Sara Salem
Overview
Sara Salem [Sara J. Salem] has equated Zionists with Nazis and spread hatred of Israel on Twitter.Salem is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and, as of May 2021, was a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Akron (UA) Facebook group.
Salem indicated on Facebook that she “went” to the 2015 Muslim American Society (MAS) - Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Convention. ICNA is an offshoot of the MSA.
In 2014, Salem was an activist with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). As of May 2021, she was a member of the “Team Palestine For PCRF CLE” Facebook group.
As of May 2021, Salem’s LinkedIn page said she was a Graduate RA [Research Assistant] at Conquer Chiari Research Center at UA, from “Aug 2019 - Present” and was pursuing a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at UA, from “2019 - 2021.”
Salem’s LinkedIn also said that she studied Biomedical/Medical Engineering at UA from “2013 - 2018,” and that she was a “Certified Pharmacy Technician” at CVS Pharmacy from “Jun 2015 - Nov 2016.”
Salem also wrote on her LinkedIn page that she was located in Greater Cleveland, Ohio.
Equating Zionists with Nazis
On January 6, 2014, Salem tweeted: “@nadiadaniali: What are Zionists? Modern day Nazis.”On November 12, 2015, Salem tweeted: “The irony!!!!!!! This is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. How quickly they forget... 🤔”
Salem was responding to a tweet that claimed: “Hebrew university orders Arab employees to wear badges specifying their ethnicity!”
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On October 12, 2015, Salem tweeted: “How do Israeli soldiers go home and look their families in the face after a day of murdering and injuring innocent humans?”On July 9, 2015, Salem tweeted a photo of Israel’s security barrier and wrote: “The apartheid wall, occupied Palestine.”
On January 11, 2015, Salem tweeted an image of a tweet by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after participating in the Paris Walk of Unity, following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that read: “I marched in one row with world leaders in order to unite against terrorism. Any terrorism must be fought to the end.”
Salem commented: “THE IRONY HAHAHAHAHA.”
On May 26, 2014, Salem tweeted: “I think the general public don't realize that Israelis don't just harass Muslims in Palestine... there are Christians there as well.”
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/100003955507417Twitter: https://twitter.com/_heysarajay
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_heysarajay/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjsalem/
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