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Sabrina Jeylanii
Occupation: Student
University: UMN TC
Organization(s): SJP, BDS
Close Connection(s): Nora Abdelal, Genaan Abdelall, Yasmine Abusaif, Nicholas Alexander, Ahmed Ahmed Ali, Bayan Alnizami, Saima Bachani, Sadok Benabdallah, Manuel Berduc, Alaina Desalvo, Siddig Elsheikh, Amin El-Geberti, Ilana Rossoff, Adnan Khan, Mariam El-Khatib, Sara Halimah, Amanda Hassan, Mohammed Hassan, Huda Khatoon, Jeremy Levinger, Amina Maameri, Mahmoud Mire, Inari Mohammed, Suheila Musani, Motaz Nashawaty, Amin Niknam, Nora Nashawaty, Fatuma Qorane, Rula Rashid, Zahra Sharif, Mohamed Yousif
Overview
Sabrina Jeylanii is a senior at Twin Cities – University of Minnesota (UMN TC). Jeylanii is a supporter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UMN (SJP UMN). She also supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Propagating Anti-Semitic Blood Libels
On April 21, 2016 Jeylanii posted on Facebook a Pakistani media article fraudulently headlined: “Israeli Forces Bury Palestinians [sic.] Kids Alive.” The article linked to video footage filmed in a Muslim country and showed military forces burying children alive. The original footage was scored with Arabic music and lyrics and was titled تعذيب الاستخبارت الاردنية (Torture by Jordanian Intelligence).
On December 8, 2015, Jeylanii shared a Facebook status that claimed that 9/11 was “a crime committed by the Israeli Mossad (Israel’s CIA) but falsely blamed on Arab Muslims.” The status then went on to say “A series of similar false-flag attacks have occurred all over the globe with the same Israeli intelligence fingerprints…this is now the ‘Jew’s civilization.’”
Whitewashing Palestinian Terrorist-Murder
On October 16, 2015 — in the midst of unremitting Palestinian incitement and three days after Palestinian Arabs murdered Israeli civilians — Jeylanii shared a Facebook post that blamed Israel for the violence.
Jeylanii also posted misleading images and video footage on Facebook of Palestinian assailants that had been neutralized, misrepresenting them to be innocent victims of Israeli brutality.
Applauding Violence
On March 9, 2016, Jeylanii shared a photo album on Facebook and praised masked Palestinian women firing sling shots and preparing stones for throwing.
Spreading Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
On January 3, 2016, Jeylanii shared an article on Facebook claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bribed Republicans — whom she said “basically committed treason against the U.S. & the president” — to vote against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Jeylanii then propagated the anti-Semitic notion that the Jewish state controls the U.S. government, commenting: “Hmm, no surprise, Israel runs this entire place.” When, in the comment feed, Jeylanii was challenged for suggesting that Israel controls America. Jeylanii insisted — “It’s a fact that Zionist Israel has far too much power over our country, we all know that.” Jeylanii then went on to say that Israel “controls the mainstream media.”
On December 9, 2015, Jeylanii shared on Facebook a link to an article titled: “Israel supports ISIS.” Jeylanii commented: “Of course.”
Telling Americans to Evade Taxes
On January 30, 2016, Jeylanii shared a photo on Facebook of an anti-Israel demonstrator holding a sign reading, “U.S. dollars feed Israeli war crimes.” The image also called on Americans to “Wake up!” telling them they “must have to [sic.] stop paying taxes to their government” and falsely accused Israel of “stealing Palestinian land and killing poor Palestinian people.”
Demonizing Israel
Jeylanii frequently distributes incendiary disinformation and misinformation, sourced from Mohamed Zeyara — a Canadian-born film maker and purveyor of anti-Israel propaganda and incitement.
On February 6, 2016 Jeylanii commented on a Zeyara post that she shared on Facebook, and branded Israel a “terrorist state.”
On July 12, 2014, Jeylanii signed and shared on Facebook a petition demanding an end of U.S. aid to Israel — and misleadingly titled “Condemn the Apartheid State of Israel for their Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian peoples.”
On July 10, 2014, Jeylanii shared an image reading “Stop Israeli Terror in Palestine – Let’s all change our profile picture.”
On July 13, 2014, Jeylanii shared on Facebook a thoroughly misleading video that falsely accused Israel of “Institutionalized discrimination” against non-Jews. The video also falsely claimed that Israeli Arabs are second class citizens of Israel and misrepresented Israeli security policies as discriminatory and unjust.
The film whitewashed Arab aggression and rejection of Israel’s existence — and falsely claimed that most Palestinians preferred “popular resistance over armed struggle.” Also, the film wrongly held Israel solely responsible for the Palestinian Arab refugee problem.
The film portrayed Israel as an aggressive, oppressive force that can be influenced only through pressure. Further, the film rejected peace talks as a “theater to cover a land grab.” The film ended with a deceptive call for for people to join the BDS movement — disguising the movement’s anti-Semitic core and its ultimate goal of destroying Israel.
Denying Israel’s Right To Self-Defense
On July 12, 2014, Jeylanii shared on Facebook a video by AJ+(Al Jazeera), titled What The Media Isn’t Telling You About Israel’s Attack On Gaza. The video misinformed viewers about the nature of the Gaza conflict, Hamas’ role in it.. Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge in July 2014, to destroy Hamas’ attack tunnels and stop Hamas’ rocket attacks from Gaza, targeting Israeli civilians — that had increased dramatically in the weeks prior to the Operation
On July 23, 2014, Jeylanii shared on Facebook a poster by the Anti-War Committee, that falsely suggested that Israel’s targeted response to Hamas’ rocketing of Israeli civilians was “collective punishment” — and called on the U.S. to end aid to Israel.
Supporting BDS
On February 16, 2016, Jeylanii changed her Twitter profile photo to an image signifying support for UMN Divest campaign organized by SJP UMN and encouraged others to share the image and sign the petition. On the same day Jeylanii shared a Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) Twin Cities chapter letter, endorsing a divestment resolution drafted and proposed by SJP UMN.
On March 7, 2016, Jeylanii shared a Hip-Hop music video by DJ Khaled Diss calling on a boycott of the Israeli Hummus company Sabra for donating money to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
SJP UMN
SJP UMN was founded in January 2011 and serves as a platform for other anti-Israel initiatives, like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Minnesota Break the Bonds and the Anti-War Committee (AWC).
Spreading Lies
On October 13, 2015, following a month of spiraling violence against Israeli civilians, SJP UMN lied that a 13-year old attempted-murderer, Ahmad Manasra, was killed — following his stabbing spree in Jerusalem. SJP UMN said: “[w]e cannot ignore these constant, heinous crimes, acts of racism, hatred, and inhumanity Palestinians are subjected to by Israeli settlers.” SJP UMN added: “Rest in peace Ahmad. To the highest heavens.” Mansara, however, is alive — and confessed to stabbing two Israelis, critically injuring a 13-year old boy.
On October 16, 2015, SJP UMN held a die-in on campus to “pay respects to the Palestinian martyrs,” many of whom died while attempting to murder Israeli civilians — and falsely accused Israel of illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing.
In April 2015, SJP UMN tweeted, fraudulently, that “only white Jews” are allowed to live in Israel.
In 2011, SJP UMN began its annual schedule of bringing Israeli Apartheid Week to UMN’s campus. The event features: “die-ins,” false claims that Israel is an “apartheid state,” and the construction of a mock “Apartheid Wall” in front of the student union building, to mischaracterize Israel’s security fence.
Inciting Violence and Mocking
In November 2015, SJP UMN tweeted that Israel is “trying to take Al Aqsa under the guise of ‘sharing.’” Such propaganda was the excuse for an upsurge in violence by Palestinian Arabs that flared in the fall of 2015. Hamas also called on Palestinians to violently “rise up and defend Al-Aqsa.” Likewise, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised those willing to martyr themselves for Al-Aqsa and declared that Jews would not be allowed to “desecrate” Al Aqsa with their “filthy feet.” Similar allegations have been a traditional pretext for Arab attacks on Jews well before the existence of Israel.
On April 29, 2015, a pro-Israel student group’s celebration of Israel’s independence day was defaced on UMN’s campus. SJP UMN released a statement denying any involvement in the vandalism, but added that “Israel’s ‘birthday’ is established on the exile of an entire people.” SJP’s treasurer Rula Rashid visited the pro-Israel’s group’s table and said “you stole our land,” the day before the defacement.
In February 2012, SJP UMN posted a video called “Sh*t Zionists Say” mocking and ridiculing pro-Israel supporters for feeling attacked and unsafe (0:16).
Insulting Jewish Heritage
In March 2015, SJP UMN launched a negative “Birthright campaign” in UMN’s student union building — handing out pamphlets to discourage Jewish students from participating in a sponsored trip to Israel encouraging Jewish identity. The campaign’s slogan was “Don’t Trip.”
On April 9, 2015, SJP officer Sara Halimah wrote an article defending SJP UMN’s Israeli Apartheid Week in the Minnesota Daily. Halimah presumed to define Zionism and Judaism — denying the Jews’ right to national self-determination and millennia of Jewish aspiration for return to their ancestral Homeland.
Shutting Down Free Speech
In April 2015, SJP UMN declared its refusal to dialogue with Israelis or pro-Israel organizations, unless the purpose of talking would “explicitly aim to expose and resist the occupation and all forms of discrimination and oppression against the Palestinian people.”
On November 3 2015, SJP UMN endorsed the disruption of a talk on ethics and the law of war to be given by Israeli law professor, Moshe Halbertal. For more than 30 minutes, protesters prevented Halbertal from speaking — by constantly interrupting his attempts to begin. One young woman came screaming back into the lecture — following her ejection by campus security — and three protesters were eventually arrested and incarcerated. Outside the lecture hall, other protesters — members of the AWC, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and SJP UMN — chanted “Free, free Palestine,” so loudly that it was difficult to hear Halbertal.
The protest was organized by the Anti-War Committee (AWC), an organization whose main campaign is ending US aid to Israel — and that also supports terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh, who was a key military operative with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Disguising Anti-Semitism as Anti-Zionism
In December 2014, SJP UMN claimed there was “an endless list of similarities between Nazi Germany and Israel.” Such demonization of Israel falls under the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism. The likening of Israel to Nazi Germany remains a staple of modern European anti-Semitism and contributed to a spike in anti-Semitic violence in 2014.
In April 2015, SJP UMN hosted professor Steven Salaita. Salaita made national news after the University of Illinois retracted a job offer due to a string of hateful anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tweets that he posted. One tweet posted shortly after three teenage Israeli students were kidnapped 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.” A month later, he tweeted, “Zionists: transforming “antisemitism” from something horrible into something honorable since 1948.” Salaita also tweeted “There’s something profoundly sexual to the Zionist pleasure w/#Israel’s aggression. Sublimation through bloodletting, a common perversion.”
Salaita also tweeted on July 19, 2014, “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?”
In October 2015, SJP UMN painted a map on the Washington Avenue Bridge that featured a map of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, with no internal borders, and covered with a keffiyeh — visually eradicating the Jewish State.
Smearing Israel
On March 4, 2015, SJP UMN hosted a talk with Mondoweiss correspondent Dan Cohen, who teamed up with anti-Semitic journalist Max Blumenthal to create a documentary on Gaza. Blumenthal blamed Israel exclusively for the conflict in Gaza — and spoke of the “illegal conquest of Israel in Gaza,” despite Israel’s complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Max Blumenthal’s book “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel” has been dubbed “The Israel Hater’s Handbook” by Eric Alterman of progressive magazine The Nation.
During his talk, Cohen dismissed Israeli civilians’ safety concerns in the face of unrelenting Hamas rocket attacks, describing the 2014 Gaza War as “not an attack on Hamas… This was an attack on Palestinian society.” Hamas — which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union, Australia, Egypt, Japan, the United States, and Canada — fired over 4,564 missiles rockets — including Grad rockets — at Israeli population centers during the Gaza War. Cohen also spread a blood libel that Israeli soldiers “took revenge” and intentionally shot civilians.
In January 2015, Cohen tweeted a photo with Palestinian children in Gaza, alongside the caption “Selfie with the greatest threat to Israel.” Since 2012, thousands of Gazan children have received military training in Hamas summer camps. The camps, dubbed by Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh “Hamas’ Child Abuse Camps,” prepare children to launch attacks on Israel. Hamas leaders have bragged that 17,000 young teenagers are ready for war, saying “They [the children] are strong soldiers; proving their potential with Allah’s help. You will see them in Haifa and Tel Aviv.” (1:52) One military trainer explained, “We train children how to use all types of weapons – machine guns, anti-aircraft; tunnel warfare; in guerilla warfare; to fight the enemy with Allah’s help.” (4:30)
Defending Terrorists
In November 2014, SJP UMN objected to calling unrepentant terrorist-murderer Rasmea Odeh a “terrorist.” Odeh was a key military operative with the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1969 the PFLP bombed a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two South African students. Odeh also attempted to bomb the British consulate.
Odeh was tried and convicted for her involvement in both bombings and sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court. After being released in a prisoner swap, she emigrated to the U.S.
Odeh was convicted by a Michigan federal jury in November 2014 for immigration fraud, having omitted details of her prior conviction and life sentence, of which she served 10 years. Odeh was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, fined and ordered to be deported following her prison term. In February of 2106, Odeh’s immigration fraud case was sent back to the district court, to examine whether trauma-related, repressed memories, contributed to Odeh’s failure to disclose her prior conviction.
SJP UMN also tweeted the allegation that Odeh was “raped into” confessing to the two bombings in Israel. In reality, Odeh confessed, in a highly detailed account, the day following her arrest. One of Odeh’s co-conspirators also directly implicated Odeh as the mastermind, in a 2004 documentary.
In 2012, SJP UMN expressed support for Khader Adnan, a senior member of terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which “is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel.” Islamic Jihad has no ‘political wing’ or ‘social wing’, just a ‘military wing’ that focuses solely on promoting terrorism and the murder of Israelis. It is reported that the group is backed by Iran and has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks.
A 2007 YouTube video shows Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”
Adnan has been arrested numerous times by the Palestinian Authority — once for encouraging students to hurl stones at a visiting French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin. Israel has also arrested him for “activities that threaten regional security.”
In January 2016, SJP UMN also expressed support for Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been imprisoned for Hamas terror-related activities.
BDS at UMN
On February 16, 2016, SJP UMN launched a divestment campaign and petition demanding the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) and UMN divest from four companies that provide equipment, supplies and weapons for Israelis. According to UMN Chief Investment officer, UMN “has no direct exposure to any of the four stocks targeted by Students for Justice in Palestine’s divestment resolution.”
On March 8, 2016, UMN student representatives voted to strike down SJP UMN’s divestment resolution.
Since its founding, SJP UMN has promoted the boycott of Israel and organizations like the Minnesota Break the Bonds (MN BBC). The MN BBC, formed in 2006 in response to the 2005 BDS call for international solidarity, has been involved in a multi-year statewide campaign to pressure the state of Minnesota to break economic ties with Israeli holdings. Another of MN BBC’s goals was to “to serve as a model for organizations in other states and municipalities that are attempting to divest of Israel bonds.”
In October 2012, SJP UMN launched a petition to promote an anti-Israel protest against an exhibition basketball game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and a professional Israeli basketball team — Maccabi Haifa. The protest was organized by MN BBC, which sent a letter to each T-Wolves player asking them “to boycott the exhibition game against Maccabi-Haifa, the Israeli team that you are scheduled to play next Tuesday.” Per the Minnesota Police report, written after the exhibition game, Target Center security reported numerous disturbances occurring in the stands amongst fans, involving flags, offensive banners and racial taunting.
SJP
SJP was co-founded in 2001, at UC Berkeley, by Hatem Bazian and Snehal Shingavi. Their intention was to advance the radical anti-Israel mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, but masked as a secular organization.
SJP members frequently intimidate and harass Jews and pro-Israel students. SJP Members have physically assaulted Jewish students, possibly vandalized communal property and violently disrupted pro Israel speakers and events. SJP-run rallies regularly include hate-speech and chants such as”Long Live The Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free” — calls for violence and for the destruction of the Jewish State.
SJP runs inflammatory campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions, Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock checkpoints and “die-ins”, as well as rallies and protests.
SJP chapters regularly host speakers who use language considered anti-Semitic by the U.S. State Department. Chapter events routinely include individuals and organizations linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.
When confronted, SJP demonizes and defames critics, branding attacks against them as “Islamophobic” — a term popularized by co-founder Hatem Bazian.
SJP is rapidly creating a hostile and unsafe environment on U.S. campuses. For this reason, it has been labeled by some as “Hamas on Campus.”
BDS
The BDS movement was co-founded in 2005 by Omar Barghouti. The movement is self-described as “a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.”
Campaigns include compelling institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, academic boycotts, anti-Israel rallies and protests.
The group’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, backed by university anti-Israel affiliates, the university student government has been brought to vote on some sort of boycott of and divestment from Israel and Israeli-affiliated organizations. These resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It is documented that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitism on campus. In 2013, the student government of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) debated a BDS resolution. Reports emerged of threats of violence, the spitting on a female student senator, and theft of the personal property of anti-BDS activists. As a result, the student government chose to vote via a “secret ballot” in order to ensure their own safety.
Barghouti and the BDS movement are proponents of the radical “one-state solution” that has been denounced as a scheme to dissolve Israel as the Jewish State. Barghouti has been quoted as saying, “Good riddance! The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally dead”, and that in a one-state “by definition, Jews will be a minority.”
The organization is affiliated with numerous anti-Israel groups worldwide, including ones that have been labeled terrorist organizations. The Jerusalem Post claims the BDS movement receives directives from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and the movement is considered extreme even by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, who stated his opposition to a BDS boycott of Israel in 2013.
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