EXCLUSIVE: Antisemitic school board member wrote Washington State Human Rights Commission’s resolution on antisemitism

Tran, who has a well-documented history of anti-Israel activism and antisemitic rhetoric, used her role to intentionally distort the definition of antisemitism and empower known anti-Israel extremists.

When the University of Washington (UW) released an internal report revealing that the overwhelming majority of Jewish students had experienced antisemitism on campus, Tran didn’t seek to address the problem. Instead, she sought to erase it.

Internal emails obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI revealed that Tran turned to allies at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—an organization with ties to Hamas and listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror financing trial in US history, to craft the HRC’s resolution on antisemitism.

Rather than consult with mainstream Jewish organizations, she collaborated with fringe anti-Israel faculty members at UW, including Liora Halperin, Sasha Senderovich, Dan Berger, and Keshet Ronen—professors who openly backed the violent, antisemitic encampment on campus. These activists were chosen because they objected to an internal report by UW that revealed the rampant antisemitism on campus.

In emails obtained by Hoffman, Tran wrote that she enlisted them to help write the resolution "given the recent events with the federal government and the inauguration."

Together, they rewrote the resolution on antisemitism to falsely claim that anti-Zionism—the belief that the Jewish people do not have the right to self-determination—is not antisemitic. This deliberate effort to sideline the internationally recognized IHRA definition of antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism as a form of Jew-hatred, laid the groundwork for legitimizing campus harassment under the mask of "activism."

Tran’s resolution specifically condemned “the equation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism, or criticism of the Israeli government or its policies,” claiming it had been “instrumentalized as a pretense for attacks on the First Amendment rights of free speech and protest, including against members of Washington’s Jewish communities.”

The resolution, which was passed by the HRC, also whitewashed the violent pro-Hamas protesters, writing, “Threatening or attacking those that peacefully protest and advocate for Palestinian rights, including Jews, does nothing to make the Jewish community safer, and in fact, distracts from and undermines the ability to confront actual antisemitism where it exists.”

Tran’s resolution on antisemitism also noted that “it is essential to safeguard the rights to peaceful protest and advocacy for human rights, Palestinian rights,” and “other political causes,” despite there being no mention of Jewish rights in the HRC’s statement on Islamophobia.

Tran and her collaborators didn’t stop at minimizing campus antisemitism. They gave academic and political cover to what they labeled “peaceful protest”—encampments that were anything but. Jewish students were verbally harassed, physically blocked from walkways, and subjected to a hostile environment simply for being Jewish or supporting Israel’s right to exist.

Washington State Senator Yasmin Trudeau, another CAIR panelist and ally of Tran, praised these encampments—ignoring widespread reports of intimidation and violence. At the same time, pro-Israel students were assaulted by Antifa militants and radical agitators on the UW campus during events hosted by conservative speakers like Charlie Kirk.

Rather than condemn the rise in antisemitism, Trudeau glorified it, comparing it to the American civil rights movement—a grotesque and dangerous comparison that insults the legacy of peaceful activism and whitewashes Hamas’s genocidal agenda.

Tran’s radicalism is not new. Her social media history includes posts from as early as 2021 calling for Israel’s destruction, sharing slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—a well-known call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their ancestral homeland. She has participated in rallies where Israeli flags were burned and pro-Israel supporters were assaulted, while slogans like “Long live the Intifada” were chanted in celebration of terror.

After Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Hamas-led massacre of October 7, 2023—where over 1,200 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered, raped, and kidnapped, was eliminated in an Israeli strike, Tran mourned the terrorist by posting a quote glorifying resistance from Hamas-supporting poet Refaat Alareer, who compared Hamas’s atrocities to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising—a false and sickening moral equivalence between Jewish Holocaust victims and genocidal terrorists.

When the public found out about Tran’s antisemitic posts, she locked down her social media, scrubbed her antisemitic posts, and published a defiant statement that equated Israel with Hamas—placing a democratic state and a US-designated terror group on the same moral plane.

Despite this disturbing record, Tran was appointed to the Washington State Human Rights Commission by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee and was endorsed by nearly every local Democratic organization during her school board campaign. These endorsements came even after her violent rhetoric had been exposed.

After taking office, antisemitic activists, emboldened by Tran’s presence, began lobbying the Northshore School District to incorporate Hamas-aligned narratives into its curriculum. Knowing they had an ally in Tran, they aimed to turn classrooms into propaganda zones.

Tran also supported the staff walkout at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum, which protested an exhibit on Jewish, Black, and Asian experiences of racism. The museum shut down, and the exhibit was canceled.