Ayah Aly

Overview

Ayah Aly has defended Hamas terrorism, romanticized violence, promoted hatred of Israel supporters and demonized Israel on Twitter. She has also posted anti-Semitic and anti-American conspiracy theories and spread bigotry on Twitter.

Aly was the 2017 president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn), part of City University of New York (CUNY).

As of February 2018, Aly’s Facebook said she studied Political Science at Brooklyn.

As of February 2018, Aly went by the alias “Nah Bro” on Facebook.

Defending Hamas

On July 15, 2014, Aly tweeted: “Blaming Hamas for firing rockets at Israel is like blaming a woman for punching her rapist.”

On the same day, Aly tweeted: “‘But Israel is only defending itself!’ The 3rd largest nuclear arsenal is threatened by makeshift rockets and fireworks. BS”

Aly’s trivialization of Hamas rocket fire — as “makeshift rockets and fireworks” — discounted the impact and danger of the attacks.

Hamas’ rocket attacks increased dramatically in the weeks prior to Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge, launched to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

Romanticizing Violence

On October 16, 2015, Aly tweeted photos of male and female Palestinians holding and throwing rocks, with the comment “In beauty and in bravery—Warriors. Till freedom do us Unity [sic.]”

Hatred of Israel Supporters

On October 7, 2015, Aly tweeted: “The new Birthright Israel banner ad makes me want to barf.” Birthright Israel is a subsidized Jewish heritage tour to Israel.

On July 24, 2014, Aly tweeted: “Anyone supporting Israel is living in a constant state of delusion. Exterminate yourselves.”

On May 1, 2015, Aly tweeted: “If you're a zionist, you israeli the lowest piece of scum on earth.”

Demonizing Israel

On October 14, 2015, Aly tweeted: “Israel is like that crazy white kid that shoots up schools. But then gets marked as a disturbed child who needs help.”

On June 29, 2015, Aly tweeted: “LifeIsBetter when Palestine is free and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is 12 feet under.” On January 11, 2015, Aly labeled Netanyahu “GodFather of apartheid & antithesis of freedom”

On August 20, 2014, Aly tweeted that the “Zionist government [is] infested with terrorists, psychopaths and cold blooded murderers”

Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

On September 27, 2017, Aly tweeted: “F**k brooklyn college fricking Zionist a** school.” A Twitter user commented: “Lmaooo can't have everything u want in a Cuny school.” Aly replied: “Lmaoo true but that school is run by zionists smh.”

On August 14, 2014, Ayah tweeted: “100% of the news media outlets are controlled by 6 major Zionist companies.Do NOT believe the lies that are being televised.”

On the same day, Ayah tweeted: “If everyone stopped watching these corrupted news media outlets, the Zionist regime would lose billions of dollars. #boycottthemedia.”

Anti-American Conspiracy Theories

On September 12, 2015, Aly tweeted a graphic featuring United States paper currency, folded to create images depicting the destruction of the Twin Towers. The tweet read: “NeverForget this day, 14 years ago,when the U.S Government conspired against its' own Country and blamed it on Islam”

On August 4, 2014, Aly claimed that the United States was behind al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers, tweeting: “hun, it was your beloved American government that was behind 9/11…”

Bigoted Social Media Posts

On November 6, 2012, Aly tweeted during the 2012 U.S. presidential elections, in reference to Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, “Why the f**k is our beautiful president tied with a punk a** racist white b**ch.”

On January 8, 2013, Aly tweeted “Jews” as one the “top10thingsIhate.”

On December 24, 2014, Aly tweeted: “They ask: ‘What is white American culture?’
Me: genocide, bigotry, and unseasoned food.”

On June 11, 2015, Aly tweeted: “White people are forever using their ‘emotions’ and supposed ‘mental illnesses’ as an outlet to justify their racism.”

On September 8, 2015, Aly tweeted: “Can't wait to f**k around with my Zionist-a** social psych professor today (: ”

On September 15, 2015, Aly tweeted: “Dear white feminists, we don't need to be saved by your bigoted white ‘feminism’. Please leave us alone.”

On September 16, 2015, Aly retweeted a tweet that suggested a meteor could wipe out Earth, with the comment “WOOHOO NO MORE WHITE PEOPLE NO MORE ZIONISTS NO MORE KHARA [“s**t in Arabic] REPUBLICANS NO MORE COLLEGE NO MORE SISI”

On November 5, 2015, Aly tweeted, referring to herself in the 3rd person, saying: “ayah screamed the second she was born because she knew white people existed’ word. ever wonder why babies cry when they first come out?”

On February 15, 2016, Aly tweeted: “White twitter could cry ‘reverse-racism’ & ‘but if a white person had..’ from now till 7 centuries down the line & ain't no one gon care bih [b**th]”.

On January 4, 2016, Aly tweeted: “ain't no such thing as "white culture" b, try again later.” Underneath her comment was a photo of a woman sitting at a table with text superimposed saying “Lookin’ in the dictionary the other day, saw your picture sittin’ up there, right next to “dumb a** white b**ch”

On January 27, 2016, Aly tweeted: “very few things as traumatic as attending colonialism/postcolonialism lectures curated by white professors.”

Brooklyn SJP - Whitewashing Terrorist Violence And Calling For More

On October 8, 2015, Brooklyn SJP staged a “die-in,” which Brooklyn SJP claimed on Facebook was prompted by “...recent israeli aggression [sic.] against Palestinians, including the murder of 17-year old Hadeel Al Hashlamoun, and 19-year-old Fadi Alloun in cold blood, execution style.”

Per reported eyewitness testimony provided by Fawaz Abu Aysha to the human rights group B’Tselem, Al Hashlamoun (18 years old) was carrying a knife through a checkpoint and did not respond to orders to step back before she was shot by Israeli soldiers.

Fadi Aloon was shot by Israeli security forces after he stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy. Several hours before the attack, Aloon posted “Either martyrdom or victory” on his Facebook page.

The Brooklyn SJP Facebook post, which shared a photo album of the die-in, also stated that “Palestinians called for an international ‘Day of Rage’ on Tuesday, October 6th.” This “Day of Rage” event — co-hosted by a number of organizations including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and NYC SJP — urged support for a “Day of Rage” called for by “Palestinian forces.” So-called “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 — heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new Intifada — resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings and stabbings and car rammings.

Also on October 8, 2015, Brooklyn SJP posted a graphic that suggested its support for a “Third Intifada” and misleadingly referred to the murderous wave of terror as “the current spike in Palestinian resistance to Israeli oppression.”

Brooklyn SJP - Exploiting Disturbed Children to Demonize Israel

On April 28, 2016, Brooklyn SJP shared an inflammatory AJ+ video on Facebook about 12-year-old Dima Al-Wawi, who was imprisoned for attempting to stab a security guard at the Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur. Al-Wawi later claimed that she intended to kill the security guard and hoped she would be killed in the process. "I was dreaming that I was going to be martyred," she said.

Al-Wawi was released early — six weeks before her scheduled release, and was received as a hero in her home-town in Halhoul, West Bank — an area under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

Brooklyn SJP - Damning Interfaith Dialogue

On March 13, 2016, Brooklyn SJP co-organized a panel event titled “Counterproductive Collaborations - The Faithwashing of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” co-sponsored by NYC SJP, Brooklyn SJP, and the Muslim American Society. The event featured former New York president of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Brooklyn College graduate Raja Abdulhaq. Abdulhaq has stated that he considers any Muslim organization that organizes an Interfaith event with a “Zionist” counterpart to be a “betrayal.”

The event description insinuated that interfaith dialogue events invite "normalization" and "faithwashing," asking: "Have you seen debate over interfaith events recently? Noticed that some people seem very upset over your local MSA, SJP, etc hosting an event with Hillel or other Zionist groups? What is normalization? What is faithwashing? Why are these 'dialogue' events harmful to the Palestinian cause?"

Brooklyn SJP - Spreading Lies and Hate

On October 27, 2015, Brooklyn SJP shared an article on Facebook citing a Palestinian Prisoner's’ Club libel that "40% of Palestinian Children Detained by Israel Sexually Abused; Virtually All Tortured."

On November 2, 2015, Brooklyn SJP co-sponsored a vigil to support former officers of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) — who were found guilty of funneling $12 million dollars to Hamas. HLF’s founders received sentences ranging between 15 and 65 years in federal prison in the United States. Hamas’ charter calls for the murder of Jews. Hamas television programing educates school children to hate Jews and its summer camps teach children to wage war.

On November 27, 2015, Brooklyn SJP shared on Facebook a misleading animated map representing lands that were controlled by Britain, Egypt, and Jordan as autonomous “Palestine,” stolen by Israel.

On May 1, 2016 Brooklyn SJP posted a photo supporting British politician and Member of Parliament Naz Shah, who was suspended from Britain's Labour Party for sharing on Facebook a graphic of Israel’s outline superimposed on a map of the US under the headline “Solution for Israel-Palestine Conflict – Relocate Israel into United States”, with the comment: “Problem solved.”

One placard at the October 8, 2015 die-in grossly mischaracterized Israel’s security fence — 97% of which is a low chain link barrier. It falsely claimed that Israel has an “Apartheid Wall” that is “30 times the length of Manhattan!” and “Twice as high as the Berlin wall!”

Brooklyn SJP - Advocating for anti-Semitic Professor Steven Salaita

On November 21, 2014, Brooklyn SJP hosted an event lionizing Steven Salaita, the Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

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.

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.