Shahd Abumostafa

Overview

Shahd Aboumostafa expressed support for a terrorist and was the president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Toronto Metropolitan University (SJP TMU) in 2016-2017.

For more information, see the SJP TMU Chapter Profile. TMU was known as Ryerson University until April 2022.

Aboumostafa is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Aboumostafa was a member of TMU’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) Facebook group in 2016. 

As of July 2023, Aboumostafa’s LinkedIn profile said she was studying interior design at Yorkville University (YorkvilleU) and was slated to graduate in February 2024. She graduated from TMU with a bachelor’s degree in law and business in 2020. 

Aboumostafa’s LinkedIn also said she has been working as a freelance interior designer for The Backyard Smokehouse since January 2021 and for EGGSTATIC since May 2020. Her LinkedIn said she was located in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. 

As of July 2023, Aboumostafa used the handle “@shahadNebal” on Facebook and spelled her name “Shahd Abumostafa.”

Support for a Terrorist

On April 25, 2016, Aboumostafa wrote a Facebook post in support of Dima al-Wawi.

12-year-old Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred,” she said.  

Anti-Israel Activism (SJP)

On April 12, 2016, Aboumostafa featured in an SJP TMU Facebook photo, sitting around a table with the “2016-2017 SJP team working real hard…” 

On March 21, 2016, Aboumostafa promoted an Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) event on Facebook titled: “Nights of Resistance” The event was hosted by the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University (York U). Aboumostafa encouraged Facebook readers to: “Come out to the first event of the week today!”

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is presented as “an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of…Israel’s settler-colonial project and apartheid system over the Palestinian people” and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

On March 8, 2016, Aboumostafa promoted an IAW event on Facebook titled: "Pressure Points: Israel, Berkeley and the Divestment Resolution.” The event was co-organized by SJP TMU, the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), and other local groups.

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.

MSA

The MSA was  established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations." 

The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.

The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.  

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 Web Links

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/shahadNebal

Facebook 2:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009518811571

Twitter:www.twitter.com/ShahdAbumostafa

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/shahd.abm [Private]

Instagram 2:https://www.instagram.com/shahd_abumostafa [Private]

Threads:https://www.threads.net/@shahd.abm

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahd-aboumostafa-270a51164

LinkedIn 2:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahd-abomustafa-71a3abaa

Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/shahdabumostafa