Jennifer Mogannam

Overview

Jennifer Mogannam has encouraged Intifada violence, defended terrorism and spread anti-Israel propaganda.

Mogannam was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).

As of October 2018, Mogannam’s LinkedIn said she was International Executive Board Member with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and that she was an activist with the San Diego branch of PYM.

Mogannam’s LinkedIn also listed her as a Lecturer at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and Chabot College (Chabot), as well as a PhD Candidate in Ethnic Studies at UCSD slated to graduate in 2018.

Mogannam’s LinkedIn also indicated that she completed her masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon in 2012 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2008, with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies.

Mogannam began her undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she was a member of the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS). She is also a member of Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) and a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Promoting Intifada Violence

On October 6, 2015 — in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call not to “militarise” protests — Mogannam tweeted: “Fffffffff that - get the f*** outta here PA. Long live the #intifada & popular, armed #resistance!”

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.

On October 27, 2015, Mogannem shared a Facebook post calling on all Palestinians and allies to support the intifada, based on the claim that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

On October 20, 2015, Mogannam posted on Facebook a link to the “Voice of the Intifada” journal, adding: “Voice of the Intifada! It's only in Arabic, but great info coming out from the grassroots. If you can read Arabic, check it out. Issues 1-6 here.”

The magazine regularly glorified violence, including pictures of youths brandishing knives, molotov cocktails and a firebomb. The magazine also glorified the terrorists killed.

On October 20, 2015, Mogannam posted a link to “Voice of the Intifada” journal, issue 7. Page 8 of that issue featured a graphic of a hand making a “V” for victory gesture, holding a bloody knife -- and a face is masked by a keffiyeh.

On October 16, 2015, Mogannam shared a Palestine Protest event on Facebook to the PYM - San Francisco Bay Area, adding “Uprise with Palestine! All out in San Diego, October 23rd! The resistance lives!”

On October 14 and 15, 2015, Mogannam shared an event on Facebook inviting her viewers to come to the “uprise with Palestine” event on behalf of PYM SD.

On September 13, 2015, Mogannam shared a video on Facebook allegedly documenting a confrontation between the IDF and young Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

On March 28, 2010, Mogannam tweeted: “if you are against #occupation #racism #apartheid lemme see the #intifada3 at your status!”

On that same day, Mogannam tweeted: “It’s time to rise up #intifada3 Palestinians, Arabs, Indigenous Peoples, Comrades - fight the power!”

Defending Terrorism

On July 14, 2016, Mogannam shared on Facebook, as well as tweeted a series of tweets, calling for Bilal Kayed to be freed from prison.

PFLP terrorist Bilal Kayed was incarcerated for 14 years for terror attacks and attempted terror attacks committed during the second intifada, in 2002.

On September 26, 2016, Mogannam shared a “Free Rasmea Odeh” video on Facebook.

On May 17, 2014, Mogannam posted on Facebook a video of Rasmea Odeh, calling her an “amazing and empowering leader.”

Odeh was a key military operative [00:02:08]with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969, Odeh masterminded a PFLP bombing that killed two college students in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.

Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. In a 2004 documentary, one of Odeh’s co-conspirators directly implicated [00:10:53] Odeh as the mastermind.

In 1970, an Israeli court tried and convicted Odeh for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced her to life imprisonment. However, Odeh was released 10 years later, in a prisoner swap and emigrated to the United States.

On November 10, 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted Odeh for immigration fraud because she failed to disclose her prior conviction and life sentence on her immigration application. On March 12, 2015, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

In 2017, after an appeal and a lengthy court battle, Odeh admitted to immigration fraud, was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, deported to Jordan and banned from re-entering the U.S.

Demonizing Israel

Mogannam retweeted the October 12, 2016 tweet: “Last night israeli soldiers shot #AliShukhi 20 & denied him access to hospital & tried to steal his body when he died in #Jerusalem”

Mogannam retweeted the July 29, 2014 tweet: “Israeli drone maker sees shares rise bc Gaza's an open-air laboratory for Israel to test & perfect its death machines.”

Mogannam retweeted a November 29, 2015 PYM-US tweet equating racism, Zionism and Islamophobia and calling for an end to all three.

Mogannam retweeted a November 28, 2015 PYM-US tweet calling to #FreePalestine, in which the entire map of Israel is colored in with the Palestinian flag.

Pushing BDS

In March of 2016, Mogannam signed a cultural BDS appeal to “Oral Historians to Boycott the December 2016 Hebrew University (HUJI) Oral History Conference” issued by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).

The letter accused Israel of harassing students at Birzeit University in January of 2016. The appeal also accused the IDF of “killing, arresting, kidnapping, placing in administrative (indefinite) detention, and torturing students and youth” during the month of October, 2015.

In 2016 and 2015, Birzeit University students elected Hamas’ student wing to power. As a result, Bilal Barghouti — who is serving 16 life terms in prison for his role in a series of suicide attacks against Israel — was made the "Honorary Chairman of the Bir Zeit University Student Council."

On August 27, 2013, Mogannam signed an earlier version of the same letter, issued by USACBI. The 2013 letter accused Israel of “apartheid” policies towards Palestinian universities.

Defending Hate Speech

On March 16, 2016, Mogannam signed the “Students for Salaita” petition in favor of nominating Professor Steven Salaita as the Director of the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) 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.

Promoting Terror Ties

Mogannam is a signatory of the National SJP 2016 Statement in Support of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s AMED Diaspora Program, which collaborated with An-Najah University, in the West Bank.

On March 19, 2016, Mogannam shared a video on Facebook featuring Professor Abdulhadi. In the video, Abdulhadi labelled Israel “colonized, occupied land” (0:19), and defended the AMED Diaspora Program (2:07).

An-Najah University, the largest Palestinian university in the West Bank, launched and celebrated a triumphal exhibit lauding the August 9, 2001 Sbarro cafe suicide bombing.That bombing specifically targeted Jewish patrons and killed 18 people, including 8 children. The blast wounded another 87 people. An-Najah’s exhibit featured a mock-up of Sbarro’s, including gnawed pizza crusts and bloody plastic body parts suspended from the ceiling, as if they were blasting through the air.

In 2014, SFSU sponsored the AMED Diaspora Program trip to An-Najah University.

During the visit, Abdulhadi’s delegation met with Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah, both of whom are affiliated with U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organizations.

Spreading Propaganda

On July 13, 2015, Mogannam shared a “Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine” on Facebook, with the comment “*For black allies to sign only*”

The statement accused Israel of massacring Palestinians, and specifically targeting “homes, schools, UN shelters, mosques, ambulances, and hospitals” during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014.

The 2015 statement also labeled Israel an apartheid regime and charged Israel with the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948.

The Black Solidarity statement also equated Zionism with white supremacy and racism.

Pushing BDS

On December 14th, 2014, Mogannam signed a UAW Local 2865 BDS resolution, calling on the union and their employers to divest from companies that have been complicit in “human rights violations” against Palestinians.

Aggresive anti-Israel rhetoric was rampant throughout UAW 2865’s BDS 2014 campaign. In November 2014, the California Teamsters, representing nearly 250,000 workers statewide, sharply criticized UAW 2865 Executive Board’s involvement with BDS, emphasizing that they could not conceive of activity “more hostile to the interests of [Teamsters] members and more antithetical to the most basic principles of the union movement.”

In December 2015, UAW International officially overturned the UAW 2865 boycott resolution.

In April 24th, 2016, Mogannam gave an interview about the ongoing appeal efforts of UAW LOCAl to reinstate the BDS resolution. Mogannam claimed that the nullification was “part and parcel of the larger Zionist movement’s suppression and attacking of those fighting for Palestinian self-determination and against Israeli settler colonialism.”

SPHR UBC, GUPS - Whitewashing Terrorism

On March 14, 2014, Mogannam was a guest speaker at an Israel Apartheid Week event hosted by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). During the event, Mogannam clarified that Yasser Arafat — who she termed an “activist” — founded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (4:33) and the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) (5:44).

She also stated that North American Palestinian communities were funding "resistance work that was happening back home" (6:35). She mentions the positive role of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) (10:00). The JRA joined with the PFLP's Wadi Haddad for an attack on Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion) in the early 1970's where many were killed. Mogannam called their action as part of "anti-colonial liberation" (10:25).

Operation Cast Lead - Anti-Israel Demonstrations

On January 15th, 2009, as early as her freshman year in SFSU, Mogannam actively participated in many pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including a self-styled “lockdown” in which 40-50 activist put bike locks on the doors of the Israeli consulate and chained themselves to the doors.

On Jan. 5, 2009, Mogannam demonstrated at a “Free Gaza” demonstration, where several hundred demonstrators protested outside the Israeli Consulate holding signs that read: "Jews: The First Terrorists", "Imagine: A World without Zionism", "Your Taxes Finance Apartheid", "Gaza 2008 = Warsaw 1938" and a sign that defined Israel as a "rogue state by ethnic cleansing." The event was organized by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).

On Dec 3, 2008, Mogannam demonstrated in the self-styled “Protest against Israeli Massacres in Gaza” in San Francisco.

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.

GUPS

The General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) is the only GUPS chapter operating in the United States. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an offshoot of GUPS.

GUPS is an international organization, initially administered by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). PLO leader Yasser Arafat officially founded GUPS in Cairo in 1959. GUPS was founded at SFSU in 1973.

GUPS has reportedly describedits overall goal as organizing student activists to achieve justice and freedom for the Palestinian people. To this end, GUPS formed an umbrella organization for Palestinian student groups and to form alliances with non-Palestinian groups.

GUPS’s focus, however, is almost entirely on its anti-Israel campaigns, which have included harassment, anti-Semitic libels, celebrating violence and glorifying terrorists. GUPS members have also intimidated pro-Israel students, shut down pro-Israel events, supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and held “Israeli Apartheid” events. The group has also held "die-ins,"rallies and protests.

SFSU graduate and GUPS activist Hatem Bazian created SJP while working as a professor at UC Berkeley in 2001.

PYM

In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”

PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”

On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”

On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.

Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

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.