Syracuse University: Anti-Israel Organizers Endorse Terrorist Group Hamas

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A Syracuse student went undercover to an event hosted by a local anti-Zionist group that is partnered with Syracuse University, and filmed members expressing support for the terrorist group Hamas.

The Hamas charter states, in accordance with Islamic texts and teachings:

Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish

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population, defies Islam and the Muslims.

“Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.”

The Arab states surrounding Israel are required to open their borders to the Jihad fighters, the sons of the Arab and Islamic peoples, to enable them to play their role and to join their efforts to those of their brothers among the Muslim Brothers.

Anti-Israel internship can get you credit at Syracuse

  • Students in two of Syracuse University’s majors can obtain credit by interning for anti-Israel organization Syracuse Peace Council.
  • A recent Syracuse Peace Council event featured speakers who said “[Hamas has] done a lot of good for Palestinians” and called Israelis “oppressors” and “illegal occupiers.”
  • According to the U.S. State Department, Hamas is a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Two majors at Syracuse University offer college credit to students who intern for an organization that promotes the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Both the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) and the Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition majors at Syracuse University dole out college credit to students who intern for the Syracuse Peace Council (SPC), which describes itself as an “antiwar/social justice” group. The University says that the Syracuse Peace Council “educates, agitates and organizes for a world where war, violence, and exploitation in any form will no longer exist.”

“[Hamas has] done a lot of good for Palestinians”   

Speakers at a recent event hosted by the Syracuse Peace Council, however, made statements contradictory to the group’s stated mission. For example, at the off-campus forum titled, “Palestine Behind the Wall,” one speaker expressed support for Hamas, which the U.S. State Department designated as a “foreign terrorist organization” in 1997.

“[Hamas has] done a lot of good for Palestinians,” former Syracuse University faculty member Julia Ganson said at the event.

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When asked whether she would be in favor of “teaching our young kids about Hamas and the good work they do,” Ganson agreed to the idea. According to Ganson, “being Palestinian means resisting.”

Avigyle Carmeli, who was seen standing and speaking before the crowd at the event, called Zionism a “racist ideology.”

“I am not a violent person and I don’t really condone violence, but I think that fighting a racist ideology and sometimes with violence might be the answer for some people,” Carmeli added.

In a speech presented to the audience at the “Palestine Behind the Wall” forum, Pat Carmeli, who has published writings on the Syracuse Peace Council’s website, shared similar views, citing an alleged argument made by author Norman Finkelstein.  Speaking of Palestinians, Carmeli claimed Finkelstein said that “according to International Law, an oppressed people living under occupation, denied their right to self-determination, that the actually have a right to use violence.” “Israel, on the other hand,” has  “no right to use violence” because Israelis are “oppressors” and “illegal occupiers,” Carmeli said, paraphrasing Finkelstein.

Campus Reform could not confirm whether Avigyle and Pat Carmeli are related.

Avigyle Carmeli suggested during the forum that Israel teaches their children that the nation is the only safe place for Jews. When Campus Reform asked if there is another place where Jews can feel safe, audience members laughed and shouted “Florida” and “Syracuse.”

“I think Zionism needs to end,” Avigyle said. “There can’t be a Zionist state. That’s just really wrong.”

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SPC Steering Committee member and former congressional candidate for New York- District 24 Ursula Rozum wanted to speak to the issue as a “white person in the United States” who has never been to Israel and is neither Israeli nor Palestinian. Rozum suggested that the accusations of there being “a lot of racism in the Israeli society” are true, noting that she has heard these claims from Israeli friends and believes that “we live it [racism] here [in the United States].”

In an interview with Campus Reform, Rozum confessed she doesn’t “know all the history about the establishment of the state of Palestine.” (6:32-6-38) She claimed earlier that Zionism is continuing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Rozum led the Syracuse Peace Council in a planned disruption of a speech given at Syracuse University in April 2018 by the Israeli Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan. Both Rozum and CODEPINK national leader Ariel Gold were escorted out of Dayan’s speech after shouting “Free Palestine, end the bloodshed in Gaza” and “Dani Dayan, you have blood on your hands,” respectively, according to The Algemeiner.

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Syracuse University’s 501(c)(3) status forbids students from receiving college credits for interning for a political campaign but the rules for internships are blurry. Campus Reform contacted faculty coordinators for the Syracuse Peace Council internship in both the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) and the Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition majors for comment but received none in time for publication.

Campus Reform also contacted the Syracuse Peace Council to clarify the positions each speaker in this article holds. The organization stated, however, that it is collectively run and that “people are all equally important.”

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Mal M
Mal M
5 years ago

To those Americans who speak about occupation ask the Indians and the Mexicans who occupied their land and how many of them were killed? You happily live on land stolen at gun-point from Mexico. It is nothing like a little sanctimonious hypocrisy to make my day. Give us an example and give it back to them.

patd
patd
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

Maybe study a little history prior to shooting that ignorant flytrap off? Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds! No matter what the price was there was one paid, moron!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions

Mal M
Mal M
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

America history is a story of invasion and occupation started in 1492. If we talk about occupation why talk only about Israel? Your link just shows it. Go back and learn history. Hypocrite.

patd
patd
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

Want to see a hypocrite libturd then just look into any mirror! The link shows that the land was paid for. Kind of like when us taxpayers pay for your EBT, libturd!

Mal M
Mal M
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

You probably have problems with reading comprehension. I refer mainly to all states that were taken from Mexico in 1854 war. What about the Philippines? What about the annexation of Hawaii? What about the French and British colonization before buying Louisiana? It is a part of US history. Read more about American colonialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States

My point is when talking about other “occupation” look in your own dish first.
Why we don’t see protests against the conquest of Tibet by China, Northern Cyprus by Turkey? and on..
Last point. Judea and Samaria, so called “occupied territories”, were taken from Jordan that joined Egypt attacking Israel in six days war 1967. It is a part of Jewish history for more than 3000 years.

patd
patd
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

You really aren’t that intelligent as you believe. You have Comprehension issues for sure!

Occupation = defending in all instances. I’m sure according to you the USA occupied Europe in WWI & WWII didn’t they? Try to read about the treaties that came with each annexation.

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1049.html

Mal M
Mal M
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

LOL. First you start a war (Mexico). Following a victory the loser forced to sign a treaty under a gunpoint to whitewash your conscience. It’s a typical colonial behavior. Bravo.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

So will you be leaving soon?
Maybe Mexico should give back their land too?
You are such a MORON!
The American Indians are also IMMIGRANTS across the once existing ‘Land bridge’ from ASIA.
Indians had no concept of land ownership. They moved with the seasons.
I suppose scalping people and burning them at the stake was fine with you too. LOL!
Wars happen and boundaries change.
Maybe Europe should go back to the Romans. Should we dig up a few of them to rule?

Mal M
Mal M
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

You whitewash your conscience saying “Indians had no concept of land ownership”. Are you serious?

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

Now what exactly did the US steal from Mexico?

The sum total of human liberty was expanded when territory that Mexico governed for a few years became part of one of two nations on earth that limned the path toward liberty.

Say, did you ever inquire as to how the Comanches controlled such a considerable territory? Nope- I will hazard a guess you never burdened your mind with such thoughts. That is not to say, however, there were no injustices perpetrated on the American Indian.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

In truth, Native Americans were arguably a stagnant society, I don’t condone what happened to them, but I do not think they would have likely made any real progress even had they been left alone for a thousand years. Change is the nature of this world, and it is inevitable.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

The Aztecs, aside from ritual, mass human sacrifice, certainly had an advanced civililsation. Those pyramids didn’t just spontaneously sprout out of the earth.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Mal M

In truth, Native Americans were arguably a stagnant society, I don’t condone what happened to them, but I do not think they would have likely made any real progress even had they been left alone for a thousand years. Change is the nature of this world, and it is inevitable.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Why blame Islam ? its the dumb infidels who are stupid enough to welcome them in and support them
they deserve what they get.

Like Brits/Europeans and Americans who go to get finest fecal diversity cuisine in muslim run restaurants like these http://bit.ly/2snziZ8

LOL !
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Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

Israel is a human rights respecting country.
Universities would do good to focus & educate about Muhammadist tyranny.
Today Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).

patd
patd
5 years ago

Libturds!!!!! Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!!! The only good one is like the good muslim….a dead one!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

The entire muslum world consists of theocratic, fascist, religious apartheid states (incl. Gaz) that are for all intents and purposes judenrein by design but Israel is the problem?

Shuali
Shuali
5 years ago

You got it nicely in a nutshell!

arturo
arturo
5 years ago

Shame on Syracuse University! Must be deeply funded by the Muslim Brotherhood.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago
Reply to  arturo

I don’t think they need to be funded by MB to spread this stuff. All they have to do is watch the evening news in the USA. I was in my mid 20s before I learned the history of this conflict and I had to do it by researching the issue on my own. Our educational system does not teach history.

Name
Name
5 years ago

If there are Jewish alumni, hopefully they will cease donating to the alumni campaigns that these universities rely so heavily on for money/

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  Name

The school has no control over this.

JGray1
JGray1
5 years ago
Reply to  Name

it is a state school. sanctions should be brought against its funding and enforced by the federal government unless federal money is supplied as specific to education in which case it can be pulled altogether.

RB
RB
5 years ago

Hitlers first and most ardent supporters were the colleges….How little things have changed. That being said I suspect this program has minimal support….I could be wrong.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  RB

They exploit that time in a person’s life where they are becoming adults. If they are not well grounded and informed, and in rebellious mode, are open to this stuff. Plus K-12 they are indoctrinated. So as students move up in academia, the issues are more acted on. They don’t understand what they are advocating.

Underzog
Underzog
5 years ago

These antisemitic airheads. They almost seem as Nazis whose brains were eaten out by drugs.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Underzog

They will regret what they are doing.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

According to the U.S. State Department, Hamas is a “foreign terrorist organization.”

In preMuslim invasion days, I’d read that and think, no problem. The FBI and DOJ will act on that.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

According to the U.S. State Department, Hamas is a “foreign terrorist organization.”

In preMuslim invasion days, I’d read that and think, no problem. The FBI and DOJ will act on that.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

According to the U.S. State Department, Hamas is a “foreign terrorist organization.”

In preMuslim invasion days, I’d read that and think, no problem. The FBI and DOJ will act on that.

Kristi17
Kristi17
5 years ago

Shameful of this school a Syracuse university!! They are all Extreme Left-wing Liberal’s!!

They are all Anti-Christian and Jewish People / Anti-Israel-Yisrael / Anti-Zionism / Antisemitism / Anti-USA Capitalism and Constitution!!

They do not know that CAIR-HAMAS-ISIS is a Tyrannical TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!

I STAND with the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael!! ( https://kristiann1.com/2015/10/06/ppfi/ )!!
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Please Pray for our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and Israel-Yisrael and our Christian Earth Everyday!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

Happy Shabbat Shalom ( Peaceful Sabbath ) Everyone!!

Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ), YSIC o/

Kristi Ann

Proud American
Proud American
5 years ago
Reply to  Kristi17

Oh they know exactly what they’re doing. They want to make every American a mooslem and have sharia law across the world.

James Jones
James Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  Kristi17

Israel is indeed the Holy Land. It was sanctified to God’s chosen people eons ago and He has returned them to those lands in these final days, but do not equate Christianity with Judaism. His “chosen people” and His children are not one and the same. Jesus was/is their prophecized Messiah, and is our Saviour, but they continue to reject Him and us as His.

Oh there are some among the Jews today who recognize Jesus as the Christ, but on the whole they pay Him no heed. Islam calls Him a prophet and while the Jews won’t even go that far, both beliefs miss His true and obvious identity, even one crucifying Him in their ignorance and the other denying any such crucifixion occurred by substituting Him with some surrogate on the cross foolishly not realizing the significance they place upon His work on the cross by doing so (“oh he didn’t die there ,that way, someone else took his place”, only the spirit of the Antichrist would attempt such a deception 1John 2:22).

God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants and He will honor that in spite of what they do or believe – He is not finished with them, not by a long shot. They will see Jesus as their Messiah, but not before He opens their collective eyes to the error of their ways as they face unbounded evil in its’ teeth.

These final days are fast approaching and we all need to prepare to meet Him, and do not be mistaken, we will all face Him, and if our sins have not been redeemed through Christ, we will face judgement. Accepting Christ and believing in your heart what He did at Calvary and beyond is the ONLY way to salvation.
I respect the nation of Israel and the Jews rightful claim on those lands, even certain Muslim scholars acknowledge the “covenantial” lands belong to the Jews ; it should truly make one wonder what the motives are of the anti-Israel crowd if learned members of the “opposition” can see the truth. Only the blind cannot see the ditch in their path.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago

“There can’t be a Zionist state. That’s just really wrong.”

Quite right- one democratic nation, governed by a well-defined legal system that provides equal rights for all its citizens… can’t have that. Meanwhile, of course, no problem with 50-some Moslem majority nations that oppress minorities.

Gee, I wonder why the double standard.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

Have you or your fellow “good”, “decent”, “honorable” (bleech, gag) muslums ever complained about the fact the entire muslum world consists of nothing but fascist, theocratic, totalitarian, religious apartheid states worm?

David
David
5 years ago

The statement is more shocking than that. Would they say there can’t be any single Christian state, or Buddhist state, or Hindu? Islam does want to conquer the whole world, but there’s obviously a special hatred, or jealousy, about Israel. It’s not that they want that land for its own sake, it means little or nothing to them. They pretend places like Temple Mount, Hebron etc. are important to them but they are not, they are just denying them to the Jews. They don’t want Israel to have the holy sites nor the whole land.

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R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

The left will regret its alliance with Islam. One day.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

One has turkey neck. Must be hunting season – goebbel, goebbel.

No one mentions Palestinians as “illegal occupiers” and “oppressors” via their MO of terror and violence. Before Israel became a nation it never bothered them before.

For thousands of years, in fact. So why the long face now?

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

Islam of course is not a racist ideology when it calls for the extermination of Jews, says the Holocaust never happened and reveres Hitler. See item below which tells how Egyptian ‘researcher’ asks for statue of Hitler

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
5 years ago

Keep it up Syracuse and you may find out your new home is GITMO for supporting terrorism.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
5 years ago

‘AC’ is an instructor that has stated; I do not believe in violence, however, it is OK to slaughter Jews.
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF syracuse university receives PUBLIC FUNDS – – – they MUST be made to REPAY EVERY CENT. Otherwise, every administrator MUST be jailed for teaching TREACHERY and DECEIT to “blank mouldable minds”.

John Acord
John Acord
5 years ago

This is clearly state funding for activities that support terrorism.Those responsible should be held accountable and fired from their positions. Campus Reform is performing an amazing task in exposing these terrorists recruiting on college campuses throughout the nation.Keep It up!

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
5 years ago

The last woman who was interviewed said it all, “I really don’t know much about the history of Palestine.” That is obvious; and none of the others know anything either.

The Israeli’s have not done a good job of educating the general public about the history of this land and the American educational system has done nothing either. The very use of the term Palestinian to refer to the Arabs is the best place to start. The myth that there was at some time a country called Palestine that was overtaken by Jews who kicked the Palestinian Arabs out of their homeland is constantly reinforced by the MSM and until an all out effort to dispel this myth is undertaken the Fakestinians will continue to bamboozle the world into siding with them. The fact that this is all taking place on a university campus is the biggest outrage of all.

Political_qrm
Political_qrm
5 years ago

What the Hell??!! I am an alumnus of Syracuse. When I was there the campus was heavily Jewish and heavily Catholic. (I’m Catholic…well not the way this pope describes it) Those were the two dominate religions on campus. There were never any problems. Each year, a sukkah was put on the quad during Sukkot. Right before Passover those of the Jewish faiths’ dorm rooms were emptied out and scrubbed. I remember going through the maze of furniture in the hallway. lol There were a lot of Conservative and Orthodox Jews who attended Syracuse.

To see this happening is a disgrace, abhorrent and horrifying. This is an insult to the religion of Judaism. This should be spread among the Jews of the NYC area and warn them their children are in danger. Many of us who attended SU were from the tri-state area of NY..

There were NEVER any problems between any of the religions on campus… But yet…. there weren’t too many muslims there. I never knew any and if there were, they kept their ‘religion’ secret.

Perfect example of what happens when you bring the influence of islam into an area…

Owen_Morgan
Owen_Morgan
5 years ago

Yeah, and those Germans in Bergen didn’t notice anything weird going on, either.

Proud American
Proud American
5 years ago

Any federal dollars that goes to this anti American school should be immediately stopped and not a penny more given to them.

JGray1
JGray1
5 years ago

new york state and new york city are a crumbling stinking example of what has happened to a once great state and city when it turned into a far left sinkhole. this poisonous anti america anti semitic hate mongering are prevalent here because of its leadership the cesspool of cuomo deblobzio cortez schumer gillibrand. not one penny of federal funds should be allowed to be spent here with serious sanctions to enforce it.

David Square
David Square
5 years ago

How do you stop antisemitism when the majority of Jews in America vote for the Democrats, the party that encourages Jew hatred?

HAMMERING HANK
HAMMERING HANK
5 years ago
Reply to  David Square

To my fellow Tribesmen: Any Jew who Votes Democrat should be ashamed. It is as simple as that.

762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
5 years ago

Many of these groups are funded by terror groups, and use campuses as recruiting centers,
The Simbonese Liberation Army used campus based propaganda before kidnapping Patty Hearst.
, Lee Harvey Oswald worked for Fair Play for Cuba and handed out pro communist literature at LSU and Tulane before assassinating JFK.
Sirhan Sirhan joined pro palestine campus groups before killing RFK.
Many of the Acronyms of these groups like FLN, FARC, SLA, and a thousand others originated from the KGB during the cold war.
The PLO is yet another example, The KGB forged a Jerusalem birth certificate for the Egyptian born nephew of the Grand Mufdi..Yasir Arafat.
And the country of Palestine was born..

Josara Dezmen
Josara Dezmen
5 years ago

Jerusalem will be a stumbling block in the end of days! Israel will be surrounded by her enemies! Keep your eye on Israel and the Middle East, as it indicates we are in the last days! Jews and Christians alike are persecuted, and it is just the beginning of the end! Even so, Come, Lord Jesus!!

HAMMERING HANK
HAMMERING HANK
5 years ago

Parents should demand a tuition refund and get their kids over to APEX Tech ASAP !

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