Sammy Nijem

He continued: “Western society will label these individuals as ’terrorists’ because they are carrying out acts of violence against these ILLEGAL settlers. However, as I and the rest of the world who are by Palestine’s side see these victims as martyrs because they are resisting.”

On October 27, 2015, Shabaan Abu Shkeidem and Shadi Shadi Nabil Abd al-Muti Dweik were killed after they stabbed an Israeli soldier who was stationed at the Gush Etzion junction in the head . 

On May 12, 2017, Nijem featured in John Jay SJP video on Instagram, leading a “Saltwater Challenge,” in solidarity with Palestinian inmates hunger-striking in Israeli prisons. 

Supporting Violent Protesters

On May 15, 2019, Nijem spoke at a WOL event titled: “Nakba 71: The Great Return March Continues.” 

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.

At the May 15, 2019 event, Nijem said: “Today on May 15 on a day like this maybe a little bit warmer 71 years ago, Palestinians were uprooted, kicked out, murdered and exiled out of their original homes to establish the zionist illegal occupation of Israel.”

Approximately 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border on March 30, 2018 as part of the “March of Return,” which was organized and funded by Hamas. This was used as a campaign of violent protests to spotlight the Palestinian demand to “return” to Israel.

The violent riots during the “March of Return” continued into 2019 and included armed protesters using gunfire, penetrating Israeli territory, launching incendiary kites into Israel and throwing IEDs, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails. Some of the attacks were carried out by Hamas operatives.

On March 31, 2019, Nijem participated in a WOL event in NYC titled: “52 Fridays: Great Return March 1 Year Anniversary Rally & Event”. The event details said: “Join us in commemorating 52 Fridays of resistance and marching with the people of Gaza on the 53rd consecutive Friday of protests.”

Nijem posed in an Instagram photo with WOL activists who held a sign that said: “LONG LIVE THE MARTYRS OF THE GREAT RETURN MARCH LONG LIVE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE.”

On March 25, 2019, Nijem led chanting at a WOL action at the Whitney Museum, to launch a series of protests “to uplift the martyrs of the Great Return March.”

Spreading Hatred of Israel

In May 2019, Nijem led an activity at the second “Annual Palestine Lives” conference, which was co-hosted by WOL, as well as the anti-Israel group Existence Is Resistance.

The conference featured multiple anti-Israel speakers and included events that accused Israel of ethnic cleansing, genocide, apartheid and “the targeted assassinations and imprisonment of scientists, students, and technicians.” 

On May 15, 2019 held a sign at WOL event that said: “WITHIN OUR LIFETIME UNITED FOR PALESTINE RESISTANCE UNTIL RETURN.”

On January 10, 2019, Nijem tweeted: “Last year I made the greatest meme.” His tweet featured a photo of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in a toilet bowl. Text on the toilet lid in the photo said: “Who tf forgot to flush??” 

On September 13, 2018 Nijem posed in a photo posted by John Jay SJP on Instagram at John Jay SJP’s table at a fair next to a sign that said: “U.S. DOLLARS FEED ISRAELI WAR CRIMES.” 

In another photo from the fair, posted by John Jay SJP on Instagram, Nijem posted for a photo holding a sign that said: “US DOLLARS OUT OF ISRAEL.”

On March 24, 2017, Nijem posted a photo on Facebook featuring Handala. Handala is a cartoon representing the Palestinian demand known as the “right of return,” which has been discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. 

Supporting Ilhan Omar

On February 17, 2019, Nijem was featured in a WOL photo on Instagram, participating in a WOL event in support of Ilhan Omar. Nijem held a sign that said: “Zionism is racism.”

SJP Activism

On September 11, 2019, NIjem featured in a John Jay SJP photo on Instagram, whose caption said: “Come join John Jay SJP tomorrow at a fair from 1:30-3:00pm in Hound Square! Meet our executives and find out what Students For Justice In Palestine is all about! We hope to see you all there!!”

On April 10, 2019, Nijem spoke at a John Jay SJP event titled: “What it means to a Palestininan Woman,” featuring WOL chair Nerdeen Mohsen Kiswani.

At the event, Kiswani reportedly spoke about “Rasmea Odeh and Ahed Tamimi, highlighting the central role that Palestinian women have played in the movement for liberation and return for generations.”

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 February 23, 2018, Nijem posted to the John Jay SJP Facebook page: “Join My executives and I for an informative Palestine 101 workshop co-sponsered [sic] by John Jay Cab with a workshop by NYC Students for Justice in Palestine.”

On November 8, 2016, Nijem was featured in a John Jay SJP Facebook photo with Remi Kanazi.

Poet Remi Kanazi is known for his aggressively anti-Israel spoken-word performances. He has supported terrorism and has compared Israel to both ISIS and the Ku Klux Klan.

On November 6, 2016, Nijem posed in a photo on Instagram with Kanzai, at the 2016 National SJP Conference.

On November 3, 2016, Nijem was featured in a John Jay SJP photo on Instagram and on Facebook, at a workshop titled: “The One State Solution.”

Supporting BDS

On June 15, 2019, Nijem tweeted: “Toronto Raptors: #SayNO@Raptors
to #Tanenbaum #Sportwashing offer of#Israeli visit - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/wNFsp78J via @Change.”

Nijem’s tweet linked to a petition, authored by the Canadian BDS Coalition, whichcalled on players of the NBA team, the Toronto Raptors, to refuse an offer to visit Israel.

The petition said: “Say NO to being used as an ambassador to sports-wash an aggressive ongoing colonization complete with apartheid, genocide and war crimes.” 

On October 28, 2015, Nijem posted on Tumblr: “I applaud the 343 United Kingdom academics and the 72 institutions who stand in solidarity with Palestine during their time of struggle. On Tuesday October 27th the 343 academics and 72 institutions stated that they would boycott contact with Israeli universities over the state’s ‘intolerable human rights violations’ towards Palestinians.”

John Jay SJP - Calling for the Dissolution of Israel: 2015-2016 

On April 27, 2016, John Jay SJP posted a graphic on Facebook, showing a map of Israel overlaid entirely with the colors of the Palestinian flag and superimposed with the text: “JE SUIS ONE STATE [I am one state].”

John Jay SJP - Promoting Violence: 2016  

On March 8, 2016, John Jay SJP promoted on Facebook photos from the teleSUR English Facebook page that were to “honor and celebrate the women of Palestine who have been resisting the colonial occupation and leading the people's uprising.” 

The photos showed keffiyah-masked Palestinian women holding guns, firing slingshots and collectinglarge rocks.

John Jay SJP - Supporting Intifada: 2015-2016  

On October 10, 2015, during the “Knife Intifada” then occuring in Israel, John Jay SJP promoted on Facebook an NYC SJP “statement of solidarity” with a Palestinian “Day of Rage” on October 6, 2015. 

In October 2015, Hamas declared Palestinian “Days of Rage” to represent the start of a new intifada, directly resulting in the deaths of Israeli civilians in terror attacks.

The NYC SJP statement also expressed: “Solidarity with the intifada” and featured a graphic of a Palestinian throwing a rock, captioned: “LET THE INTIFADA PAVE THE WAY FOR PEOPLE’S WAR!”

On October 17, 2015, John Jay SJP promoted on Facebook a protest titled: “SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING.” The protest was called to counter a “Jewish Lives Matter” rally, memorializing victims of the Palestinian “Knife Intifada.” John Jay SJP’s Facebook post said: “show your support for Palestinian resistance.”

The counter protest’s Facebook event description said the Jewish Lives Matter rally was: “in response to the justified uprising of the Palestinian people.” It continued: “We stand against 'Israels [sic] right to defend' itself against innocent children and civilians who clearly pose no threat…Join us loudly in proclaiming that Resistance is not Terrorism.” 

On October 18, 2015, John Jay SJP posted a photo on Facebook from the protest, calling it a “complete success” and thanking the organizers and attendees: “for their great work.”

On May 13, 2016, John Jay SJP promoted an event on Facebook, co-sponsored by NYC SJP, titled: “Nakba Day March for Resistance and Return.” At the march, held on May 15, 2016, activists promoted hatred [00:00:04] against Jews who moved from New York to Israel and said: “The Brooklyn Settlers, the New York Settlers are the most violent.” 

Scripted chants posted to Facebook before the rally were recited by protesters, including [00:03:16]: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and [00:00:18] “Smash the settler-Zionist state!”

John Jay SJP - Supporting Terrorists: 2015-2016  

On April 25, 2016, John Jay SJP shared on Facebook a BDS South Africa post in support of Dima Al-Wawi, who was imprisoned for attempting to stab an Israeli security guard. Al-Wawi said she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed as well, saying: “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred.”

On January 29, 2016, John Jay SJP shared on Facebook a video of Rasmea Odeh and wrote: “#Justice4Rasmea.” Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08] with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket.

On August 16, 2015 John Jay SJP promoted on Facebook a protest by Within Our Lifetime, formerly known as New York City SJP, supporting Mohammad Allan.

John Jay SJP - Spreading Hatred of Israel: 2016  

On January 23, 2016, John Jay SJP promoted an article on Facebook from Iranian government-affiliated television station, PressTV, that claimed “British doctors have called for the removal of Israel from the World Medical Association (WMA) over claims of ‘medical torture’ on Palestinians seeking treatment.”

The article referred to 71 British doctors who wrote a letter to Sir Michael Marmot, then-President of the World Medical Association (WMA) accusing Israeli doctors of “collusion with torture” and calling for WMA to expel the Israeli Medical Association (IMA). 

The letter said: “Taking the precedent of the exclusion of the Medical Association of South Africa from the WMA, we submit that similar action regarding the IMA is justified by the facts.” It also said that “Failing to act…is to implicitly support the IMA position.”

NYC SJP - Supporting BDS  

On October 4, 2015, John Jay SJP posted on Facebook a NYC SJP statement on the BDS movement, which stated that the goal is the “the eventual establishment of a single Palestinian national state covering all of historic Palestine.”

On January 5, 2018, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally to Free Ahed Tamimi and All Palestinian Prisoners” at Grand Central Station in NYC.

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:00:42] demonstrators in the chant “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution!” as well as [00:01:59]“Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!” and [00:01:39] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

On December 22, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a protest titled “Emergency Rally to End Child Detention: Free Ahed Tamimi!” 

During the demonstration, Kiswani both led  [00:28:24, 00:00:28] and joined protesters in chanting [00:05:45, 00:17:45] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!” and [00:06:13, 00:18:03] “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada!”

Ahed Tamimi has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers. Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem Tamimi, who is known for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

On December 8, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “laaaast christmas we said free palestine but the very next day, you cried your white tears.. THIIIISSS YEAR TO SAVE YOU FROM TEARS, HOW BOUT LONG LIVE THE INTIFADAAAA #RewriteTheNextLinesInSongs.”

On that same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “long live the intifada from the river to the sea ”

On December 6, 2017, NYC SJP tweeted: “long lived the intifada  #WriteAHappyStoryIn4Words.”

On the same day, NYC SJP tweeted: “Long live the #Intifada #HandsOffJerusalem #HandsOffAlQuds ” along with a photo of a demonstrator burning an American and an Israeli flag. 

The hashtag “#HandsOffJerusalem” was created to protest the U.S. government’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  

On November 3, 2017, NYC SJP posted on their Facebook pageseveral videos of demonstrators protesting, with the hashtag “#Balfour100.”

During the demonstration Kiswani [00:01:32] and other agitators repeatedly led [00:01:07, 00:01:36, 00:03:28, 00:07:58] protesters in the chants “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! Globalize the Intifada!” and [00:02:14] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

Protestors were also led [00:04:01] in the chant “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada!”

On October 7, 2017, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally To Resist War and Racism At Home and Abroad,” protesting “16 years following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the start of the so-called war on terror.”

During the protest, Kiswani led [00:23:57] the demonstrators in the chant: “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

On August 27, 2017, NYC SJP posted on Facebook a photo of buttons they were selling, including buttons with the word “Intifada,” others featuring Leila Khaled, and others of a person wearing a Keffiyeh, grasping a machine gun and charging forward.

On May 14, 2016, NYC SJP tweeted: “There is only one solution, Intifada, Revolution! #WeWontForget #WeWillReturn #Nakba”

On October 6, 2015, NYC SJP co-sponsored a rally held at the Israeli consulate in New York with a number of anti-Israel organizations including NY4Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). 

The rally urged support for a “Day of Rage” called for by “Palestinian forces.” The same day, NYC SJP posted a “statement of solidarity” with the“Day of Rage” rally featuring a rock-throwing Palestinian, with the caption “Let the Intifada pave the way for People’s war! [sic.]” 

Protesters at the rally chanted [00:00:01] “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and [00:00:16] “Intifada, intifada! Long live the Intifada!” 

The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.

On January 5, 2018, NYC SJP co-hosted a “Rally to Free Ahed Tamimi and All Palestinian Prisoners” at Grand Central Station in NYC.

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.

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