Sarah El Zayyat
Overview
Sarah El Zayyat has expressed support for terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists, Israel and America.El Zayyat was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for both the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years.
El Zayyat is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of October 2022, El Zayyat’s LinkedIn said she had been a Digital Assurance and Transparency Associate at PwC since August 2021.
On June 11, 2021, El Zayyat posted on Facebook that she graduated from UIUC with a master’s degree in Accounting Science.
As of October 2022, El Zayyat’s LinkedIn said that she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from UIUC in 2020. She also attended DePaul University (DePaul) where she studied Accounting from 2016-2018.
As of the same date, El Zayyat’s LinkedIn said that she lived in the greater Chicago area.
As of October 2022, El Zayyat used the handle “@notyourfob” on Twitter and went by “Sarah Zayyat” on Facebook.
Supporting Terrorists
On November 15, 2019, El Zayyat spoke at an SJP UIUC protest where she read [00:18:57] names from a list of “martyrs.” Among the names she read was Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander in Gaza targeted by Israel in an airstrike who was reportedly planning terror attacks.In November 2019, Israel launched Operation Black Belt to stop rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. The rockets were sent by the PIJ terror group on November 12-14, 2019, targeting Israel’s biggest civilian population centers.
SJP UIUC protest was titled: “EMERGENCY RALLY: #GazaUnderAttack.” The Facebook event page said: “In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes have killed over 32 Palestinians and injured over 100 in the last 24 hours. Come stand with us in solidarity against Israel's continual genocide and violation of Palestinian human rights.”
El Zayyat retweeted a November 24, 2019 tweet about a “Die-In Rally for Gaza” in Chicago that SJP UIUC co-hosted in opposition to Operation Black Belt.
The tweet said: “
Last Wednesday, SJP Chicago organized a mass Die-In rally to not only honor and remember the 36 Palestinians that were killed in Gaza last week, but to also condemn Israel’s constant attack on Gaza that has gone unchecked since the start of the occupation.”El Zayyat retweeted a September 23, 2020 tweet that said: “Leila Khaled appreciation post:” The tweet included four images of Leila Khaled, including three where she held an assualt rifle.
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
El Zayyat retweeted a March 29, 2021 tweet honoring Majd Barbar after his release from prison.
Majd Barbar was sentenced to “20 years in jail on charges of affiliation” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and for “his role in armed resistance” in 2001. Barbar reportedly formed “an armed resistance group” in Jerusalem, during the Second Intifada.
El Zayyat retweeted a June 3, 2021 tweet that said: “Another rare Leila Khaled photo (n.d.).” The tweet showed an image of Khaled with an assault rifle.
El Zayyat retweeted a September 6, 2021 tweet in support of six convicted terrorists who escaped from an Israeli prison that day.
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa prison in northern Israel. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities. The escaped prisonerswere convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvementin terror attacks carried out during the second intifada.
El Zayyat retweeted a November 19, 2021 tweet showing a photo of Khaled in front of different PFLP posters and the caption: “If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death.”
The tweet said: “‘I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.’ -Leila Khaled.”
Hatred of Zionists
El Zayyat retweeted an April 15, 2022 tweet by Ahlam Taha that included a meme with bold, red text that said: “START ZIONIST SHAMING” written in the center.The meme also showed comment balloons with phrases that read: “steal anyone’s land today?” “racist!” “COLONIZER!” and “ZIONISTS HAVE NO CULTURE!” as well as “GO BACK TO BROOKLYN.”El Zayyat retweeted a December 17, 2021 tweet that included a photo of a woman sitting in a chair with text that read: “YOU TALKIN TO ME, ZIONIST? SORRY I DONT SPEAK STUPID.”
On February 11, 2021, El Zayyat tweeted: “UIUC does business with companies that directly profit off of the human right violations of Palestinians such as Elbit Systems, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. UIUC is so busy sending massmails about eggs being thrown at Zionists balconies it forgot to boycott these companies.”
The tweet showed an email that the UIUC Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion sent out to students about someone who “threw raw eggs at a balcony where an Israeli flag was displayed. The University of Illinois Police Department is investigating the incident and will take appropriate action if those responsible are identified.”
On November 16, 2020, El Zayyat tweeted: “The department of EDUCATION doesn’t knows the difference between anti ZIONISM and anti SEMITISM.”
El Zayyat’s tweet included a tweet from the Chicago Tribune that was titled: “Claims of anti-Semitism at University of Illinois prompt federal investigation by Department of Education.” The investigation was launched in response to a Title VI complaint lodged on behalf of two Jewish students. The complaint documented over 20 incidents of anti-Semitism on the UIUC campus, including multiple ones involving SJP UIUC.
El Zayyat retweeted an August 8, 2020 tweet that said: “zionists: yes we have and continue to ethnically cleanse your people and yes we have massacred you guys and yes we did make an apartheid state and yes we’re colonizers but calling us ugly
thats stooping low.”El Zayyat retweeted a July 28, 2020 tweet that said: “zionists: both palestinians and israelis should be included in discussions
palestinians:
zionists: no not like that f**k you *block*.”
On July 13, 2020, El Zayyat tweeted: “If I had a dollar for every time a Zionist said ‘what about hamas’ I’d be Jeff Bezos rich.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
El Zayyat retweeted a June 9, 2020 tweet by former SJP UIUC president Dunia Ghanimah that said: “‘Zionists don’t support Palestinian lives bc it goes against their interests’ is a funny way to say Zionists are racist lmao [laughing my a** off].”
El Zayyat retweeted a May 27, 2020 tweet that said: “I’m sorry but seeing zionists tweet #BlackLivesMatter
The claim that the Israeli government forcibly sterilizes African Jewish women is based on a 2012 report, which alleged malpractice by healthcare workers who administered a temporary contraceptive to a group of Ethiopian Jewish women in the late 1990s without their proper consent. The allegations have since been adopted and actively promoted by anti-Israel advocates.
Hatred of Israel
El Zayyat retweeted a January 26, 2022 tweet that said: “i do not support all women some of them are in the idf [Israel Defense Forces].”El Zayyat retweeted a June 6, 2021 tweet by Canadian anti-Israel activist Sarah Wazzi-Moukahal that called Israel a “fascist settler colonial state.”
El Zayyat retweeted an October 30, 2020 tweet by former SJP UIUC activist Sophia Giakas Ayesh that said: “If we all storm falasteen, the Israeli occupation forces can’t stop us al
”“IOF” stands for Israeli Occupation Forces, a derogatory name used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army in place of its official name, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
El Zayyat retweeted an August 22, 2020, tweet that said: “F**k them kids.” The tweet included another tweet that said: “This Emirati girl sends Israel a message of peace from Dubai. Beautiful! Let's live in peace!
#UAEIsrael.” The tweet included a photo of an Emirati girl with a shirt showing the Israeli and Emirati flags and text that read: “LET US LIVE IN PEACE.”On August 18, 2020, El Zayyat tweeted: “Because Israel has been committing genocide and war crimes on Palestinian land for the past 72 years. Please dm if you’re interested in finding out more.”
In the same thread, El Zayyat tweeted: “There’s nothing legal about the British selling land that isn’t theirs and allowing zionists to kill off Palestinians who are indigenous to that land.”
El Zayyat retweeted a May 27, 2020 tweet that said: “Mfs [mother f**kers] do not be hating israel enough for me.”
El Zayyat retweeted an April 7, 2020 tweet that said: “omg the CDC [Center for Disease Control] just called and said Zionism is a disease b***h get well soon
”El Zayyat retweeted an April 8, 2020 tweet that said: “do you pronounce it ‘Israel’ or ‘genocidal apartheid regime.’ ”
El Zayyat retweeted a January 1, 2020 tweet that said: “Why are all israelis so f**king ugly.”
El Zayyat retweeted a November 8, 2019 tweet that said: “F**k #Israel.”
Hatred of America
El Zayyat retweeted a July 3, 2022 tweet that showed a woman burning an American flag with a lit cigarette.El Zayyat retweeted a February 21, 2022 tweet that showed a photo of a woman saying: “I hate all American presidents.” The tweet said: “Happy Presidents Day.”
Promoting BDS on Campus
On September 24, 2020, El Zayyat tweeted: “We love you and appreciate your support yusuf it genuinely means so much
it’d wouldnt been half as fun passing divest without talking s**t about the z*onists w u on the side
.”On February 11, 2021, El Zayyat tweeted about the UIUC administration, writing: “Bro deada** they dream about zionists and don’t give a f**k about us.. our student government still passed BDS tho
”SJP UIUC Chapter Overview
SJP UIUC has a history of hate-filled anti-Israel protests on campus, including in April 2022 when someone threw a rock at Jewish students. SJP UIUC leads an annual anti-Israel divestment campaign where other anti-Semitic incidents have occurred.In November 2020, SJP UIUC featured [pp. 3-8] prominently as a source of anti-Semitism on campus in a civil rights legal complaint filed against UIUC.
SJP UIUC speakers show support for terrorists and spread hatred of Zionists and Israel. Speakers use chants that call for Israel’s destruction and other chants for “intifada,” which is a call for violence.
SJP UIUC speakers also routinely demonize Zionism and in March 2022, one speaker claimed: “Zionism is the root cause of the social issues we see today.” SJP UIUC uses social media to spread the same sort of hatred outlined above.
SJP UIUC - Creating a Hostile Campus Environment 2015-2020
In October 2020, SJP UIUC was cited [pp. 3-8] in six different incidents in a civil rights legal complaint against UIUC documenting anti-Semitic incidents on campus as early as 2015. Jewish groups filed the complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The complaint said [p.12]: “UIUC has also failed to combat anti-Semitism as vigorously as it has combated other forms of bigotry on its campus prohibited by Title VI.”
One cited incident [p.4] was from 2019 when SJP UIUC members and supporters approached pro-Israel students. At least one SJP supporter spat on a pro-Israel student. Other Israel supporters were called “Nazi” and “white supremacist” and were told they had “dual loyalty” since they were “not a true citizen of the United States.”
SJP UIUC - Hatred of Israel 2020-2021
On November 18, 2020, SJP UIUC wrote on Facebook that Zionists “advocate for white supremacy and racism,” and that Zionism was a “racist ideology.” The post also said: “The Zionist state in Palestine has carried out and continues a massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”On May 10, 2021, SJP UIUC hosted an anti-Israel protest where protesters chanted [00:03:25]: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” They also chanted [00:27:31]: “Stop the killing, stop the hate! Israel is a terror state!”
One speaker said [00:02:16]: “Zionism is genocidal.” Another speaker said [00:12:55]: “When we talk about violence it’s always from the oppressor so anything else that the oppressed do is self defense and justified.”
SJP UIUC - Hatred of Israel 2019-2020
On October 10, 2019, SJP UIUC wrote on Facebook: “Zionism is a political ideology that seeks to maintain an artificial Jewish majority in historic Palestine through the systematic occupation and dispossession of Palestinians’ land and livelihoods.”The post was issued in defense of a presentation by SJP president Dunia Ghanimah that praised [slide 14] “Martyrdom” and honored terrorist leaders Leila Khaled and Yasser Arafat. Ghanimah, who was a Mulitcultural Advocate (MA) at UIUC, gave the presentation to other MAs, as well as UIUC Housing employees and Resident Advisors.
On October 16, 2019, several Illinois Student Government (ISG) senators authored a resolution defending the presentation.
On October 22, 2019, SJP UIUC posted on Facebook encouraging students to support the ISG’s resolution.
On October 24, 2019, SJP UIUC posted on Facebook in celebration of the resolution passing.
On January 16, 2020, SJP UIUC tweeted a thread protesting a training session on anti-Semitism that had been scheduled for UIUC Housing employees, Resident Advisors, and Multicultural Advocates. The session was organized by the non-profit Jewish United Fund of Chicago (JUF).
In the Twitter thread, SJP UIUC described the JUF as a “hate group.” SJP UIUC also accused JUF of the “brokering of Chicago Police Officers exchange with israeli Occupation Forces” that contributed to a “police culture of systematic violence against Black and Palestinian youth.”
“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory term used to demonize the Israeli army by anti-Israel activists. The term mocks the official name, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
SJP UIUC BDS Activities
During the 2019-2020 academic year, SJP UIUC launched a BDS campaign by authoring a student government resolution asking the university to divest funds from companies that are either based in Israel or do business in Israel.In February 2020, SJP UIUC created the group UIUC Divest to promote BDS on campus and present BDS as an intersectional effort from different campus advocacy groups. In that academic year and each year since then, SJP UIUC or individual SJP UIUC board members authored a divestment resolution.
SJP UIUC BDS Activities - 2019-2020
On February 5, 2020, former SJP UIUC presidents Buthaina Hattab and Dunia Ghanimah, as well as then president Ahlam Khatib, collectively authored an Illinois Student Government (ISG) anti-Israel divestment Resolution 03.61, titled: “Violations of Human Rights in University Investments.”On February 12, 2020, a female Jewish student spoke [01:56:58] at an ISG meeting held to discuss the divestment resolution, to discuss an incident where someone held a sign that said [p. 7]: “F**K NAZIS SUPPORT PALESTINIANS.”
The female Jewish student said that she attended an ISG meeting during the fall semester that addressed a separate anti-Israel resolution. She said [01:56:58]: “When I walked into the room I was confronted by a huge sign held up by SJP that said ‘F**k Nazis’. They called us Nazis!”
Somone in the crowd then shouted [01:57:07] at the same female Jewish student: “They’re right!”
On February 15, 2020, UIUC Divest tweeted: “...UIUC Divest passes 20-9-7! ISG resolution 03.61 “Violation of Human Rights in University Investments” calls on UIUC to divest from corporations that engage in human rights abuses including Israeli war crimes in Palestine.
#UIUCDivest.”On February 17, 2020, UIUC Divest tweeted a letter signed by SJP UIUC criticizing the ISG President Connor Josellis for vetoing the resolution one day earlier.
On February 19, 2020, Josellis said [00:37:31] that he vetoed the resolution because of “a level of hate that I have not previously seen firsthand and on behalf of the student government, I condemn any hateful rhetoric that led to students feeling unsafe in this environment.”
SJP UIUC - BDS Activities 2020-2021
On September 23, 2020, UIUC’s student government voted [03:31:41] during a live streamed ISG meeting in favor of a BDS resolution titled: “RES.04.22 Human Rights Violations in University Investments and Police Forces.” Former SJP UIUC presidents Sofia Sinnokrot and Buthaina Hattab authored the resolution.SJP UIUC’s statement on the vote claimed that “both the BDS and the BLM [Black Lives Matter] movement resist the fundamental racism that Israeli and American entities need to survive.”
During the live stream, Sophia Giakas Ayesh, a former SJP UIUC activist, commented [02:36:58]: “Honestly bruh, Zionism is a political agenda that’s racist and supports genocide so bye.”
Zionism is defined as the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, Israel, and the right to develop their national culture
SJP UIUC - BDS Campaign 2021-2022
On February 7, 2022, SJP UIUC launched a divestment campaign to get the UIUC student body to vote on an anti-Israel divestment measure via a referendum in March 2022.On February 14, 2022, SJP UIUC authored a “revised resolution” titled: “Human Rights Violations in University Investments.” SJP UIUC called on the Illinois Student Government (ISG) to approve a “referendum question” for that spring’s student government ballot.
The question that SJP UIUC wanted students to vote on said: “Should the University of Illinois divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from or engage in human rights violations in US Prisons, at the US-Mexico Border, and in Occupied Palestine?”
On Februrary 23, 2022, ISG held a meeting to address the possibility of the question being posed to the student body.
Malaak Yehya, a former SJP executive board member, said [00:05:23] at the meeting: “The question of Palestine and what is going on in Palestine is so simple and is nothing new. It is an ongoing struggle against colonialism, it is ethnic cleansing on display.”
On February 23, 2022, the ISG Senate reportedly passed the bill with a vote of 17 to 14 and two abstentions.
On March 9, 2022 the ISG Judiciary reportedly nullified the resolution due to three violations of the ISG Constitution, including that it passed using a secret ballot. The question was excluded from the ballot of the 2022 student senate election.
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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“...UIUC is so busy sending massmails about eggs being thrown at Zionists balconies it forgot to boycott these companies.”
