion “that there is the need for Muslim Americans to engage with the State of Israel,” unless they “promote Palestinian liberation and comply with Palestinian demands.”
On March 6, 2014, Valentin was featured in a photo posted on Facebook by SJP CSI taken at an “Israeli Apartheid Wall” event at CSI, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
In the photo, Valentin posed with other CSI SJP activists, holding signs meant to demonize Israel.
On February 9, 2014, Valentin promoted on Facebook a CSI SJP “Club Interest Meeting” and referred to Israel as “a settler colonial apartheid state!”
Supporting BDS
On March 22, 2014, Valentin shared a CSI SJP panel event that promoted BDS against Israel “until it...ends its illegal apartheid regime!”The Facebook event description accused CSI and CUNY of “insensitive collaboration with the impedance [sic] of academic freedom” and “the repression of human rights,” following CUNY administrators’ opposition to the American Studies Association (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
In 2012, the ASA Caucus proposed a resolution calling for an academic boycott of Israel, which was later adopted at the ASA’s 2013 Conference.
On April 20, 2016, a lawsuit was filed against ASA officers who advanced the boycott. The plaintiffs accused the defendants of hijacking the ASA for personal political purposes and perverting their duties as officials of the ASA.
SJP/WOL Activism
In May 2018, Valentin indicated on Facebook that he “went” to WOL’s “1st Annual Palestine Lives Conference.” Valentin earlier updated his Facebook profile photo to the conference poster.The conference was co-hosted by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as the anti-Israel groups Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Existence Is Resistance.
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.
CSI SJP - Supporting Intifada
On October 15, 2015, during the Palestinian “Knife Intifada,” CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest in “Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising.” The protest was called to preempt an October 18, 2015 “Jewish Lives Matter” rally scheduled to take place in Times Square.The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
CSI SJP’s Facebook post said: “Join us loudly in proclaiming that Resistance is not Terrorism, Occupation and Colonialism are Terrorism!”
On October 6, 2015, CSI SJP shared on Facebook an NYC SJP “statement of solidarity” with a “Day of Rage” rally held at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.
At the bottom of that statement was a graphic of a keffiyeh-masked man throwing a rock, with the caption: “Palestine Let the Intifada pave the way for people’s war!”
Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:16] “Long live the intifada! Intifada, intifada!” as well as [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and [00:01:18] “Settler settler go back home, Palestine is ours alone!"
“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.
CSI SJP - Defending Terrorists
On May 16, 2017, CSI SJP participated in the “Saltwater Challenge.”On June 3, 2016, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a “Justice for Rasmea Rally & March,” hosted by Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City SJP (NYC SJP). The event’s Facebook description said the rally was organized to “demand a new trial and justice” for Rasmea Odeh.
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.
NYC SJP’s blog post went on to praise Odeh and Khalida Jarrar.
Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.
On August 16, 2015, CSI SJP promoted on Facebook a protest by NYC SJP supporting Mohammad Allan. Mohammed’s relative Ziad Allan, demonized Israel at the protest.
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.
CSI SJP - Spreading an Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theory
On February 22, 2015, CSI SJP posted on Facebook an article stating: “Hundreds of Palestinians flee as Israel opens dams into Gaza Valley.”The article claimed that “hundreds of Palestinians were evacuated from their homes after Israeli authorities opened a number of dams near the border, flooding the Gaza Valley in the wake of a recent severe winter storm.”
Al-Jazeera shared and later retracted the story, admitting: “In southern Israel, there are no dams of the type which can be opened.”
CSI SJP - Supporting Anti-Israel Agitators
On March 10, 2015, CSI SJP shared a photo campaign organized by SJP at Hunter College to support Lina Khattab.Khattab was detained on December 13, 2014, and sentenced to six months jail time on February 16, 2015 for throwing rocks, while celebrating the 47th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)’s founding.
On January 29, 2015, CSI SJP posted an article on Facebook supporting disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita. The CSI SJP Facebook post said: “Down with foreign government lobbies bribing universities to silent dissenters and organizers against settler-colonial states!”
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
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymundo-valentin-0789019a/
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