Sarah Abdel-Khalek

Fadi Allon, 19: shot by Israeli security forces after Aloon attempted to murder a 15-year old Israeli boy. Several hours before the murder attempt, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page. 

Hudhaifa Suleiman, 18: participated in a Hamas-organized riot where “hundreds of Palestinians...threw firebombs, rolled burning tires and threw rocks at [Israeli] soldiers.”

The image Abdel-Khalek tweeted was originally published on Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul’s Facebook page. The  Arabic caption on the image read: “Martyr (Shahid) after Martyr,  Our Martyrs are moons above the foreheads of the free men.”

On November 23, 2015, Abdel-Khalek retweeted a tweet as well as a photo and a video
misrepresenting that terrorist Hadil Awad, was “executed” by Israel that day.

Abdel-Khalek’s tweet read: “am still mourning her brother Mahmoud, was executed 2013 & today they executed my 16 years old Hadeel.”

Hadeel Awad and her cousin Nurhan Awad were shot after they stabbed two people — including a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem — near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Hadeel was shot by police as she was slashing at other Israeli civilians with scissors.  

Tokenizing Jews

Abdel-Khalek has posted numerous links on Facebook and Twitter tokenizing radically anti-Zionist Neturei Karta members — and has portrayed their anti-Zionism as emblematic of mainstream Judaism. 

On May 28, 2013, Abdel-Khalek tweeted: “THESE are Jews.” The tweet featured a photo of Neturei Karta members. Neturei Karta is a marginal, anti-Zionist, fringe Jewish group, notorious for its delegation to an Iranian Holocaust denial conference in 2014.

On March 31, 2013, Abdel-Khalek tweeted: “A Jew and a Palestinian planning the strategy :).” Her tweet featured a photograph of a Neturei Karta member and a masked Palestinian militant holding rocks.

The picture was taken during a violent protest opposing a 2010 Israeli march in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. At the protest, Palestinians clashed with Israeli police, throwing stones and firebombs at them.

The rock throwers chanted “Death to Jews.”

Spreading Hatred of Israel and Israelis

In November 2016, more than 1,770 fires engulfed Israel over a period of eight days, requiring the evacuation of 75,000 people from the port city Haifa. A large portion of the fires were set by arsonists and described as an act of terrorism.

On November 17, 2015, Abdel-Khalek tweeted an image of a U.S.-Israel handshake with blood dripping from their hands onto a map of Syria.

On October 22, 2015, Abdel-Khalek tweeted: “At this point, if you stand with Israel then you are inhuman. Israel has reached a whole new level of evil. #openyoureyes #FreePalestine.”

On October 14, 2015, Abdel-Khalek attended and promoted on Twitter an anti-Israel demonstration. The event was part of an “International Day of Action on College Campuses” called for by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

On October 12, 2015, Abdel-Khalek tweeted “I really need every effing Israeli to burn in hell f this.”

On July 31, 2014, Abdel-Khalek shared a graphic on Facebook featuring an Israeli flag with a caption that read: “Irony, when a people who survived a genocide use it as an excuse to commit a Genocide!”

On December 24, 2013, Abdel-Khalek tweeted: “‘Dear Israel: try not to murder Santa on his way to Bethlehem tonight’ -Remi Kanazi.”

On March 28, 2013, Abdel-Khalek tweeted: “Israel can burn in f**king hell.” On the same day, she also tweeted: “The hate I have towards Israel right now is real.”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA

The leadership and general membership of SJP UTK and UTK MSA  is fraught with virulent anti-Semites, Hitler and Nazi sympathizers, promoters of terrorist incitement, homophobes and bigots. These individuals propagate Jew-hatred, often — but not always — under the guise of attacking “Israelis” and “Zionists.”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Spreading Homophobia

On June 12, 2013, fellow SJP member, Mohamed Ali  — who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head —  tweeted: “you feggity feg feg. I have so much sweg on my dik biches melt for me.... — Briana why u such a salty fag lol http://ask.fm/a/4iballkc.”

On March 8, 2014, Hesham Annamer — a 2016 nominee running for the position of board member of UTK MSA, tweeted — “My little brother was facetiming one of his little fag friends & i was talking. Dude was like ‘who's that in the background?’”

On May 9. 2013, Eyad Hijer, a fellow UTK MSA member, tweeted — “‘@ogmcphee: @eyadhijer @iammusick I'd call him daddy’ of course you would you faggot.”

UTK MSA Member  - Spreading Anti-Black Racism

On October 15, 2014, fellow UTK MSA member Eyad Hijer tweeted a quote from fellow UTK student Jesse West that read: “...Everyone pray for my sister. Nothing's wrong with her, she just likes black guys.”

UTK MSA Leader - Demonizing White People

On March 9, 2012, Sonya Hadjerioua, a 2016 executive board member of UTK MSA, tweeted  — “When I think of green eyes I think of white ppl and when I think of white ppl think of HITLER @ayat0315.”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Praising Hitler and Promoting Jew-Hatred

Fellow UTK MSA member, Eyad Hijer on July 17, 2014 tweeted to a Jewish person — “‘...I already hate you. You dirty filthy Jew. All your people do is f***ed s**t up. Wish hitler was still around to show you guys.”

On December 27, 2015 — in response to a tweet that read : “The most morally army in the world, the Israeli army Leave A Comment !” —  Hijer tweeted:  “This is why I hate Jews.”

On April 20, 2014, Hesham Annamer — a 2016 nominee for the position of UTK MSA Board Member—  tweeted: “Hitler had alot of great ideas. We need a guy like that in the white house.”

On August 29, 2012, fellow SJP member, Mohamed Ali — who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head —  tweeted: “Had to write about a leader for DCL class. Wrote about Hitler. Cuz he's a boss.”

On March 15, 2014, Ali tweeted: “Im gonna put #PeaceInTheMiddleEast, #ThotNation, &#FreePalestine at the end of my senior quote. The last 1 as a f**k u 2 the Jewish teachers.”

On July 31, 2013, Ali tweeted — “Make like a Jew and take control.”

On June 21, 2013, fellow UTK MSA member Afeef Youssef Kamah tweeted a meme featuring an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew with a big, hooked nose. The meme, known as the “Happy Merchant,” originally appeared in a racist and anti-Semitic piece promoting a world without Jews and Blacks — comparing them, respectively, to rats and cockroaches. Youssef Kamah tweeted the meme along with the comment — “@jayomarion @AbdelRahmanM OHH WE ARE FRIENDS…”

On August 15, 2015, SJP UTK member Jenine Omari liked a tweet by UTK MSA member and virulent anti-Semite, Eyad Hijer, who tweeted — “F**k Jews.”

Stori Nuri — a co-president of UTK MSA and president of SJP UTK on January 22, 2015, tweeted — “‘Jew test: throw a pen and if they pick it up they're a Jew’ .”

SJP UTK and UTK MSA Members - Propagating Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

On July 27, 2012, fellow SJP UTK member, Mohamed Ali, who also ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head, tweeted: — “Zion or Zionism, is the belief that Jews are the rightful inhabitants or Israel/Palestine. Lol Illuminati.”

On July 5, 2014, Ali tweeted — “When it comes down to it, Israel is the world's super power, not the USA. They control everything behind the curtains...they control so much from the film industry to franchises to pentagon communications to Wall Street to White House lobbies.”

On the same day, Ali tweeted — “I'm not surprised. America d**krides Israel so hard. They're scared. Israel controls them.”

On June 17, 2013, Ali tweeted — “I feel like all the current problems in the world are linked to the U.S, Israel, & all their d**kriding countries- most of Europe.”

Ebad Hussain, the 2016-2017 treasurer of UTK MSA tweeted, on August 9, 2014— "In America you can criticize God, but you cannot criticize Israel. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you cannot criticize."

SJP UTK Leader and UTK MSA Member - Spreading Hatred of Israel and Zionists

Stori Nuri — a co-president of UTK MSA and president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UTK. (SJP UTK) —  tweeted on April 6, 2016: “Your daily reminder that Israel is a piece of s**t.”

On April 7, 2015, Mohamed Ali — who ran for the position of UTK MSA Public Relations Head — tweeted — “I feel so incredibly irritable right now. No idea why...Just feel like kicking a Zionist tbh.”

SJP UTK Founder - Calling for a Third Intifada

On December 8, 2013, Amira Sakalla the founder of SJP UTK tweeted — ““@PalAnonymous: Today marks the 26th anniversary of the First #Intifada #Palestine ” About time for another one..”  More than 10,000 Israelis were maimed or murdered by the Palestinian terrorist violence of the First and Second Intifadas —  mostly in the suicide bombings that characterized the Second Intifada.

SJP UTK Leader - Glorifying Anti-Semitic Terrorist Incitement

On October 16, 2015, Fatima Itmaizah, the vice president of SJP UTK, updated her Facebook profile picture to a graphic promoting violence against Jews. It suggested that Jewish presence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is akin to a peel that needs to be cut way with a knife. The image depicted the Dome of the Rock, appearing as a fruit covered in blue skin, emblazoned with a star of David, a Jewish symbol. The picture showed the blue skin being cut and peeled away with a knife —  blood dripping down the hand of the peeler as the blade stripped away the peel. 

SJP UTK Members - Drawing Inspiration From Advocates of Genocide

On April, 21, 2016, SJP UTK member Ameen Abdel-Khalek retweeted a tweet by the anti-Semitic Islamist leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the president of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The Wall Street Journal reported that the council has used the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a basis for some of its legal-theological deliberations.

In a January 9, 2009 sermon shown on Al-Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed: "O Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. O Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people. O Allah, do not spare a single one of them. O Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."  

On March 22, 2016, Abdel-Khalek retweeted a tweet from the Hamas info Twitter account —  the official Twitter account of the terrorist organization that read — “When will Hamas give up its armed struggle? Watch this debate b/w Sheikh Yassin and a foreign reporter…”

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has been described as the “mastermind of Palestinian terror” behind many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes during the second intifada. In January 2003, Yassin said in an interview: “Suicide attacks and jihad reinforce national unity in the ranks…Our voice is one of struggle, of jihad and of suicide…”  

On January 10, 2003, in an interview with the Muslim website Alskifa, Yassin said “Suicide attacks and jihad reinforce national unity in the ranks....Our voice is one of struggle, of jihad and of suicide...”

On September 10, 2015, Abdalla Husain — the Tayseer Seminary’s liaison to UTK MSA, and member of SJP UTK, tweeted — “I HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS YASSER ARAFAT!!!!!!!!!!! #PALESTINE #AAAYYWAAAAAAA I am very happy right now ”

Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."

UTK MSA Tayseer Seminary Liaison - Likening Israel to Nazi Germany

On July 21, 2014, Tayseer Seminary’s liaison to UTK MSA, Abdalla Husain —  who serves to link MSA with other community efforts in Knoxville —  compared Israel to Nazis, tweeting — “Like father like son. Germany in the 30s and 40s is Israel now.”

SJP UTK - Nazifying Israel

On January 16, 2015, SJP UTK retweeted an anti-Semitic tweet that read “Zionism is Terrorism” with an iconic photo of a Jewish child held at gunpoint by a Nazi soldier during the Holocaust next to a photo of a Palestinian child being arrested by the IDF. The caption on the photo read — “They Act Like NaZis, Because They WERE The NaZis.”

“Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is considered a contemporary manifestation of anti-Semitism as defined by the U.S. State Department.

SJP UTK - Hosting Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist Alison Weir

On April 18, 2013, SJP UTK hosted a speaking event featuring anti-Israel agitator Alison Weir. 

SJP UTK - Promoting Terrorist Incitement as “Education”

On November 13, 2014, SJP UTK posted on Facebook a flyer promoting two Palestinian students hosted by SJP UTK as part of Birzeit University’s so-called “Right to Education” tour. 

The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas. 

SJP UTK - Demonizing Israel

On March 2, 2016, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week, SJP UTK featured a mock apartheid wall.

The display misrepresented Israel’s security fence — built as a non-violent deterrent to Palestinian terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinian suicide bombers. The display also lied that Israel’s barrier was “25-feet high, and 403 miles long.” In fact, 97% of Israel’s fence is a low chain link barrier. The atypical concrete portions of the fence were built only in response to Palestinian sniper attacks. The mock wall text also lied that “1661 KM of roads were only accessible by Israeli settlers.”

The display falsely accused Israel of practicing apartheid. The mock wall also featured a deliberately misleading map of Palestine, with the terror-whitewashing headline “To Exist is to Resist.” SJP UTK’s map is similar to another widely debunked map — dubbed “The Map That Lies” — that fraudulently presented lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt, and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land,” purportedly stolen by Israel.

SJP used the deceptive mock wall display as a tool to promote a boycott of Sabra Hummus, an Israeli-owned hummus brand, owned by the Osem group. Writing on the wall called for stores to “deshelve” Sabra.

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.