Sabeir Suleiman
Overview
Sabeir Suleiman has referred to Jews as rats and “Zionists” as pigs. He has also spread hatred of Israel on Twitter and at anti-Israel protests.Suleiman is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Suleiman is an activist with Al-Awda — the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. As of March 2018, Suleiman was a member of the Al-Awda-Cleveland Facebook group.
In 2013, Suleiman was affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
As of March 2018, Suleiman was a member of the LCCC (Lorain County Community College) Muslim Students Association (MSA) Facebook group. He was also a member of the closed Kent State MSA Facebook group.
As of March 2018, Suleiman’s LinkedIn page said he worked as a “Hvac” (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) residential installer at Gorjanc Comfort Services. Suleiman’s LinkedIn also said he was the “Owner/CEO” of “J and S suleiman LCC.”
Suleiman’s LinkedIn page also said that he became a “Certified Universal technician” in 2016 at Cleveland State University (CSU). He also received an associate’s degree in Arts and Sciences, with a focus Engineering, from the United Technology Center (UTC), as well as a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C).
Suleiman has gone by the name “Sab Solo” on Facebook and “SabSab” on Twitter.
Calling Jews and “Zionists” Rats and Pigs
On September 7, 2017, Suleiman tweeted: “Yahood [Jew]” in response to a tweet that featured a photo of a diseased rat and asked: “Quote with what you call this in your language.”On July 10, 2014, Suleiman tweeted: “Me and my homie Z AT the Palestine protest against the Zionist pigs #f**kthejewsface… http://instagram.com/p/qSyTaEsj3Q/”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On January 22, 2016, Suleiman tweeted: “One less Zionist piece of s**t”On March 14, 2014, Suleiman tweeted: “@OmarKurdi20 blame the zionists lol.”
Suleiman’s tweet was in response to a tweet that read: “What if the Malaysian plane never took off?! What if this whole thing is just a media propaganda? Conspiracy is fun to get your mind working.”
On November 8, 2014, Suleiman tweeted: “Zionism is terrorism not the Palestinians. Media controls and f**ks your minds.”
On August 16, 2014, Suleiman attended an anti-Israel protest in Washington D.C and held a sign that read: “Stop the Genocide in Gaza.”
On November 19, 2013, Suleiman tweeted: “JOHN CARREL UNIVERSITY TODAY 7pm be there!!! Palestine supporters will be there and the Israeli ambassador as well let's show him off!! RT!!”
Al-Awda Anti-Israel Activism
Suleiman has led, organized and promoted anti-Israel protests with the Al-Awda Cleveland chapter.On July 7, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Suleiman promoted on Twitter an Al-Awda-organized protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 26, 2014, a photo was posted on Facebook of Suleiman shouting through a megaphone at an anti-Israel rally.
At the rally, Suleiman posed for a photo with Abbas Hamideh, the co-founder of Al-Awda, who is active in leading and organizing anti-Israel demonstrations with Al-Awda Cleveland.
Hamideh’s Twitter feed is replete with comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany, as well as support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
On August 27, 2014, Hamideh tweeted a photo of armed Hamas terrorists stabbing the Star of David on the Israeli flag, with the text: “Take note this is where Jihad should be. #Gaza #Palestine.”
On August 17, 2014, Suleiman participated in an anti-Israel protest with Ameed Kollab, who marched in front of a banner that called for the boycott of Israel. Al-Awda advocates for BDS against Israel.
Al-Awda Cleveland
Al-Awda Cleveland is a chapter of Al-Awda — the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. Al-Awda is a national organization, which agitates to “empower refugees with projects that nurture their autonomy and determination to exercise their legal rights, first and foremost their natural right to return to their towns, villages and lands” and for “comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes and lands, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property.” Al- Awda also advocates for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Canary Mission investigated anti-Semitic students at several colleges in Cleveland and found that many students who had posted virulently anti-Semitic posts on social media were also leaders of Al-Awda Cleveland, otherwise associated with the chapter, or closely connected to its members.
Abbas Hamideh, the co-founder of Al-Awda, is active in leading and organizing anti-Israel demonstrations with the Al-Awda Cleveland.
Hamideh’s Twitter feed is replete with comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany, as well as support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
On August 27, 2014, Hamideh tweeted a photo of armed Hamas terrorists stabbing the Star of David on the Israeli flag, with the text: “Take note this is where Jihad should be. #Gaza #Palestine.”
On December 7, 2014, Hamideh tweeted: “Just remember Hezbollah Missiles don't need visas to enter occupied #Palestine
Al-Awda Cleveland activist Lara Kollab is a Twitter acquaintance of Hamideh’s and has coordinated with him in promoting Al-Awda anti-Israel protests in Cleveland.
Al-Awda Cleveland - Rallying Behind Violence
In October 2015, Al-Awda Cleveland held an anti-Israel demonstration described by a videographer who accompanied Al-Awda demonstrators as “a rally in support of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Resistance.” The rally organizer, Abbas Hamideh — interviewed by the above-mentioned videographer at the rally — said the group had gathered to “support the Palestinian intifada.”That month was marked by an upsurge in violence across Israel, incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” saw young Palestinians across Israel stabbing and attempting to stab scores of Israeli civilians.
Al-Awda Cleveland - Demonizing Israel
On August 2, 2014, Ohio-based law student Ameed Kollab, who has spread hatred of Jews and Israel on Twitter and Basil Ali, an Ohio-based college student who has advocated for and cheered violence against Jews and Israelis, represented Al-Awda’s Cleveland Chapter at a protest in Washington, D.C. Al-Awda Cleveland participated as part of a coalition organized by answercoalition.org, which has supported Palestinian terrorists, like Ahmed Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).The protest, titled: “National March On The White House: Stop The Massacre In Gaza!” was held to condemn Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE).
Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
At the protest, one demonstrator held a sign that featured a swastika in place of the star of David on the Israeli flag. Other protesters held flags equating the 2014 Gaza conflict with the Holocaust, reading: “One Holocaust doesn’t justify another.”
On July 28, 2014, Ameed Kollab organized and promoted another Al-Awda demonstration to condemn OPE — outside the Jewish Federation of Cleveland building in Beachwood, OH.
Ameed Kollab led the anti-Israel demonstration with Cleveland-based barber Rashad Ahmad, marching in front of a banner that called for the boycott of Israel.
On November 21, 2012, Al-Awda Cleveland — with Abbas Hamideh’s involvement — organized a protest that condemned Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD), initiated by Israel after Palestinian militants launched more than 100 rockets at cities in southern Israel from Gaza during a 24-hour period.
Protesters chanted “End the Siege Now” — referring to a weapons blockade on Gaza, which the U.N.’s Palmer Commission Report ruled both legal and appropriate— and held signs that read: “Stop the genocide.” One demonstrator held a sign that read: “After the Holocaust the worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel.” Hamideh led chants of: ‘Israel is a terrorist state.”
Al-Awda - Misrepresenting International Law
Al-Awda’s website, on its “Factsheet on Palestinian Refugees” page, substantially misrepresents the proposal articulated by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 (Paragraph 11) — and claims the resolution reflects binding international law. The resolution, however, was merely a recommendation that was unanimously rejected by the Arab states.The Al-Awda website’s “Points of Unity” page states that the organization “supports the fundamental, inalienable, historical, legal, individual and collective rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their original towns, villages and lands anywhere in Palestine from which they were expelled.”
In addition, Al-Awda “also unequivocally supports the rights of all Palestinian refugees to compensation for damages inflicted on their property and lives, and to restitution of all destroyed and confiscated property.”
However, paragraph 11 of Resolution 194, which alone addressed the issue of refugees and compensation for those whose property was lost or damaged did not specifically mention Palestinian or Arab refugees — indicating that the resolution was aimed at all refugees, both Jewish and Arab.
Resolution 194 recommended that refugees be allowed to return to their homeland if they met two important conditions:
1. That they be willing to live in peace with their neighbors.
2. That the return takes place “at the earliest practicable date.”
The insistence upon “the fundamental, inalienable, historical, legal, individual and collective rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their original towns, villages and lands anywhere in Palestine” is a demand long understood as a call to eliminate Israel.
Al-Awda - Calling Zionism Racism
Al-Awda’s “Points of Unity” page on its website also describes Israel’s Law of Return — granting repatriation rights and citizenship to all Jews — “as part of the racism and discrimination inherent in Zionist ideology, which underlies the policies and laws of the colonial occupation state of Israel.”Al-Awda - Invoking Feminism to Glorify Bomb Makers
On March 8, 2017, for International Women’s Day, Al-Awda posted on its website a photo of Shadia Abu Ghazaleh — a female bomb-maker for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The post read: “On International Womens [sic.] Day and Everyday, We Honor You!” followed by: “Shadia Abu Ghazalaa, First Palestinian female Martyr against Israeli Occupation..!! #InternationalWomensDay.”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.
CAIR
CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.
CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.
Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.
In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.
CAIR was also listed as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.
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.
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