Rumzi Asad Halim

Overview

Rumzi Asad Halim was an officer of a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter that showed support for Hamas terrorists after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, when terrorists murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis. The chapter also spread hatred of Israel and Zionists.

Halim served as the treasurer of the SJP chapter (SJPUCR) at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) since 2023. UC Riverside is located in Riverside, California.

Halim’s SJP chapter showed support for Hamas following a series of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.

The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

Hamas is a designated terrorist organization founded in 1987 that is dedicated to destroying Israel and killing Jews. Since 2001, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at Israel and on October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 hostages, including children and the elderly.

Halim is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Support for Terrorists (Hamas)

On October 10, 2023, SJPUCR posted [slide 2] on its Instagram: “Solidarity Statement: Resistance In Gaza” with a comment by Halim (@rumzi23) that said: “We will not be silenced. PS” and a graphic that said: “...WE UNEQUIVOCALLY DENOUNCE THE OCCUPATION AND ITS 75-YEAR-LONG MILITARY RULE. WE SUPPORT THE RESISTANCE IN GAZA AND THE REST OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE.”

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

The modern State of Israel was founded 76 years earlier, in 1948.

The statement continued [slide 5]: “GAZA IS THE CRADLE OF THE RESISTANCE... GLORY TO THE RESISTANCE, AND GLORY TO OUR MARTYRS.”

On October 17, 2023, SJP UCR posted on Instagram a document titled: “Condemnation Letter of the University of California Board of Regents Statement on Mideast Violence.”

The “condemnation letter” was a response to a letter dated October 10, 2023 issued by the UC Riverside Leadership which said: “Our community is reeling in pain from the terror and escalating violence we are witnessing in Israel…Especially horrific is the use of hostages…”

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

SJP’s “Condemnation Letter” post said: “...We believe in the complete and total liberation of Palestine by any means necessary…”

Anti-Israel activists use the phrase “by any means necessary,” as one of multiple euphemisms for terrorist violence, including “resistance.”

The post continued: “...Palestine will one day be free, from the river to the sea…”

“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.

The post claimed [slide 3] that Gaza has been besieged and converted into the world’s largest open-air prison.

Referring to Gaza as an "open-air prison" is a way to delegitimize the UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed in 2011 to prevent Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.

Hatred of Israel and Zionists

On October 10, 2023, SJPUCR posted on Instagram: “Solidarity Statement: Resistance in Gaza.” The post included [slide 3]a graphic that said:“WE RECOGNIZE THE APARTHEID REGIME UPHELD BY THE SETTLER COLONIAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE AS A CONTINUOUS ETHNIC CLEANSING. MILITARY VIOLENCE INFLICTED UPON PALESTINIANS IS AN ONGOING AND DAILY ELEMENT ESSENTIAL FOR UPHOLDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL. FOR 75 YEARS, PALESTINIANS HAVE EXPERIENCED…LIFE UNDER APARTHEID.”

On March 1, 2024, SJP-UCR posted on Instagram a video of the UC Riverside Senate meeting during which UCR’s divestment bill passed.Halim is seen [00:00:46] waving the Palestinian flag.

The post said: “...UCR’s divestment bill passed 15-0-0 with an added ethical spending clause that all ASUCR funds will be subject to annual review to ensure they are not invested in companies who support or maintain the Israeli occupation…May we all live to see a liberated Palestine…

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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 Student 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.