Summer Al-Saleh

Overview

Summer Al-Saleh has endorsed on-campus violence, supported terrorists and promoted hatred of Israel on social media.

Al-Saleh is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)’s Facebook group - UCSC SJP. She also fundraised for and attended the 2016 National SJP conference at George Mason University.

Al-Saleh supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Al-Saleh is a member of the UCSC Muslims Students Association (MSA) Facebook group - UCSC MSA.

Al-Saleh is a student at UCSC.

Endorsing On-Campus Aggression

On March 8, 2017, Al-Saleh tweeted about a College Republicans group tabling during an International Women’s Day March on UCSC campus: “a few pieces of s**t at the #InternationalWomensDay march...their table got flipped :-).”

On April 26, 2017, Al-Saleh tweeted: “me af when they argue it's Ann Coulter constitutional right to speak @ Cal: "Between equal rights, force decides" -Marx

Supporting Terrorists

As of September 9, 2017, Al-Saleh featured a quote from terrorist Leila Khaled as her Twitter bio. The quote read: “‘i've had casual boyfriends but never became really attached to any man. the older i grew the more attached i became to the revolution" ~leila khaled.”

Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.

On August 17, 2017, Al-Saleh retweeted a tweet that read: “Despite heavy rain Rasmea Odeh's supporters making noise outside court in Detroit. She'll be formally sentenced today. #Justice4Rasmea.”

On that same day, Al-Saleh retweeted another tweet that applauded Odeh: “Rasmea Odeh unbowed as judge passes sentence | My report from Detroit.”

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.

On March 8, 2017, Al-Saleh tweeted: “happy #InternationalWomensDay from the PFLP

.”

On July 23, 2016, Al-Saleh posted to Facebook a photo of Leila Khaled amidst a young girls, adding: “leila and her posse.”

On March 4, 2014, Al-Saleh tweeted quote by Khaled: “...she can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life" -Leila khaled.”

Vilifying Zionism

On August 16, 2017, Al-Saleh tweeted: “zionism is fascism.”

On April 2, 2017, Al Saleh tweeted: “trash of the day,” along with a tweet by Israeli Actress and scientist Mayim Bialik: “. @Bustle magazine did a very detailed interview with me about feminism, Zionism, and my love for liberalism.”

On December 28, 2016, Al-Saleh tweeted: ‘nothing 2 set me off on a weds evening like wyt american zios from high school posting pics of themselves prancing around the sea of galilee.”

The term "Zio" is a commonly used derogatory reference to zionists and an often-used anti-Semitic slur.

On March 4, 2014, Al-Saleh tweeted: “Zionism is racism.”

On December 10, 2013, Al-Saleh tweeted: “Obama says first thing he protested was apartheid in s africa, too bad he supports apartheid in israel.”

Supporting BDS

On February 16, 2017, Al Saleh tweeted: “More than half of NFL players booked for Israel PR trip withdraw

.”

On August 24, 2016, Al-Saleh retweeted a tweet promoting an anti-Israel BDS webinar hosted by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The tweet read: “Join Exciting Boycott HP Webinar w/Caroline Hunter of the Polaroid Boycott during South African Apartheid.”

On August 8, 2013, Al-Saleh tweeted a photo of of Nike-brand socks bearing a “made in Israel” tag, adding the comment: “Nike supports apartheid.”

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.

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.