Susan Yaseen
Overview
Susan Yaseen [Susan Jenin Yaseen] has expressed support for the terror group Hamas and praised terrorists. She also mocked Jews, expressed support for an anti-Israel agitator and spread hatred of IsraelYaseen also reportedly defended an incident where Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) placed fake parking tickets on cars while she served as the president of SJP at the University of Michigan, Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) in 2017.
In November 2018, Yaseen was reportedly the “Divestment Investigations Chair” on the UM-Dearborn Student Government (UMDSG). During that time, Yaseen reportedly defended pro-BDS professors.
Yaseen is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and in 2017, as a student senator, was the author of a divestment resolution that urged UM-Dearborn to divest from companies that do business with Israel.
In the same year, Yaseen also authored a resolution seeking to end Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Yaseen was the 2018-2019 vice president of SJP UM-Dearborn and attended the 2018 National SJP Conference.
As SJP UM Dearborn president, Yaseen also co-sponsored anti-Israel events with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
In 2016 and 2017, Yaseen was affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UM-Dearborn.
As of December 2018, Yaseen’s LinkedIn page said she worked in “Administrative Support” at Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and was a member of the “Student Senate “at UM-Dearborn from “Apr 2016 — Present.”
Yaseen’s LinkedIn page also said she was a student at UM-Dearborn from 2015 - 2019 studying “Accounting Pursuing a CPA” and worked as a“Assistant Research Analyst ” at the University of Michigan (UM) Research and Sponsored Projects from “Jun 2017 — Apr 2018.”
As of July 2019, Yaseen indicated on Facebook that she graduated.
As of July 2019, Yaseen used the names “knafeh_” and “sr7aneh” on Instagram,“KungFuSue22” on Twitter and “Suzanne Zahi” and “جنين زياس” on Facebook.
Expressing Support for Hamas
On June 19, 2013, Yaseen tweeted: “Hamas has done some mistakes but it fights for freedom You think Israel actually wants.” Yaseen continued: “Peace? Its too greedy and stubborn, they want the whole thing Its pretty clear.”On December 28, 2013, Yaseen tweeted: “@jimborats @TKhan98 Hamas hides behind civilians oh please. Have you ever seen idf attack or what they call ‘defend’?”
On the same day, Yaseen tweeted: “@TKhan98 @jimborats if Israel didn't exist than Hamas wouldn't be a major party or a party at all.”
On May 27, 2013 Yaseen tweeted: “@TzviZucker @Haroon_55 @TabrizKhanUSAF Maybe because we don't believe Zionist media? Or just the fact we know they [Hamas and Hezbollah] aren't terrorists hmmm.”
On November 16, 2012, during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD), Yaseen tweeted: “Israel are armed and protected with their huge fence, But hamas is barley armed still managed to fight back
Israel launched OPD to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from Gaza. Over the course of eight days in November 2012, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel. The majority struck Israel, damaging homes, schools and other civilian areas. Human Rights Watch noted: “Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim.”
Praising Terrorists
On May 24, 2019, Yaseen shared a post on Instagram of one of her paintings. The painting featured a large grenade in the center with profiles, including an image of Leila Khaled, around the grenade. Yaseen later shared a video on Instagram featuring the same painting.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 April 7, 2017, Yaseen shared a video of her artwork, posted by SJP UM-Dearborn on Facebook, that featured [00:00:08] a painting of Khaled.
On June 13, 2016, SJP UM-Dearborn shared a photo on Facebook of Yaseen holding a sign at a rally in support of Rasmea Odeh that read: “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE.” Odeh also spoke to the SJP activists at the rally.
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.
“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.
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, in several incidents, fired indiscriminately on Israeli civilian vehicles.
Ayman Sharawna was a member of Hamas, who served 10 years of a 38 year sentence for involvement in a terror attack in Be’er Sheva. Sharawna was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange deal for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. He was re-arrested in 2012 for “prohibited”activities.
On May 14, 2012, Yaseen commented on a graphic on Facebook supporting Palestinian prisoners who undertake hunger strikes: “n [sic] solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and robbed of their basic rights as prisoners of war as stated by international law, and in support of their legendary fight for every Palestinian's dignity this picture will be put up as our profile picture until the hunger strike of these prisoners ends victoriously. Brown is the colour imposed by the zionist on the brave Palestinian prisoners, and the logo on the right of the prisoner's shirt is hebrew for 'IPS' (Israeli Prison Service).”
The 2012 prisoners’ hunger strike included convicted terrorists such as Tha'er Halahleh and Bilal Diab — both members of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Also participating was Hamas military commander, Abdullah al-Barghouti— who was sentenced to serve 67 life sentences for his significant role in multiple terrorist attacks, including the Sbarro Cafe Bombing of 2001, which murdered 15 people and wounded more than 120.
Another hunger striker was Palestinian terrorist Samer Issawi — who received a 26 year prison sentence for shooting at Hebrew University students and Israeli police in 2002, as well as for manufacturing and distributing pipe bombs.
Also among the 2000 Palestinian hunger strikers was Khader Adnan, a senior member of PIJ. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”
Mocking Jews
On July 30, 2013, Yaseen tweeted a quote by FathAllah Ali, that read: “‘@Fat_K411: Marry a Palestinian and tell her you love her as much as you hate yahood [Jews] #How2StayMarried’ haha xD”On July 20, 2013, Yaseen tweeted: “@thelifeofdeema bs ma t7seedini, broo7 mbsooteh o a5er ashi yo5dooni al yahood >:( [Don’t jinx me. I was happy, then I found out they were taking me to Jews]”
Support for Anti-Israel Agitator
On January 29, 2017, Yaseen shared an AJ+ produced video on Facebook promoting Janna Jihad Ayyad and wrote: “I'm her biggest fan ♡”.Janna Jihad Ayyad Al-Tamimi, also known as Janna Jihad, is an anti-Israel youth activist. She is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi, who is notorious for exploiting young children as political props by manufacturing confrontations with Israeli soldiers who respond to the riots that Tamimi organizes.
Spreading Hatred of Israel
On October 6, 2016, Yaseen was featured in a photo posted on Facebook by SJP UM-Dearborn setting up a mock Israeli checkpoint. SJP activists put up a mock apartheid wall, simulating Israel’s security barrier and dressed as Israeli soldiers.Israel’s security barrier, 97 percent of which is a low chain-link barrier, was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
On July 2, 2016, Yaseen appeared in an SJP UM-Dearborn photo on Facebook. The post said: “How did you spend international Quds Day? #FreePalestine.” Yaseen was holding a sign that read: “ISRAELI APARTHEID. Made in the U.S.A. BLOCK AID TO ISRAEL NOW.”
The Iranian government initiated International Quds Day in 1979, as an annual protest against Israel’s existence. The protest has historically been a platform for anti-Semitism.
On May 12, 2016, Yaseen shared a Facebook post by Professor Steven Salaita that read: “Israeli ‘independence day’ is a bulls**t euphemism. There never was an Israel to be liberated, only a Palestine to be destroyed.”
In 2014, The University of Illinois (U of I) withdrew an offer of employment to Steven Salaita after becoming aware of his anti-Semitic tweets. One tweet, posted shortly after Hamas kidnapped three teenage Israeli high school students, read: "You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the f**king West Bank settlers would go missing.”
A month later, Salaita tweeted "Zionists: transforming ‘antisemitism’ from something horrible into something honorable since 1948." On July 8, 2014, he tweeted: "There's something profoundly sexual to the Zionist pleasure w/#Israel's aggression. Sublimation through bloodletting, a common perversion."
On July 22, 2014, Yaseen tweeted: “Israel should go down on its knees and weep for the destruction they've done. But it won't cause it's has no humanity #GazaUnderAttack.”
On July 15, 2014, Yaseen tweeted: “‘Israel’ is digging its own grave...sooner or later the oppressor/occupier shall feel the result of its behavior. #ouch #GazaUnderAttack.”
On July 8, 2014, Yaseen tweeted: “Gaza has no army no navy no airforce, this isn't a war, it's a genocide
On August 18, 2013, Yaseen tweeted: “Zionism is the main reason why theres antisemitisn throughout the world in the first place. Ironic isnt it?”
On July 23, 2013, Yaseen tweeted: “@SentientNumber7 Are you not aware that Israel is currently ethnically cleansing villages now? Yet you don't want me to blame them.”
Defending Pro-BDS Professors
On November 9, 2018, Yaseen reportedly drafted a student government resolution, in her role as the “Divestestment Investigations Chair” that “defended the actions” of John Cheney-Lippold. In September 2018, Cheney-Lippold sparked major controversy in September 2018 when refused to write a recommendation letter for a student to study abroad in Israel.Yaseen’s resolution called “for a reversal of the disciplinary actions taken against the two instructors.” Yaseen reportedly said that “this resolution serves as a first step in the fight to ensure equal rights for Palestinian students.”
The resolution also reportedly defended Lucy Evelyn Peterson, a faculty member at the University of Michigan (UMich), who allegedly reneged on her commitment to provide a recommendation letter for a student in October 2018 because he was applying to study in Israel. Peterson stated the reason for her decision was her support of the BDS movement.
The University of Michigan’s Public Affairs Department reportedly said: “Injecting personal politics into a decision regarding support for our students is counter to our values and expectations as an institution.”
In a letter dated October 3, 2018, UMich disciplined Cheney-Lippold, issuing a number of sanctions. The sanctions included not getting a merit raise during the 2018-19 academic year and not being able to go on an upcoming sabbatical in January or another sabbatical for two years.
Promoting BDS Resolutions on Campus
In 2017, Yaseen authored two anti-Israel resolutions during her tenure as a Senator on the UM-Dearborn Student Government (UMDSG).On February 3, 2017, SJP UM-Dearborn posted an image on Facebook of a resolution that Yaseen authored titled: “Supporting the UNSC Resolution 2334 (2016) Regarding An End To Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.”
On March 12, 2017, the UMDSG posted an image on Facebook of a resolution that Yaseen authored, titled: “A Resolution To Divest from Ethically Reprehensible Companies That Violate Palestinian Rights.”
The UMDSG scheduled the divestment resolution debate for a Friday night, March 10, 2017, during the Jewish Shabbat, when religiously observant Jewish students at UM-Dearborn would be unable to attend.
On March 29, 2017, a UMDSG student Fellow, Jordan Wohl, published an article in the UM-Dearborn student newspaper, the Michigan Journal, in which he reported making a request to the student government to reschedule the day of the student debate to a day that was not the Jewish Shabbat.
Wohl wrote: “By holding student government meetings on Friday nights, the Jewish students at UM-Dearborn are prohibited from meaningfully contributing to critical debates on campus, including one that directly targeted the Jewish state.”
Wohl reported that he “presented the situation” to members of the UMDSG, but his request to accommodate religiously observant Jewish students and to move the student debate on the resolution from a Friday night, the Jewish Sabbath, was denied.
On March 12, 2017, the UMDSG passed the divestment resolution.
On March 16, 2017, UMDSG president, Fiana Arbab, reportedly presented a copy of the resolution at the Board of Regents Meeting and advocated for the University to divest from the companies named in the resolution.
During the meeting, Yaseen reportedly “asked the board to reconsider forming a divestment committee to investigate investments by the University that may violate Palestinian rights.”
On April 4, 2017, Yaseen issued an “SJP Statement” in response to Wohl. Yaseen wrote: “As students who are ‘anti-Israel’, we need to make a significant distinction; we are not anti-Semitic... To be anti-Semitic is impossible for us, because a Semite is someone who speaks a Semitic language, such as Arabic or Aramaic. Since the majority of SJP are Semites, to be anti-Semitic is a juxtaposition to our own bloodlines.”
Yaseen’s definition of the term “antisemite” varied greatly from the commonly accepted definition which is “hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.”
Yaseen continued: “Furthermore, to be labeled as anti-Semitic by a non-Semite is a serious accusation that we take to heart and treat as bigotry.” The “non-Semite” she referred to was Wohl.
On April 18, 2017, an article in the Badger Herald noted that students at UM-Dearborn had “pushed for more than two years” unsuccessfully “to pass a similar resolution through their student government.” Yaseen reportedly said following the resolution: “I’m aware that divestment is unlikely and that we maybe have 10 more years to go...But I believe we planted a seed, and [the movement] is going to continue to grow.”
Distributing Fake Parking Tickets
In March of 2017, while Yaseen was SJP president, SJP UM-Dearborn reportedly put fake parking tickets on students’ car windshields parked on campus that “were meant to serve as flyers for two events” organized by SJP UM-Dearborn.Yaseen reportedly said: “The purpose of this was to create an empathic connection between the student body and the Palestinian victims, sharing with them the reality of what the Palestinians go through on a daily basis. Palestinians do not receive any form of notices when they are forced to evacuate or have their houses demolished.”
Yaseen also reportedly said: “The tickets were designed to share that fear with the student body and spread awareness of the injustice occurring in Palestine.”
The fake ticket reportedly read: “Parking Violation... We regret to inform you that your vehicle will be towed in the next 24 Hours. We receive the right to demolish the vehicle under Code 269.2.C. We hereby release any liability for damage to any persons or effects including gross negligence. You will receive the charges of demolition and waste removal…”
The flier reportedly concluded: “Palestinian homes are often destroyed so that new settlements can be built, and so that the state of Israel can expand past its borders by appropriating Palestinian land.”
Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference
On November 18, 2018, during the 2018 National SJP Conference, SJP UM Dearborn posted a photo on Facebook featuring Yaseen and 2018 SJP UM-Dearborn president Jasmine Rabie, wearing the 2018 National SJP Conference T-shirts.2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
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.
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.
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