Zia Mohammed
Overview
Zia Mohammed has spread incitement and demonized Israel on social media.Mohammed is affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Houston (UH) and attended the 2017 National SJP Conference (NSJP 2017).
NSJP 2017 was held October 27-29, 2017 at UH. The conference was themed “A Reimagined World: Dismantling Walls from Palestine to the Rio Grande.” Per the 2017 National SJP Conference website, the conference aimed to strengthen “collaborative efforts within all regions to pass BDS” and envision “pathways to achieving sanctions in the future.”
Mohammed was an officer of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UH (UH MSA), serving as the vice president in 2017. In 2016, he served as UH MSA’s marketing manager and photographer. Mohammed has been a member of UH MSA’s Facebook group since 2012.
Mohammed supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of January 2018, Mohammed’s Facebook page said he “studied” at UH College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) from 2012 to 2016. However, a December 12, 2017 tweet by Mohammed indicated that he was still a student at UH.
As of January 2018, Mohammed’s Facebook also said he was an Enterprise Data & Web Applications Intern at McKesson Specialty Health, located in Woodlands, TX.
Spreading Incitement
On July 16, 2014, Mohammed shared a graphic on Facebook, with comments alleging that Israel planned to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque.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.
Demonizing Israel
” Mohammed commented: “Alhamdulillah! [Praise Allah]”
On January 12, 2015, Mohammed tweeted: “Where was the solidarity of the world leaders after the Pak school attack, during the genocide in Palestine, during the conflict in CAR [Central African Republic]?”
On July 24, 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Mohammed shared on Facebook a graphic from the anti-Semitic organization If Americans Knew (IAK) that demonized Israel and defended Hamas.
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On July 11, 2014, Mohammed shared a post on Facebook and wrote: “Why so unfair United Nations? #Occupationisacrime#FreePalestine#PrayforGaza#PrayforPalestine.”
The post that Mohammed’s comments referred to read: “Israel has broken 65 U.N resolutions with no consequences. Iraq broke two and got invaded, bombed and destroyed."
SJP Activism
On October 26, 2017, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an NSJP “Conference Info Session,” hosted by SJP UH.On September 14, 2017, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s first General Body Meeting (GBM).
Mohammed also indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) in 2017 and 2016.
SJP UH - Spreading Propaganda
On October 1, 2017, SJP UH shared a Facebook post that read: “17 years ago today, 12yr old Muhammad Al-Durra was shot dead on LIVE TV in his father's arms.#Coogs4Palestine #FreePalestine.”
The Al-Durah hoax is an iconic piece of anti-Israel propaganda, fabricated on September 30, 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada by a France 2 reporter.
On May 8, 2017, SJP UH organized Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) on UH’s campus. One IAW event featured a mock “apartheid wall” erected on campus. Text on the wall read: “If you want to find a safe place in Gaza, do not stand beside a child.” Other text read: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no airforce, no navy, army and calls it a war. It is not war, it is murder.”
Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas’ continued deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged gazans to act as human shields, to specifically frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Israel commenced OPEin July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
On February 3, 2017, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s first spring semester event.
On October 27, 2015, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to an SJP UH bake sale.
A stall at the bake sale featured a misleading series of maps that presented lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” purportedly stolen by Israel.
Supporting BDS
On August 4, 2014, Mohammed posted a link on Facebook to the Buycott Barcode Scanner app on Google Play store.Mohammed urged others to buy the app, writing: “Download the app "Buycott" to easily #BoycottIsrael and the products that fund their genocide. Please #SupportGaza and pray for a #FreePalestine.”
On February 12, 2015, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s event titled “Silent Demonstration and BDS KICKOFF!”
On October 13, 2015, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s “Silent Demonstration.” The cover photo of the event featured a photo of SJP UH activists holding a sign that read: “SJP Houston Says Divest.”
On March 8, 2017, Mohammed indicated on Facebook that he “went” to SJP UH’s event titled: “Urgent Call to Action! TX Anti-BDS Bills, SB 29.” In the event description, SJP UH urged its members to call and write to the Texas state senator to oppose an anti-BDS bill signed by Governor Greg Abbott on March 2, 2017.
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUr2aPP4P4gkaNIXGGOeckQ
- Status:
- Student
- University:
- Houston
- Organizations:
- BDS,
- MSA,
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- SJP,
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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