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Zayd Ahmad
Zayd Ahmad was a leader of a student group that promoted hatred of Israel at the University of Georgia (UGA).
In 2014-2015, Zayd Ahmad was an activist with Athens for Justice in Palestine (AJP), an affiliate of the anti-Israel campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UGA. The group later changed its name to UGA Students for Justice in Palestine (UGA SJP). Ahmad also served as the group's vice-president.
AJP/UGA SJP supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2025, Zayd Ahmad's LinkedIn profile said he worked as an antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and that he received a doctorate in pharmacy from UGA's College of Pharmacy in 2021.
As of May 2025, Zayd Ahmad's LinkedIn said he was located in Decatur, Georgia.
On November 16, 2014, AJP posted on X: "Tomorrow @ 5 in MLC 142 we have 2 Palestinian students coming to speak on the Right to Education. Great chance to learn another lifestyle!"
The Right to Education Tour brings Birzeit University students to U.S. campuses, where they claim that Israel is obstructing the rights of Palestinians to higher education. This claim mischaracterizes the sweeps Israeli security forces have made to shut down terror cells operating on the Birzeit campus, including cells linked to Hamas.
On March 18, 2015, AJP erected a mock apartheid wall on the UGA campus.
The “mock apartheid wall” is a series of panels meant to represent Israel's security barrier, which was built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks and in response to Palestinian sniper attacks. Panels feature misleading information and graphics intended to demonize Israel. The “mock apartheid wall” is often featured at Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) events organized annually by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters on many North American university campuses.
SJP is the leading 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, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
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 infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. 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 and pro-terror activism on campus.
