Tighearnan Lee
Overview
Tighearnan Lee has promoted violence and expressed support for a terrorist as a member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University (PSU). SUPER is an affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).Lee has represented SUPER in the Portland area and promoted [00:14:00] the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement at PSU.
Lee was reportedly a Psychology major at Sacramento City College (SCC) in December, 2011.
Promoting Violence
On March 9, 2016, Lee posted an image on Facebook of a head wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh with the word “intifada” below in English and Arabic.Since the early 2000’s, the term “Intifada” has carried the connotation of violence.
On September 14, 2016, Lee approved of a Facebook photo featuring SUPER member Layla Abdel-Jawad aiming an assault rifle and wearing a keffiyeh over her head. Abdel-Jawad said: “I see you haters
#AnothaOne
.” Lee commented: “Like a boss habibti!!”Supporting a Terrorist
On July 22, 2016, Lee praised terrorist Leila Khaled on Facebook, writing: “There is a unity with the Palestinian people and Filipino people, since Leila Khaled came to the Philippines.”Khaled is a leader 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 for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
The PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Har Nof Massacre where six people were murdered during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The PFLP also claimed credit for the 2001 assassination of the Israeli tourism minister.
Lee’s post referenced a November 2015 interview Khaled gave in the Philippines, where she claimed [00:04:02] that “Israel launches wars of genocide against the Palestinian people” and promoted [00:05:45] BDS.
Khaled supported [00:16:50] Palestinians across Israel who, at the time, were stabbing scores of Israeli civilians during the “Knife Intifada.” Khaled also denied [00:20:50] the ancient Jewish connection to the Land of Israel .
BDS Campus Activism
On October 24, 2016, Lee promoted [00:14:00] SUPER’s BDS resolution at a meeting held by the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government. Later that day, ASPSU passed the resolution.The resolution, which attempted to portray the State of Israel as a modern incarnation of apartheid South Africa, called on the university to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
SUPER - Honoring Terrorists
On February 27, 2016, Lee attended a SUPER event called “Palestinian Cultural Night” where the group set up multiple displays honoring terrorists. Among them were PFLP members Leila Khaled and 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.
On November 19, 2014, SUPER hosted an event exclusively supporting Odeh.
On March 1, 2014, SUPER hosted another Palestinian Cultural Night where they honored Arafat.
SUPER - Bringing Anti-Israel Speakers to PSU
On May 23, 2016, SUPER hosted an event featuring Nada Elia who — in October of 2015, while Palestinians across Israel stabbed scores of Israeli civilians during the “Knife Intifada” — wrote an article titled “Why Be Afraid of an Intifada?” where she said “Intifadas are good.”On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted anti-Israel poet Remi Kanazi who is known for his aggressively anti-Israel performances.
On April 9, 2015, SUPER hosted Professor Steven Salaita, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to 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.” In 2017, Salaita posted to Facebook: “People ask if I would go back in time and change anything. I would not…I will die unapologetic.” In February 2019, Salaita stated that he had become a school bus driver in the Washington, D.C., area.
On February 24, 2015, SUPER hosted BDS founder Omar Barghouti and Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
On May 13, 2014, SUPER hosted anti-Israel propagandist Ali Abunimah, who said in 2010: “Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit.”
On December 13, 2013, SUPER hosted terror supporter Eva Bartlett.
On May 25, 2012, SUPER hosted blood libel propagator Jasbir Puar who has claimed that Israel harvests Palestinian organs and stunts Palestinian growth.
On February 25, 2012, SUPER hosted conspiracy theorist As’ad Abu Khalil who said two weeks earlier that among the “anti-Semitic kooks” within the Palestinian movement were possibly “infiltrators to sabotage our cause and smear our campaigns.”
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.
- Status:
- Unknown
- University:
- Portland-State
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- SUPER (SJP)
- Related Profiles:
- Camille White-Avian,
- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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