MattB
2014-06-09 19:20:40 UTC
Pro-Palestinian students bring hate, intimidation to campus, critics
say
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/09/pro-palestinian-students-bring-hate-intimidation-to-campus-critics-say/
They've become the bullies of the quad at college campuses around the
nation, shouting down speakers, terrorizing Jewish students and
intimidating those who disagree with them on the vexing issue of peace
in the Middle East, according to watchdog groups.
Students for Justice in Palestine, with nearly 100 chapters on
campuses around the nation, has become increasing strident in
promoting its agenda, staging "die-ins," handing out mock eviction
notices in dormitories, and raising funds for Hamas-aligned groups,
according to Jewish watchdog groups. Individual members have been
accused of assaulting students, vandalizing property and hurling
anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish students, all in the name of their cause.
In the last several years, the tactics used by the group have created
an atmosphere that ultimately does not help with a dialogue about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Oren Segal, director of the
Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, told FoxNews.com.
In the last several years, the tactics used by the group have created
an atmosphere that ultimately does not help with a dialogue about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Oren Segal, Anti-Defamation League
At several schools across the country, chapters have been investigated
and even sanctioned for an in-your-face approach that defies the
collegiate tradition of discussion and debate. Boston's Northeastern
University suspended the group in March after years of alleged
anti-Semitism that included repeated calls for the destruction of
Israel, a 2011 disruption at a Holocaust Awareness Week event and the
defacing of a statue of a Jewish donor and trustee of the university.
You have not shown a concerted effort to improve your practices and
educate your members on how to properly operate your organization
within the boundaries of university policy, Jason Campbell-Foster,
the school's director of the Center for Student Involvement, wrote in
a letter to the group.
The SJP chapter at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is currently
under investigation by the administration after one member posted a
slew of anti-Semitic images on the groups social media pages. One
post in particular that drew the ire of Jewish groups on campus was an
old Nazi propaganda poster on the SJP Vassars Tumblr blog. The
poster, titled Liberators, shows a giant, multi-limbed monster being
controlled by a caricature with exaggerated racial stereotypes
stomping his missile-shaped feet on a small village and was used to
convey the groups dismay over a perceived pervasiveness of Zionism on
campus. The group has apologized.
What occurred was with one member of the group and SJP has
apologized, Vassar student Jeremy Brick, president of the schools
Jewish Union, told FoxNews.com. But I think a growing problem with
regards to the Israeli-Palestinian situation is that people are
increasingly making it a black-and-white issue when it is a very gray
issue.
In recent years, SJP protesters have disrupted speeches by former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, at the University of Chicago;
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, at the University of
California-Irvine; a speech by an Israeli soldier invited to address a
Jewish group at the University of Michigan and several others.
SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley by
Hatem Bazian, a West Bank-born Palestinian who became a lecturer in
Arabic Studies upon graduating. According to CampusWatch.org, which
monitors how Middle East issues are presented on college campuses,
Bazian headed the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Muslim Student
Association while studying at Berkeley. He co-founded the broader
"Students for Justice in Palestine" to be a secular social justice
movement, according to CampusWatch.org.
From its inception, SJP's strident, anti-Semitic approach was on full
display. In 2002, 79 members of the flagship chapter attempted to
disrupt a Holocaust Remembrance Day event and were arrested. At a
rally to protest the arrests, Bazian said "take a look at the type of
names on the building around campus Haas, Zellerbach and decide
who controls this university."
In an April 2004 rally in San Francisco in support of the Iraqi
insurgency, Bazian appeared to call for an uprising in the U.S.
"Are you angry?" Bazian shouted to protesters. "Well, we've been
watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in
Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don't
have an intifada in this country? and it's about time that we have an
intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political
dynamics in here. And we know every They're gonna say some
Palestinian being too radical well, you haven't seen radicalism
yet!"
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say
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/09/pro-palestinian-students-bring-hate-intimidation-to-campus-critics-say/
They've become the bullies of the quad at college campuses around the
nation, shouting down speakers, terrorizing Jewish students and
intimidating those who disagree with them on the vexing issue of peace
in the Middle East, according to watchdog groups.
Students for Justice in Palestine, with nearly 100 chapters on
campuses around the nation, has become increasing strident in
promoting its agenda, staging "die-ins," handing out mock eviction
notices in dormitories, and raising funds for Hamas-aligned groups,
according to Jewish watchdog groups. Individual members have been
accused of assaulting students, vandalizing property and hurling
anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish students, all in the name of their cause.
In the last several years, the tactics used by the group have created
an atmosphere that ultimately does not help with a dialogue about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Oren Segal, director of the
Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, told FoxNews.com.
In the last several years, the tactics used by the group have created
an atmosphere that ultimately does not help with a dialogue about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Oren Segal, Anti-Defamation League
At several schools across the country, chapters have been investigated
and even sanctioned for an in-your-face approach that defies the
collegiate tradition of discussion and debate. Boston's Northeastern
University suspended the group in March after years of alleged
anti-Semitism that included repeated calls for the destruction of
Israel, a 2011 disruption at a Holocaust Awareness Week event and the
defacing of a statue of a Jewish donor and trustee of the university.
You have not shown a concerted effort to improve your practices and
educate your members on how to properly operate your organization
within the boundaries of university policy, Jason Campbell-Foster,
the school's director of the Center for Student Involvement, wrote in
a letter to the group.
The SJP chapter at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is currently
under investigation by the administration after one member posted a
slew of anti-Semitic images on the groups social media pages. One
post in particular that drew the ire of Jewish groups on campus was an
old Nazi propaganda poster on the SJP Vassars Tumblr blog. The
poster, titled Liberators, shows a giant, multi-limbed monster being
controlled by a caricature with exaggerated racial stereotypes
stomping his missile-shaped feet on a small village and was used to
convey the groups dismay over a perceived pervasiveness of Zionism on
campus. The group has apologized.
What occurred was with one member of the group and SJP has
apologized, Vassar student Jeremy Brick, president of the schools
Jewish Union, told FoxNews.com. But I think a growing problem with
regards to the Israeli-Palestinian situation is that people are
increasingly making it a black-and-white issue when it is a very gray
issue.
In recent years, SJP protesters have disrupted speeches by former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, at the University of Chicago;
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, at the University of
California-Irvine; a speech by an Israeli soldier invited to address a
Jewish group at the University of Michigan and several others.
SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California-Berkeley by
Hatem Bazian, a West Bank-born Palestinian who became a lecturer in
Arabic Studies upon graduating. According to CampusWatch.org, which
monitors how Middle East issues are presented on college campuses,
Bazian headed the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Muslim Student
Association while studying at Berkeley. He co-founded the broader
"Students for Justice in Palestine" to be a secular social justice
movement, according to CampusWatch.org.
From its inception, SJP's strident, anti-Semitic approach was on full
display. In 2002, 79 members of the flagship chapter attempted to
disrupt a Holocaust Remembrance Day event and were arrested. At a
rally to protest the arrests, Bazian said "take a look at the type of
names on the building around campus Haas, Zellerbach and decide
who controls this university."
In an April 2004 rally in San Francisco in support of the Iraqi
insurgency, Bazian appeared to call for an uprising in the U.S.
"Are you angry?" Bazian shouted to protesters. "Well, we've been
watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in
Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don't
have an intifada in this country? and it's about time that we have an
intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political
dynamics in here. And we know every They're gonna say some
Palestinian being too radical well, you haven't seen radicalism
yet!"
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