Sumayyah Nabiyeva
Overview
Sumayyah Nabiyeva and called for Israel’s destruction and showed support for “intifada” as a participant in an August 2022 rally. Nabiyeva has also demonized Israel on Instagram.In June 2022, Nabiyeva was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
As of October 2022, Nabiyeva’s LinkedIn page said she had been studying for a bachelor’s degree in Architecture at Temple, slated to graduate in 2025.
Also as of October 2022, Nabiyeva used the handle “@oh.daydii” on Instagram. As of the same date, she used the handle “@isushiiii” on vsco.co.
August 10, 2022 - Participating in an Anti-Israel Rally
On August 10, 2022, Nabiyeva joined in chants calling for Israel’s destruction and calling for “intifada” against Israel while at an anti-Israel protest titled: “Philly Stands with Gaza.” The rally was held in central Philadelphia during the late afternoon rush hour.Speakers spread anti-Semitism and promoted incitement, while protesters blocked traffic and threatened drivers. The protest was in opposition to Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn (OBD) against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in Gaza.
Philadelphia Coalition for Palestine (PCP) organized the rally in order to “Honor the 45 Palestinian martyrs; End the blockade on Gaza; Defend Palestinian resistance!” PCP includes Temple SJP and the Philadelphia chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and IfNotNow.
The protest demonstration consisted of two rallies and a march in between. The first rally was held on the east side of Philadelphia's City Hall and the second one was held later on the west side of City Hall.
Hatred of Israel at the Rally
Nada El-Hillal began the protest by leading [00:00:02] the chant: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” The chant is a call for the elimination of the State of Israel. She later led [00:11:50] the chants: “Stop the crime! Israel out of Palestine! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free! One two three four, occupation no more! Five, six, seven, eight, we will not cooperate!”Nabiyeva joined in [00:48:43] with the chant: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!” and [00:48:55]: “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has to fall!”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
Nabiyeva also chanted [01:26:07] with the crowd: “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”
After the march ended at the west side of City Hall, one speaker said [01:15:01]: “We need to end the blockade on Gaza and support the Palestinian resistance in any way that we can. We need to be boycotting Israeli companies. We need to be taking action. This is a settler colonialist project and we need to shut it down, finally.”
Israel and Egypt implemented a United Nations-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets.
Mohammad Omaren, another protest leader, burned [01:28:20] the flags while Shaat led [01:28:26] protesters in the chant: “Allahu Akbar! [God is the greatest]. Protesters chanted [01:28:32]: “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The occupation has got to go!”
Nabiyeva stood [01:29:18] in the circle of anti-Israel chanters, then knelt [01:29:37] to film the burning Israeli flag with her cellphone.
Multiple signs over the course of the rally promoted hatred of Israel. One protester held a sign that read: “Stop Israeli Holocaust against Palestinians.” Temple SJP posted photos to Instagram from the protest that featured a sign claiming [slide 5] Israel was a “TERRORIST STATE.” Another sign accused [slide 4] America and Israel, saying: “THERE IS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.”
Demonizing Israel
On May 11, 2021, during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Nabiyeva wrote on Instagram: “this is not a ‘conflict.’...the word ‘conflict’ denotes the two sides are equal in some way…This is an ethnic cleansing enabled by the apartheid government, funded by the U.S, and we are witnessing right now.The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On May 19, 2021, Nabiyeva posted to Instagram: “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ♥︎.”
On June 2, 2022, Nabiyeva shared [slide 16] a screenshot of a tweet from Omar Suleiman that read: “The rhetoric of ‘both sides’ only serves to maintain the fog that allows the occupying power to entrench it's state of apartheid. A slower & quieter ethnic cleansing vs. carpet bombing are the options given to the Palestinians. We won't be silenced while our people are wiped out.” Nabiyeva captioned the screenshot: “YES YES YES.”
On June 4, 2022, Nabiyeva posted [slide 17] an image from an anti-Israel protest that featured a woman holding a sign that read: “IS IT REALLY YOUR HOMELAND IF YOU HAVE TO COLONIZE IT?”
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
