Sean Malloy

Overview

Sean Malloy [Sean L. Malloy] has demonized Israel, endorsed an anti-Israel agitator and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of April 2022, Malloy was an associate professor and a Founding Faculty of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced). From 2008 to 2009, Malloy was a member of the Curriculum Committee at UC Merced. 

Malloy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) with a bachelor’s degree in History in 1994, and graduated from Stanford University (Stanford) with a Ph.D. in History in 2002.

As of April 2022, Malloy used the handle “cpt_john_riley” and screen name “Sean Malloy ☭” on Twitter. 

Demonizing Israel

In 2002, Malloy co-authored a book demonizing Israel titled: “The Palestinian Struggle, Zionism and Anti-Semitism.” The first section of the book was Malloy’s 1993 article: “Palestinian Self-Determination and Zionist Colonialism.”

On September 1, 2017, Malloy co-sponsored a presentation at UC Merced titled: “What the History of the Castro Can Tell Us About Pinkwashing: Israel, Palestine, and Queer Market Politics.” 

“Pinkwashing” is a claim that Israel advocates manipulate the LGBTQ community in order to garner support for Israel.  

According to the event page, Tallie Ben-Daniel, the “Academic Advisory Council Coordinator, Jewish Voice for Peace will present the group's latest research as part of the Fall 2017 Seminar in the Humanities series "Decolonizing Palestine: Beyond the Two State Solution." 

Endorsing an Anti-Israel Agitator

On May 13, 2015, Malloy tweeted: “You have the academic freedom to say what you want so long as you don't make white folks or Zionists uncomfortable. #SaidaGrundy #Salaita.”

Supporting BDS

Malloy is a member of the Organizing Collective for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).

Malloy signed a 2014 open letter calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. 

The July 31, 2014 letter, addressed to former U.S. President Barack Obama and the American Congress, called “to suspend US military aid to Israel, until there is assurance that this aid will no longer be used for the commission of war crimes.”
On January 30, 2017, Malloy tweeted: “If you oppose Trump but can't support nonviolent resistance to Israeli apartheid in the form of BDS then WTF [what the f**k] is wrong with you.”

Malloy retweeted a March 24, 2019 tweet by anti-Israel agitator Steven Salaita that said: “Whenever university officials brag about empowering young citizens, remind them that 44 student bodies in the USA have passed a BDS resolution and not a single administration has honored the decision.”

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpt_john_riley

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sean.malloy.94 

University Website: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/smalloy/