David Palumbo-Liu
Overview
David Palumbo-Liu has excused terrorism, demonized Israel and defended anti-Israel agitators. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and a member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott (USACBI) Organizing Collective.Since 2014, he has led an effort to pressure the Modern Language Association (MLA) to adopt a BDS resolution.
Palumbo-Liu is also a supporter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and spoke at the 2018 National SJP Conference. The 2018 National SJP conference was held on November 16-18, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The conference was themed “Radical Hope: Resistance in the Face of Adversity.” The conference website stated: “[t]he reason we can have hope is that Zionism...can be destroyed.”
In August 2017, Palumbo-Liu co-founded the Campus Anti-fascist Network (CAN), a group of faculty, staff, and students from universities across the United States who are devoted to opposing the rise of fascism.
In 2018, Stanford University student groups called for the resignation of Palumbo-Liu based on his affiliation with CAN.
Palumbo-Liu is a professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University (Stanford). He was the 2018-2019 President of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Palumbo-Liu also described Israeli forces as the cause of violent clashes on the Temple Mount and whitewashed violent rioters as “Palestinian worshipers.”
Palumbo-Liu claimed that Israel arbitrarily destroys Muslim holy sites, referring to mosques that were destroyed during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) .
Palumbo-Liu also presented the neutralization of Palestinian terrorist Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, who attempted to stab and kill an Israeli soldier, as part of “a long line of unlawful killings carried out by the Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank with near total impunity…” Liu-Palumbo then stated that “such murders” take place “with clear pre-meditation.”
Palumbo-Liu’s article concluded with a call for readers to join the BDS movement.
On April 24, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel is shooting anyone who approaches a ‘border’ deemed illegal by the United Nations. Let that sink in. Children, journalists, doesn’t matter. What more evidence is needed of Palestinian courage, Israeli evil?”
In an April 26, 2018 article, Palumbo-Liu suggested that the Israeli Defense Forces intentionally targeted Palestinian journalists in border clashes as a means of media “censorship.”
On May 14, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “If Israel is not the most hated nation in the world, there is something deeply wrong with the world.”
On the same day, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “When will people understand? Israel doesn’t give a damn about human rights” and “More than time for an arms embargo against Israel.”
Palumbo-Liu tweeted once again that day: “If anyone dares to write some bulls$&t article on how psychologically scarred Israeli snipers are from killing innocent Palestinian children, I will personally slap them. At best.”
On August 10, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Can there still be any doubt? Israel intends to wipe out a people and their culture. This is a war crime.”
On July 25, 2014, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel: stop telling me the Holocaust story over & over again. Stop the one you've created in Gaza. #GazaUnderAttack”
In the same article, Palumbo-Liu claimed “the Zionist project” maintains a “fundamental interest in blocking Palestinian efforts to achieve democracy and equal rights in Israel”.
Referencing sources, including the widely discredited Professor Richard Falk, Palumbo-Liu claimed that Israel is inherently “racist” and “a project of settler-colonialism.”
In a July 23, 2014 tweet, Palumbo-Liu accused Israel of committing “genocidal attacks” against Palestinians.
On that same day, Palumbo-Liu tweeted that “Israel’s aim in killing children— destroy generations of resistance. Won’t work.#Gazaunderattack.”
On July 15, 2014, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In Intl Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory” and linked to an article that stated: “...the right of self-defense in international law is, by definition since 1967, not available to Israel with respect to its dealings with real or perceived threats emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip population.”
During the meeting, Hill reportedly whitewashed Palestinian violence and accused Israel of “state violence and ethnic cleansing.” He also called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
In September 2018, during a U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) conference, Hill insinuated [00:31:01] that Israel poisons Palestinian water and seemingly approved [00:30:34] of violence against Israelis.
In an August 3, 2018 article, Palumbo-Liu celebrated the release of Ahed Tamimi from detention in Israeli military prison and urged readers to support the BDS movement.
In 2016, Palumbo-Liu signed a letter to Vassar College President Catherine Bond Hill defending Jasbir Puar.
The letter also cited an October 2015 report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal that conjured anti-Semitic conspiracies of a powerful Israel lobby controlling the U.S. government and silencing legitimate criticism of Israel.
On May 28, 2016, Palumbo-Liu wrote an article in defense of Imad Ahmad Barghouthi.
In a December 23, 2015, Palumbo-Liu glorified Issa Amro and Youth Against Settlements (YAS), in an article he wrote for Salon online magazine.
On August 7, 2014, Palumbo-Liu called for the reinstatement of Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois (U of I).
On February 2, 2015, Palumbo-Liu wrote an “open letter” to the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, for refusing to enforce a BDS resolution proposed by SJP UC Davis.
During the annual MLA meeting in January 2017, MLA’s delegate council rejected the resolution and instead voted to support Resolution 2017-1 (2017-1), which urged the MLA to refrain from adopting BDS.
In June of 2017, the MLA adopted 2017-1 by a 2-1 margin following a full membership vote.
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
In 2018, Stanford University student groups called for the resignation of Palumbo-Liu based on his affiliation with CAN.
Palumbo-Liu is a professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University (Stanford). He was the 2018-2019 President of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Excusing Terrorism
On October 14, 2015, Palumbo-Liu wrote an article justifying Palestinian terrorism as a “response to an on-going campaign to desecrate and destroy holy sites that anchor non-Jewish peoples to their faiths.”Palumbo-Liu also described Israeli forces as the cause of violent clashes on the Temple Mount and whitewashed violent rioters as “Palestinian worshipers.”
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
Palumbo-Liu claimed that Israel arbitrarily destroys Muslim holy sites, referring to mosques that were destroyed during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) .
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
Palumbo-Liu also presented the neutralization of Palestinian terrorist Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, who attempted to stab and kill an Israeli soldier, as part of “a long line of unlawful killings carried out by the Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank with near total impunity…” Liu-Palumbo then stated that “such murders” take place “with clear pre-meditation.”
Palumbo-Liu’s article concluded with a call for readers to join the BDS movement.
Demonizing Israel
On April 8, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel’s aim: kill beauty, kill truth. The tools of justice.”On April 24, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel is shooting anyone who approaches a ‘border’ deemed illegal by the United Nations. Let that sink in. Children, journalists, doesn’t matter. What more evidence is needed of Palestinian courage, Israeli evil?”
In an April 26, 2018 article, Palumbo-Liu suggested that the Israeli Defense Forces intentionally targeted Palestinian journalists in border clashes as a means of media “censorship.”
On May 14, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “If Israel is not the most hated nation in the world, there is something deeply wrong with the world.”
On the same day, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “When will people understand? Israel doesn’t give a damn about human rights” and “More than time for an arms embargo against Israel.”
Palumbo-Liu tweeted once again that day: “If anyone dares to write some bulls$&t article on how psychologically scarred Israeli snipers are from killing innocent Palestinian children, I will personally slap them. At best.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.
Agitators threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.
On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during a May 14 protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
On August 10, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Can there still be any doubt? Israel intends to wipe out a people and their culture. This is a war crime.”
On July 25, 2014, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel: stop telling me the Holocaust story over & over again. Stop the one you've created in Gaza. #GazaUnderAttack”
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
In an August 2014 article, Palumbo-Liu insinuated that Israel murdered “women, children and the elderly” at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon.
In the same article, Palumbo-Liu claimed “the Zionist project” maintains a “fundamental interest in blocking Palestinian efforts to achieve democracy and equal rights in Israel”.
Referencing sources, including the widely discredited Professor Richard Falk, Palumbo-Liu claimed that Israel is inherently “racist” and “a project of settler-colonialism.”
In a July 23, 2014 tweet, Palumbo-Liu accused Israel of committing “genocidal attacks” against Palestinians.
On that same day, Palumbo-Liu tweeted that “Israel’s aim in killing children— destroy generations of resistance. Won’t work.#Gazaunderattack.”
On July 15, 2014, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In Intl Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory” and linked to an article that stated: “...the right of self-defense in international law is, by definition since 1967, not available to Israel with respect to its dealings with real or perceived threats emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip population.”
Defending Anti-Israel Agitators
On April 14, 2019, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “#IStandWithIlhanOmar”Ilhan Omar was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2018. In February 2019, top Congressional leaders denounced Omar for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks.Omar has demonized Israel and endorsed BDS. In July 2019, Omar introduced a pro-BDS resolution in the U.S. Congress, which she described as “an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support…the BDS movement.”
On September 19, 2018, Palumbo-Liu co-signed a statement of support for University of Michigan professor John Cheney-Lippold, who was disciplined after he reneged on his agreement to write a recommendation for a student's study in Israel application because of his support for BDS.
On October 13, 2018, Palumbo-Liu wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in defense of Cheney-Lippold. In the same article, Palumbo-Liu expressed support for Lara Alqasem, a U.S. student of Palestinian background whom Israel refused entry because of her support for BDS.
In a December 4, 2018 article for The Nation, Palumbo-Liu defended Marc Lamont Hill. Palumbo-Liu wrote that Hill’s comment during a speech at the United Nations was “wrenched out of context in order to punish him” and that his dismissal from CNN was “harsh and unjust.”
On October 13, 2018, Palumbo-Liu wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in defense of Cheney-Lippold. In the same article, Palumbo-Liu expressed support for Lara Alqasem, a U.S. student of Palestinian background whom Israel refused entry because of her support for BDS.
In a December 4, 2018 article for The Nation, Palumbo-Liu defended Marc Lamont Hill. Palumbo-Liu wrote that Hill’s comment during a speech at the United Nations was “wrenched out of context in order to punish him” and that his dismissal from CNN was “harsh and unjust.”
In November 2018, Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his position as a contributor to CNN (Cable News Network) following controversial comments he made during a meeting held at the United Nations for an “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”
During the meeting, Hill reportedly whitewashed Palestinian violence and accused Israel of “state violence and ethnic cleansing.” He also called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
In September 2018, during a U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) conference, Hill insinuated [00:31:01] that Israel poisons Palestinian water and seemingly approved [00:30:34] of violence against Israelis.
In an August 3, 2018 article, Palumbo-Liu celebrated the release of Ahed Tamimi from detention in Israeli military prison and urged readers to support the BDS movement.
Ahed Tamimi has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers. Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem Tamimi, who is known for exploiting young children as political props in staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers.
In 2016, Palumbo-Liu signed a letter to Vassar College President Catherine Bond Hill defending Jasbir Puar.
Jasbir Puar is an anti-Israel professor at Rutgers University and a supporter of BDS. In her 2016 talk at Vassar College, Puar called for organized, armed resistance against Israel. In the same lecture, she alleged that Israel kills Palestinians to harvest their organs and employs “scientifically executed ‘maiming’...to permanently debilitate and disable the Palestinians.”
The letter addressed to President Hill stated objections to Puar’s lecture as attacks on freedom of speech and the integrity of “an invited guest.”
The letter also cited an October 2015 report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal that conjured anti-Semitic conspiracies of a powerful Israel lobby controlling the U.S. government and silencing legitimate criticism of Israel.
On May 28, 2016, Palumbo-Liu wrote an article in defense of Imad Ahmad Barghouthi.
Palestinian Astrophysicist Professor Imad Barghouthi of Al Quds University was sentenced in 2016 to seven months in prison for incitement to violence.
Barghouthi is a vocal supporter of Hamas's military wing — the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades — and has called for killing and being killed in the name of Islam.
An October 22, 2014 video showed Barghouthi at an Al-Quds university Hamas rally, draped in a Hamas banner, [00:00:33] urging students to design precision guided missiles, and sniper rifles as [00:01:11] “weapons ofthe resistance” to [00:02:35] kill “zionist soldiers” in their bedrooms.
In a December 23, 2015, Palumbo-Liu glorified Issa Amro and Youth Against Settlements (YAS), in an article he wrote for Salon online magazine.
Anti-Israel agitator Issa Amro is known for vandalism and attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Amro heads the Youth Against Settlements (YAS) movement, an anti-Israel organization based in Hebron that promotes anti-Semitism, rock-throwing and violence against Israelis.
On August 7, 2014, Palumbo-Liu called for the reinstatement of Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois (U of I).
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.
Promoting BDS
On April 10, 2019, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “@Madonna 45% of Gazans are under the age of 18. They are in an open air prison. No escape. Israeli snipers are killing them. How can you let Israel use your name to whitewash this?”
Madonna is scheduled to perform at Eurovision on May 18, 2019 in Israel.
On May 15, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Don’t stop with condemning Israel’s slaughter. That’s hardly enough. Boycott, Divest, Sanction. And get others to as well. #BDS. #GreatReturnMarch”
On May 14, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “My heart goes out to all Palestinians. My mind and body committed to justice for them. Please endorse and work for #BDS, or do whatever you can do. These are such courageous people. If you are US American, you owe even more. US supports Israel”
On April 9, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Under international law, an occupying power has the responsibility for the well-being of those under occupation. Instead, Israel is murdering them by slow and fast violence--embargoes, energy shutdowns, halting water, shooting with live ammunition. #BDS #Gaza”
On June 4, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel does not understand concept of ‘crimes against humanity’ because its concept of humanity is so very narrow. And self-interested. #BDS #HumanRights #RazanAlNajjar #GreatMarchOfReturn”
On February 6, 2015, Palumbo-Liu drafted a faculty letter in support of a BDS resolution at Stanford in which he alleged that the movement’s territorial objective stops with the end of Israel’s “occupation” of the “Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.”
Madonna is scheduled to perform at Eurovision on May 18, 2019 in Israel.
On May 15, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Don’t stop with condemning Israel’s slaughter. That’s hardly enough. Boycott, Divest, Sanction. And get others to as well. #BDS. #GreatReturnMarch”
On May 14, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “My heart goes out to all Palestinians. My mind and body committed to justice for them. Please endorse and work for #BDS, or do whatever you can do. These are such courageous people. If you are US American, you owe even more. US supports Israel”
On April 9, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Under international law, an occupying power has the responsibility for the well-being of those under occupation. Instead, Israel is murdering them by slow and fast violence--embargoes, energy shutdowns, halting water, shooting with live ammunition. #BDS #Gaza”
On June 4, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “Israel does not understand concept of ‘crimes against humanity’ because its concept of humanity is so very narrow. And self-interested. #BDS #HumanRights #RazanAlNajjar #GreatMarchOfReturn”
On February 6, 2015, Palumbo-Liu drafted a faculty letter in support of a BDS resolution at Stanford in which he alleged that the movement’s territorial objective stops with the end of Israel’s “occupation” of the “Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.”
On February 2, 2015, Palumbo-Liu wrote an “open letter” to the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, for refusing to enforce a BDS resolution proposed by SJP UC Davis.
During the annual MLA meeting in January 2017, MLA’s delegate council rejected the resolution and instead voted to support Resolution 2017-1 (2017-1), which urged the MLA to refrain from adopting BDS.
In June of 2017, the MLA adopted 2017-1 by a 2-1 margin following a full membership vote.
Attending the 2018 National SJP Conference
On November 18, 2018, Palumbo-Liu tweeted: “@NationalSJP Honored to speak at largest NSJP gathering in history. Auditorium packed with committed activists, break out sessions buzzing with energy. These folks will advance Justice for Palestine despite all obstacles.”2018 National SJP - Celebrating Violence
During the 2018 National SJP conference, anti-Israel activist Mohammed Nabulsi led the attendees in the chant [00:00:52] “Long Live the Intifada! Intifada! Intifada!”
Since the early 2000’s, the term “intifada” has carried the connotation of violence. The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
Anti-Israel activist Omar Zahzah also reportedly [00:00:07] led National SJP attendees in chanting, in Arabic, “With our bodies and our blood, we will free Palestine.”
As of November 2018, the 2018 National SJP website glorified “radical hope and upfront defiance of Zionism,” citing as examples the “early revolts through the Intifadas to the Great Return March.”
The Great Return March of 2018 was organized and funded by the terror group Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
Tens of thousands of rioters gathered on Israel’s Gaza border, attempting numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with leaders andparticipants declaring their intention to harm Jews.
National SJP originally promoted a conference logo featuring a keffiyeh-wearing bear, looking toward a kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
On October 27, 2018, National SJP said the kite signified “the power in the Gaza March of Return.”
Since March 2018, March of Return participants and Hamas’s “Kite Unit” have sent hundreds of kites bearing incendiary devices and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) across the border into Israel to terrorize Israelis. The kites are often marked with swastikas.
By the time National SJP produced its 2018 conference logo highlighting the kites in October 2018, Gazan terror kites and balloons had ignited more than 1,300 fires in Israel, over seven months.
2018 National SJP - Undermining U.S. Support for Israel
On November 18, 2018, the US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) posted on Facebook the 2018 National SJP keynote speech by Hatem Abudayyeh, USPCN’s co-founder.Abudayyeh has supported [00:08:45] convicted terrorists, praised terror organizations, called for Israel’s destruction and is an activist in theBoycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In his 2018 National SJP Keynote, Abudayyeh said [00:53:01] that the “specific role” of Palestinian and Arab students was to organize [00:53:42] in order to weaken “Zionist Israel” and force [00:54:23] the U.S. to “no longer provide it with diplomatic, political, financial and military cover and support.”
Abudayyeh predicted [00:55:37] that once U.S. support to Israel ends, National SJP attendees would return to Palestine as “conquering heroes,” end [00:54:38] the “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands including the Golan Heights” and replace “Zionist Israel” with a Palestinian state.
2018 National SJP - Whitewashing Terror Organizations
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh also painted [00:14:01] terrorist organizations as “liberation movements” and “resistance organizations,” stating [00:14:21] “what we also know is that the majority of the resistance organizations in Palestine are on the U.S. state department list of foreign terrorist organizations.”Abudayyeh also celebrated [00:52:00] that all of the “armed resistance” organizations in Gaza are part [00:52:14] of a “unified resistance in Gaza, that includes all of the resistance organizations, working together under a unified military command.”
2018 National SJP - Defending Terrorist Rasmea Odeh
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh claimed [00:08:28] that pro-Israel organizations “go after students like you,” adding [00:08:20] “just like they went after my friend and colleague, Rasmea Odeh.”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.
Abudayyeh added that he was asked [00:08:45] to talk about Odeh’s case, and praised SJP and SDS students who organized [00:09:15] “absolutely valuable” events on behalf [00:9:11] of Odeh, “as she was fighting to stay in the U.S.”
2018 National SJP - Demonizing Israel and Jews
During his keynote speech, Abudayyeh defended [00:27:25] the “Irvine 11” — eleven Muslim Student Union (MSA) members who were arrested in 2010 for repeatedly shouting down former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during an address at the University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine).Abudayyeh referred [00:27:37] to Oren as a “racist fascist speaker, representative of a racist, fascist country.”
Abudayyeh went on to claim [00:29:48] that “today, even in the United States, Israel is finally being seen as the criminal, apartheid, racist state that it is.”
Abudayyeh also called for increased action in the face of President U.S. Donald Trump, and referred [00:48:41] to Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and senior advisor, as “that pig son-in-law of his.”
2018 National SJP - Excluding Students
The 2018 National SJP Conference welcomed only students who were verified and vouched for by an SJP (or otherwise named campus Palestine solidarity group). Media requests needed to be “approved by the NSJP press team” prior to the conference.A November 7, 2018 Columbus Jewish News article reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on UCLA to cancel the 2018 NSJP conference, stating that a “public university should not allow any group to implement a litmus test for event participation on their campus.”
On November 12, 2018, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that criticized National SJP’s exclusion of members of pro-Israel student groups.
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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Infamous Quotes
“Israel’s aim: kill beauty, kill truth. The tools of justice.”
“If anyone dares to write some bulls$&t article on how psychologically scarred Israeli snipers are from killing innocent Palestinian children, I will personally slap them. At best.”
“If Israel is not the most hated nation in the world, there is something deeply wrong with the world.”
”Israel does not understand concept of ‘crimes against humanity’ because its concept of humanity is so very narrow. And self-interested.”
“Israel: stop telling me the Holocaust story over & over again. Stop the one you've created in Gaza.”
“Israel’s aim in killing children--destroy generations of resistance. Won’t work.”
