Sarah Levy

Overview

Sarah Levy is a member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University (PSU), an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Levy is an administrator of SUPER’s Facebook group.

Levy is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Levy is an artist and independent journalist based in Portland, Oregon.

In September 2015, Levy painted an artwork with her menstrual blood called "Bloody Trump," which was her rendering of then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Levy is a regular contributor to the website Socialistworker.org.

Endorsing Palestinian Violence

On November 19, 2014, Levy wrote an article called "Israel tightens the noose in East Jerusalem." In the article, she accused Israel of “Ongoing Judaization and ethnic cleansing” in Jerusalem and wrote that “Israel has ramped up its attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque” and “Al-Aqsa under attack.”

The "threat" of “attacks” on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem have long been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews.

Levy, in the article, also blamed "weeks of Israeli provocations" for an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue where six people were murdered with a gun, axes and a butcher knife, during morning prayers on November 18, 2014. Levy said that Israel’s “attack has the potential to spark and strengthen a new resistance.”

On November 21, 2014, Levy tweeted: "From the #On2Jerusalem demo, Nov 14, Ramallah, #Palestine #StoptheattackonalAqsa." Her tweet came with a photo of a protest she attended which included Hamas and Fatah flags. The protests using that hashtag were organized by the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and were driven by the Al-Aqsa libel.

On November 20, 2014, Levy tweeted a Youtube video she was featured in where she interviewed PRC leader Abdallah Abu Rahma while at the rally described above. In her interview, she asked him: "Why do you think they’re attacking al-Aqsa?" She later asked: “What do you think it’ll take to stop the attack on al-Aqsa?”

On October 28, 2015, Levy wrote an article titled "Israel's reign of terror in Jerusalem" propagating the same Al-Aqsa libel. Levy claimed it as being “at the heart of the recent violence” where Palestinians were stabbing scores of Israeli civilians during what became known as the “Knife Intifada.”

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On August 7, 2014, Levy posted on Facebook: "END THE SIEGE OF GAZA END ZIONISM." Levy referenced the U.N.-approved blockade of Gaza by Israel and Egypt which was implemented to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets to fire at Israeli civilians.

On August 4, 2014, Levy posted on Facebook a poster she made for SUPER calling Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas as a "MASSACRE." The poster also promoted Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

On July 12, 2014, Levy approved of a post where protesters called for BDS and claimed that Israel practices "apartheid."

On December 17, 2014, Levy claimed in an article that Israel has a "racist population."

On October 11, 2012, Levy wrote an article where she claimed that Israel has "apartheid policies."

Levy is listed as a member of the Facebook group "Americans Against Genocide in Gaza" which features a cover photo stating “Stop the Palestinian Holocaust!” She is also a member of the Facebook group “Palestine Belongs to Palestinians!” which claims that Israel has “no legal, moral or ethical right” to exist.

Supporting Steven Salaita

On October 7, 2015, Levy tweeted an article in support of Professor Steven Salaita, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: "You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.” In 2017, Salaita posted to Facebook: “People ask if I would go back in time and change anything. I would not…I will die unapologetic.” In February 2019, Salaita stated that he had become a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C., area.

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 Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh.

Khaled hijacked airplanes with the PFLP in 1969 and 1970 while Odeh masterminded a 1969 bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket and also attempted to bomb the British consulate. Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated her as the mastermind.

The same event honored the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and 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 exclusively 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.