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Ali Jishi

Overview

Ali Jishi was a board member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2014-2015. While Jishi served as a board member, SJP proposed a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution at UCLA.

As of September 2018, Jishi’s LinkedIn page continued to list him as “Student at University of California, Los Angeles” but said he graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017.

SJP Activism

In May 2015, Jishi was a featured speaker at a joint event with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) to promote the groups’ views on Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and to publicize the groups’ campus activities.

In 2014, Jishi was an SJP board member when the chapter proposed a student government resolution titled: “A Resolution to Divest from Companies Engaged in Violence against Palestinians.” 

The resolution, which was endorsed by the UCLA student government, called on the University of California Board of Regents to divest from a list of companies allegedly tied to violence against Palestinians.

Jishi signed a January 8, 2015, SJP West petition endorsing the resolution. The petition implied Israel was guitly of “atrocities” including “the systematic violation of Palestinian human rights” and called Israel's Operation Protective Edge “a horrific assault on Gaza.”

Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.  


Throughout the summer of 2014 — during OPE — Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza.

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.



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Ali Jishi
Status:
Student
University:
California-Los-Angeles
Organizations:
BDS,
SJP

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Last Modified:
06/23/2025

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