Reem Subei

In April 2013, Subei was listed on Facebook as the “Public Relations Chair” of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Toledo (UT), during the 2013 to 2014 academic year.

As of 2019, Subei was the President of the Young Muslim Democrats (YMD) of Toledo and the co-chair of the Welcome Toledo-Lucas County (WelomeTLC).

In 2016, Subei was the “Regional Representative'' for the National Lawyers Guild chapter of Ohio (Ohio NLG). 

NLG

The National Lawyers’ Guild (NLG) is an association of lawyers self-described as "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system."

The group is a “proud member” of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which has been renamed the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), and represented terrorist Rasmea Odeh in U.S. federal court.

As of January 2020, Subei's Facebook page said she manages the Facebook page of Ohio NLG and YMD. As of the same date, Subei’s LinkedIn page said that, since November 2016, she worked as a “Staff Attorney” at ABLE: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality in Ohio.

Subei’s LinkedIn also said she received a law degree from UT College of Law in 2014, and that she graduated from UT in 2010, with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Communication.

BDS Activism

On July 20, 2019, Subei posted to Facebook: “Ilhan Omar supports your right to boycott. Because boycotts are as American as apple pie! 🥧.” Subei’s post linked to an article titled: “US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduces House bill to assert right to boycott.”

In July 2019, Omar introduced H.Res. 496, referred to as a “pro-BDS” resolution, which Omar described as “an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support...the BDS movement.”

On March 9, 2017, Subei postedtoFacebook: “Do you have questions about BDS? See below. Btw, cool kids support BDS.” Subei’s post included a letter, written by BDS founder, Omar Barghouti, protesting against anti-BDS legislation. 

On November 29, 2016, Subei shared a link on Facebook to a USCPR page titled “HOUSE BILL 476: ILLEGAL ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH.” Subein captioned her post: “#Right2Boycott #OhioansAgainstHB476.”

In February 2016, the state of Ohio introduced an anti-BDS bill titled House Bill 476 (HB 476) “to prohibit a state agency from contracting with a company that is involved in a boycott” of Israel.” Ohio passed the anti-BDS legislation on December 19, 2016.

On November 29, 2016, Subei and anti-Israel activist Linda Mansour, together with three others, submitted a legal critique of HB 476 to the House Members of The Ohio General Assembly, defending the BDS movement.

Also on November 29, 2016, Subei encouraged Facebook followers to “Tweet, Facebook...go all out on Social Media….I stand against Israeli Apartheid. @YOURHOUSEREP, will you reprsent me? #Right2Boycott #OhioansAgainstHB476.”

Subei continued: “Call your house representative and ask her/him to VOTE NO on HB 476. We want to bombard their offices with calls all morning.”

On May 10, 2016, Subei submitted a “Testimony in Opposition to H.B 476” in which she she wrote: “To nobody’s surprise, I’ve heard stories about the lobbyists that may have visited you about passing HB476”

Subei continued: “Just like all the other opposers of this bill, I see in it a promotion of war crimes, massacres, human rights abuses.”

She concluded: “ Now, after spending time learning about the value and impact of boycotts throughout history, I hold a different belief. I expect to be able to exercise this belief freely and without being sanctioned by my state for the benefit of a foreign nation.”

On April 18, 2016, Subei, in her capacity as regional representative of the Ohio NLG, and Rahul Saksena of the anti-Israel Palestine Legal organization, submitted an email conveying their “strong opposition to H.B. 476.” 

UT Divestment Campaign

In 2017, Subei presented a workshop at a March 28, 2017 UT-SJP event for Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) titled: “UT Israeli Apartheid Week 2017: Know Your Rights in Activism.” 

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The UT-SJP Facebook event description said: “we will be hosting a Know Your Rights workshop, facilitated by local attorneys Reem Subei…” The description continued: “Reem also served as an executive board member with UT-SJP and played a huge role in the UTDivest campaign!”

The UTDivest campaign that Subei reportedly played a “huge role” in launched in February 2015, the year after Subei graduated from the UT College of Law. The BDS initiative called on UT to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

On February 17, 2015, the UT Student Government (SG) held [00:00:53] a closed meeting, during which SG’s judicial branch ruled that the resolution was unconstitutional because the “resolution's wording was discriminating toward a particular group of students on campus, the university's Jewish population.”

On March 2, 2015, anti-Israel legal organizations Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter claiming that the SG had violated SJP’s First Amendment rights and the Ohio Open Meetings Act.

On March 3, 2015, the SG overturned their decision of unconstitutionality, and a revised version of the resolution “was proposed and passed… with a vote of 21-4.”

The next day, UT’s Interim President Nagi Naganathan and the UT Foundation President Branda Lee reportedly released a joint statement “expressing disagreement” with the divestment action called for in the resolution.

On March 31, 2015, the SG reportedly passed a divestment referendum enabling “the whole student body to vote on the issue of divestment.”

On April 20, 2015, the referendum reportedly went live, with 57.13% of students voting in favor of the resolution. However, the resolution failed to reach the required threshold of 67% to pass.

Support for Anti-Israel Agitators

On January 23, 2011, Subei was featured in a Facebook photo posing next to anti-Israel activist George Galloway.

Galloway has a history of supporting terrorists and his anti-Zionist rhetoric has been condemned as anti-Semitic many times. He led three “Viva Palestina” convoys within one year of Operation Cast Lead (OCL) in 2008-09, which Israel commenced to stop Hamas rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians. 
 
When the first convoy reached Gaza in March 2009, Galloway said [00:01:09]: “We will give all our vehicles, our keys, our aid, our money to [Hamas chief] Ismail Haniyeh, the elected prime minister of Palestine.”

On April 25, 2017, Subei posted to Facebook: “...Thank you Kareem El-Hosseiny and Taher Herzallah for advocating equal rights for Palestinians one day at a time.”Subei’s Facebook post also featured an AMP-published article titled: “BREAKING: FEDS DROP CHARGES AGAINST AMP STAFFERS.” 
 
Taher Herzallah, the Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has expressed support for violence against Israeli Jews, was arrested twice for anti-Israel disruptions and spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. 

Kareem El-Hosseiny, Government Relations Coordinator for AMP, has been arrested for disrupting a United States Senate confirmation hearing, participated in a pro-Hamas aid convoy to Gaza and promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. 

In 2017, Herzallah and El-Hosseiny were arrested and charged with unlawful conduct after they disrupted US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Subei is a signatory to a March 6, 2019 online petition in support of Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar.

Ilhan Omar was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2018. In February 2019, top Congressional leaders denounced Omar for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks. She has also demonized Israel and endorsed BDS, including introducing a pro-BDS resolution in the U.S. Congress. 

The petition Subei signed objected to a resolution then being considered by the House Democratic leadership “to reprimand Congresswoman Omar for critical comments she made about Israel.”

On May 22, 2019, Subei was featured in a Facebook photo alongside Rashida Tlaib. The photo, posted by the Young Muslim Democrats of Toledo, was taken at an “Iftar Dinner Gala 2019” where Tlaib featured as the special guest.

Rashida Tlaib was elected to the U.S. Congress in November 2018. Tlaib has advocated for a one-state solution, endorsed BDS and called for reduced foreign aid to Israel.  

On May 20, 2019, Subei praised Tlaib on Facebook, writing: “Rashida Tlaib, thank you for coming to the small yet strong town of Toledo. Your willingness to honor us with your presence on your weekend; teach us from your truth, your compassion, your intelligence, courage, perseverance, and every single element that makes you who you - is humbling. We are blown away by you. You are a role model to all of us.”

Anti-Israel Activism

On March 21, 2014, a video of Subei performing in an anti-Israel production with UT-SJP activists was posted on YouTube by UT’s student-produced weekly newscast, UT-10.The clip showed Subei starring [00:00:36] in the play, which was performed as part of IAW.

The production combined “reported events in Palestine, personal experiences from Palestinians and fictionalized accounts of Israeli violence in order to educate and entertain.” 

During the production, participants in the play held up signs reading: [00:00:07] “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE,” and “STOP ISRAEL APARTHEID.” 

“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.

UT SJP - Defending Intifada - 2013-2015  

On October 29, 2015, during the “Knife intifada” in Israel, UT SJP held an anti-Israel demonstration at the university's student union. 

October 2015 saw a wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” where young Palestinians throughout Israel were stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians. The upsurge in violence across Israel was incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. 

One of UT SJP posters read: “Israeli forces have killed 25 Palestinians this month. 8 of them children.” The poster then listed the “children” which included Ahmed Manasra, Marah Bakris [Marah Al-Bakri] and Israa [Asraa Zidan Tawfik Abed] Abed. 

On October 12, 2015, Ahmed Manasra (sometimes spelled Mansara) and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, were engaged in a stabbing spree in Jerusalem. Manasra was wounded and the pair critically wounded a 13-year-old Israeli boy and moderately wounding a 25-year-old man. 

During the stabbing spree, police shot Hassan and a passing Israeli motorist hit Ahmed, who was then surrounded by enraged and cursing onlookers. Ahmed was not killed, but taken by Israeli police for treatment at an Israeli hospital. 

Manasra admitted to investigators “I went there to stab Jews” and was later tried and convicted on two counts of attempted murder.

Marah Al-Bakri (or Marah Bakir), stabbed an Israeli border police officer in October 2015, when she was 16-year-old and tried to grab his weapon before she was shot. 

On October 9, 2015, Israa Abed was shot in the lower body after she attempted to stab a security guard and refused repeated commands to drop her weapon. Abed later underwent surgery at an Israeli hospital.

In September of 2013, UT SJP held a mock checkpoint event to demonize Israel, where SJP member Katrina Bacome was photographed spray painting: “Long Live the Intifada” on the mock “apartheid” wall. 

The term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence, since the early 2000’s.

UT SJP - Demonizing Israel - 2014  

On August 4, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge (OPE), UT SJP posted to their Facebook page a graphic denying that Hamas used human shields and claiming that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians.

During OPE, in the summer of 2014, the deployment of human shields by Hamas was extensively documented and publicized. Gazans were encouraged by Hamas to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. 

OPEwas commenced by Israel in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

On July 12, 2014, UT SJP endorsed an anti-Israel demonstration scheduled for the next day. During the demonstration, Katrina Bacome, a UT SJP member, led protesters in chants, while UT SJP member Shahrazad Hamdah held a sign that read: “Gaza is today’s Warsaw Ghetto.”

UT SJP - Hosting Anti-Israel Agitators - 2014-2016  

On October 3, 2016, UT SJP hosted Dr. Mads Gilbert. UT SJP’s Facebook event description said: “Since the 1970s, Dr. Gilbert has been actively involved in solidarity work with the Palestinian people, and...earned international renown for his work, especially in late 2008/2009, during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead…”

Gilbert, who is banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel due to his connections Hamas leadership, was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014.

While at the hospital, Gilbert acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza and was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert called the attack a “legitimate response.” 

On April 19, 2014, UT SJP hosted a “Gaza Fundraising Dinner,” that featured Osama Abuirshaid.

Abuirshad was listed as the National Policy Director for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), has reportedly worked for two Hamas-linked organizations in America that are now defunct and spread anti-Semitism, as well as religious incitement.

UT SJP - UT Divest 2015  

In 2015, UT SJP ran a campaign called: “UT Divest,” as part [01:34:54]of the wider Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

On February 17, 2015, the UT Student Government (SG) held a meeting that was closed [00:00:53] to the public on the divestment resolution. The Students Judicial Council (SJC) ruled [00:02:03] that the resolution was unconstitutional. SJP

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.

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 values.”

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.”

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.

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