Sundus Assaf
Overview
As of December 2018, Assaf was a member of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at OSU Facebook group.
As of December 2024, Assaf’s LinkedIn profile said she was a sales engineer at Faro Technologies.
Also as of December 2024, Assaf’s LinkedIn said she graduated from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 2018.
As of the same date, Assaf’s LinkedIn said she was located in Oakland, California.
Anti-Semitism
On February 23, 2014, Assaf tweeted: “Obama w el yahood w Bush el ha8 3laihom kolhom [Obama and the Jews and Bush are all to blame].”Hatred of Zionists
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.
Hatred of Israel
On July 9, 2014, Assaf tweeted: “#PrayForPalestina Innocent children being murdered in gaza for no legitimate reason, save for a military show of power from Isreal.”Also on July 9, 2014, Assaf tweeted: “All your ‘scientific advances’ fortunately do not mask your heinous crimes @netanyahu @Israel #PrayForPalestina.”
On July 26, 2014, Assaf tweeted: “People will look back at Israel's crimes in the future & wonder how the world let the second holocaust happen #ICC4Israel.”
Assaf retweeted an April 3, 2017 tweet featuring a video of a newscaster saying “for the sake of Palestine let us spit on this flag,” then spitting on a burning Israeli flag.
Pushing BDS
On March 3, 2017, Assaf appeared in an OSU Divest Facebook photo campaign promoting BDS.The divestment bill was defeated in March 2017 with 3,843 votes in favor and 4,084 opposed.
On August 15, 2014, Assaf tweeted: “#IBoyCottIsrael” along with a Youtube video that demonized Israel.
OSU Divest 2017
OSU’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) worked together with OSU Divest to launch a divestment campaign in late January of 2015. In March of 2015, OSU Divest unsuccessfully attempted to put a last-minute divestment referendum on the University Student Government (USG) election ballot.During the pre-vote discussion of the bill, OSU divest members accused Israel of “apartheid.” One claimed that United States presidential election candidates “all paraded to AIPAC to pledge allegiance to a foreign government.”
The divestment bill claimed that the call for (active) divestment is a "neutral position" but targeted companies involved in Israel's security as "complicit in human rights abuses.”
OSU Divest petitioned students to place the Divestment resolution open to popular vote, and received enough signatures for their Divestment initiative to be placed on the USG ballot as a referendum.
Daniella Israelstam, a sophomore at OSU who worked against the divestment resolution, reported that OSU Divest used “misleading” tactics, “disguising what was petition [sic.] by saying, ‘please sign this if you support human rights’.”
The vote, which took place from March 6-8, 2017, defeated the divestment bill with 3,843 votes in favor and 4,084 opposed.
As of November 27, 2017, Alyssa Ruebensaal-Novak was listed as SJP OSU’s 2017-2018 Divest Committee Head, with her role being to “recruit and head SJPs efforts to get divest passed.”
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.
MSA
The Muslim Student Association (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
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/100002940946776 [Deactivated]
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- Ohio-State
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- MSA
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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