Yusif Khalil
Overview
Yusif Khalil [Abu Yusif Habib, Dani Yusif] supported a terrorist, disrupted an Israel Day campus event and engaged in anti-Israel activism with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Cornell University (Cornell).Khalil has also demonized Israel, spread hatred of America, sponsored a divestment resolution as a member of Cornell SJP and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Khalil was a Cornell SJP member in 2012-2014 and remained a Cornell SJP activist in 2015.
As of August 2021, Kahlil’s LinkedIn page said he was a “Private Tutor” with his company Yusif Tutors since February 2019.
Khalil’s LinkedIn also said he graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2015.
As of March 2022, Khalil’s Twitter indicated that he was located in Bergenfield, New Jersey.
As of August 2021, Khalil went by the name “Abu Yusif Habib” on his Twitter and Instagram.
Khalil used the alias “Dani Yusif” for his business social media accounts, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Supporting a Terrorist
Odeh was a key military operative 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.
On August 20, 2014, Cornell SJP tweeted: “Arrest of Odeh is part of the systematic criminalization of Palestinian organizing #Justice4Rasmea.”
On November 6, 2014, Cornell SJP tweeted: “Cornell SJP is in solidarity with Rasmea Odeh!” accompanied by a link to their statement titled: “Justice For Rasmea Odeh, Justice For Palestine.”
Also, on November 6, 2014, Khalil published a blog post to his WordPress website titled: “JUSTICE FOR RASMEA ODEH, JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE.”
In his post, Khalil wrote: “The persecution of activists in the United States…is an [sic] growing problem. If the U.S. succeeds in imprisoning such an important and inspirational community leader as Rasmea Odeh, it truly does not bode well for the future of activism and resistance in America.”
Khalil also attached Cornell SJP’s statement promoting Odeh to his blog post.
On March 16, 2015, Cornell SJP posted to Facebook and Instagram: “#justiceforrasmea #CornellSJP #resistance #freepalestine” and attached a photo of Cornell SJP activists holding a large banner that read: “Justice for Rasmea.”
Cornell SJP also posted a blog post to their WordPress titled: “Justice Denied: Rasmea Odeh Sentenced To Prison And Subsequent Deportation” that condemned the U.S. court’s decision to sentence and deport Odeh and labeled the decision “the repression of Palestinian activists.”
Cornell SJP - Disrupting Israeli Independence Day Celebration 2014-2015
In April 2015, Khalil participated in a Cornell SJP disruption of Hillel’s Israel Day event.On April 23, 2015, Cornell SJP held a march and “die-in” protest during Hillel’s Israel Day at Cornell. Protesters lay on the floor, simulating corpses in front of Hillel's Israel Day tables, while holding a banner that read: “Celebrating 67 years of Independence Genocide.”One protester displayed a sign that said: “Celebrating Apartheid,” while another held a sign reading: “Celebrating Genocide.”
Anti-Israel Activism with Cornell SJP
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On November 10, 2014, Cornell SJP posted to their blog that Khalil would be speaking at Cornell SJP’s event “Education under Occupation: A Call for Academic Justice in Palestine” on November 13, 2014. Cornell SJP added that the event was part of the Palestinian Right to Education campaign in collaboration with National SJP.
Cornell SJP organized the demonstration the day after six people were murdered by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP) operatives using a gun, axes and a butcher knife during morning prayers in a Jerusalem synagogue. The attack became known as the Har Nof Massacre.
During the protest, Kat Yang Stevens, a professional anti-Israel agitator, verbally assaulted [00:00:09] a group of pro-Israel students. Stevens repeatedly taunted [00:00:34] one student, saying: “Go ahead, slap me, b**ch, slap me” and [00:01:52] “Shut your f**king pie-hole.” Stevens also yelled [00:01:32]: “Aggression will be met with aggression.”
One of the anti-Israel demonstrators told [00:00:07] the pro-Israel students: “F**k you, Zionist scum.” Other slurs and insults reportedly used by Cornell SJP activists during the assault were: “Apartheid is f**king apartheid” and “there’s no logic to Zionism.”
Pro-Israeli students reported that Cornell SJP activists ripped one of their signs and smeared ketchup on another.
Cornell SJP activists also placedposters condemning Cornell’s partnership with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) throughout the campus, including a placard hung in front of the entrance to Cornell’s Ho Plaza that read: “C / #1 IN / FUNDING APARTHEID / END CORNELL + TECHNION / SUPPORT BDS / FREE PALESTINE.”
Demonizing Israel
On October 11, 2014, Khalil tweeted: “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWISH ARABS?” and linked to his blog post, in which he accused Israel of “Jewish ethnic supremacy and anti-Arab racism,” as well as “ethnic cleansing.” Khalil also claimed in his blog post that Israel “[seeks] the total erasure of the Palestinian people.”On January 19, 2013, Khalil tweeted: “Never thought I would have to convince Egyptian Arabs of the wrongness of the Zionist occupation and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine..”
Hatred of America
In the blog, Khalil wrote: “I hate this place [the United States] so much. I hate it. It’s the belly of the beast that is the global oppressive empire of white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, and capitalism… I am going to do everything I can to destroy the institutions that colonized me.”
On November 7, 2014, Khalil tweeted: “ تحت المحيط الاستعماري اللي انا غرقان فيه دا [Under the colonial ocean in which I am drowning]” and linked to his blog post, in which he accused “the American state”of “ethnic cleansing,” “genocide,” “exploitation of brown people” and “terrorism.”
Khalil wrote in an Arabic blog post, dated the same day, titled “Under The Colonial Ocean In Which I Am Drowning”: “I want to destroy the world and I want to destroy the imperialist regimes...” Khalil also wrote: “ All countries are unjust, but America is special for me because it is the stomach and heart of the animal, and this animal is the colonial, racist, imperialist, patriarchal and global capitalist system.”
Sponsoring a Divestment Resolution
In spring 2014, Khalil was a “community sponsor” of a Cornell SJP divestment resolution.On April 8, 2014, Cornell SJP proposed Resolution 72, “Urging Cornell University to Divest from Companies Profiting from Israeli Occupation and Human Rights Violations” to Cornell’s Student Assembly (SA) to be voted on at an SA meeting on April 10, 2014. The resolution was introduced shortly before the Jewish holiday of Passover.
On April 10, 2014, Cornell’s SA voted [00:02:17] to indefinitely table Resolution 72 with a 15-8-1 vote. Cornell SJP and BDS activists then led [00:00:52] a walkout, shouting expletives [00:00:51].
A professional anti-Israel agitator, Kat Yang Stevens, who also attended the hearing then accused [00:01:26] the SA of “supporting colonization and genocide.”
On April 14, 2014, Khalil published an op-ed piece in The Cornell Sun under the name Abu Yusif Habib, in which he defended Resolution 72 and promoted BDS. Khalil also labeled Israel a “racialized military occupation” and defended “bereft and desperate Palestinians” who “take up armed resistance” against israel.
Supporting BDS
On November 14, 2014, Khalil tweeted: “A Call to Action: Tuesday 11/18 12PM on Ho Plaza” and linked to his blog post titled: “A CALL TO ACTION: THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION, ACADEMIC BOYCOTT, AND CORNELL-TECHNION.”Khalil’s blog post labeled Israel “structurally racist” and a “terrorist” state, and accused Israel of rejecting negotiations in favor of “completing its colonization of what remains of Palestine.” Khalil’s blog post also endorsed “armed resistance” and the BDS movement.
Khalil’s blog post further alleged that Cornell’s partner university the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology committed “human rights violations,” calling on Cornell to apply the BDS call to academic boycott against the Technion. The blog post concluded by inviting students to attend an anti-Israel protest on November 18, 2014.
Cornell SJP - Overview
Cornell SJP has dismissed anti-Semitism, supported anti-Israel violence and whitewashed terrorists. The student group has also disrupted Israel Day campus events multiple times, demonized Israel and campaigned for the BDS movement.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.
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