Tam-Anh Nguyen
Overview
Tam-Anh Nguyen was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), at the University of Maryland, College Park (SJP UMD) in 2016.
As of May, 1, 2017, Nguyen listed herself on LinkedIn as graduating from UMD in 2017.
On March 24, 2015, Nguyen was listed in a UMD student newspaper article as majoring in communications and film.
SJP UMD - Disrupting an Israeli Cultural Event
On April 19, 2016, Nguyen participated in an SJP UMD “die-in” disrupting the annual Israel Fest celebration — a non-political event held at UMD to celebrate Israeli culture. At the rally, Nguyen joined in chants alleging “Israeli Apartheid.”On November 10, 2014, SJP UMD tweeted: “Dozens of students walk out on Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer at UMD: Read more here!”On March 24, 2014, SJP UMD’s blog featured a letter co-signed by other SJP chapters that supported as “political speech” numerous instances of anti-Israel heckling, hate speech and intimidation. SJP UMD referred obliquely to the 11 Muslim Student Union (MSU/MSA) members who were arrested after repeatedly attempting to shout down Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., when he spoke at the University of California at Irvine in 2010. One of the students slandered Israel by claiming it was engaging in the “genocide” of Palestinian Arabs.
SJP UMD - Inciting Violence Against Israeli Jews
In the spring of 2010, SJP UMD hosted Obi Egbuna for its first Palestinian Solidarity Week — a variation of Israeli Apartheid Week — who reportedly stated that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.”On October 20, 2015, SJP UMD co-president Manar Dajani led an SJP UMD event deceptively titled: “Palestine Under Attack.”
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 scores of Israeli civilians.
The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
SJP UMD’s Facebook announcement compounded the incitement, repeating the libel that the Israeli military was “occupying” the Al-Aqsa mosque. The announcement also featured an image with the phrases “Hands Off Al-Aqsa” and “Boycott Israel Now!”
The SJP event announcement further claimed: “In light of Israel's escalation of violence against the Palestinians, SJP is holding an emergency forum.” The announcement omitted any mention of the Palestinian terror campaign but alleged that “In the past two weeks, over 1600 people have been shot…” and continued with the incendiary libel that “dozens were killed by the Israeli police, soldiers and settler lynch mobs.”
On November 16, 2015 SJP UMD hosted Washington, D.C.-based Reverend Graylan Hagler who said that he was “sick and tired of hearing about ‘THE’ Holocaust… as if there has only been one holocaust in the world at any point in history.”
Hagler also romanticized Palestinian violence against Israel and compared Palestinian terrorism to anti-police demonstrations in Black American neighborhoods. Hagler stated: “As I saw the young folks jump off in Baltimore, it reminded me of the first and second intifada because you saw young folks with bricks and rocks standing up against glocks, the cops were on the run because the folks were mad.”
SJP UMD - Supporting Terrorists
As of August 1, 2016, an image in support of Rasmea Odeh was the group’s Facebook cover photo.Odeh was a key military operative with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. In 1969, she masterminded a PFLP supermarket bombing that killed two college students. She also attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem. Odeh later moved to the United States but was deported to Jordan in 2017 for immigration fraud.
SJP UMD’s said in the tweet: “RT @allissonCD ‘An hour ago the Israeli air force dropped two bombs on #Gaza. A 21 year old was killed. http://tinyurl.com/mlqhahb ’ #AIPAC14.”
On November 15, 2013, SJP UMD shared an article from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) praising Yasser Arafat’s 1988 declaration of Palestinian independence. The story showed photos of ISM agitators joining Palestinian militants to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Arafat’s declaration — by breaching Israel’s security fence, using sledgehammers and bolt cutters.
The post also slandered Israel with unsupported allegations that Israeli forces used Palestinian civilians as human shields in its three-week Operation Cast Lead (OCL) against Hamas in 2008-2009. To support its claim, SJP UMD cited unsubstantiated and anonymous testimonies from the discredited anti-Israel organization, Breaking the Silence.
On March 3, 2014, SJP UMD tweeted an article in support of 21-year-old Musab Moussa al-Zaaneen who was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The article stated that al-Zaneen and others were “preparing to launch rockets” at Israel.
SJP UMD’s said in the tweet: “RT @allissonCD ‘An hour ago the Israeli air force dropped two bombs on #Gaza. A 21 year old was killed. http://tinyurl.com/mlqhahb ’ #AIPAC14.”
On November 15, 2013, SJP UMD shared an article from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) praising Yasser Arafat’s 1988 declaration of Palestinian independence. The story showed photos of ISM agitators joining Palestinian militants to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Arafat’s declaration — by breaching Israel’s security fence, using sledgehammers and bolt cutters.
Yasser Arafat was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the “father of modern terrorism.” Under Arafat, the goal of the PLO was the violent destruction of Israel.
The post also slandered Israel with unsupported allegations that Israeli forces used Palestinian civilians as human shields in its three-week Operation Cast Lead (OCL) against Hamas in 2008-2009. To support its claim, SJP UMD cited unsubstantiated and anonymous testimonies from the discredited anti-Israel organization, Breaking the Silence.
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.
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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