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“FREE PALESTINE!! and end the occupation...innocent palestinians are suffering everyday while the jews are enjoying the pain. Plz understand the truth the palestinians are being targeted because they think we r weak..WELL WE RNT!! There r millions ..especially children, babies dying..plz help send the real message to the world!! not the fake msg sent by the media who hides the truth...help the real people in need...FREE PALESTINE!! Ive been to Pstine .. i will never forget the things i saw...”
Leean Othman
Occupation: Student
University: Marquette
Organization(s): SJP, BDS
Close Connection(s): Rawan Atari, Ahmad Murrar
University: Marquette
Organization(s): SJP, BDS
Close Connection(s): Rawan Atari, Ahmad Murrar
Overview
Leean Othman is a student at Marquette University majoring in Criminology & Law Studies and Minoring in Philosophy
and Arabic.
and Arabic.
SJP
Othman was the Vice President of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Marquette University.
SJP was co-founded by Hatem Bazian and Snehal Shingavi in 2001 at UC Berkeley. Their intention was to advance the radical anti-Israel mission of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), but now masked as a secular organization.
SJP runs targeted and well-orchestrated campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions, Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, "die-ins" as well as rallies and protests.
SJP runs targeted and well-orchestrated campaigns against Israel including Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolutions,Israel-Apartheid initiatives, drives comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, mock check-points, "die-ins" as well as rallies and protests.
SJP chapters regularly host speakers who engage in language considered anti-Semitic by the U.S. State Department. Chapter events routinely include individuals and organizations who are linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.
SJP members frequently intimidate and harass pro-Israel supporters. Members have been responsible for physically assaulting Jewish students, vandalizing communal propertyand violently disrupting pro Israel speakers and events. Protests organized by SJP chapters regularly include hate-speech and chants such as "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free" - calling for the destruction of the Jewish State.
SJP demonizes and defames critics, branding attacks against them as “Islamophobic” - a term popularized by co-founder Hatem Bazian.
SJP, along with the MSA, is rapidly creating a hostile andunsafe environment on US campuses for all who do not share their radical anti-Israel views. For this reason, they have been labeled by some as “Hamas on Campus.”
BDS
Othman was heavily involved in the 2015 MU Divest campaign as part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on the Marquette campus.
The divestment resolution drafted in April 2015 targeted Israeli-linked companies including United Technologies, Caterpillar, G4S and Hewlett-Packard. SJP had 13 co-sponsoring student organizations and garnered over 700 signatures from faculty, alumni, and students in support of the resolution.
The executive session to debate and vote on the resolution took place behind closed doors and was not recorded after the student government president revealed a document that had been circulating the Marquette campus containing personal information about the student government senators, including their religion and political beliefs. It also contained assignments and plans of action to solicit their support for specific issues. SJP members and other non-student government campaigners were forced to wait outside.
The resolution passed with a 25-3-0 vote. However, all references to Israel and the companies targeted for divestment were removed from the bill, as well as the word “divestment.” The new resolution became a generic recommendation for the university to implement socially responsible investing, negating the efforts of MU Divest.
In response, Atari wrote an article for the anti-Israel blog website Mondoweiss in which she criticized “attempts by student senators to remove the Palestinian voice entirely” and gave anaudio interview with Electronic Intifada. When asked "How is SJP fighting back?," Atari replied that "We have been building coalitions. We have been taking initiatives in other ways, not just divestment... there is an ad- hoc coalition started at Marquette called "coalition of the colored students at Marquette (Coalition SOC)." A lot of SJP members are part of this coalition. We have been fighting this repression of our voices.“
On the same day the divestment vote took place, four members of Coalition SOC, two of which were were wearing MU Divest clothing were arrested for a blocking an intersection after an organised march which drew a large crowd of students, faculty, public safety and police officers. A week after the vote, SJP organised a sit in in which members of the MU Divest coalition walked into the Marquette University student government offices with black tape over their mouths.
The BDS movement was 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 todivest from Israeli-affiliated companies, academic boycotts as well as physical rallies and protests.
The groups 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.
Social Media and Web Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leean.othman
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