Shireen Akram-Boshar
Overview
Shireen Akram-Boshar has demonized Israel on social media and was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brown University (Brown). She was also a member of SJP at Boston University (BU).
Akram-Boshar attended the 2017 National SJP Conference (NSJP 2017), where she represented the International Socialist Organization (ISO).
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
Akram-Boshar is a supporter ofthe Boycott Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Akram-Boshar is a member of ISO Boston.
As of January 2018, Akram-Boshar’s Linkedin said she was a student at BU from 2011 to 2013. On June 26, 2016, she graduated from Brown with a degree in Africana Studies.
As of January 2018, Akram-Boshar wasa Project Coordinator for Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence.
Demonizing Israel
On December 6, 2017, Akram Boshar wrote a Facebook post accusing Israel of “a steady and horrific ethnic cleansing process.”
In the same post, Akram Boshar also wrote that “Palestinians have been resisting colonialism for 100 years now. Israel's colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid cannot last.”
She concluded: “Free Palestine, long live the Intifada. Palestine will be free.”
In an October 2011 interview with The Daily Free Press, a BU student newspaper, Akram-Boshar claimed that Israel’s exchange of 1,027 Palestinian convicts for kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, was rooted in racism.
Akram-Bosher also quoted saying that “both the deal and Western media coverage of the deal make the Israeli racist ideology that one Israeli life is worth over 1,000 Palestinian lives even more clear and obvious.”
Supporting Rasmea Odeh
On November 4, 2014, Akram-Boshar read poetry and held a sign at an SJP gathering in support of Rasmea Odeh.On March 12, 2015, Akram-Boshar encouraged her Facebook followers to donate money to Odeh’s legal fund.
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh 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 [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.
SJP Brown
Since its founding in 2009, SJP Brown has promoted the boycott of Israel at Brown and also pressured Brown to divest from Israel.
In 2010, SJP Brown began bringing Israeli Apartheid Week to Brown’s campus, to smear Israel with accusations of "apartheid policies" and “to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”
In March 2010, SJP Brown set up a 75-foot long banner on Brown’s Main Green, asking students the misleading, rhetorical question, "Do you want your University profiting from apartheid?"
Siding with Terrorist Violence
On November 8, 2015, SJP Brown’s Facebook page approvingly featured an article originally posted on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) website. PFLP’s website calls for "resistance until victory," “revolutionary violence” and is replete with pictures of armed militants and other violent images, such as burning molotov cocktails.
The article urged the "liberation" of “occupied Palestine 48” — a call to eradicate the state of Israel and delegitimize the Jews’ claim to sovereignty in their ancestral national homeland. The article further proclaimed that “occupied land cannot be recovered except through resistance and confrontation of the occupation.”
The PFLP is designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, The United States and Israel. and promotes the violent destruction of Israel. The PFLP has claimed "credit" for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi, the 2011 butchering of the Fogel Family (including two boys, aged 4 and 11 — and a three month old girl.)
On November 19, 2014 — one day after PFLP terrorists murdered six more people, with a gun, axes and and a butcher knife during morning prayers in a West Jerusalem synagogue — SJP Brown posted on Facebook an article complaining that the killings received undue condemnation as "pure terror" from United States officials. Hani Thawbta, a PFLP leader in Gaza praised the massacre, as “heroic.”
Defending PFLP Terrorists
On November 4, 2014, SJP Brown held a gathering in support of terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh — who was a key military operativefor the PFLP.
Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh 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 [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.
In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.
On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.
Covering for Terrorists
On December 7, 2015, SJP Brown also posted on Facebook that an Israeli military court sentenced Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar to 15 months in jail — omitting that Jarrar was charged with inciting violence and being a member of PFLP.
Spreading Hate and Disinformation
In November of 2014, SJP Brown slammed Israel for banning anti-Israel propagandist Dr. Mads Gilbert from entering Gaza through Israel.
Gilbert has been banned indefinitely from entering Gaza through Israel because of his connections to the Hamas leadership.
In 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 Gilbert was stationed at a hospital that served as a Hamas command center and rocket launching site. During that time he acted as a propagandist for the Hamas government in Gaza.
In 2001, following al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks, Gilbert expressed support for the terror acts as a “legitimate response.” In December of 2009, Gilbert was accused of faking resuscitation on a dead child in Gaza for dramatic effect for a CNN video.
In October 2015, SJP Brown shared on Facebook an article falsely blaming Israel for the death 54-year-old Palestinian agitator Hashem Azzeh.
In October 2015, Al Azzeh died of a chronic cardiac condition. On October 21, 2015, Al Azzeh suffered chest pains and was taken to a nearby hospital, which claimed his death was due to heart failure. Palestinian news sources later claimed his death was caused by the IDF’s use of tear gas nearby.
Promoting Disruption over Dialogue
On April 2, 2014, Brown Hillel, an independent, apolitical Jewish organization, hosted a talk with former IDF soldier Benjamin Anthony. Hillel invited student leaders from a wide variety of campus groups to participate in the discussion.
SJP Brown demanded that Hillel cancel the event; the group, circulated a petition and held a protest before the lecture and marched outside Hillel — chanting, waving signs and Palestinian flags.
SJP Brown’s co-leader and protest organizer Josette Souza alleged that Hillel’s invitation of "student leaders" to the event was not meant to stimulate dialogue, but rather to influence those who will go on to make domestic and international policy” — and labeled the event “insidious.”
On January 28, 2016, Brown Hillel hosted former Soviet "refusenik" Natan Sharansky and actor Michael Douglas, who came to discuss their Jewish identities. Sharansky, who heads the Jewish Agency for Israel Israel’s immigration agency and Douglas have both expressed pro-Israel views. SJP Brown released a statement announcing that it would hold a rally and picket the event, inviting students to “... protest this egregious display of Settler Colonial apologism.” SJP released a statement describing the lecture as an “affront to academic freedom” of Brown students.
SJP disrupted the Sharansky-Douglas event with loud chants of "free, free, Palestine" from the lobby of the lecture hall, harassing, bullying and shouting at attendees.
Security guards prevented SJP’s from hanging Palestinian flags and posters while the group’s members shouted "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" — a call for Israel’s destruction. However, SJP Brown members did manage to distribute inside the lecture hall, a handout falsely accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and libeling Mr. Sharansky as “an infamous anti-African racist.” SJP Brown fraudulently represented its flier as a “program addition.”
Disguising Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism
On March 16, 2016, SJP Brown forced Brown Hillel to cancel an event featuring American transgender activist Janet Mock, who was scheduled to talk about her experiences as a transgender person of color. Mock withdrew from the event after SJP Brown circulated a petition demanding that the event either exclude Hillel sponsorship or be canceled. On March 20, 2016, Brown’s President issued a statement in response to the event’s cancellation, writing that "it is counter to Brown’s norms and values for expressions of dissent to be targeted at a student group because of its religious affiliation."
On March 18, 2016, anti-Semitic and homophobic messages were discovered written on the walls of Marcy House, a Brown student dormitory. Marcy House is home to the campus’ Jewish fraternity and houses many LGBT students. The graffiti read "Gay will die" and “Holocaust 2.0,” and was written directly across from a Jewish student’s room that had a mezuzah and Hebrew writing on its door.
Demonizing Israel
In February 2014, SJP Brown published an op-ed in the Brown Daily Herald, calling on the university to adopt the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and criticizing Brown President Christina Paxton for denouncing the boycott. SJP Brown claimed that the aim of the academic boycott is to "put pressure on Israeli universities that play a central role in the maintenance of a settler-colonial project in Palestine based on ethno-racial supremacy."
In November 2015, SJP Brown launched a petition to boycott the sale of Sabra, a hummus brand partially owned by the Israeli Strauss Group, in Brown’s dining hall.SJP Brown posted on Facebook "who pays $4.00 for hummus that tastes like apartheid?" In response, Brown’s Dining Services began offering another hummus option.
Brown Hillel Hosts anti-Israel "Nakba Day" Event
On May 11, 2016, on the eve of Israel Independence Day, Brown Hillel hosted an event called "Jews Facing the Nakba." The event featured a film by Zochrot — an NGO that seeks to “de-colonize” Israel, blames its “Jewish target audience” exclusively for Palestinian “refugeehood” — and dubs Israel’s founding “the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.” Zochrot promotes the right of all Palestinian refugees to return, and dissolving Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Although initially cancelled, the event was secretly held, in violation of Hillel International’s Israel Guidelines.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/797945283
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shireen-akram-boshar-621166108
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