A bigot and leading figure in two hate organizations nominated to be University of California Student Regent

The student regent member is supposed to represent the perspective of the entire student body of the University of California system. Yet, Saifuddin’s record at UC Berkeley is one of involvement in extremist hate groups.  This participation raises serious questions regarding of her suitability to be the person to represent the diverse student body of the University of California.

Saifuddin, has been active in the infamous Students for Justice in Palestine-SJP (on the ADL list of the Top Ten Anti-Israel Groups in America), and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association-MSA, which is an anti-American and anti-Israel organization (see here, here, here, here and here). She is a leader in the manipulative and fraudulent BDS movement, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which aims for the destruction of the Jewish state. Eminent academics, including Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz of Harvard, have described the BDS as “anti-Semitic.”

Saifuddin co-sponsored the divisive resolution in the Berkeley student Senate, calling upon the entire University of California system to divest from companies that do business with Israel.

A high school senior applying to college recently wrote regarding Saifuddin’s organizations, SJP and MSA: “I am scared … because of the false propaganda and bullying — yes, bullying — taking place on college campuses nationwide … led by two student groups — the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine (see here the whole article).

A lawsuit filed by two UC Berkeley students details a pattern of harassment and physical assaults by members of Saifuddin’s groups at UC Berkeley.  These incidents cross the line from allowing free speech into creating a hostile campus.

A complaint filed by the ZOA documents Jewish students at the University of California Irvine are being subjected to harassment, intimidation, and discrimination by Saifuddin’ MSA.

Letters that have been written to the University Regents by concerned UC students, faculty and California residents, were ignored. The confirmation of Saifuddin’s nomination is supposed to take place at the next Regents meeting, July 16 -18.

Exposure of the true nature of the BDS by the national media, coupled with the fact that the UC Regents are going to nominate a campus BDS leader would make the UC Regents and California leadership realize that the nomination of a racist bigot would harm UC’s reputation irreparably.  And that it will have, among other repercussions, serious financial consequences.

Once the issue is effectively publicized in the mainstream media, it would enrage the public and force the regents to reconsider the misguided nomination of the extremist BDS leader. Many Jews, and non-Jews, would be motivated to use their leverage and support of the UC to exert influence on the Governor and the California and UC leadership to overturn this obscene nomination.

The nomination of Sadia Saifuddin to the position of University of California student regent presents us with an opportunity to go on the offensive.  We are now positioned to expose, in the national and international media, the true nature of the BDS and the organizations behind it.

It’s high time the BDS is fully uncovered as the deceptive, libelous, anti-Semitic propaganda campaign it is, and that the public is made aware that the BDS’ real objective is to turn Israel into a pariah state and bring about its destruction.