Shari Evangelista

 
As of March 2022, Evangelista’s LinkedIn page said she was “Head Science Writing Partner” at Pomona’s Writing Center since December 2018 and a “Lab Teaching Assistant, Intro Cell Chemistry & Biology” since January 2019.

Also as of March 2022, Evangelista’s Facebook page said she worked at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) at Claremont from June 2018.

As of the same date, Evangelista used the handle “@atechaos” and the name “miss ma’am” on Twitter.

As of March 2022, Evangelista’s LinkedIn said she was located in Los Angeles, CA.

Bigotry

On February 4, 2021, Evangelista tweeted: “East Asians are akin to white people at this f*cking school idgaf [I don’t give a f**k]”

On the same day, Evangelista tweeted: “white people and anthropology will just never sit right with me” 

On September 17, 2020, Evangelista tweeted: “video off bc [because] my eyes keep rolling when this white boi speaks”

Evangelista retweeted a June 29, 2020 tweet that read: “THE UNITED STATES IS UNFAIR! WHITE PEOPLE ARE IN THERE! STANDING AT THE CONCESSION! PLANNING OUR OPPRESSION!”

On June 23, 2020, Evangelista tweeted: “once again East Asians showing their proximity to whiteness...VERY VERY tired of this song ”

Evangelista retweeted a May 28, 2020 tweet that read: “white people being anti-looting is soooooo laughable to me because historically everything y’all have, y’all stole”

Evangelista retweeted a May 21, 2020 tweet that read: “something about white women speaking doesn’t sit well with me…”

On May 1, 2020, Evangelista tweeted: “the amount of white and East Asian faces at this sage tank zoom just ruined my day.”

Evangelista retweeted an April 24, 2020 tweet that accused white people of “deliberately aiding the spread of the [Covid-19] virus. this should be considered terrorism.”

Evangelista retweeted a March 31, 2020 tweet that read: “white women jealous of corona because it took their title of being a plague to society.”

Evangelista retweeted a March 29, 2020 tweet that read: “don’t care, didnt ask, plus you’re white.”

On November 18, 2019, Evangelista tweeted: “Asians are the weakest link of the POC [persons of color] community, more specifically...the East Asians lmao [laughing my a** off].

On October 15, 2019, Evangelista tweeted: “starting a thread for evidence when East Asians come at me for saying ‘Asian Americans are so f**king annoying.’” 

Demonizing Israel

Evangelista retweeted a May 17, 2021 tweet that read: “An app that scans products and it tells you if it’s afflicted with isr*ellet’s weaken their economy.” The tweet included a photo of the Buycott Barcode Scanner app on the Google Play store.

Evangelista retweeted a May 13, 2021 tweet referring to Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) in Gaza, that read: "‘But Hamas fired rockets’ is to geopolitics what ‘he should've just complied’ is to police brutality.”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

Evangelista retweeted a May 11, 2021 tweet that read: “IsraelJapan ‘actually our colonial subjects are racially indistinguishable from us’"

Evangelista retweeted a May 11, 2021 tweet that read: “Isn’t it crazy that American Jews have a ‘birthright’ to a land that neither them, nor their parents, nor their great grandparents 10x over have ever been to, yet i as a Palestinian need special visas to visit my place of birth?”

Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.

Evangelista retweeted a May 10, 2021 tweet at the beginning of a thread publicizing anti-Israel protests across the United States. The next tweet in the thread promoted a protest in Chicago that said: “From the displacements in #SheikhJarrah and #Silwan to the raids on #AlAqsa to the violent bombardment on #Gaza, we must speak out!” 

Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.

In May 2021, Palestinian violence erupted in anticipation of an Israel High Court ruling on eviction proceedings concerning over 70 Palestinian tenants illegally residing in Jewish-owned properties in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. 

Evangelista retweeted a June 25, 2020 tweet that read: “‘Palestine under Israeli occupation is the worst possible example of a carceral society.’”

Evangelista retweeted a June 23, 2020 tweet that read: “You can not say Black Lives Matter and be pro-Israel at the same time.”

On May 3, 2020, Evangelista tweeted: “Naruto doesn't recognize Israel.” “Naruto” is a cartoon character from the Japanese comic series Naruto.

Hatred of America

Evangelista retweeted a March 30, 2022 tweet that read: “American patriotism is just white nationalism. Yes, even when the pusher isn't white. It is nationalism of the oppressor at its strongest.”

Evangelista retweeted an August 15, 2021 tweet that read: “The US doesn’t belong in Afghanistan. The US doesn’t belong in any other country. The US doesn’t even belong in the US.”

Evangelista retweeted an August 28, 2020 tweet that read: “most of white america has no culture outside of consumerism so burning down a chili’s is like destroying a family heirloom”

Trivializing Anti-Semitism

Evangelista retweeted a June 22, 2020 tweet that included a petition in support of Malak Afaneh, then the senior class president at Pomona College (Pomona), who was accused of sharing and endorsing an anti-Semitic Instagram post. 

The prior week, Afaneh reportedly posted a graphic with text suggesting that Zionist Jews “hate brown ppl” and that they are “stuck-on comparing-Holocaust-to-racism WW2 [World War II]-worshipping-b**ches.” Afaneh wrote at the top of the image that the image’s text “put into words all I’ve been thinking!”

The petition Evangelista tweeted, titled: “Demanding Protection and Accountability for Malak Afaneh, Student Activist,” excused Afaneh’s anti-Semitic remarks.

Evangelista retweeted a May 22, 2021 tweet that read: “Colonized people have no obligation to convince you they don’t hate their oppressors for you to care. Palestinians are overwhelmingly justified to hate their Zionist colonizers, who are Jews. It’s not antisemitism, and it’s not complex.”

Voting in Favor of BDS

On April 22, 2021, Evangelista voted in the ASPC Senate in favor of a BDS resolution that compelled BDS compliance for ASPC campus stores and student clubs receiving ASPC funding. The campus Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapters (Claremont SJP and 5C JVP) co-sponsored the resolution.  On April 15, 2021, Claremont SJP and 5C JVP introduced their resolution to the ASPC Senate that mandated ASPC compliance with BDS. 

The resolution was titled [p.1], “Banning the Use of ASPC Funding to Support the Occupation of Palestine” and it required [p.2] that ASPC “internal spending” could not be used on products or services from companies that “knowingly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine.” 

The Claremont SJP and 5C JVP resolution cited [p.2] a list of mostly Israeli companies compiled by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a guide for which companies to boycott. ASPC internal spending includes multiple items such as funding 5C student clubs and student-run events. 

The resolution created [p.2] an oversight role for Claremont SJP over the ASPC-run Coop Store and the Coop Fountain restaurant. ASPC would “work in tandem with members of SJP, and other pertinent parties, to perform an annual check on the ASPC’s businesses to ensure all goods sold adhere to the guidelines outlined in this resolution.”

The resolution also said [p.2]: “Clubs that fail to divest and/or refrain from such uses of funding would face the loss of all Claremont Colleges Student Government Association funds.” This clause effectively mandated BDS compliance even for pro-Israel and Jewish student organizations like Claremont Hillel and Claremont Chabad.

Claremont Colleges pool mandatory student activity fees and distribute the money to the 5C student governments. ASPC provides almost 47% of the funding for all 5C clubs, although each 5C student government can fund 5C clubs. 

In spring 2021, ASPC gave more than $10,000 to 5C clubs. It also gave $30,000 for student-run events at Pomona that were coordinated through the ASPC’s Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The full ASPC spring 2021 budget was $216,700. 

The Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP resolution also said [p.2] that ASPC’s “end goal” would be to lead other 5C student governments to pass similar BDS resolutions.

On April 22, 2021, the ASPC Senate passed the resolution with a vote of 10-0-0. Five senators were not present, representing one third of ASPC Senate’s 15 seats.

On the same day, Claremont SJP issued a press release calling the resolution’s passage “an important first step in reducing our complicity with a country that maintains an illegal military occupation and regularly commits crimes against humanity against the indigenous Palestinian population.”

On April 23, 2021, following criticism of the resolution reportedly among campus and national Jewish groups, Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body opposing the resolution. Starr said that requiring student clubs to boycott Israel was “deeply concerning.” He said that since the vote “was held without representation from any student opposition,” the ASPC Senate should “reverse course and allow for full discussion.” 
 
On April 29, 2021, the ASPC Senate held a Zoom meeting that included a “comment period” for student senators and student guest speakers to express their feedback on the resolution. 

On April 30, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly decided to “table the resolution” for further discussion on the resolution’s call to deny funding to student clubs that failed to adhere to BDS.

On May 6, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly passed a modified resolution that omitted the original clause forcing student clubs funded by ASPC to comply with BDS.

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/atechaos

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shari.evangelista

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shari_e

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shari-jay-evangelista-7370a218b/

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