Tarik Baraka
Overview
Tarik Baraka has defended Hamas, spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories, shown support for a terrorist and demonized Israel on social media.Baraka was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Wayne State University (WSU).
He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and is affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA).
As of February 2018, Baraka ‘s LinkedIn said he was a director of the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield, Michigan and its Chair of Interfaith Service. Baraka also said he was the head counselor of the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA) chapter in Franklin, Michigan.
Baraka’s LinkedIn page also said he was a law student at WSU, slated to graduate in 2018. He received his bachelor’s degree from WSU in 2014, in Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies.
As of February 2018, Baraka’s LinkedIn page said he has owned Supreme Foods, a distributor of global organic food, in the greater Detroit area since May 2016.
Defending Hamas
On July 23, 2014, Baraka shared a video of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin defending the terror group from its anti-Semitic stance.On July 17, 2014, Baraka — during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas — tweeted: “Hamas heard of the ceasefire from the media. Hamas isn't what the Zionist media makes it out to be.”
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Also on July 17, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “@IDFSpokesperson U make me want to forget my principles and embrace my anger. Ur the source of evil on this earth how do you sleep at night?”
On November 14, 2012, Baraka — during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense (OPD) against Hamas — tweeted: “Im sick of research and patience give me a weapon and send me to Gaza to defend my innocent family against these terrorist cowards.”
Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories
On July 27, 2017, Baraka shared a Facebook post with the hashtag “#HandsOffAlAqsa.” The post included a photo of Archbishop Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem holding a sign that read in Arabic: “Sacrifice worthy for you is my father and mother O prophet of Allah.”On August 14, 2015, Baraka retweeted a tweet that said: “Many US lawmakers are quicker to fly to Israel to meet Netanyahu about Iran deal than go to the White House to talk with Obama. Treasonous.”
On October 27, 2014, Baraka shared an article on Facebook showing a masked man with a slingshot and the subtitle: “Faced with a reality in which Israel is strong and the United States is in its pocket, it is the duty of Palestinians to resist the occupation. The only question relates to the means.”
On July 17, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “Even the US congress was in charge of Gaza, they'd b labeled a terrorist org by Zionist media, and ppl would believe it too.”
On March 29, 2012, Baraka tweeted: “In Israel social constructs are so intricately designed by the government. Everyone is brainwashed, its a damn shame actually.”
Supporting a Terrorist
On November 4, 2014, Baraka showed support for terrorist Rasmea Odeh on Facebook and cast doubt on her “participating in a bombing of an Israeli grocery store and for being a member of an ‘unlawful group.’”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.
On November 24, 2014, Baraka posted an article to Facebook reflecting claims by the Palestine Prisoners Club of sexual abuse against Palestinian children in Israel jails. Baraka alleged: “Israeli prisons are packed with innocent youth as a form of physical and psychological torture and oppression.”
On September 5, 2014, Baraka shared a graphic on Facebook showing a Jewish Star of David, followed by the text: “Only Israel Can Invade A Country, Build Apartheid Walls, Steal Natural Resources, Kill Women And Children And Insist That It Is The Victim And Say All They Want Is To Live In Peace With Their Neighbour.”
The graphic came from Facebook user Doc Jazz, who has spread anti-Semitism on social media on multiple occasions.
On July 17, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “the real agenda is torture those people until the opportunity to push them into the sea arises. This is the new holocaust.”
On the same day, Baraka — after he was challenged on his accusation that Israel committing a “holocaust” — tweeted: “Gaza is an open air prison and the people there are treated as the Jews were. Demonized and dehumanized like animals.”
Also on that day, Baraka tweeted: “Rockets or not Israel will continue this holocaust on the basis of racism and ethnic cleansing. Zionism and Judaism aren't equal.”
SJP and BDS Activism
On April 11, 2016, Baraka shared a WSU SJP Facebook event page for the Right to Education Tour. Baraka indicated that he “went” to the event that day.The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas.
On March 7, 2016, Baraka shared a WSU SJP Facebook event page for an event titled: “Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Drawing the Parallels in the Struggle for Justice.” The event featured anti-Israel propagandist Ahmed Hamad and Baraka indicated on the Facebook event page that he “went” to the event.
Ahmed Hamad is a popular anti-Israel speaker and entertainer who led a rally in support of [00:00:01] “intifada” violence against Israel in 2015 and reportedly threatened to kill a pro-Israel Palestinian speaker in 2016.
On November 17, 2014, Baraka tweeted: “If you haven't already heard! Come to the event today!!! #SJP #Palestine.” His tweet included a link to an SJP WSU Facebook event page for the Right to Education Tour. He also promoted the event on Facebook.
On February 13, 2013, Baraka tweeted: “Thanks to all who came last night Im extremely proud of what we have here. @SJP_WSU is officially in business.”
On November 28, 2012, Baraka tweeted: “For the IDF, 'These Three Words' are apartheid, occupation & siege: cancel your gig Stevie! ... cc @motown #bds.”
On November 2, 2012, Baraka tweeted: “Looking forward to a great weekend shoutout to National SJP.”
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 - Supporting Terrorists
On November 11, 2016 and 2017, SJP WSU posted photos to Facebook memorializing terrorist Yasser Arafat on the anniversary of his death.The 2017 post included an Arafat quote, reading: “The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”
Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and is known by some as the "father of modern terrorism." Arafat called for children to “martyr” themselves during the second intifada. In 1996, he told Arab diplomats: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
On April 8, 2017, SJP WSU posted a photo to Facebook of a painting honoring terrorist Leila Khaled, displayed at an SJP Palestinian cultural event.
Khaled was 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. In a 2014 interview, Khaled opined that the Palestinian second intifada failed because it was not violent enough.
On November 25, 2016, SJP WSU tweeted and posted on Facebook in support of terrorist Rasmea Odeh.
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 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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1096126730/Twitter:https://twitter.com/TSBaraka
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TSBaraka/ [Private]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarik-baraka-4141568a/
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- WSU
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- MSA,
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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