Yousef Gaber
Overview
Yousef Gaber [Theaivin Gaber] has expressed supportfor terrorists and disrupted a pro-Israel speaker as a member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL). SAIA is a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), employing an alternative name.
Gaber also attended the 2017 SJP National Conference (NSJP 2017).
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at the University of Houston (UH). The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
As of November 2018, Gaber was listed as a fellow of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at WUSTL, majoring in women, gender & sexuality studies and slated to graduate in 2020.
As of May 2017, Gaber used the alias Theaivin Gaber, on Facebook.
As of November 2018, Gaber was listed as a fellow of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at WUSTL, majoring in women, gender & sexuality studies and slated to graduate in 2020.
As of May 2017, Gaber used the alias Theaivin Gaber, on Facebook.
Support for Terrorists
On May 22, 2017, Gaber posted on Facebook in support of the “#DignityStrike,” writing: “1600 Palestinian prisoners continue the largest prison hunger strike in Israeli jails. Today marks day 36, week 6 #DignityStrike36 #FreePalestine.”“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing.
On November 8, 2016, Gaber posted to Facebook a picture of himself wearing a t-shirt that read: “Resistance is not terrorism” and featured a graphic of Leila Khaled.
Leila Khaled is 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. 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 [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
Disrupting Israeli Speaker
On October 29, 2018, Gaber and three other SAIA members disrupted a talk by pro-Israel speaker Hen Mazzig on the WUSTL campus. Mazzig’s talk was hosted by WUSTL Hillel, St. Louis Friends of Israel and Washington University Students for Israel.Mazzig’s talk reportedly centered on his experience of being a gay person of color who is also pro-Israel. He is of Iraqi and Tunisian background and served as an openly gay commander in the Israeli Defense Forces.
The SAIA activists shouted down Mazzig, with chants of “no pride in apartheid,” then walked out.
SAIA’s verbal assault on Mazzig came two days after a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, by a White Supremacist, which resulted in 11 deaths and seven injuries. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
WUSTL Chancellor Mark Wrighton reportedly released an email statement to the Washington University student body on October 27, 2018, acknowledging the killing as a “calculated, anti-Semitic attack driven by hate.”
On October 29, 2018, Mazzig tweeted: “In the middle of me sharing my story today at @WUSTL students shouted at me, said they don’t accept my country’s right to exist and called for its destruction. I’m shaken, not because of the protest, I’ve gotten used to it. It’s the time, days after antisemitic terror attack.”
On October 30, 2018, SAIA posted a defense of the disruption on its Facebook page writing: “Our protesting of Hen Mazzig’s zionist apology falls in line with our fight against the white supremacy that israel’s apartheid regime produces.”
SAIA’s post continued: “Anyone who attempts to glorify the IDF or the state to which it belongs is complicit with its atrocities. We condemn Hen Mazzig’s co-optation of queerness to cater to an apartheid regime, and recognize that identifying as a person of color does not dissolve his complicity in israel’s genocidal violence.
On October 30, 2018, SAIA posted a defense of the disruption on its Facebook page writing: “Our protesting of Hen Mazzig’s zionist apology falls in line with our fight against the white supremacy that israel’s apartheid regime produces.”
SAIA’s post continued: “Anyone who attempts to glorify the IDF or the state to which it belongs is complicit with its atrocities. We condemn Hen Mazzig’s co-optation of queerness to cater to an apartheid regime, and recognize that identifying as a person of color does not dissolve his complicity in israel’s genocidal violence.
The post concluded: “We urge Wash U students to join us in our condemnation and continue to resist zionist narratives on our campus and beyond.”
Gaber, when interviewed by WUSTL’s Student Life newspaper “accused Mazzig of “participating in a genocidal regime” and said: “…you can’t be dissolved of your complicity in that regime just because you hold a gay identity or just because you hold the identity of a person of color.”
On November 17, 2016, Gaber joined SJP WUSTL activists holding signs that read: “No pride in Apartheid.”
Gaber, when interviewed by WUSTL’s Student Life newspaper “accused Mazzig of “participating in a genocidal regime” and said: “…you can’t be dissolved of your complicity in that regime just because you hold a gay identity or just because you hold the identity of a person of color.”
On November 17, 2016, Gaber joined SJP WUSTL activists holding signs that read: “No pride in Apartheid.”
The group was then protesting a visit to campus by Etai Pinkas, a leader of the Israeli LGBTQ community, whom SJP WUSTL accused of “pinkwashing” — promoting the claim that Israel advocates manipulate the LQBTQ+ community in order to garner support for Israel.
Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheaivinG [Private]
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClAp-S1OTlmhq0w2bqtulMg
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
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/100013343254816Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheaivinG [Private]
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClAp-S1OTlmhq0w2bqtulMg
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- WUSTL
- Organizations:
- SAIA,
- SJP
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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