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Sujood Tayeh
Sujood Tayeh has expressed support for terrorists and spread hatred of Israelis, Zionists and the State of Israel.
Sujood Tayeh was an e-board member of American University's (AU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter (AU SJP), according to an October 2023 article published by AU's student newspaper, The Eagle.
Sujood Tayeh is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of January 2025, Tayeh's LinkedIn profile said she had been a "Records Specialist" at Shulman Rogers law firm since September 2024.
As of the same date, Tayeh's LinkedIn said she graduated from AU with a bachelor's degree in communications, legal institutions, economics, and government (CLEG) in 2024. Her LinkedIn also said that she graduated from Montgomery College with an associate's degree in business in 2022.
As of January 2025, according to her LinkedIn, Tayeh was located in Washington DC.
On January 24, 2025, Sujood Tayeh posted a comment on a pro-terror AU SJP Instagram post that detailed the group's "Statement on the Ceasefire in Gaza." Tayeh wrote: "we won't stop until divestment and total liberation."
AU SJP's post said [slide 6]: "we will not rest until every single inch of Palestine is liberated from the settler colonial entity and the imperial chains that bind them to our rightful land and home."
AU SJP's post further made[slides 2, 4, 5, 8, 10] multiple mentions of the words "resistance" and "resist."
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
The same post said [slide 4]: "The mounted pressure put on the zionist regime from the resistance of Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran, along with the masses around the Arab World, filled the hole of the deafening silence from our so called Arab leaders."
Iran has supplied over 20 political and militia groups in the Middle East with arms, military training and financial aid. These groups include Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Shiite militia groups in Iraq and Syria. They have been acting on behalf of Iran since the 1980s, carrying out attacks on the Kurdish population of Iraq, supporting Syria's regime, participating in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and perpetrating many other attacks in the Middle East.
In addition, the AU SJP post said [slide 5]: "The task of resistance in diaspora, of a global intifada, is never to forget our martyrs and political prisoners just as we refuse to forget those in Palestine, and the most concentrated site of colonialism in which Palestinians are held prisoner, Gaza."
The term “intifada” translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection” and carries the connotation of terrorist violence, including suicide bombings, hijackings, shootings and stabbings.
Mention of "political prisoners" was also made in slide 2, which said that the ceasefire agreement came with "the liberation of some of the 10,000+ illegally held Palestinian political prisoners."
According to HonestReporting, the "political prisoners" included terrorist leaders and masterminds, such as Zakaria Zubeidi, who was involved in several terror attacks, including the 2002 bombing of the Likud headquarters in Beit Shean, and Tabat Mardawi, who was serving 21 life sentences and an additional 40 years in prison for his role in the murder of 21 Israelis and the wounding of 190 more.
On November 10, 2024, Tayeh posted a comment on an AU SJP Instagram post that was in opposition to a pro-Israel event on campus.
Tayeh wrote: "shame on AU for hosting a conference where they are planning for a future of further extermination of Palestinians and the expansion of the zionist entity!"
Tayeh's comment referred to an Instagram post where AU SJP was listed as a collaborator. The post was in opposition to a "Zionist conference" to be hosted at AU and the post was also captioned: "🚨🚨IOF AND WAR CRIMINALS OFF OUR CAMPUS🚨🚨."
“Israeli Occupation Forces,” or “IOF,” is a derogatory name for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used by anti-Israel activists to demonize Israel’s army.
The Instagram post referred to conference held at AU from November 10-11, 2024, titled: "Israel at 100: Scenarios for the Future of Israel in 2048." The conference included speakers Eugene Kandel, an Israeli economist and David Schenker, a Jewish-American diplomat.
On November 14, 2024, Tayeh commented on Instagram about the above conference: "no peace for war criminals, iof should NEVER be on campus." This comment was in reference to another Instagram post by AU SJP about the same conference.
AU SJP's post described their "Study In For Gaza" event, whereby students affiliated with SJP attended the keynote session of the "Israel at 100" conference with signs taped to their laptops reading: "THERE ARE NO UNIVERSITIES LEFT IN GAZA," "IOF OFF OUR CAMPUS," "100+ YEARS OF OCCUPATION, ETHNIC CLEANSING, APARTHEID, & GENOCIDE" and "END THE SIEGE ON GAZA NOW." AU SJP's stated aim was to ensure that the event would not be held "silently or comfortably."
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
Tayeh was a signatory on a December 2023 open letter to Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) which expressed "solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for justice and liberation" in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terror attacks on Israel.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
The letter that Tayeh signed demanded that MCPS "end collaboration with the Anti-Defamation League" and that MCPS educators provide "lessons about the history of Palestine, the Nakba, and the 75-year Israeli occupation."
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913 “To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
The letter that Tayeh signed further called on MCPS to reinstate individuals whom they claimed had been "unjustly placed" on administrative leave, naming middle school teachers Hajur El-Haggan, Sabrina Khan-Williams, and Angela Wolf. According to a December 2023 report by CNN, Hajur El-Haggan was placed on immediate leave because her email signature included the phrase: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” is a chant used [00:02:52] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
Sabrina Khan-Williams, according to a November 2023 report by ABC 15 News, was placed under investigation after defending Hamas on social media and accusing Israel of selling Palestinians' organs. Angela Wolf was suspended after being accused of spreading anti-Semitism online, including a December 2022 Facebook post that termed five wealthy locals with Jewish last names as "gluttons and thieves."
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
