Sarina Escalante
Overview
As of January 2022, Escalante’s LinkedIn page said she was a “Sr. Operations & Logistics Manager, West” at Uber since March 2021 and was located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
Escalante’s LinkedIn also said she was a “Business Owner” at the Beach Monkey Organic Cafe in Pacifica, California, since March 2020.
Escalante’s LinkedIn stated under “Licenses & certifications” that she received a “CPR [Cardiopulmonary resuscitation] and First Aid” from EMS Safety Services which expired May 2020.
Spreading Incitement
Escalante indicated on Facebook that she “went” to a November 21, 2014 event titled: “Hands off Al Aqsa and Palestine” which was organized by SJP at SJSU.In the fall of 2014, Palestinian leaders and media incited a wave of violence against Israelis with the lie that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This resulted in the November 18, 2014 Har Nof massacre, in which terrorists murdered six people in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers.
The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.
According to a November 23, 2014 article, published by the Liberation News, a leader and co-founder of SJP at SJSU as well as a co-host of the event, Abid El-Miaari, pointed Liberation News to a “list of Israeli crimes motivating the group’s protest,” starting with “The closure/attacks on Al Aqsa Mosque.”
At the march, activists reportedly chanted: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” as well as “Israel, Israel what do you say, how many kids did you kill today” and “Israel, Israel you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
On September 27, 2015, Escalante shared a September 17, 2016 video to Facebook and captioned it: “I guess the world can just watch while shi*t like This [sic] is happening. #HowSad#AlAqsa.”
On September 13, 2015 masked Palestinian rioters barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa Mosque. They set off fireworks — which started a small fire — and threw stones and debris stored inside at Israeli police. The police later found pipe bombs the rioters had prepared to launch at Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount plaza.
SJP Activism
On August 31, 2015, Escalante posted to Facebook: “I'm officially the Vice President of the students for justice in Palestine club at sjsu !! #Exited #Palestine #RepresentMyBloodLine #Falasteen #SJP #DontLetMyLastNameFoolYa #Arab #Ramallah.”Escalante was listed as an attendee for an October 21, 2015 SJP at SJSU that took place during the “Knife Intifada.” The event was titled: “The Bullet, The Ballot, & The Boycott,” and featured David Sheen.
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
David Sheen is an anti-Israel activist and filmmaker who works to portray Israel as an extremist racist state. To this end, Sheen has been accused of purposefully mistranslating Hebrew articles and other media to make Israelis appear racist.
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Supporting Divestment on Campus
On November 18, 2015, SJSU’s University Affairs Committee of the Associated Students (A.S.) Board of Directors held a hearing and vote on the divestment resolution titled:“In Support of Divestment from Companies That Profit from the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories.”
The resolution, submitted by El-Miaari and endorsed by 27 SJSU student groups, called on the Board of Directors of the Tower Foundation to divest SJSU’s holdings in a number of companies doing business with Israel.
According to SJSU’s website, the Tower Foundation directly “manages all financial aspects of funds donated to” SJSU.
The resolution passed with a 10-5-0 vote that reportedly made SJSUthe first campus in the CSU system to pass a divestment measure.
On December 15, 2015, Board Members of SJSU’s Tower Foundation unanimously rejected the divestment resolution.
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
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- BDS,
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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