Marwa Janini
Overview
Marwa Janini was an activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the College of Staten Island (CSI), part of City University of New York (CUNY), in 2013 and 2014. She has also demonized Israel and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.In 2013, Janini was affiliated with Al-Awda — the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition (Al-Awda).
As of July 2019, Janini was a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) CSI Facebook page.
In 2017, Janini was affiliated with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF).
As of July 2019, Janini’s Facebook page said she was the Interim Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, since June 2019, as well as an “Adjunct Professor of English” at CSI, since 2014.
Janini’s Facebook page also said she received her master’s degree in 2015 from the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY GC) in American/Middle Eastern History and studied History at the Lorenzo de’ Medici School, Florence, Italy, in 2012.
SJP Activism
On October 29, 2015, Janini was a speaker at an SJP Rutgers-organized Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), where she spoke about “Palestinians in Dispora [Sic].”On March 14, 2014, Janini posed in an SJP at CSI Facebook photo with the “SJP team” and anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah, the co-founder of Electronic Intifada (EI). Janini was photographed waiting to have a book signed by Abunimah.
On May 7, 2013, SJP at CSI shared a photo on Facebook of Janini handing out fliers “to CSI students in order to raise awareness and commemorate the Nakba.” Janini held a sign that read: #WeShallReturn” and was featured in a“Photocollage of several students holding up signs representing 1/531 villages that were depopulated during the Nakba.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Demonizing Israel
On April 23, 2017, Janini wrote on Facebook: “Looking forward to reading Israeli-American writer and activist Miko Peled's memoir, ‘The General's Son Journey of An Israeli in Palestine.’ Peled focuses on transforming the racist Zionist regime in Palestine, questioning the legitimacy of the state of Israel, dismantling the wall and ending the occupation. Don't know much about his book, but I hope I like it. #newbook
#autographedbook #pcrfnj #palestine
#palestinalibre #freepalestine #BDS.” Janini’s post featured a photo of Miko Peled signing Janini’s copy of his book.
Miko Peled is an anti-Israel activist, who said [00:00:06] in 2017 that the Israeli army was one of the “best trained, best equipped, best fed, terrorist organizations in the world,” and claimed [00:00:16] that “their entire purpose is terrorism.”
On August 4, 2013, at an “International day of AlQuds” rally, Janini held an Al-Awda-produced sign that read: “STOP Israel’s Racist Prawer Plan!”
The International Quds Day rally was founded in 1979 by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 “to oppose Zionism and Israel and express support for the Palestinians.” The rally has historically been a platform for anti-Semitism.
The Begin-Prawer Plan was a proposed Israeli government plan to officially recognize and register the vast majority of Bedouin settlements throughout southern Israel and relocate and compensate residents of the villages.
CSI SJP - Misappropriating Feminism
On March 5, 2016, CSI SJP shared an NYC SJP blog post on Facebook to “commemorate International Working Women’s Day as an inseparable aspect of the fight for Palestinian liberation.”The post declared: “Women who facilitate Zionist aggression in Palestine do not have any common ground with women resisting it.”
The blog post praised international hijacker Leila Khaled for “committing her life to be a freedom fighter in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.”
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
NYC SJP’s blog post went on to praise PFLP terrorists Khalida Jarrar and Rasmea Odeh.
Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.
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.
The post alleged “Israel is a state that was built on the murder and rape of Palestinian women” and claimed “the state forces women to give birth at checkpoints, where more than half of the babies died as a result.”
The post concluded “Smash the Patriarchy! Smash the Settler Zionist State! Free Palestine, and Free Women EVERYWHERE!"
CSI SJP - Whitewashing Terrorists
On October 6, 2016, CSI SJP posted a photo montage of four Palestinian teenangers, titled “4 Palestinian Teenagers EXECUTED in Cold Blood by Zionist Occupying forces in less than 32 hours. Ages 13-19.”One teenager pictured was 19 year-old Fadi Aloon
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.
Another youth pictured was Muhannad Halabi.
Halabi murdered two Israelis and injured two others, including a 2-year-old, during a stabbing spree.
One day earlier, Halabi posted on his Facebook page that "the [t]he third Intifada is here" and wrote "[w]ake up from your slumber and save al-Aqsa. Let the revolution erupt."
Also pictured was Hudhaifa Suleiman aged 18, who participated in a Hamas-organized riot where “hundreds of Palestinians...threw firebombs, rolled burning tires and threw rocks at [Israeli] soldiers.”
CSI SJP - Spreading Propaganda
On February 22, 2015, CSI SJP posted an Al-Jazeera article that claimed “Hundreds of Palestinians flee as Israel opens dams into Gaza Valley.” Al-Jazeera later admitted the story was false , as there were no dams in Southern Israel that could be opened.As of July 2019, CSI SJP still had not removed the post.CSI SJP - Urging Anti-Israel Violence
On October 6, 2015, CSI SJP, shared an NYC SJP “statement of solidarity” with a “Day of Rage” rally held at the Israeli consulate in New York on October 6, 2015. The event was co-sponsored by a number of anti-Israel organizations including NY4Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and NYC SJP and urged support for a “Day of Rage” called for by “Palestinian forces.”At the bottom of that statement was a graphic of a keffiyeh- masked Palestinian throwing a rock, with the caption “Let the Intifada pave the way for People’s war!”
The “Days of Rage” in October of 2015 were heralded by Hamas as the advent of a new intifada. They directly resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians by shootings, stabbings and car rammings.
CSI SJP - Supporting Steven Salaita
On January 29, 2015 , CSI SJP posted an article on Facebook from the anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada supporting professor Steven Salaita. The CSI SJP post said: “Down with foreign government lobbies bribing universities to silent dissenters and organizers against settler-colonial states!”.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.
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.
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.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/100001115042248Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjanini91/ [Private]
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