El Camino grad Jana Abulaban delivers ‘sick’ anti-Israel speech at graduation

Another college student at a publicly funded school spewed antisemitic hate during her recent commencement speech, critics say — and the university even touted part of her talk on Twitter.

El Camino Community College student Jana Abulaban, 18, accused Israel of “killing and torturing Palestinians as we speak’’ during her address at the school’s graduation in Torrance, Calif., on Friday.

Her vitriolic comments come less than a month after CUNY Law School student commencement speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed infamously claimed Israel was guilty of indiscriminately killing Palestinians during her address in New York City.

“I gift my graduation to all Palestinians who have lost their life and those who continue to lose their lives every day due to the oppressive apartheid state of Israel killing and torturing Palestinians as we speak,’’ said Abulaban, addressing the crowd as head of El Camino’s Associated Students Organization.

The line garnered a smattering of hand claps at the event, although Abulaban had been loudly applauded when she took the podium a few minutes earlier.


Jana Abulaban at graduation at El Camino Community College
El Camino Community College graduation speaker Jana Abulaban told the audience that Israel “is killing and torturing Palestinians as we speak.”
El Camino College

El Camino Community College
The student delivered her controversial speech at El Camino Community College.
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The college, which describes its graduates as “Warriors!’’ on its website, later tweeted out a photo touting Abulaban speaking at the graduation — but included a much more mild quote from her address.

“If I was told 7 years ago, as a Palestinian refugee stepping foot for the first time in this country, that one day I’ll be standing on this stage — I would not have believed it. I’m extremely thankful to have gotten to this point,’’ said the tweet quoting Abulaban.

The student was never actually a Palestinian refugee, although her grandmother was, and Abulaban “identifies as a Palestinian woman,” according to an article in the school’s newspaper, The Union, posted Friday.

The teen was born in Jordan and emigrated to the US from there with her family in 2016 at age 12, the article said.

“It’s sick — it’s really sick,’’ former CUNY board Trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld told The Post on Monday of Abulaban’s speech at El Camino, which boasts enrolling 33,000 students per semester.

“It’s apparent American universities are increasing the number of semi-literate and illiterate students. The jihadism in their minds doesn’t come from Jews. It comes from their own,” he said.


Fatima Mousa Mohammed
CUNY Law School student graduation speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed also has come under fire for her “hate speech” targeting Israel during the New York City commencement last month.

Fatima Mousa Mohammed
Mohammed faced a lot of backlash for the speech she delivered as well.
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The group stopantisemitism.org tweeted Sunday, “Yet another graduation speech is hijacked with false antisemitic rhetoric, this time at El Camino Community College, CA.

“El Camino received approx. $150 million in federal, state, and local tax dollars for the 2022-2023 school year according to its budget,’’ the tweet added.

Another disgusted tweeter said, “Don’t worry El Camino Community College. Just reach out to @JCRCNY. They’ll help show you how to propagandize this as ‘not antisemitic.’”

Abulaban — who is set to transfer to UCLA in the fall to study psychology, according to The Union — told the paper she hopes to become a lawyer.

Mohammed, a budding lawyer from CUNY Law School, said in her own inflammatory commencement address that “Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshippers, murdering the old, the young and even attacking funerals and graveyards, as it encourages lynch mobs to target Palestinians homes and businesses.


El Camino Community College graduation speaker Jana Abulana
“I gift my graduation to all Palestinians who have lost their life and those who continue to lose their lives every day due to the oppressive apartheid state of Israel killing and torturing Palestinians as we speak,’’ said Abulaban.
El Camino College

“As it imprisons its children, as it continues its project of settler colonialism, expelling Palestinians from their homes. Silence is no longer acceptable,” she said to cheers from the crowd — which included the school’s dean clapping.

Foes have called on CUNY to be stripped of its public funding.

Abulaban could not immediately be reached for comment by The Post on Monday.

But her brother, Osaid Abulaban, 25, told The Post that his sister’s address at the college south of Los Angeles was “wonderful … puts the dots on the letters, right to the point’’ and that “everyone, even friends, are proud.

“She said what everyone wants to say but [is] not given a chance to,’’ Osaid claimed of his sibling, who is one of five children in the family.


El Camino Community College in Torrance, California
El Camino Community College is publicly funded and boasts 33,000 students per semester at its campus outside Los Angeles.
El Camino College

“Showing what’s going on exactly … showing [Israelis] try to be the good ones all the time. But they’re actually an occupation, like she said, killing people over there.”

El Camino did not respond to a Post request for comment Monday.