Summer Baraka

On July 14, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “يا شهيد ارتاح ارتاح واحنا نواصل الكفاح #غزة_تقاوم [Oh martyr rest up rest up, we will continue the struggle. #Gaza_resists.]”

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

On December 23, 2013, Baraka tweeted multiple times in support of terrorist Samer Issawi, including a tweet that read: “Samer Issawi is the inspiration that Palestinians need. True example that existence is resistance. #SamerIssawiVictory”

Samer Issawi is a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who received a 26-year prison sentence in 2002. During the second intifada, Issawi manufactured and distributed pipe bombs and fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles. In December 2013, Issawi called for the kidnapping of Israelis, saying: “The [Palestinian] prisoners' release will be brought about by kidnapping and [prisoner] exchanges. Nothing will happen without that.”

Demonizing Israel

On July 3, 2016, Baraka retweeted a tweet that read: “#GrowingUpIsraeli is growing up to be an entitled colonialist who thinks people can just get over apartheid.”

On the same day, Baraka retweeted a tweet stating that Israelis “stole” their country.

On March 28, 2016, Baraka tweeted: “بدنا ثورة تحمي شعبنا و تمحي إسرائيل [We want a revolution that protects our nation and erases Israel].”

On April 16, 2015, Baraka retweeted a tweet from disgraced anti-Israel Professor Steven Salaita, stating: “Things found in Sabra ‘hummus’: -preservatives -soybean (not olive) oil -deadly bacteria -colonization -ethnic cleansing #BDS.”

On November 29, 2014, Baraka retweeted a tweet that read: “As long as Palestine is occupied don't talk to any Palestinian about two states or peace with Zionists. Palestine is ours, the land is ours.”

On November 22, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “Went to add Gaza City on my weather app and its not showing up anymore. Allah yil3an al zionists #habal [May Allah curse the Zionists #idiocy].”

On October 2, 2014, Baraka retweeted a tweet claiming that Israel was committing a “genocide against innocent Children in #Gaza.”

On July 13, 2014, Baraka tweeted photos from an anti-Israel rally at SWU, including one of a sign reading: “Israel’s Occupation Is the highest form of Terrorism.”

On the same day, Baraka tweeted: “Condemn the Apartheid State of Israel for their Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian peoples.”  

Whitewashing Her Anti-Semitism

On November 15, 2012, Baraka wrote on Instagram: “Representing right now at a school full of yahood [Jews]. I hope they confront me. #GazaUnderAttack #Solidarity #FreePalestine#Represent.”

But as of March 22, 2018, one month after Canary Mission released her profile, Baraka changed the post’s text, substituting “yahood [Jews]” with “zionists.” 

Anti-Israel Campus Activism

On April 9, 2017, Baraka posed with fellow SJP WSU officers in a Facebook photo before a mock Israeli security wall that featured a call to boycott Israel and a quote associated with Nazi propaganda methods.

On April 9, 2017, SJP WSU officers posed for a Facebook photo before a mock Israeli security wall that featured a call to boycott Israel and a quote associating Israel with Nazi propaganda methods.

The “separation wall” bore a quote often attributed to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.”

SJP WSU revised the quote, by replacing the word “truth” with the word “politics” and then crossed out “politics” and substituted the word “Israel,” written with blood dripping from the letters. Below the quote appeared the hashtag: “#BOYCOTTISRAEL.”

The quote embodied an anti-Semitic idea known as the “Big Lie,” which was used by Nazi Germany to demonize Jews and to promote the boycott of Jewish businesses."

SJP WSU used the wall as early as March 2016.

On March 10, 2016, Baraka stood in front of the SJP WSU mock security wall and held a sign reading “DIVEST FROM APARTHEID & OCCUPATION.”

On February 17, 2016, Baraka wrote on Facebook that she organized SJP WSU’s first Palestine Awareness Week.

The event featured anti-Israel speakers Ahmed Hamad and Thomas Abowd.

Pre-College Anti-Semitism

On August 21, 2013, Baraka tweeted: “Allah yin3an al yahood ou bas [May Allah curse the Jews, and that's all.]"

On November 15, 2012, Baraka — during Israel’s Operation Pillar  ofy Defense (OPD) against Hamas — tweeted: “Representing right now at a school full of yahood [Jews]. I hope they confront me. #GazaUnderAttack #Solidarity #Fr http://instagr.am/p/SDMHr2CTmH/”

On the same day, Baraka tweeted: “Decked out in Pali gear in an all yahood [Jewish] school #wishmeluck #SolidarityWithGaza.”  

On June 13, 2012, Baraka tweeted: “Lmaooo my mom just said in arabic ‘may god have the yahood [Jews] take you’. #verycreative.”

SJP WSU - Anti-Semitic Tweets  

SJP WSU founder and 2015-2017 president Summer Baraka and 2017-2018 president Mayssa Masri have both expressed forms of anti-Semitism on social media.

On June 24, 2015, Masri tweeted: “We need to open our eyes to who controls the media. We need to open our eyes to #WhiteSupremacy and #Zionism.”

On August 21, 2013, Baraka tweeted: “Allah yin3an al yahood ou bas [May Allah curse the Jews, and that's all.]" Masri liked the tweet.

SJP WSU - Leadership Idolizing Terrorists  

On March 29, 2016, Baraka referred to terrorist Ghassan Kanafani, tweeting: “Just tryna marry a modern day Kanafani.”

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.

On October 4, 2015, Rafeef Hamad — the 2016-2017 SJP WSU vice president — tweeted: “يارب تكتبهم عندك من الشهداء    #فلسطين_تنتفض [Please O god inscribe them as martyrs #Palestine_Revolting]”

October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.

SJP WSU - Denying Jerusalem’s Jewish History

On December 8, 2017, SJP WSU shared a Facebook video of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stating [00:00:15]: “Jerusalem is a city that is Palestinian, Arab, Christian, Islamic and the eternal capital of Palestine.“

Abbas was protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On October 19, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted a picture taken at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, stating: “Victory of Palestine against Israel: Jerusalem Holy Site Declared Muslim, Not Jewish, in United Nations 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.

Social Media and Weblinks

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