Sabrina Imanke

Overview

Sabrina Imanke has demonized Jews and Israel on social media.

According to Imanke’s Twitter bio in November 2016, she was a student at the University of Houston (UH).

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

Demonizing Jews and Israel

On November 14, 2015, Imanke tweeted: “Stay woke people! It's the Yahood [Jews]. Said this since day 1.” Her tweet was in response to a tweet that read: “ISIS attacks every single country besides Israel.”

On July 14, 2015, Imanke tweeted: “I still wonder how ppl just sat there & watched the holocaust happen but future generations are going to ask the same with Palestine.”

On June 3, 2015, Imanke tweeted: “One Republic was one of my favorite groups, it sucks that they went to apartheid Israel and performed for the soldiers/war criminals.”

On October 11, 2015 — during a wave of religiously incited Palestinian terrorist violenceknown as the “Knife Intifada” — Imanke claimed that Israel was committing a “Holocaust,” tweeting: “one Holocaust doesnt justify another.”

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.