Sarah Farahat

Overview

Sarah Farahat is a member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University (PSU), an affiliate with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
On November 21, 2016, she was listed as an administrator of the group’s closed Facebook page.

Farahat is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and is a member of the anti-Israel group Artists Against Apartheid.

Farahat is an Oakland-based artist and designer who is known for producing anti-Israel art pieces, including promotional materials for SUPER. She uses her website to share anti-Israel propaganda (discussed below).

Farahat is a DJ who performs under the stage name The Seamstress of Sound. As of July 12, 2015, she hosted a radio show called “Active Listening” on KBOO in Portland. Farahat is known as Sarah Seamstress on Facebook.

Farahat received a master’s in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2016, where she was a graduate teacher’s assistant and graduate writing coach.

Farahat was a graduate writing coach at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in 2013 and received her bachelor’s degree in Intermedia/Multimedia from PNCA in 2008.

Supporting Terrorists

On April 24, 2013, Farahat posted a photo of terrorist Samer Issawi on Facebook.

On April 15, 2013, Farahat posted a cartoon to Facebook supporting Issawi.
Issawi received a 26 year prison sentence in 2002 for shooting at Hebrew University students and Israeli police, possession of explosives and being a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). Issawi was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange but was rearrested in 2012 for continuing his terrorist activities.

On November 15, 2014, Farahat posted an image of Rasmea Odeh on Facebook.

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.

Demonizing Israel

On August 9, 2014, Farahat — during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas — produced a pro-BDS Youtube video titled “Gaza” that she uploaded to her website. The video featured an anti-Israel song with lyrics including  “Power hungry eyes on the eye in the pyramid…” (2:10) — a reference to classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories — which is then followed by “Control the news, Muslims and Jews…” (2:16).

The video insinuates that United States policies are controlled by Jewish money. The video also shows multiple anti-Israel rallies which featured signs stating “STOP ISRAELI STATE TERROR” (1:43) and chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” (6:21).

On July 26, 2014, Farahat posted a photo on Facebook of an anti-Israel rally where protesters held signs saying “STOP THE GAZA GENOCIDE” and “STOP ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND APARTHEID.”

In 2014, Farahat produced a pro-BDS banner for SUPER which was displayed on the PSU campus. The banner stated that Israel has “colonialist and racist policies.”

On May 29, 2011, Farahat participated in a pro-BDS flash mob at a Portland area supermarket. The protesters accused Israel of “apartheid” and “racism” as well as having “stolen land” and committed “atrocities.” On June 3, 2011, Farahat uploaded the video to her Youtube page and also uploaded it on her website.

Promoting Anti-Israel Events

On May 23, 2016, Farahat produced promotional material for a SUPER event featuring Nada Elia who — in October of 2015, while Palestinians across Israel stabbed scores of Israeli civilians during the “Knife Intifada” — wrote an article titled “Why Be Afraid of an Intifada?” where she said “Intifadas are good.”

On December 14, 2015, Farahat produced promotional material for an anti-Israel protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) with a person wearing a shirt which said “END ISRAELI APARTHEID.” The protest was organized by the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), which is co-managed by Lara Kiswani.

On February 24, 2015, Farahat produced promotional material for a SUPER event featuring BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

On May 13, 2014, Farahat produced promotional material for a SUPER event featuring anti-Israel propagandist Ali Abunimah who said in 2010: “Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit.”

SUPER - Honoring Terrorists

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted its Palestinian Cultural Night where the group set up multiple displays honoring terrorists. Among them were Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members Rasmea Odeh and Leila Khaled who hijacked airplanes with the PFLP in 1969 and 1970.

The same event honored the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat. SUPER also honored senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi as well as Haneen Zoabi — a member of Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) — who has been investigated for inciting violence on a number of occasions.

On November 19, 2014, SUPER hosted an event supporting Odeh.

On March 1, 2014, SUPER hosted another Palestinian Cultural Night where they honored Arafat.

SUPER - BDS Passed at PSU

On October 24, 2016, SUPER authored a BDS resolution which passed the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government.

The resolution, which attempts to portray the State of Israel as a modern incarnation of Apartheid South Africa, called on the university to divest from companies with ties to the Jewish state in an effort to discourage these companies from doing further business with Israel.

SUPER - Bringing Anti-Israel Speakers to PSU

On May 23, 2016, SUPER hosted an event featuring Nada Elia who — in October of 2015, while Palestinians across Israel stabbed scores of Israeli civilians during the "Knife Intifada" — wrote an article titled “Why Be Afraid of an Intifada?” where she said “Intifadas are good.”

On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi who is known for his aggressively anti-Israel performances.

On April 9, 2015, SUPER hosted Professor Steven Salaita, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

On February 24, 2015, SUPER hosted BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

On May 13, 2014, SUPER hosted anti-Israel propagandist Ali Abunimah, who said in 2010: "Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit."

On December 13, 2013, SUPER hosted terror supporter Eva Bartlett.

On May 25, 2012, SUPER hosted blood libel propagator Jasbir Puar who has claimed that Israel harvests Palestinian organs and stunts Palestinian growth.

On February 25, 2012, SUPER hosted conspiracy theorist As’ad Abu Khalil who said two weeks earlier that among the "anti-Semitic kooks" within the Palestinian movement were possibly “infiltrators to sabotage our cause and smear our campaigns.”

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 1:https://www.facebook.com/100001313641572  

Facebook 2:https://www.facebook.com/291917047588674

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-farahat-8101ab11b

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJRcr9tnRLu2kGnvZhkjuQ

Website: http://www.sarahfarahat.com/

Soundcloud.com:https://soundcloud.com/the-seamstress-of-sound

Blog:https://www.blogger.com/profile/00788923406118791602