Sirat Al-Nahi
Overview
Al-Nahi also expressed support for an anti-Israel agitator and promoted the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of 2019, Al-Nahi was listed as a 2017 entering student at the University of Houston Law Center and was reportedly slated to graduate in 2020.
As of March 2020, she was listed as the Chief Managing Editor of the Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law for the State Bar of Texas Consumer & Commercial Law Section.
Disrupting a Campus Event
On November 13, 2015, Al-Nahi was [00:00:24] one of twelve PSC members who disrupted an event organized by Israeli Professor Ami Pedahzur of UT’s Institute for Israeli Studies, about the Israeli Defense Forces.PSC member Mohammed Nabulsi interrupted the speaker to deliver a prepared speech and the other PSC members began chanting [00:05:08], “Long live the intifada!” and “We want 48, we don’t want two states!”
Campus police later arrived and detained the PSC members.
Following the incident, PSC accused Professor Pedahzur of assault and filed a complaint with the university against him. PSC also posted on Facebook calling on students to file complaints against Pedahzur.
Professor Pedahzur later reportedly received death threats. UT’s investigation found that Pedahzur “did not violate the university’s Nondiscrimination Policy and did not engage in harassment of the student organization.”
Promoting BDS
On April 21, 2015, Al-Nahi was featured in a photo posted on Twitter that quoted her as supporting PSC’s BDS campaign #UTDivest. The tweet was one of several photos posted that day by Twitter user Zainab Haider from the UT Austin Student Government Assembly’s (SGA) 109th session.At the SGA session, the SGA voted down an anti-Israel divestment resolution that was co-authored by Student Government Law Representative at UT Austin, Mohammed Nabulsi.
On August 23, 2015, Al-Nahi changed her Facebook cover photo to a graphic promoting #UTDivest.
Supporting an Anti-Israel Agitator
In October 2016, Al-Nahi signed a National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) statement extending “unconditional solidarity” to Rabab Abdulhadi, director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora (AMED) program at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and faculty mentor for the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at SFSU.Professor Rabab Abdulhadi has, since 2014, sought to cultivate alliances between SFSU and two Palestinian universities, An-Najah and the Hamas-dominated Birzeit.
Abdulhadi reportedly invited SFSU students to join a “political solidarity” trip that met with individuals including Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a group banned by the Israeli government for its ties with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
Abdulhadi also glorified terrorists including Khaled.
The National SJP statement al-Nahi signed claimed that pro-Israel groups had “waged a coordinated smear campaign—employing Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, outright lies and innuendo, and defamation against Professor Abdulhadi—in an attempt to pressure SFSU to sever its ties with An-Najah University.”
Al-Najah (alternatively, An Najah) University is the largest Palestinian university in the West Bank and is notorious for its triumphal exhibit lauding the August 9, 2001 Sbarro cafe suicide bombing. The blast killed 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman and wounded 130.
Al-Najah’s exhibit featured a mock-up of Sbarro’s, including gnawed pizza crusts and bloody plastic body parts suspended from the ceiling, as though blasting through the air.
The 2013 An Najah graduating class was named for terrorist Abu Jihad at an appreciation ceremony for the class’s outstanding students. Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) planned the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre that killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounded 71 others.
The NSJP statement that Al-Nahi signed also claimed that pro-Israel groups: “ throw their significant power and resources in order to censor anything they would construe as outside their political dictates.”
PSC Austin - Disrupting Campus Events 2015
PSC Austin created a Facebook event titled: “McRaven Address Walkout.” The event was to initiate a walkout during a November 20, 2015 address by U.S. Navy veteran Admiral William McRaven at UT Austin.McRaven is a UT Austin graduate and led the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. In its Facebook event description, PSC accused UT Austin of hosting “a swarm of US intelligence and military officials on campus,” who would “recruit students to a life of crime.”
On November 13, 2015, twelve PSC members disrupted an event organized by Professor Ami Pedahzur of UT Austin’s Institute for Israeli Studies. The event was titled: “The Origin of a Species: The Birth of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Military Culture.”
Soon after the event began, PSC leader Mohammed Nabulsi interrupted the speaker to deliver a prepared speech, after which the other PSC members began chanting [00:05:08]: “Long live the intifada!” and “We want ‘48, we don’t want two states!”
The disruption resulted in a near-physical confrontation between Nabulsi and Professor Pedhazur. Campus police later arrived and detained the PSC members.
Following the incident, PSC released an edited video of the protest and accused Professor Pedahzur of assault. PSC also filed a complaint with the university that accused Pedahzur of “illegally releasing Nabulsi’s name and unfairly linking the group’s actions to the terrorist attacks in Paris.”
Additionally, PSC launched a campaign on Facebook calling on students to “contact our Dean of Students, the Dean of College of Liberal Arts, and the UT Administration generally letting them know that physical assault of peaceful student protesters will not stand.”
PSC finance committee chair, Ahmed Khawaja, also initiated a GoFundMe fundraising campaign to sue Pedahzur.
Professor Pedahzur later reportedly received death threats and vacated his offices at the Israeli Studies Institute, due to concern for his personal safety and that of his students. A UT investigation found that Pedahzur “did not violate the university’s Nondiscrimination Policy and did not engage in harassment of the student organization.”
UT’s then-President Gregory L. Fenves was quoted in a local Austin paper as saying that Pedahzur “fostered open, responsible dialogue, often on contentious political issues, including those involving Israel. He is known for working in a constructive and proactive manner with people from across the political spectrum.”
On March 25, 2015, PSC held a protest against an event held by Texas Hillel and Texans for Israel to celebrate Israeli culture, titled: “Israel Block Party.”
PSC members protesting across the street from the block party constructed a mock “apartheid wall” meant to simulate Israel’s security barrier and promoted [00:01:47] a PSC divestment campaign to have UT Austin join the BDS movement.
Israel’s security barrier, built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks, is 97% low chain-link barrier. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
Ali Khan, who helped organize the PSC protest, called the Israel Block Party event “a propaganda event which hides a very heinous reality of cultural appropriation and genocide.”
PSC Austin - Disrupting A Campus Event 2014
On October 14, 2014, members of several student organizations, including PSC, disrupted [00:00:18] a talk about ISIS given by Israeli Major General Meir Dagan, former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service.The Daily Texan, a UT Austin student newspaper, reported that students protested outside the event and “At one point during Dagan’s talk, some protesters inside the auditorium interrupted the event by yelling pro-Palestinian phrases.”
PSC Austin - Glorifying Intifada 2015
In November 2015, PSC Austin, together with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Houston, scheduled an event titled: “Solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising: Call to Action!”The event’s Facebook description claimed: “The Zionist state occupation forces” were “killing dozens of unarmed Palestinians…with the participation of racist Zionist settlers.”
The event took place during a wave of stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians against Israeli civilians, termed the “Knife Intifada.” Palestinians shared graphics and video tutorials across social media explaining how to most effectively stab Jews. One widely shared video showed a young girl from Gaza brandishing a knife while calling on West Bank Palestinians to stab Israelis.
The event’s Facebook description also said: “Palestinians across historic Palestine—including 1948 Palestine—have taken it upon themselves to launch a popular resistance…to fight the genocidal Zionist project. The Palestinian youth…have in particular taken the lead in this uprising. They are sacrificing themselves so that Palestine may have a future. The least we can do is show our support for them.”
The event’s Facebook description concluded: “Long Live the Resistance! Long Live the Intifada!”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
PSC Austin - Promoting BDS 2015
In 2015, PSC Austin spearheaded the #UTDivest campaign to introduce a divestment resolution to the Student Government Assembly (SGA). The campaign’s goal was to have [00:01:45] UT Austin join the BDS movement.The divestment resolution called on the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) to divest itself of holdings in companies that “facilitate…the oppression of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel.”
On April 21, 2015, the SGA voted down the 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.
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- Status:
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- University:
- Texas-Austin
- Organizations:
- PSC (SJP)
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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