State: New York
City: New York City
Campus: Columbia University (Columbia)
Raphael Eissa, also known as Raphael Mina Eissa, has a long record of inciting violence, celebrating terrorism, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories, and promoting hostility on campuses. He has praised Hamas on the very day it carried out atrocities against Israeli civilians, defended terror, harassed Jewish students, and used his leadership roles in Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to spread extremism across U.S. universities.
Eissa has repeatedly encouraged physical violence against Jews and Zionists.
June 2022: His Twitter bio read, “punch your local Zionist!”
May 12, 2021: Tweeted, “I believe in bullying Zionists😌💕.”
March 17, 2021: Wrote of his “itch to actively fight and threaten Zionists 24/7.”
July 5, 2020: Tweeted, “Zionists are just so punchable. So, so punchable.”
On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis in acts of mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, Eissa tweeted: “The era of the fedayeen returns and Zionism reaps what it has sown for over a century, inshallah this marks a new beginning for the resistance.” He also denied Hamas’s crimes, tweeting: “There is literally no proof resistance fighters have engaged in sexual violence, stop regurgitating Zionist propaganda for them.”
Eissa has promoted the antisemitic “Deadly Exchange” conspiracy, which blames Jews and Israel for U.S. police brutality.
September 19, 2017: Shared an SJP UGA post blaming Israeli training for the police shooting of a Georgia Tech student.
Commented with “#EndTheDeadlyExchange,” echoing the campaign that accuses Jewish organizations of fueling racism in the U.S.
Eissa has glorified convicted terrorists.
February 2025: Praised PFLP leader Ghassan Kanafani, responsible for the Lod Airport Massacre that killed 26.
November 23, 2016: Tweeted about Rasmea Odeh as a “Palestinian Hero.” Odeh masterminded a supermarket bombing that killed two Israeli students.
May 2017: Supported Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti’s “Dignity Strike,” despite his convictions for multiple murders.
Eissa has celebrated Hamas-led violent riots.
April 2018: Posted “THE GREAT MARCH OF RETURN PERSISTS UNTIL VICTORY.” The Hamas-organized march included armed infiltrations, Molotov cocktails, gunfire, and incendiary kite attacks.
May 14, 2018: Posted on Facebook accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and called for the “settler-colonial state” to be dismantled.
May 5, 2019: Shared a video from the Great Return March group and wrote: “The Zionist entity has no right to exist.”
Eissa used campus platforms to shut down opposing voices.
February 2018: Disrupted a University of Georgia event hosted by Students Supporting Israel, shouting down speakers and calling the IDF “a campaign of ethnic cleansing.”
July 2019: Helped organize a disruption of Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the CUFI Summit, shouting “Zionism is racism.”
Eissa has consistently called for Israel’s destruction.
November 9, 2023: Tweeted, “Death to Zionism and if you can’t say that you’re a f**king coward.”
October 17, 2023: Declared, “May Israel be wiped away, blotted out, and forgotten.”
May 11, 2022: Wrote, “‘Death to Isrel’ and ‘Isrel has no right to exist’ are principled declarations we should all be saying.”
May 15, 2018: Posted: “Israel must fall. Enough is enough.”
September 9, 2014: Tweeted: “F**k Israel to the ends of the Earth.”
Eissa has been deeply involved with SJP, shaping its national strategy.
President of SJP at University of Georgia in 2018.
Organizer of the 2017 National SJP Conference in Houston.
Attended national conferences in 2016, 2018, and 2019, later serving on the National SJP Steering Committee.
At UGA, he led Israel Apartheid Week and protests targeting Jewish campus events, holding banners accusing Israel of expelling Palestinians in 1948.
✔ Incited violence with calls to “punch your local Zionist”
✔ Celebrated Hamas terror on October 7, 2023
✔ Spread antisemitic “Deadly Exchange” conspiracy theories
✔ Glorified convicted terrorists including Kanafani and Odeh
✔ Participated in and defended Hamas-led violent riots
✔ Disrupted campus events to silence opposing voices
✔ Declared “Israel must fall” and “Death to Zionism”
Raphael Eissa’s record shows a consistent embrace of terror, incitement, and antisemitism. From celebrating Hamas atrocities to calling for Israel’s destruction, he has used his roles in SJP and national activist networks to spread extremist rhetoric across campuses. His ongoing influence illustrates how campus platforms are exploited to normalize hatred and embolden violence against Jews.
