Umaymah Mohammad
Overview
Umaymah Mohammad is an anti-Israel organizer and MD-PhD student who expressed support for terrorism and spread hatred of Israel.The incident occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” Israel launched the war after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Mohammad was an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) in October 2023.
As of January 2025, Mohammad was listed [slide 2] as a steering committee member for the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) for several years.
As of March 2025, Mohammad was listed online as “an organizer” who “focuses on countering Islamophobia and the liberation of Palestine.” She was also listed as the co-founder of the Muslim Youth Collective (MYC), which describes itself as “an organization that trains young Muslims to be leaders in the resistance against Islamophobia, racism, and all forms of oppression.”
Also as of March 2025, Mohammad was listed under current MD-PhD students in the Emory University (Emory) School of Medicine. Her National Provider Information (NPI) number was 1386302800.
As of the same date, Mohammad was listed as a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Emory. Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Support for Terrorism and Hatred of Israel
On January 17, 2024, Mohammad reportedly sent out an anti-Israel email to Emory University Medical School’s entire student body and faculty. In the email, she expressed support for terrorism and spread hatred of Israel, including the text [slide 7] of a common chant calling for Israel’s destruction. The email’s subject line was: “Palestinian Blood Stains Your Hands, Emory University and School of Medicine.”In the email, Mohammad accused [slide 2] Israel of “the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians since 1948.”
The modern State of Israel was founded in 1948.
One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by claiming that Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel.
Mohammad also wrote [slide 4]: “Israel never let up the siege despite international pressure…or in response to decades of peaceful Palestinian resistance…Resistance is justified when people are occupied. No justice, no peace. Palestinians have demonstrated 75 years of peaceful resistance…”
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
Mohammad further said [slide 6]: “I wish for you what you wish for the Palestinians.”
Mohammad further stated [slide 7]: “‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!’. Of course, Western media is the work horse [sic] of Israel, and so they falsely report that these are antisemitic statements…”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of 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. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
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 Student 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.
PYM
In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”
PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”
On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”
On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
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