Wael Elasady
Overview
Wael Elasady has endorsed terrorists and defended anti-Semitism as an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). He has also demonized Israel and defended disgraced professor Steven Salaita.Elasady is the co-founder of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University (PSU), an SJP affiliate. As of December 2017, he remained the administrator of its Facebook page.
Elasady is a longtime supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and an activist with the International Socialist Organization (ISO).
Elasady attended the 2017 National SJP Conference (NSJP 2017), where he tabled with other ISO activists. He also fundraised for NSJP 2017 and contributed to an NSJP newsletter.
Elasady is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Facebook group for the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).
Elasady graduated from PSU in 2012, with a bachelor’s degree in Social Science
Endorsing Terrorists
On May 8, 2017, Elasady shared an article on Facebook supporting Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. In his post, Elasady described strike leader, terrorist Marwan Barghouti, as “ a leader of the First and Second Intifadas” and noted the “importance of solidarity” with the strikers.On November 2, 2015, Elasady wrote an article where he justified a wave of Palestinian stabbings of Israeli civilians, known as the “Knife Intifada,” and referred to the attackers as “individuals lashing out with the limited means available to them to resist their daily misery.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Defending Comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany
On May 30, 2012, Elasady wrote about an incident where someone drew a Nazi swastika inside an Israeli flag at PSU and wrote alongside it, “Never again includes Palestinians.”In his piece, Elasady defended those who “leverage moral indignation at Nazi crimes against the Jewish people to draw attention to oppression of the Palestinians by Israel.” Elasady also claimed that “the intent of the person who wrote the comment was clearly not to harass and intimidate Jewish students…”
Demonizing Israel
On December 12, 2017, Elasady characterized Israel as a “settler-colonial project” that “necessitates racism, expulsion, expansion and denial of human rights ...” on Facebook and shared a misleading series of maps.The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On July 15, 2014, Elasady wrote an article claiming that Israel was a “colonial project carried out by a racist and violent settler society.” He added that Zionism had a “racist core.”
Elasady, in the same article, accused Israel of inciting its population into a “tribalistic frenzy” and “terrorizing Gaza and the West Bank,” during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas.
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On August 25, 2013, Elasady was featured in a Facebook photo carrying a sign accusing Israel of “apartheid” and “racism,” comparing Israel to Jim Crow.
On May 29, 2011, Elasady participated in a BDS flash mob at a Portland area supermarket, where he said [00:03:10]: “Actions speak louder than words. Stop supporting apartheid. Stop supporting racism and violence.”
He and other protesters wore [00:02:33] shirts accusing Israel of “apartheid.” They also alleged that Israel had [00:00:58] “stolen land” and committed [00:02:50] “atrocities.”
Defending Steven Salaita
On April 25, 2016, Elasady wrote an article where he characterized tweets by anti-Israel professor Steven Salaita, during OPE as “denouncing Israel's war on Gaza.”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.
SUPER - Honoring Terrorists
On February 27, 2016, SUPER hosted its Palestinian Cultural Night where the group set up multiple displays honoring terrorists. Among them were Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh.Khaled hijacked airplanes with the PFLP in 1969 and 1970 while Odeh masterminded a 1969 bombing that killed two university students in a Jerusalem supermarket and 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 her as the mastermind.
The same event honored the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, as well as Haneen Zoabi — a member of Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) — who has been investigated for inciting violence on a number of occasions.
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 - BDS Passed at PSU
On October 24, 2016, SUPER authored a BDS resolution which passed the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), the PSU student government.The resolution, which attempts to portray the State of Israel as a modern incarnation of Apartheid South Africa, called on the university to divest from companies with ties to the Jewish state in an effort to discourage these companies from doing further business with Israel.
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.
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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LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/wael-elasady-1a232767
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSja6SmlcyTIfr_0UO9G2HA
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- Last Modified:
- 05/04/2026
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