Zain Ahmed

Overview

Zain Ahmed has expressed support for terrorist and spread hatred of Israel. Ahmed was affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at San Jose State University (SJSU) in 2014 and 2015.

Ahmed is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of February 2023, Ahmed’s LinkedIn page said Ahmed graduated from SJSU with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology in 2017, and graduated from West Valley College (West Valley) with an associate’s degree in General Studies and Humanities in 2018.

As of February 2023, Ahmed’s LinkedIn said Ahmed was located in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

As of February 2023, Ahmed went by the username “Xainab Ahmad” and the handle “@xainaxxxb” on Facebook, and by “Zain A.” on LinkedIn.

Terror Support (PFLP)

On October 22, 2015, Ahmed posted to Instagram a photo of Ahmed wearing a T-shirt with an image of terrorist Leila Khaled, with text below that read: “My heros have always killed colonizers.”

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.

Hatred of Israel

On April 29, 2015, Ahmed tweeted: “don't trust anyone who supports israel. maybe they're lost, misguided, or even evil, they all support genocide & punitive social control.”

In an October 14, 2015, in an article authored by Ahmed and published by Black Girl Dangerous (BGD), Ahmed claimed that India and Israel work together to not only “subjugate specific populations in India, but to also reinforce Palestinian apartheid, which then connects back to Israel’s alliance with the United States…”

Anti-Israel Activism

On November 12, 2014, Ahmed attended an SJP at SJSU event titled:“Dr. Steven Salaita: Academic Freedom and Palestine.”

In 2014, The University of Illinois withdrew an offer of employment to Steven 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.”

On the same date, Ahmed posted a photo of Salaita to Instagram and wrote: “His presence was so empowering, and I felt so much pain and strength from his words.”

Ahmed featured in a November 12, 2014 SJP at Santa Clara University (SJP at SCU) Facebook photo taken from their “Right to Education” event.

The Right to Education Tour brings Palestinian students to U.S. campuses to promote a claim that Israel arbitrarily obstructs the rights of Palestinians to higher education. The organization has demonized Israel for its security sweeps made to shut down terror cells operating from Palestinian campuses.

On October 21, 2015, Ahmed attended anSJP at SJSU event titled: “David Sheen - The Bullet, the Ballot, & the Boycott: Racism in Israel Today.”

David Sheen is an anti-Israel activist and filmmaker who works to portray Israel as an extremist racist state. To this end, Sheen has been accused of purposefully mistranslating Hebrew articles and other media to make Israelis appear racist.

The Facebook event page description for the October 21, 2015 SJP at SJSU event said: “The core of the presentation concerns the dehumanizing discourse towards Palestinians…by top Israeli political and religious leaders, and the vigilante attacks they inspire, which spiked during last summer's assault [Operation Protective Edge] on the Gaza Strip.”

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

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.