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Yousr Shaltout

Overview

Yousr Shaltout is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Columbia University (Columbia).


In 2013-2014 Shaltout was an executive board member for the Muslim Students Association (MSA) Columbia; she also served as the organization’s secretary.


She is a student at Columbia majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior, with a minor in Middle Eastern History.

False claims of "Intimidation"

On April 3, 2015, Shaltout co-authored an Op-Ed in the Columbia Spectator with fellow CSJP member Darializa Avila Chevaliertitled: "Reflecting on a Culture of Intimidation." There, Shaltout claimed that pro-Israel student groups harassed, intimidated and silenced anti-Zionist minority groups.


One instance of "intimidation" Shaltout highlighted was a question posed in one pro-Israel group’s signs posted around campus:


"Over 200,000 people have been killed during the current Syrian civil war. That’s more people than have died in the Israeli-Arab Conflict over the course of the last 70 years. Then why is it that between 2006 and 2013, Israel has been the subject of over half of all UN Security Council resolutions?"


Shaltout claimed the question "…capitalized on the tragedies of the Syrian humanitarian crisis… and underscored issues unrelated to those of Israel/Palestine through a racist conflation of Arab societies."

Encouraging Violation of International Law

Shaltout is a supporter of the Free Gaza Movement and the Free Palestine Movement. Both movements — which actively support efforts to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.


The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces. 

Demonizing Israel

On April 28, 2015, Shaltout attended an event - which was co-hosted by JVP Columbia and CSJP - and featured Haneen Zoabi, called "Israel, Racism, and Apartheid: An Insider's View."


Haneen Zoabi, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, has a long history of inciting violence. In 2014, she was suspended from the legislature after defending the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by the terror group Hamas, and who were later found executed in a field. In 2015, a criminal investigation was opened against Zoabi after she reportedly condoned anti-Israel violence and called for a new intifada.

Rebranding BDS

On February 1, 2016, SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) launched a campaign at Columbia to rebrand its divestment effort as a fight against "apartheid." Entitled ”Columbia University Apartheid Divest,” (CUAD) the campaign targeted companies including Caterpillar, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hapoalim, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.


CUAD’s press release stated that the campaign was "embedded in the larger BDS movement" — which calls for ending Israel’s so-called “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands.” The campaign was launched with a petition and inaugural event titled BDS 101, scheduled for February 4, 2016.

CSJP Excusing Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism

Columbia University which includes Barnard College (Barnard), was reported in 2015 to be the most anti-Semitic campus in the United States. Columbia employs a number of notoriously anti-Israel professors including Joseph Massad, Rashid Khalidi and Nadia Abu El-Haj.


In November 2014, CSJP hosted professor Steven Salaita. 


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.

CSJP’s Banner Controversy at Barnard

In March 2014, Columbia SJP organizer Jannine-Masoud Salman made a large banner that was hung at the entrance of Barnard college. The banner read: “Stand for Justice, Stand for Palestine” and featured a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with no internal borders, colored uniformly green. 


The banner was reportedly removed after “students, their parents and alumni” said it made them “feel uncomfortable and unsafe in the space” and that it gave the impression Barnard was “endorsing SJP's message that Israel as a Jewish state does not have the right to exist.”  

CSJP Spreading Hate and Standing with Terrorists

In November 2010, CSJP staged a mock Israeli checkpoint on Columbia’s Low Plaza, in which members portraying "Israeli soldiers" harassed and yelled at passers-by. CSJP members also blindfolded and placed tape over the mouths of other students, who were meant to portray security detainees.


On November 20, 2010 the video CSJP uploaded of the event highlighted that "91% of students at An-Najah University miss classes because of delays at checkpoints." The video omitted that.

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.  

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Yousr Shaltout
Status:
Student
University:
Columbia
Organizations:
BDS,
MSA,
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SJP

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Last Modified:
06/23/2025

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