Yousef Mohamed

Overview

Yousef Mohamed has mocked the Holocaust and spread anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred on social media. Mohamed was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Florida State University (FSU).

Mohamed is a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at FSU’s closed Facebook group — “FSU MSA Community.”

As of February 1, 2018, Mohamed’s personal Facebook page indicated that he was a student at FSU, slated to graduate in 2019. His Facebook also said he is an “Aspiring Physical Therapist.”

As of February 4, 2018, Mohamed’s professional Facebook page, branding his business “YOMO PHOTO,” said he was a “Photographer in Tallahassee, Florida.”

Mocking the Holocaust

On October 27, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “Where do black Jews sit? Wait for it...IN THE BACK OF THE OVEN.”

Anti-Semitism

On January 11, 2016, Mohamed tweeted: “@irenicpoet I wish I was spoiled. My dad's a f**king Jew sometimes. lmao I'm glad I didn't end up being a brat, though. It's all good.

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On December 22, 2015, Mohamed tweeted: “Y do Jews hav big noses Cuz air is free Rt if u cri everi tim.”

On November 17, 2015, Mohamed tweeted: “Allah yel3an ta3rees teez Fox News kaman [May Allah damn a**-f**king Fox News too]. Bunch of yahood [jews], bro, I swear.”

On March 26, 2014, Mohamed tweeted: “Kos 2om el yahood much? [F**k Jewish mothers much?]”

On the same day, Mohamed tweeted: “Yen3an abol yahood much? [(May Allah) damn Jewish fathers much?]”

On March 31, 2014, Mohamed tweeted: “Beats me. I just don't share food. — Jew. http://ask.fm/a/admji3eh.”

On March 8, 2014, Mohamed tweeted: “I hate paying for people and not getting anything in return. Jew a** niggas.”

On January 30, 2014, Mohamed tweeted: “The amount of typos in that last tweet. And she retweeted it too. Kos okht el yahood [F**k Jewish sisters].”

On January 13, 2014, Mohamed tweeted: “@Pali_Nawal19 @WajeehHasan2 I don't give discounts to yahoodi [Jewish] bi**hes, though, so go f**k yourselves.”

On November 3, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “I hate when people quote tweet without saying anything. That's so yahoodi [Jewish]. Just retweet it, nigguh.”

On July 3, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “I wish i could learn to appreciate myself more and what God gave me. I blame the yahood [Jews] on my low self-esteem.”

On June 22, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “It's all the yahood's [Jews’] fault. I blame them.”

On June 4, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “#TweetLikeAnArabDad Kos om el yahud [F**k Jewish mothers].”

On May 22, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: “@ranimerz Hell no not jewish, I'd kill myself. As if that was even a nationality. Haha.”

On April 11, 2013, Mohamed tweeted: ‘Wanna confuse a Jew? Put'em in a round room and tell'em to find the penny in the corner.”

Israel Hatred

On October 8, 2017, Mohamed retweeted a tweet that said: “Except Israel’s apartheid wall.” The tweet was in response to a tweet about Israeli Actress Gal Gadot that said: “Watch: @GalGadot breaks down walls in her #SNL promo.”

On October 7, 2017, Mohamed retweeted a tweet that said: “She’s good at killing.” The tweet was in response to the tweet: “Gal Gadot's bout to kill it on SNL

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On January 28, 2017, Mohamed tweeted: “Suck a d**k, mate.” The tweet was in response to a tweet by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that said: “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea

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On October 30, 2015, Mohamed tweeted a Twitter survey with the question: “Would you rather support Israel or kol khara [eat s**t]?”

Later that day, Mohamed tweeted: “I wanna know right now who said Israel, fam. We need to have a long a** talk. Wtf.”

SJP Involvement

On November 9, 2017, Mohamed attended [00:26:10] an FSU Student General Assembly meeting to protest the proposed defunding of an FSU SJP-hosted panel featuring anti-Israel agitators.

On November 16, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to the panel.

On September 21, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an event co-hosted by FSU SJP, titled “Right To Resist (TLH) Community Townhall and Planning.”

On September 20, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an FSU SJP general body meeting.

On August 30, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to FSU SJP’s “Back to School” social.

On April 5, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to FSU SJP’s workshop titled “Zionism and its Logic.”

The event description said it was “a workshop on the logic of zionism and the practice of it in the oppression of Palestinians, other Arabs, and Muslims across the world.”

The description further claimed that “colonialism and imperialism” are “inherent within zionism.”

On March 9, 2017, Mohamed indicated on Facebook that he “went” with FSU SJP to a “Resist the Muslim Ban” protest at the Florida State Capitol.

FSU SJP Incitement to Terror

On October 27, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a “PALESTINIAN YOUTH INTERNATIONAL CALL TO SUPPORT THE INTIFADA.”

The declaration called for an “international mobilization” of Palestinian youth in exile and their allies to “support the resistance,” and glorified the Knife Intifada terrorists as “heroic.”

October 2015 saw an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings — known as the “Knife Intifada” — saw young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.

The attacks were sparked and fueled by Palestinian leaders propagating the libel that Israel intended to desecrate the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

FSU SJP Defending the Knife Intifada

On October 5, 2015 — at the beginning of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP shared an article to Facebook claiming a “Palestinian teen” was “executed” as a “death-chanting” mob rejoiced. The teen was Fadi Aloon.

Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.

On November 5, 2015 — following the first month of the Knife Intifada — FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “October. Was. Scary. For. Palestinians. How are things looking for November? How about 2016? ... Something's gotta give!! #BDS.”

On November 7, 2015, FSU SJP shared a photo to Facebook of Dania Irsheid after she was shot, commenting: “Lost for words…”

Dania Irsheid was shot by an Israeli police officer after she attempted to stab him.

On November 24, 2015, FSU SJP shared a video misrepresenting terrorists Hadeel and Nurhan Awad, as having been “executed” by Israel. The video was titled “execution of civilians - what Israeli settlers do best.”|

Hadeel Awad and her cousin Nurhan Awad were shot after they stabbed two people — including a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem — near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Hadeel was shot by police as she was slashing at other Israeli civilians with scissors.

On November 22, 2015, during Israel’s “Knife Intifada,” Ashraqat Taha Qatanani was run over and shot during her attempt to stab ‎an Israeli woman. According to the Donia Al-Watan Palestinian newspaper, Qatanani died as “a Martyr as ‎she wished.”

On November 26, 2015, FSU SJP posted to Facebook: “Brutal military occupation uses violence to quell peaceful resistance. And we wonder why resitance [sic] turns to armed struggle? To knives?"

On April 25, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post defending Dima Al-Wawi, adding “Her face says it all.”

On April 24, 2016, FSU SJP shared to Facebook a post in defence of Al-Wawi, presenting her arrest as “discrimination against Palestinians.”

On April 13, 2016, FSU SJP defended Al-Wawi on Facebook, claiming: “This is how the Israeli government and illegal settler forces demonize Palestinians and their children.”

12-year-old Al-Wawi was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli community Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed she intended to kill the guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. “I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred,” she said.

On February 15, 2016, FSU SJP posted to Facebook a video of Yasmeen Rashad al Zaro after she was shot, adding: “Who's the terrorist now?”

Jasmine Rashad al-Zaru [Yasmeen Rashad al Zaro] attempted to stab an Israeli Border Policeman before she was shot.

FSU SJP Honoring Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

On April 13, 2017, FSU SJP posted to Facebook several photos of convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh after a court ordered her deportation from the United States. FSU SJP referred to Odeh as a “Palestinian freedom fighter” and added the hashtag #HonorRasmea.

On February 13, 2015, FSU SJP hosted an event honoring Odeh. In the event description, FSU SJP called Odeh “the Rosa Parks of the liberation of Palestine.”

Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]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.

FSU SJP Defending Terrorists

On December 12, 2015, FSU SJP commemorated the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, tweeting: “PFLP marks 48th establishment anniversary in Gaza.”

On December 13, 2015, FSU SJP shared to Facebook an article reporting the PFLP’s celebration in Gaza. the article added that during the festivities, the PFLP “re-asserted its commitment to the new Palestinian Intifada.”

On March 9, 2017, FSU SJP posted a photo of Leila Khaled to Facebook in honor of International Women’s Day.

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.

On March 14, 2017, FSU SJP posted an illustration of Basel Al Araj to Facebook with the caption “Long Live Basil Al-Araj! Long Live the Resistance! Until Victory.”

Basel Al Araj was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops during an arrest raid. He had been suspected of belonging to a terror cell planning to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. Two M-16 assault rifles and an improvised Carlo-style submachine gun were found inside his home.

On April 29, 2017, FSU SJP promoted on Facebook a hunger strike by Palestinian convicts. FSU SJP posted a photo of Marwan Barghouti with the comment: “Every prisoner is political” and referred to another “1500 fellow imprisoned freedom fighters.”

Terrorist Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to five consecutive life terms for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. In 2017, he initiated the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners known as the “Dignity Strike.” He headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which carried out many terror attacks against Israeli civilians.

On May 27, 2017, FSU SJP celebrated the end of the hunger strike on Facebook, commenting: “Victory to the #DignityStrike!”

FSU SJP Defending the 2017 Shooting Attack at al-Aqsa Mosque

On July 21 2017, FSU SJP claimed on Facebook that the al-Aqsa Mosque was “taken hostage by Israel” and that Israel was “murdering innocent devotees who dared question the seizure.”

FSU SJP also wrote “Palestinians and their supporters everywhere are expressing justified rage” and added “Muslims worldwide are being asked to stand together in a day of anger for al-Aqsa.”

On July 14, 2017, Arab terrorists murdered two Israeli police officers outside the entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque on Temple mount in Jerusalem. The perpetrators were Israeli Arab citizens from Umm el-Fahm, who reportedly feared that “Al Aqsa in danger” — the slogan of the banned northern branch of the Islamic Movement that ran the UMM el-Fahm municipality.

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state.

Israel responded by placing metal detectors and security checks before allowing worshippers to the holy site, similar to other holy sites in Jerusalem.

Palestinian factions reacted by spreading incitement that resulted in further violence. Fatah threatened “Rage for the Al-Aqsa Mosque!” On July 21, 2017, Omar al-Abed, 19, broke into a Jewish family's home in Halamish and stabbed three family members to death while they were having a Sabbath meal. Before embarking, al-Abed wrote on Facebook: “Take up your weapon and resist, declare war for Allah...I have only a knife, and it will respond to Al-Aqsa's cry...The sons of monkeys and pigs do not open the gates of Al-Aqsa. I hope that men will come after me to strike me with an iron hand...We are all one, we have one blood, one enemy and one Al-Aqsa.”

The Israeli government removed the detectors on July 25, 2017.

Terrorists murdered two Israeli police officers on July 14, 2017, outside the entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Israel responded by installing metal detectors and security checks at the entrance to the holy site.

The terrorists reportedly feared that “Al Aqsa is in danger,” which has long been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the State of Israel’s existence. Following rioting and further violence, the Israeli government removed the metal detectors on July 25, 2017.

FSU SJP Hosting Hate Speech

In November 2017, FSU’s Student General Assembly (SGA) considered suspending funding for an FSU SJP panel event featuring Nerdeen Kiswani, Noura Farouq and Dan Cione of New York City (NYC) SJP.

On November 9, 2017, FSU SJP members sat in at an FSU SGA meeting to protest the proposed defunding.

During the hearing, which FSU SJP posted on its Facebook page, the group’s secretary and treasurer Albert Kishek acknowledged FSU SJP was accused [00:42:45] of hate speech and anti-Semitism.

But Kishek claimed [00:46:00] that Kiswani and Farouk were “feminist organizers” of Palestinian background “who are playing a useful part to the building of the anti-war movement.”

FSU SJP’s post stated the group would “not tolerate infringement upon rights to school funding for our events and ended with the hashtags #RightToResist and #AIPACOutOfFSU.”

SGA voted 24-10 with 4 abstentions to provide funding to FSU SJP for the panel.

On November 16, 2017, during the panel, Kiswani accused Israel of committing [00:08:29] “mass rapes” and claimed that [00:9:08] “to this day there is daily assault and sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Zionists.”

Kiswani’s also stated that [01:45:52] “...we see in Israel, when Ethiopian Jews are trying to integrate themselves into the white settler colonial project of Israel, they put on the uniform and kill Palestinians and then their babies still get stabbed by Israelis and they still don’t see a day of justice in the court.”

Cione noted [00:26:14] that, after the Oslo accords, the U.S. gave the Palestinian Authority “over 32 billion dollars… for state building institutions.” Cione then condemned [00:25:36] the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for not funding radicals.

Cione said that [00:24:42] “when they were dumping all this money into Palestine” USAID included a “terror clause, which said that none of this money can go to “anyone that… is a terrorist organization as defined by Israel or who does not recognize the right of Israel to exist.”

At the end of the panel, the attendees and panelists chanted [01:48:48] “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!”

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.

MSA

The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."

The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.

The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.