Roger E. Martinez
Overview
Roger Martinez [Roger Eric Martinez] has spread hatred of Israel and the police.Martinez was affiliated [slide 17] with General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in 2019. GUPS is a branch of the national anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Martinez is also a supporter [sides 21-23, 25-27] of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of November 2022, Martinez’s Facebook said Martinez had been studying Sociology at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 2018 and that Martinez graduated from Pasadena City College (PCC) with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology the same year.
Martinez’s Facebook also said Martinez was located in Oakland, California.
As of November 2022, Martinez went by the username “Rogelio Låst Nəme X” on both Facebook and Instagram. As of the same date, Martinez’s alias on Instagram was “@laylo_rogelio.” In June 2020, Martinez signed a Facebook post as “Rogelio X.”
Hatred of Israel
As of November 2022, Martinez’s Instagram Stories Highlights titled “#FreePalestinePS” re-posted [slide 10] a graphic that suggested American taxpayers were “contributing to genocide” via American support for Israel. The graphic said: “END MILITARY FUNDING TO ISRAEL!”The text from the original post claimed that the “Israeli military…maintains a system of supremacy of one people over another and kills Palestinians with impunity.”
As of November 2022, Martinez’s Instagram Stories Highlights titled “#FreePalestinePS” re-posted [slide 29] an image that said: “THE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF PALESTINE...END THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE BY THE SO CALL ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL NOW!”
The same post featured an illustration of a black man in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt bumping fists with a Palestinian man while a white police officer pointed a gun at the black man’s back and an Israeli soldier pointed a rifle at the Palestinian man’s back.
The illustration also said: “...DEFUND THE POLICE! STOP THE GENOCIDE! ABOLISH THE POLICE!...SHUT DOWN THE POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION!...”
Also as of November 2022, Martinez re-posted [slide 13] on the same Stories Highlights a graphic that said: “Stop stealing, killing, occupying Palestine.” The text from the original post said: “#SolidarityForever with our brothers & sisters who defend their motherland from settler-colonialism.”
As of the same date, Martinez re-posted [slide 20] on the same Stories Highlights a graphic that said: “End Apartheid in Palestine.”
The text from the original post said: “…Palestine has been subjected to imperialism, colonialism and settler-colonialism throughout the late 19th and 20th century. As such, the devastation of the #nakba is only one of the ongoing, brutal culminations of a profound arrogance and a sense of entitlement to Palestinian histories and futures…”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Hatred of the Police
On June 6, 2020, Martinez posted to Facebook an image with illustrations of police vans and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles burning. The image had Spanish text that Martinez translated as: “The police and ice is the same BS.”Martinez wrote in the post: “It is time for us unite and focus on defunding to ultimately abolish all law enforcement.”
On June 11, 2020, Martinez shared a post on Facebook that claimed that “the global system of white supremacy…is perpetuated & reinforced by police, criminal justice…SYSTEMS. We cannot afford incremental change, we need ABOLITION NOW.”
On June 29, 2020, Martinez wrote on Facebook: “
On July 3, 2020, Martinez posted an image to Facebook that said: “When we say abolishing the Police that means abolishing the military complex too.”
Supporting GUPS and BDS
On November 8, 2019, Martinez took a photo at a GUPS event celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Edward Said mural at the SFSU student center. GUPS used [slide 17] the photo in an Instagram Stories Highlights titled: “12th ES Mural.”On November 23, 2019, Martinez posted a photo to Instagram honoring activists from multiple SFSU student groups, including GUPS.
As of November 2022, Martinez’s Instagram Stories Highlights titled “#FreePalestinePS” re-posted [slide 4] an image from the anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime that said: “BOYCOTT THIS RAMADAN, DON’T BREAK YOUR FAST WITH ZIONISM! AVOID THESE BRANDS: Hadiklaim, Mehadrin…AVOID ALL DATES LABELED ISRAEL, WEST BANK, JORDAN VALLEY OR RED SEA…”
The original post also accused Israel of “ongoing ethnic cleansing and land theft.”
Also as of November 2022, Martinez re-posted [slide 21] on the same Stories Highlights a graphic called: “LEARN WHAT BRANDS TO BOYCOTT.” The graphic also explained what the BDS movement is. The next slide featured a list of brands and “companies on the BDS list.” In the original post, the two graphics appeared on the third and fourth slides.
GUPS SFSU - Overview
GUPS SFSU has promoted terrorists, participated in anti-Israel rallies, demonized Israel and Zionism, and campaigned for the BDS Movement as part of its anti-Israel activism.GUPS SFSU was founded in 1973. Hatem Bazian was reportedly GUPS SFSU’s most prominent alumnus, as he co-founded the anti-Israel organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UC-Berkeley in 2000. He also founded American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) in 2006. SJP was modeled on GUPS when it was founded.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100026527746360Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laylo_rogelio/
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