Yaseen Kadura

Overview

Yaseen Kadura was the founding president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Purdue University in 2009. SJP Purdue is part of Indiana Palestine Solidarity (IPS), an organization created by Sireen Zayedto "bring together activists and SJP chapters from all over the state of Indiana."

In 2012, Kadura was placed on the United States no-fly list – "a watch list of people who have been designated as known or suspected terrorists whom the government prohibits from flying to and from the United States."

Kadura is a plaintiff in two federal lawsuits filed by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — a 2016 class action lawsuit and a 2014 lawsuit — challenging his placement on the no-fly list.

In 2015, Kadura was removed from the no-fly list.

Kadura is a second-year medical student at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFU). Kadura received his master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at RFU, in 2014 and graduated from Purdue with a bachelor’s degree in Biology, in 2013.

Lying to Students to Demonize Israel

On April 28, 2013, SJP Purdue’s campus display featured a deliberately misleading map with the headline "Palestinian loss of land." The widely debunked map — dubbed “The Map That Lies” — fraudulently presented lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt, and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land,” purportedly stolen by Israel.

SJP Purdue’s display also falsely implied that Israel practices “apartheid” and that Israel practices “ethnic cleansing” — although it has been widely reported that the populations of Gaza and the West Bank are among the fastest growing populations in the world in recent decades.

Defending Hamas War Crimes

In the first year if its existence — on August 27, 2009 — SJP Purdue published a paper titled “The Mythology of Occupation.” In addition to a series of other falsehoods, distortions, and misrepresentations, SJP Purdue listed as “Myth #5” the statement “Hamas is a Terror Organization.” The paper falsely alleged that Hamas was labeled a terror organization not “because it actually engages in actsof terror, but because it offers an effective means to marginalize and discredit the organization publicly.”

Embracing Hate Speech

On September 29, 2009, SJP Purdue hosted New York-based Poet, Remi Kanazi at an event misleadingly titled "Speak Peace." Kanazi is notorious for aggressively anti-Israel poetry and spoken-word performances. SJP Purdue hosted Kanazi again on October 23, 2015, during SJP Purdue’s 2015 “Palestine Awareness Week.”

Promoting Intimidation

In October 2010, SJP Purdue sent a letter to the Chancellor of UC Irvine, Michael V. Drake, to defend a group of UC Irvine students (dubbed the "Irvine 11") who were arrested for repeatedly disrupting former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s talk at the university.

SJP Purdue condemned Chancellor Drake for inviting an Israeli ambassador to UC Irvine, demanded that he apologize for his handling of the incident, and suggested that he reconsider taking any disciplinary measures against the disruptors.

Bullying Students to Demonize Israel

In 2011, SJP Purdue members dressed up in mock Israeli Defense Forces uniforms and set up mock "checkpoints" on Purdue’s campus. SJP Purdue physically blocked students from passing until they produced “proper identification.” SJP Purdue’s disturbance of student life purported to illustrate how Palestinians experience military checkpoints.

Glorifying Attempted Murder

On May 8, 2013, SJP Purdue posted a picture glorifying rock-throwing by Palestinian youth. Palestinian rock-throwing has proven deadly — to Arabs mistaken for Jews by the rock throwers, as well as children like 4-year-old Adele Bitton.

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.

Social Media and Weblinks

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaseen-kadura-98bb0852