Chosen to give a commencement address at City University of NY School of Law, was “Palestinian” Muslim Nerdeen Kiswani, the force behind one of the most violent and aggressive anti-Israel/anti-Semitic groups in New York City, Anti-Semites like Kiswani are spreading their radical hate from education to law through mainstream sectors by disguising it as criticisms of Israel.
Some of the earliest documented campus anti-Semitism occurred during the early to mid-20th century, when American universities were faced with a large influx of Jewish students who emigrated from Europe. Back then, campus anti-Semitism manifested itself in the form of Jewish quotas, including at prestigious Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, until they were effectively outlawed in the 1960s and 1970s. As a result of these quotas, the City University of New York system has always had a high percentage of Jewish students…even today.
Unfortunately, the growing Muslim student population along with their far-left sympathizers, have turned the campuses of the City University of New York system into “hotspots” of anti-Semitism known for frequent anti-Zionist incidents.
JNS Canary Mission, an organization that documents people and groups that promote hatred of the United States, Israel and Jews, released a press statement on Tuesday criticizing a decision by the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School to select Nerdeen Kiswani, an anti-Israel activist, to deliver a commencement address.”
“Kiswani, who is known at the law school as Nerdeen Mohsen, founded and heads the organization Within Our Lifetime (WOL), a group dedicated to the complete destruction of Israel. WOL is responsible for a recent series of violent protests on NYC streets that have seen its activists physically attack Jews and passersby. The group targets Jewish groups, businesses and individual philanthropists who support the State of Israel,” it added.
JTA A Jewish student at CUNY, who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution, said that Kiswani is creating an “unsafe environment” for Jewish people on campus.
“It’s one thing to have a political person who you don’t agree with,” Dave (a pseudonym) said. “But she calls for the actual murder of Jews. It’s really setting a precedent that CUNY is OK with having people in their school who are out to hurt us.”
Kiswani has a long record of statements that call for the abolishment of the state of Israel and actions that appear to condone violence against Israelis. She also liked a since-deleted Instagram post that said, in Arabic, “Glory to the axe of resistance.” The post referred to the May 5 murder of three Jewish fathers in the Israeli city of Elad by Palestinian attackers wielding axes.
Kiswani was named the “Antisemite of the Year” in 2020 by StopAntisemitism.org, and WOL was banned from Instagram recently for inciteful hate speech.
Kiswani leads WOL rallies and promotes slogans such as “Resistance, by any means necessary,” and, “We need allies who are gonna help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be non-violent.”
Kiswani has a storied history of terrorist glorification. In February 2018, she tweeted:
After a video of law student Nerdeen Kiswani threatening to set fire to an IDF sweatshirt worn by an unidentified man went viral, CUNY Law School condemned antisemitism and then apologized for the denunciation saying that Kiswani was “exercising her First Amendment right,” according to the Algemeiner.
In the video, a man wearing an IDF sweatshirt is being confronted by a woman holding a lit lighter and in the background is a female voice saying “I hate your shirt. I’m gonna set it on fire. I’m serious.”
Horrific – a student at @CUNY, Nerdeen Kiswani, threatens to set on fire a man wearing an #IDF sweatshirt.
“I hate your shirt, Ima setting it on fire. I’m serious” she can be heard saying.
We demand this is immediately looked into and the Ms. Kiswani face disciplinary actions! pic.twitter.com/TL1J4JrI63
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 22, 2020
IPT Some highlights of Kiswani’s anti-Semitism:
“You guys, the Zionists are being so mean to me!
All I’ve done is call (repeatedly) for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state “by any means necessary.” Sure, any means includes violence and terrorism, but I made that sentiment a principal element of my organization “Within Our Lifetime.”
But who would have a problem with that or find me an inappropriate speaker for a university commencement ceremony?? Islamophobes, that’s who.
Those Zionists at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) thought it was bad that I was chosen to speak to the City University of New York (CUNY) law school graduation earlier this month. They said I liked an Instagram post glorifying a recent bloody and deadly attack. I mean, I did, but what’s that mean? They also weren’t big fans of my organization Within Our Lifetime’s call to keep “Zionist professors” off campus, and “Zionist students” away from Palestinian students.
I can say whatever hateful, incendiary thing I want. But if Jews/Zionists criticize it, that’s slander!
Like during another talk last month, when I said that we shouldn’t “act like Israel has a right to exist, or negotiations can be made with this colonial entity. But we know that that can never, and should never be the case.” That’s just me expressing my identity.
Anyway, the good news is I’m a law school graduate. I’ll have more time for Within Our Lifetime – named for our belief that Palestine will be liberated within our lifetime – and spreading our message that we “reject all collaboration and dialogue with zionist organizations through a strict policy of anti-normalization. The liberation of Palestine requires the abolition of zionism (aka the abolition of Israel) .”
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Canary Mission Kiswani has a long history of calling for violence against Jews and Israel:
Nerdeen Kiswani [Nerdeen Mohsen] has called for the death of Zionists and for Israel’s destruction and spread incitement to violence as the chairperson of Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an anti-Israel activist group in New York City.
Kiswani has glorified intifada (killing Israelis), honored leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and expressed support for other terrorists in her WOL activism.
Kiswani also has spread hatred of America, incited hatred against pro-Israel donors, promoted hatred of Israel and demonized Zionism. She has disrupted multiple New York City Council meetings and was accused of silencing sexual assault victims.
Kiswani has opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2021, Kiswani expressed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”
As of December 2021, Kiswani was an organizer [00:47:11] and was the president of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) (CUNY Law SJP).
Kiswani was a co-founder and chair of New York City SJP (NYC SJP). In February 2018, NYC SJP was renamed to WOL. Kiswani was also the vice president and former president of SJP at Hunter College (Hunter) and at the College of Staten Island (CSI), both part of CUNY.
In April 2021, WOL was part of a coalition of New York City anti-American groups called the “International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings (IIAAF),” when IIAAF launched the Strike MoMA campaign. Strike MoMA targeted individual members of the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for various reasons, including their pro-Israel activism.
In May 2021, Kiswani said [00:08:23] she was indefinitely banned from entering Israel.
On March 3, 2017, Kiswani posted to Instagram: “Israel must be annihilated.”
On May 24, 2021, Kiswani featured in a Youtube webinar hosted by Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books, in which she said [00:08:46]: “…we have to defeat this illegitimate zionist settler state that has no right to exist.”
Kiswani added [00:09:05]: “Abolishing Israel is the key to peace.”
On June 11, 2021, as part of the Strike MoMA campaign, Kiswani helped lead a “Globalize the Intifada” rally.
“Globalize the Intifada” is an anti-Israel campaign launched by Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in the summer of 2021, intended as an “ongoing strike at the heart of empire [sic] with Palestine as its compass.” The movement seeks to “break free from the genocidal grip of U.S. imperialism and Zionism” and advocates “liberation by any means necessary.”
In a video WOL Palestine posted to its Instagram account, Kiswani led protesters in chanting [00:00:34]: “5-6-7-8 smash the settler state” and [00:00:07]: “There is only one solution, Intifada revolution,” as well as [00:00:24]: “Intifada, Intifada! Long Live the Intifada!”
The second intifada was characterized by more than 120 suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians on buses and in cafes.
On April 22, 2022, Kiswani said [00:06:08] in a YouTube video: “We understand that it’s our duty and responsibility to continue to build for Palestinian liberation from the belly of the beast and to continue to push the envelope because the U.S. is the biggest backer of the Zionist state that is responsible for the oppression of the Palestinian people.”
On July 4, 2021, Kiswani featured [00:00:01] in an Instagram video where she joined in chants at a rally that WOL co-organized in Brooklyn intended to “redirect the false pride of American Independence Day to pride in our resistance…”
The next day, a Twitter video from the rally showed [00:00:01] protesters burning American and Israeli [00:00:20] flags, while WOL activist Abdullah Akl could be heard [00:00:03] leading the crowd in several chants.
On March 30, 2022 Kiswani led [01:05:01] a WOL rally, a video of which was published on YouTube on April 3, 2022. In the video, Kiswani said [01:05:01]: “We will settle for nothing less than every single inch of a liberated Palestine, from the River to the Sea with the ‘right of return’ for every single Palestinian refugee to their original homeland and all of Palestine.”
Kiswani continued: “Not just in Gaza or the West Bank or Al Quds [Jerusalem] but in ‘48 [Israel], every inch of Palestine. This is why we chant, ‘we don’t want two states, we want ‘48, we want all of it’ because all of it belongs to us. All of the land.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.
Pray Hard says
Liberal Jews take self loathing to a completely new level.
Andrew+Blackadder says
I just cant watch that video of the silly wee lassie speaking nonsense as the irony is that she would have, as a woman, more Human Rights within the State of Israel than she would have in Gaza,West Bank or ANY islamic Nation around the entire World, and yet she has her wee feeeelings hurt when ”slander” comes back at her as she thinks she has the right to slander Jews and Israel but when somebody calls her out on her garbage she cries discrimination… This is a sad state of affairs indeed when such a person can stand up in such a University and talk crap and get applause for it from the youth of that School.
Ive noticed that the muslims in the USA react with violence towards any Jewish person but I never see a Jewish person react with violence towards a muslim person… weird that huh?.
BareNakedIslam says
Andrew, Pamela Geller caught a lot of flak for this advertising campaign she produced. But she was spot on:
allanivarsson says
Wow BNI, I remember that Geller quote but had forgotten it. Thank you for reminding me. At 73 years, I think I am starting to forget things.
BareNakedIslam says
She got crucified in the media for that brilliant quote.
Linda Rivera says
The BLOODTHIRSTY MUSLIM SAVAGE calls for the Mass Murder of Jews in America; in Israel, and worldwide.
The Murderous Fiend lies and slanders the IDF
On Judgment Day, the evil woman will stand before the Just Judge, the Righteous, HOLY ONE, the God of Truth and will wish she’d never been born. It will be too late to repent on that fateful Day.
She, and all evil perpetrators and enablers will spend All of Eternity in Fiery Hell.
British Colonel: “IDF is most moral army in the history of warfare”
allanivarsson says
Linda, whether they go to hell or not, America’s problem exists now. It looks to me that the revival of the ‘War of Independence’ is needed again now. Problem is that with today’s Automatic Weapons Power, such a Civil War would destroy USA.
Hence, I think a movement stronger than CAIR is needed to overthrow these evil characters and start challenging the Universities and other organisations for allowing such ‘Violent Threats’ and ‘Death Threats’ to exist. We cannot stop ‘Hate Speech’, because ‘Freedom of Speech’ is a human right, but we can fight back by demanding respect for ‘Equality of Rights’.
If LGBTQ and others can use Political Correctness/Woke as a weapon so can we the opposition.
But we must choose our words carefully, good communication is the key to winning a fight. Unfortunately, I am trapped in a battle against ‘Communist China’ since 2019, and I am getting old. We need more Websites like BNI & mine dealing with volumes of ‘Fight Back’ subjects to topple every form of anti-freedom Ideology on this planet. Dangers now exist everywhere Including in ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Green Murder’ subjects and ‘Communist Beijing’s’ aggression to rule Earth & Space and control all Communication, Energy and Food supplies.
Beijing is now targeting infiltration into South Pacific, South America & Africa and is encouraging ‘Putin Russia’ to take control of Europe and USA is a target. Beijing knows once USA falls; they can rule the world. Which is why Jinping and I are engaged in a ‘Cold War’. Communist Beijing Intelligence reads my website almost daily. Two days ago, on the 24th they read 26 of my articles.
We are in a war but if we use Nuclear Weapons, a ‘Nuclear Winter’ will result and life on Planet Earth will become extinct. We thus have to fight different.
There is no place for ‘Apathy’ and it is true ‘Ignorance is Evil’. Why? Because Ignorance allows evil to thrive.
Linda Rivera says
Who are these mere humans, Muslims, to OPPOSE ALMIGHTY GOD who gave Israel to Jews as an Everlasting Possession thousands of years before the MURDER BLOOD CONQUEST Cult of Islam was invented.
The Enemies of Jews and Israel are the ENEMIES of the HOLY ONE, our Magnificent, Glorious, Awesome Creator.
Bible, Psalm 83:1-5
O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
2
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
3
They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant…..
Linda Rivera says
The Muslim Terrorist Hypocrite omits to mention in her speeches that Fascists, Imperialists, Colonialists Muslims Conquered 56 Nations By the Sword.
The Muslim Deceiver pretends to care about blacks and others but Cunning like a Serpent, she doesn’t breathe a word of protest about the extreme suffering her Muslim brothers inflict on blacks.
The ruthless Muslim doesn’t object that Rapes, Gang Rapes, Slavery, and Sex Slavery of non-Muslims has been perpetrated against non Muslims for 1,400 years. And that it’s a big part of Islam and LEGAL in Sharia.
And that sex slavery continues to this very day.
Jihad Slavery in Sudan, with Dr Charles Jacobs
allanivarsson says
Linda, excellent well said.
Jack Rider says
right you are! this isn’t just about Israel. it’s the manifestation of the red/green axis, the alignment of revolutionary marxists with fundamentalist muslim activists. they have an agenda and a grand strategy. they have allies in academia, the media and (indeed) government itself at all levels. (let’s hope Hershel Walker defeats Rafael Warnock for US Senator from Georgia because Warnock is thoroughly all in against Israel.) both camps, the marxists and the muslim activists know how to use (a willing) media for maximum benefit. and both have an infrastructure of organizations. while the IDF has capability there seems to be a deficit among Jewish organizations to mount an effective defense to this political initiative.
BareNakedIslam says
Jack, approx. 70% of Jewish Americans are liberals/leftists which means at least half don’t really support Israel.
allanivarsson says
BNI that is a huge problem. They need challenge. How many of them belong to a negative organisation? Does anyone know?
Cleavis W Nowell says
Wear PRC Chinese uniforms to some of their meetings and ask if they will die for China – to confuse them.
allanivarsson says
Cleavis, LOL.
allanivarsson says
I am becoming very concerned about USA. It seems like NYC is becoming a dangerous place to live. And that the USA is crumbling in societal strength of character within. If USA falls like Ancient Rome, the entire ‘Free World’ will fall and Communist China will rule the globe.
BareNakedIslam says
Allan, just liken Europe, the more Muslims who move in, the more dangerous a country gets.
allanivarsson says
One good thing, our new labor government stopped a boat of refugees invading our country and sent them back.
But the Greens spat the dummy and attacked Labor for turning back the boat.
Our country needs to toughen up more when dealing with Communist China.
It is hard to ban Australia from trading with China when USA & other countries are still trading with China. This year, I going to have to become even harder than in previous years. I have been very aggressive at times in my writing, but still apathy thrives.
BareNakedIslam says
Labored that? Shocking.