Saida Mizyed
Overview
Saida Mizyed [Saida A. Mizyed] led the disruption of a pro-Israel campus event,expressed support for terrorists, demonized Israel and promoted anti-Israel agitators.Mizyed is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Mizyed reportedly “reactivated” the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 2016. In February 2019, Mizyed was an organizer for SJP at LSU.
Mizyed attended the 2019 National SJP Conference at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (UMN).National SJP held their conference at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN), from November 1-3, 2019. The conference was themed: “Beyond Struggle: From Roots to Branches Towards Liberation.”
Mizyed reportedly attended the 2016 National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference held at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA on November 4-6, 2016.
As of February 2021, Mizyed’s LinkedIn said she was a student at LSU, majoring in International Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, slated to graduate in 2021.
In May 2017, Mizyed was quoted in a 225 Magazine article as saying: “When I was 11, I moved to Palestine for six years. I moved back to Baton Rouge two and a half years ago.”
Mizyed is the founder and chair of Palestinian Women's Union (PWU). The PWU was described on Facebook as a “new, local organization birthed by Palestinian youth. The group’s mission is to “create a safe space for all Palestinian nationals to engage in critical dialogue pertaining to the nation’s woman.”
In November 2018, Mizyed said [00:01:0] she took the semester off from LSU to organize with PWU in Ramallah and that her family lives in Ramallah.
In August 2017, Mizyed indicated on Facebook that she participated in a tour of Hebron given by the anti-Israel NGOYouth Against Settlements (YAS).
As of February 2021, Mizyed used the handle “@pan.arabia” on Instagram.
Disrupting a Pro-Israel Campus Event
On February 21, 2018, Mizyed led an SJP at LSU campus disruption of a lecture at LSU given by Gilad Katz, former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and Consul General of Israel to the Southwest.On February 21, 2018, Mizyed urged readers on Facebook to join the disruption of Katz’s lecture, which was titled: “The Middle East in Flames: An Israeli Perspective.” In her Facebook post, Mizyed shared SJP at LSU’s poster which read: “STAND AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND APARTHEID.”
On February 21, 2018, Mizyed posted a video of herself on Facebook leading fellow SJP activists in a march across the LSU campus towards Katz’s lecture.
In the video, Mizyed stated [00:00:28] that Katz was at LSU to “promote anti-BDS propaganda on our campus and we are here to combat that because we condemn imperialism, we condemn racism, we condemn colonization.”
As they marched to the event, a fellow activist held [00:03:47] a poster which read: “Jerusalem is Palestine” and said [00:03:52] “white supremacy is global” to which Mizyed replied [00:03:54]: “Yes, yes, it really is.”
Before entering the building, Mizyed said [00:05:49]: “We stand against white supremacy, against imperialism, against colonialism, against the racist white nation-state.”
During the event’s question and answer session, Mizyed shouted [00:00:13] to Katz: “Your pseudo-democracy does not accommodate my people” and [00:00:59] “Your pseudo-government has never accommodated the people you have killed. My people” She also shouted out [00:01:21] “white supremacist” during the session.
Supporting Terrorists
On March 7, 2017, Mizyed shared a Palestine Chronicle (PC) article on Facebook in support of Basil Al-Araj. The article referred to Al-Araj as a “Martyr of Pen and Bullet.”Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.
On April 17, 2017, Mizyed shared an article on Facebook about Marwan Barghouti, then on a hunger strike in Israeli prison.
On May 10, 2017, Mizyed shared a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) post and video on Facebook of then JVP Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson speaking with Aarab Marwan Barghouthi about his father Marwan Barghouthi.
In the video, Aarab Barghoutihi said [00:05:45]: “I am here, like, taking my father’s message and his fellow prisoners… we’re just freedom fighters and we are going to continue.”
On May 27, 2017, Mizyed shared a JVP post on Facebook that included a Samidoun article that said: “After 40 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoners have reportedly suspended their hunger strike and announced that they have achieved victory in their humanitarian demands, following 20 hours of negotiations between the strikers’ leadership and Israeli occupation prison administration.”
On September 14, 2017, Mizyed posted on Facebook in support of Rasmea Odeh: “An overwhelming sense of loss has overcome me, I feel the thoughts of the displaced transcend my own. Memories of the catastrophe, familiar emotions of defeat and disorientation.I wish I could be there to see you. But I do not doubt that you will be well.
You've comforted your children in exile with your strength. You have fed us courage, and clothed us with passion. Thank you Rasmea, our mother, our saviour.”
Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
On April 21, 2018, Mizyed shared a post and video on Facebook in support of Yaser Murtaja.
On July 8, 2018, Mizyed shared a post on Facebook in memory of terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.
Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.
Demonizing Israel
On August 16, 2017, Mizyed posted on Facebook that she “managed to sneak into the Israeli governed lands” and that she went on a tour of Hebron with Youth Against Settlements (YAS).YAS, an anti-Israel NGO based in Hebron, has posted photos on its Facebook page that propagate anti-Semitism, laud rock-throwing and urge its members to participate in violent anti-Israel demonstrations.
On August 15, 2017, Mizyed wrote on Facebook: "Israel changing the name of the streets in Tel Rumeida (oldest town in Hebron). This illustrates the occupier's attempt to ethnically cleanse the land."
Also on August 15, 2017, Mizyed posted on Facebook: "Free Israel from its hate and seperationist ideology"
On July 11, 2017, Mizyed posted on Facebook: “Guess what habibi, we have borders and nations, and here the Palestinians live under the oppressive occupation imposed by the apartheid state of Israel.”
On April 25, 2017, Mizyed shared to Facebook a JVP post and video of Omar Barghouti in which Barghouti accused [00:00:13] Israel of "colonizing the minds of Palestinians."
In the video, Barghouti said [00:00:14]: “Colonizing Palestinian minds is as old as the Zionist colonial project in Palestine and is still today a very present part of Israel’s regime’s agenda of oppression.”
Barghouti also said [00:00:54]: “Despite decades of dispossesion, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, Palestinians have not given up.
Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators
On February 15, 2019, Mizyed shared an AJ+ post and video on Facebook featuring U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.On February 13, 2019, Mizyed shared an article on Facebook titled: “Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby.”
On November 29, 2018, Mizyed shared a Facebook post by anti-Israel AJ+ journalist Dena Takruri defending Marc Lamont Hill.
During the meeting, Hill reportedly whitewashed Palestinian violence and accused Israel of “state violence and ethnic cleansing.” He also called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
In September 2018, during a U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) conference, Hill insinuated [00:31:01] that Israel poisons Palestinian water and seemingly approved [00:30:34] of violence against Israelis.
On October 30, 2018, Mizyed promoted on Facebook anti-Israel activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa who was denied entry into Israel in 2015 and 2018: “My favorite author is speaking at an event on the other side of Israel’s apartheid wall. I’m 40 minutes away from where Susan Abulhawa will be at, yet, I’m not going to be able to see her. That’s what apartheid is though. It isn’t just a physical barrier, but it’s a means to restrict knowledge.Whatever. I’ll just be here.. on the wrong side of the wall.”
Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
On June 7, 2018, Mizyed shared a Vice post and video on Facebook promoting the anti-Israel group Neturei Karta.
Neturei Karta is an anti-Israel Jewish fringe group whose leader, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, was excommunicated from many Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups for participating in a 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Iran. The group opposes Zionism on religious grounds and has called to dismantle Israel.
In the Vice video, titled: “These Jews Want to Dismantle Israel,” a member of the Neturei Karta group said [00:01:07]: “The Holocaust worked in their [Zionists] favor from the beginning to the end. They justify what they’re doing to the Palestinians with the Holocaust…”
On May 2, 2018, Mizyed shared a JVP post and video promoting Dareen Tatour.
In October 2015, Tatour was placed under house arrest for incitement to violence and for support of a terrorist organization on social media. Tatour had supported the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and posted to Facebook: “I am the next shahid [martyr].”
On July 12, 2017, Mizyed shared a post and video promoting anti-Israel agitator Issa Amro.
Violent agitator Issa Amro — head of the Youth Against Settlements (YAS) movement — is known for vandalism and attacking Israeli soldiers in Hebron. Amro has been charged with numerous acts of violence against Israeli civilians and security forces.
On July 8, 2017, Mizyed posted on Facebook a photo of herself with “Janna Jihad” Ayyad and wrote: “I had the honor of meeting Janna Jihad, a vocal Palestinian activist and aspiring journalist. We haven't provided a large enough space for the youth in our political circles and engagement programs, but I see Janna breaking through these barriers and drawing awareness. That's Palestinian girl power!!
Janna Jihad Ayyad Al-Tamimi, also known as Janna Jihad, is an anti-Israel youth activist. She is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi, who is notorious for exploiting young children as political props by manufacturing confrontations with Israeli soldiers who respond to the riots that Tamimi organizes.
Supporting BDS
On August 24, 2017, Mizyed shared an AJ+ post and video promoting BDS. The video claimed [00:00:03] that six artists due to appear at Berlin's Pop-Kultur festival “have pulled out… because the Israeli embassy is supporting it.”On December 24, 2017, Mizyed shared an article on Facebook that announced New Zealand singer Lorde canceling her planned concert in Tel Aviv, following protests by BDS activists.
On March 3, 2018, Mizyed shared on Facebook an article in The Guardian that reported the decision of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking to boycott a conference held in Israel “because of requests from Palestinian academics.” In 2013, Hawking’s academic boycott of Israel was celebrated by the BDS movement.
On November 19, 2018, Mizyed shared on Facebook a Reuters article titled: “Airbnb to remove listings in Israel's West Bank settlements.”
In November 2018, Airbnb announced it would remove 200 listings in Israel’s West Bank from the Airbnb platform, due to pressure from BDS activists. In April 2019, Airbnb reversed its decision and allocated profits from the region to non-profit organizations dedicated to humanitarian aid.
On February 26, 2019, Mizyed promoted an event she would be speaking at the following day at LSU, titled: “Free Speech & The Constitutionality of International Boycotts.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On February 16, 2019, Mizyed was listed as the featured speaker at an event hosted by SJP at Florida State University (FSU) titled: “Saida Mizyed on Feminism & Palestine.” Days earlier, FSU SJP promoted the event on Twitter, writing: “Saida Mizyed will be speaking about feminism & political womanhood under Occupied Palestine. DON'T MISS THIS!”On October 25, 2018, Mizyed shared on Facebook a statement posted by the Palestinian Cultural Club (PCC) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on Facebook titled: “AUB Students Against Normalization with the Zionist Entity.”
The AUB statement read: “We, students of the American University of Beirut, stand firmly in support of the academic boycott of Israeli institutions and against all efforts to normalize the Zionist occupation of Palestine.”
Proponents of the “anti-normalization” policy seek to police all interactions between Israelis and Palestinians and shut down all conversations and interactions perceived as being ideologically unaligned with their own agenda. They believe “liberal Zionist” dialogue with Palestinians “normalizes” entrenched power dynamics. This policy was originally dictated by the BDS National Committee (BNC), which prioritized the “Monitoring & Rapid Response” against interactions that recognize or cooperate with “Israel’s regime.”
Attending the 2019 National SJP Conference
On November 3, 2019, Mizyed posted an Instagram story with fellow SJP activist Jenin Al-Taher at the 2019 National SJP Conference.The Conference partnered with numerous anti-Israel organizations and conducted their event in a clandestine manner.
2019 National SJP - Supporting BDS
The Conference website called to capitalize on shifts in the political climate, represented by the elections to the U.S. Congress of Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who both support BDS. National SJP speakers also reportedly drew attention to Rep. Omar’s support for the BDS movement as the Representative for UMN’s Congressional district.During the Conference, National SJP speakers reportedly “noted the success of past divestment campaigns at the University [UMN], which ultimately resulted in the passing of a campus-wide [BDS] referendum in 2018.”
The UMN resolution passed in 2018 by a margin of 3.4 percent of those students who voted, translating to approval by 6.18% of all eligible voters. Less than 13% of the eligible voters actually voted on UMN’s BDS referendum.
2019 National SJP - Rejecting Israel and Zionism
The 2019 National SJP Conference website indicated that the goal of their “solidarity movement” was to push for policies that “demanded the end of” the state of Israel, referred to as “the Israeli occupation.”The website clarified that “the Palestinian struggle against Zionism, extends beyond the confines of 1967, and well before the Nakba,” and was based on the rejection of Jewish national self-determination in Israel.
Nakba is an Arabic term for “catastrophe” and refers to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel.
2019 National SJP - Heightened Secrecy
The 2019 National SJP Conference required attendees to be “verified and vouched for” by an SJP chapter to which they belonged and required each chapter to register as a group. The conference also required each group to be verified by a “reference––someone who is NOT going to this conference but who is or has recently been a part of your SJP.”2019 National SJP - Partnering Organizations
National SJP partnered with other anti-Israel organizations to table, sell merchandise and lead workshops, including CODEPINK, Palestine Youth Movement (PYM), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Palestine Legal, Watan Palestine and the Adalah Justice Project.Keynote speakers included Loubna Qutami, Chair of PYM, as well as Taher Herzallah of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Other speakers included Miko Peled, Sandra Tamari, Suhad Katib, Chris Gazaleh, Clarissa Bitar, Tariq Luthun, Maytha Alhassen and Sima Shakhsari.
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.
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/100010054143781 [Deleted]Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pan.arabia/ [Private]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saida-mizyed-267144204
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYZGJo9KX6P0mYIjqjNhX9A
