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The University of California, Irvine (UCI) chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is out of control. SJP UCI has incited against and disrupted Jewish speakers on campus since 2010. How long before someone gets hurt? In February 2010, eleven UCI students, including SJP UCI members, disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech. These students, dubbed the “Irvine 11,” were arrested and prosecuted. On May 18, 2016, SJP UCI disrupted a pro-Israel film screening. SJP UCI student leader, Celine Qussiny led a crowd of fifty who tried to force their way into the venue. They called for “Intifada” (violent uprising) and to “Fight the police.” Pro-Israel attendees were escorted out by police, for their own protection. |
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The university administration put SJP UCI on probation, effective until March 2017. When the probation period expired, Celine Qussiny and SJP UCI were back. On May 10, 2017, they stormed a pro-Israel panel discussion event, with Qussiny leading a crowd in various chants including “When people are occupied, resistance is justified!” Again, attendees needed a police escort out of the venue. The next day, Qussiny bragged how SJP UCI had gone “to disrupt the event” in order “to let them (the panelists) know that we refuse to allow the normalization of their presence here.” She admitted that SJP UCI knew full-well that “the administration told us not to disrupt, that we have to be civil.” UCI should not tolerate this kind of activity. Is it time for SJP UCI to be shut down, before someone gets hurt? After receiving footage of the disruption taken by panelists and attendees, campus watchdog Canary Mission decided to perform an in depth investigation. In addition to naming many of the SJP UCI disruptors, the Canary Mission Report on the University of California, Irvine (June, 2017) reveals that a number of them were also members of the UCI student government. |
13 Individuals
Celine Qussiny – SJP, MSA, GUPS, PYM, BDS
Celine Qussiny was the leader of the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI. In May 2016, Qussiny also led protesters in shutting down an Israeli film screening at UCI.
Qussiny has expressed support for Palestinian terrorists on social media.
Quissiny was reportedly the 2015 co-chair of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
Qussiny is a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) West. Qussiny was also an affiliate of the Muslim Student Union (MSU) at UCI.
Qussiny is also affiliated with General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) — whose members have also shouted down Israeli speakers invited to campus.
Qussiny is an admin for the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire Facebook group and a member of the PYM San Diego Facebook group.
Qussiny is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. On May 10, 2017, Qussiny joined SJP UCI student activists in supporting the passing of a Divestment resolution at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).
In 2014, Qussiny was listed as one of many UCI students who were Spring 2014 Grant Recipients. Qussiny majored in Comparative Literature/ Psychology and Social Behavior where her project was titled “Constructing a Palestinian Identity through Hip-Hop: Uniting Palestinians across the Diaspora.” Qussiny’s faculty mentor was Professor Sohail Daulatzai, who is a promoter of BDS and was barred from entering Israel in 2002, during the second Intifada. [More]
Jeanine Erikat – ASUCI Student Senator, SJP, MSA
Jeanine Erikat participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
At the protest, Erikat screamed that the IDF is “a military where they murder kids and families and they arrest children.”
Erikat is Senator at Large with the Associated Students – University of California, Irvine (ASUCI), on the Advocacy Committee.
Erikat is reportedly a 2017 board member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
Erikat promotes events on Facebook organized by the Muslim Students Union (MSU), an affiliate of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI. Erikat goes by the alias Jeanine Subhia, on Facebook.
On April 4, 2017, when announcing a run for a second term of at-Large senatorship, Erikat wrote on Facebook that she was a sophomore at UCI, majoring in Public Health Sciences. [More]
Sara Baggia – ASUCI Student Senator, SJP, MSU, CAIR
Sara Baggia participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Baggia is a Senator at Large with the Associated Students – University of California, Irvine (ASUCI). She is the Rules Committee Vice-Chair.
Sara Baggia is student activist with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) UCI and also a student activist with the Muslim Students Union (MSU), an affiliate of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI.
Baggia has committed on Facebook to attend the 13th Annual Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) CA Muslim Youth Leadership Program, scheduled for July 13, 2017.
Baggia was responsible for maintaining the Facebook presence of UCI’s 2017 Anti-Zionism week.
Mohamad Abdulrahman – ASUCI Student Senator, SJP, MSU
Mohamad Abdulrahman [Mohamed Elfadil A Azrag / Mohamed Blu] participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Abdulrahman is an Engineering Senator with the Associated Students – University of California, Irvine (ASUCI).
Abdulrahman also participated the following day with SJP UCI and MSU UCI student activists in a follow-up protest, that further demonized Israel and the reservists. Most of those leading that demonstration tried to hide their faces behind posters, or masked them with Keffiyehs.
Abdulrahman is a student activist of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI. Abdulrahman is also a affiliated with the Muslim Students Union (MSU), an affiliate of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI.
Abdulrahman is affiliated with Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Southern California.
As of May 29, 2017, Abdulrahman’s Facebook said he was a UCI student, majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Abdulrahman also said he studied Mechanical Engineering at Irvine Valley College from August 2015 to June 2015. Abdulrahman’s Facebook listed his “home town” as Omdurman, Al Kharţūm, Sudan. [More]
Ghiyath Alazzah – SJP, MSA, PYM, BDS
Ghiyath Alazzah participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Alazzah is a student activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
On May 11th, during SJP UCI’s ‘Anti-Zionism week,’ Alazzah posed in a photo with other SJP UCI student activists holding a sign that read: “Long live the Intifada.”
Alazzah is also affiliated with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) West — MSA’s west coast regional division — as well affiliated with the Muslim Students Union (MSU) at UCI.
Alazzah is a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire Facebook group.
Alazzah is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Alazzah also manages the Palestinian Heritage Committee Facebook page. [More]
Rayan Galaidos – SJP, MSU, BDS, PSA
Rayan Galaidos participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
The following day, Galaidos manned a mock apartheid wall with SJP UCI, promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Galaidos is a student activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
Galaidos is affiliated with the Muslim Students Union (MSU), another name for the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI.
Galaidos is the external social chair of the Pakistani Students Association (PSA) at UCI. In 2017, Galaidos ran as a Social Sciences Senator for student government at UCI. [More]
Reem Ramadan – SJP, MSU
Reem Ramadan participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Ramadan is affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI and is an administrator of the Facebook group “Students for Justice in Palestine Chaffey College.”
Ramadan is also member of the MSU Sisters Facebook group, an affiliate of the Muslim Students Union (MSU) — another name for the Muslim Students Association (MSA) — at UCI.
Ramadan posted on her Facebook page that she started studying at UC Irvine in September of 2016, majoring in Biology. [More]
Huda Khaled – SJP, MSU
Huda Khaled [Huda Herwees Khaled] participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Khaled is a student activist with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
Khaled is a student activist with the Muslim Students Union (MSU), an affiliate of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI, and helped organize MSA West conferences in 2015 and in 2016. Khaled is also a member of the Facebook group MSU Sisters, as well as a member of the UCLA MSA and MSA CSULB Facebook groups.
Khaled is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. On March 4, 2017, Khaled retweeted a tweet that read: “New ‘Boycott Apartheid Israel’ billboards go up near Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport for #IsraeliApartheidWeek.”
On May 5, 2017, Khaled tweeted a picture of herself in a graduation cap and gown bearing the UCI logo. [More]
Ithzel Santana – SJP
Ithzel Santana participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Santana is affiliated with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCI.
On January 1, 2014, Santana posted to her Facebook page that she began studying “Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies” at UCI. [More]
Forest Agostinelli – SJP, MSU, BDS
Forest Agostinelli participated in the May 2017 protest against Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Agostinelli then led chants in a follow-up protest, the following day, that further demonized Israel and the reservists.
Agostinelli is affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Students Union (MSU), another name for the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI.
Agostinelli is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Per Agostinelli’s LinkedIn page, he is a Ph.D. student at UCI, majoring in Computer Science, Machine Learning. [More]
Gurneel Boparai – ASUCI Student Senator, SJP
Gurneel Boparai attempted to block the May 2017 panel event with IDF reservists who were invited to speak to UCI students and faculty.
Boparai was elected as a Senator at-Large with the Associated Students – University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) during its 2017 spring elections.
Boparai is a supporter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Students Union (MSU), an affiliate of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UCI.
On May 11, 2017, Boparai posted an “URGENT CALL TO ACTION” to the Facebook group Sikh Students Association
Boparai claimed “Israel flew over reserve Israeli Defence Force troops to harass and Suppress Students for Justice in Palestine at UCI, the wall action and all other events.” Boparai said it was important to “block these troops from invading SJP’s Action and space.”
Boparai went on to say: “They even held their own panel today, which SJP shut down in response to the actions of the IDF troops” and added “it really important for us to stand with SJP and blocks [sic.] these troops from invading SJP’s Action and space.”
Boparai later removed the Facebook post. [More]
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Zeina Mousa – ASUCI Student Senator, SJP, MSA
On May 11, 2017, Mousa joined other SJP UCI student activists in a protest that demonized Israel and pro-Israel students, the day after SJP UCI student activists shouted down Muslim, Christian, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Arab and Bedouin IDF reservists who came to speak at UCI.
Zeina Mousa was a student activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), at UCI.
Mousa was a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) West — MSA’s west coast regional division and a member of the Muslim Student Union (MSU) at UCI.
Mousa was a 2017 student senator at UCI. [More]
Abdurahman Lachgar – SJP, MSA, BDS
Abdurahman Lachgar has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and demonized Jewish students on social media. He has also spread hatred of Israel and Zionism.
Lachgar is a student activist with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Lachgar is also a member of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) West — (MSA’s west coast regional division) and is affiliated with the Muslim Students Union (MSU) at UCI.
Lachgar has been a vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for years. On February 25, 2014, Lachgar tweeted: “‘DIVESTMENT RESOLUTIONS ARE ANTISEMETIC! I FEEL SO THREATENED! JEWISH PEOPLE DONATE SO MUCH TO UCLA’ booooo f**king hoooooo #UCLAdivest.”
Lachgar said on Facebook that he was a UCI student from 2015 – 2017, majoring in Urban and Regional Planning. [More]
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