All colleges are hotbeds of left-wing hate and bigotry, but NYU is at the forefront of norming Jew-hatred. They set an horrifying precedent with this incomprehensible award given, no less, at an enormous graduation commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Students for Justice in Palestine is the largest anti-Jewish student group in the country.
[SJP] advocate for Israel’s destruction, admire terrorists, and are making Jewish students feel unsafe on campuses across the country. They’re Students for Justice in Palestine—and they’re a huge problem
[The pose a] risk to Jewish and pro-Israel students appears to be growing. Indeed, unless college administrators take a more active role in preventing it, SJP has a good chance of achieving its goal of turning venomous hatred of Israel and bullying of Jews and non-Jewish supporters—with all the violence and fear that inevitably accompany it—into a legitimate and accepted tactic on North American campuses. (The Tower)
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Historically the recipient of Jewish philanthropy (Stern School of Business, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Kimmel Center for University Life, Arthur Carter Hall) etc)
For example, on April 27, 2018, an SJP protest against a pro-Israel event at New York University (NYU) turned violent when an SJP member “stole an Israel[i] flag [from pro-Israel students] and brought it to the [SJP] protesters. [The flag] was ripped, stomped on, defaced with pink chalk and then burned.” Also at the event, an SJP member “sneaked in during the singing of Hatikva, forcefully and hurtfully grabbed the microphone from the [pro-Israel student] who had been holding it, and shouted, ‘Free Palestine!’”
Anti-Israel demonstrator becoming physically violent at pro-Israel event at NYU. (Realize Israel)
This incident is only one in a series of documented physical assaults against pro-Israel and Zionist students. In opening its campus to the 2018 SJP National Conference, UCLA becomes an inviting location for such physical violence to occur. In viewing the Brandenburg standard, one can debate the imminence of such violence. What is more likely than not, however, is that in the wake of such SJP rallies, violence is more likely to occur.
SJP activists frequently intimidate and harass Jewish and pro-Israel students. SJP members have physically assaulted Jewish students, aggressively disrupted pro-Israel events and possibly vandalized communal property. SJP rallies regularly include hate-speech and chants such as “Long Live The Intifada!” and “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!” — calls for violence and for the dismantling of Israel as a Jewish state.
Temple University, August 2014: A Jewish student was hit in the face by someone who was part of a group of students, many of whom were confirmed as SJP members. Two witnesses heard members of SJP call him a “kike” after the attack. “Before this, I just thought Students for Justice in Palestine was crazy”, the victimsaid after the incident, “but I didn’t know it would lead to violence.”
Loyola University, September 2014: Members of SJP at Loyola University Chicago verbally assaulted Jewish students affiliated with Hillel who were staffing a table with literature for a Birthright Israel trip. SJP members reportedly surrounded the table, blocking the movement of the Hillel students and preventing others from approaching. One student witness told The College Fix, a news website that covers campus issues, that one Jewish student became “worried about attending future Hillel events for fear of being attacked.”
Northeastern University, 2013: The entire SJP was suspended from campus for a school year after intimidating students on campus. In 2011 the chapter chose to interrupt an on-campus Holocaust remembrance event by whipping out anti-Israel signs and yelling insults at the audience and speakers before storming out.
Florida Atlantic University, April 2012: SJP members posted eviction notices on the dorm room doors of 200 students, most of them Jewish. The tactic has been repeated at various campuses. As one NYU student said, “this made me feel targeted and unsafe in my own dorm room and I know others feel exactly the same as myself.”
UC Berkeley, March 2010: Husam Zakharia, while serving as president of the SJP chapter on campus, rammed a female pro-Israel student with a shopping cart. She was holding a sign reading “Israel Wants Peace.”
Shutting Out Dialogue
SJP is frequently criticized for creating a hostile and unsafe environment on U.S. campuses for all who do not share their anti-Israel views.
In August of 2014, a document was leaked to the public entitled“Declaration of Principles and Strategies of Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine.”
The document outlined the tactics and organizational details for the Binghamton University branch of SJP and provides insights into the organization’s guiding principles.
The document shut down any possibility of dialogue with pro-Israel students, entrenching a policy known as “anti-normalization” which “prohibit(s) the leadership of SJP from engaging in any form of official collaboration, cooperation, or event co-sponsorship with the following student organizations and groups, due to their unyielding support for the Apartheid State of Israel.”
The document listed examples of pro-Israel groups subject to this exclusion such as Hillel, CAMERA and AEPi and clarified that this would include collaborations on publications, discussions or events with them.
The document also gave its members directives on how to disrupt pro-Israel activities with maximum impact while staying “within the bounds of what is not widely considered to be legally reprehensible.”
NYU Pro-Israel Group on SJP Award: School is ‘Condoning Violence and Discrimination’
Realize Israel, a pro-Israel group at New York University, said in an April 5 Facebook post that the university is “condoning violence and discrimination” by giving the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter an award.
As the Journal previously reported, NYU SJP announced on Facebook that they had been selected for a Presidential Service Award for “significant contributions to the university community in the areas of learning, leadership, and quality of student life.”
Realize Israel wrote in their post, “We are outraged that the University would award an organization that has spent the last several years making Jewish and pro-Israel students feel unwelcome and unsafe on campus.”
They pointed out that NYU SJP “defaced Israel’s flag and physically assaulted pro-Israel students for openly celebrating their identities” and put forward “two one-sided and factually inaccurate anti-Israel resolutions to the Student Government Assembly through a non-transparent, unbalanced, and undemocratic process.”
“By presenting the NYU President’s Award to SJP, not only is our university condoning violence and discrimination against members of the NYU community, but it is declaring that this type of behavior represents the ethos of our university,” Realize Israel wrote.
They added that they are going to investigate who nominated NYU SJP for the award and who decided to give them the award.
“We also believe it is high time that the administration put an end to this endless cycle of intimidation, and we plan to voice our concerns about the systemic anti-Semitism perpetuated by anti-Israel activism that is plaguing our campus,” the post concluded.
Ezra Meir Cohen, president of Realize Israel, told the Journal in a text message, “It is ridiculous that members of this organization constantly persecute other students (one of them was arrested because he physically assaulted another student at our yearly Yom Ha’atzmaut party), and that the university is rewarding them.”
In April 2018, an unidentified NYU student can be seen wrestling the microphone out of the hands a female NYU student leading the singing of “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. He started chanting “Free Palestine” before being arrested on charges of assault and stealing
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ConnectingDots
5 years ago
Is it truly “Students for Justine in Palestine”, as the article title says?
fredlavenuta
5 years ago
I attended NYU (Class or ’59) when it was a very well regarded school. Since then it has gotten more and more leftwing. I once considered going to its graduate school but I’m glad I didn’t. When I receive donation requests from the Alumni Association they go straight into the trash.
Just learned the founder of Home Depot paying tuition for incoming NYU’s medical students. Hope he hers this and maybe has second thoughts. A school like that even it’s students should NOT be helped. Maybe just pay for the JEwish med students just to rub it in.
Too bad it wasn’t based on MERIT. Now they admit dopey people just because they are not white, Jewish or Asian. We have some real idiots coming out of medical school.
Too bad it wasn’t based on MERIT. Now they admit dopey people just because they are not white, Jewish or Asian. We have some real idiots coming out of medical school.
Too bad it wasn’t based on MERIT. Now they admit dopey people just because they are not white, Jewish or Asian. We have some real idiots coming out of medical school.
Just had TSU call me to encourage me to rejoin the graduated classes of students’ program. My response: “You can remove my name and phone number. Have a good day. BYE!
The only time they have contacted me, It WAS ALWAYS FOR MONEY!
A friend of ours kid just graduated from NYU…He was glad to out of there. A whole host of colleges where I would not send my kids. Hitlers first and most ardent supporters were the college campuses. How little things have changed.
TheManEl
5 years ago
The only way to effect change is to contact the presidents of the universities and let them know if they do not stop the anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Jewish student body will start to withdraw and attend other schools. Furthermore, all Jewish alumni need to stop sending donations to their universities. If you stop the funding, things will change.
They don’t care.
They state it is freedom of speech. Yet have David Horowitz try to have a presentation and he is barred because of “hate speech” and making students feel “unsafe”. They openly discriminate against anyone opposed to the Marxist agenda.
But they won’t stop the funding, because they have a weaker and weaker connection to Israel. I blame the parents, after all, the kids only reap what the parents sow. They thought the 50s and 60s would never end, that all of this is just a Trumpian blip on the screen. They are wrong. Intermarriage rates are sky high, the average student is disconnected from his or her heritage, they don’t know a Mishna from a Madonna.
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
I’d argue the largest group of antisemites in the US and Eurapia today are f’ing muslums — because I haven’t heard any of them publicly renounce, repudiate or denounce the rabid Jew hatred (some of it genocidal) that oozes from the pages of all their holey books.
Very scary article, an article which confirms my belief that
these groups are essentially conducting themselves to follow the promotion of
hate and violence that constitutes the belief system of Islam. I do not believe
that these so called students understand the definition of the word “justice.” Justice
is not their concern; harassment of everything Jewish is their objective. Their
claims of “occupier,” apartheid, BDS support are bogus and without merit. Though
I understand their frustration with the fact that the Arab world has never been
able to meet their goal of destroying Israel, and that it causes them so much
consternation, the fact is: that the Jewish people have an absolute historical
right to Israel proper and Samaria and Judea, something that they will never
admit to. The people who they claim to represent have always had the opportunity
to live peacefully with the Israelites, yet, they have chosen violence consistent
with their “bible.” Why the academic leaders do not recognize this patent
situation is mind boggling to me, and I fear worse is in store, as a result of
a people with a mindset that cannot tolerate others, and are darkening our
country.
Worse is in store. It is escalating.
Jew hatred is rampant on college and university campuses. It is an epidemic and I am not exaggerating.
My last one is attending a university and sees it all the time…demonstrations etc…
You would know the name of the university…..
Ironically it started out as a seminary going back to colonial times.
I didn’t want her going there…..but she is in the hard sciences so the indoctrination is minimal.
Allot of her friends from high school are there so that helps. She went to a conservative Christian school (K-12) and they do stuck together but I still keep a close eye on things.
felix1999
5 years ago
NYU is not what it used to be….lots of Jew hatred there. You are not allowed to be critical or YOU are the “hater”.
Muslims and others can hate away as “free speech”. It’s a double standard. It is a WAR! Ms Geller, Robert Spencer and Michael savage are BANNED from the U.K. because they dare to be critical and tell the truth about Islam. Example:
‘This is a war’: The woman behind anti-Islamic Muhammad cartoon contest and her long history of hatred
* Blogger Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, has been highly critical of Islam for years
* Geller’s group was behind anti-Islamic ads that began appearing on New York City buses and subway entrances last year
* She said Sunday that the shooting showed how ‘needed our event really was’
By AP and DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:44 EDT, 4 May 2015 | UPDATED: 13:36 EDT, 4 May 2015
DON’T YOU JEWS GET IT YET ??? IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS THAT GAVE HITLER HIS IDEAS FOR THE NUREMBERG LAWS BASED ON THE JIM CROWS LAWS OF THE SOUTH . IT WAS THE DEMOCRAT MARGARET SANGER THAT GAVE THE NAZIS THE IDEA TO THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH PROBLEM !!! WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE YOU JUDEN TO REALIZE THAT DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE YOU BEST INTEREST IN MIND ??? ANOTHER ROUND OF BOX CARS FILLED WITH JEWS HEADING TO THE DEATH CAMPS ??? ALL THE DEMOCRATS WANT IS YOUR MONEY AND THAT’S IT . YOU BETTER WAKE THE HELL UP !!!
You are absolutely right, Sarge. Unfortunately, utter denial, misplaced utopianism, and being caught up with day to day business and events makes it too late for most of us.
Glen Benjamin
5 years ago
That nitwit founder of Home Depot just gave NYU medical students a free ride paying their tuition. He should rescind that offer until NYU straightens out than maybe in the future honor the deal.
Agree. while Hungary keeps jihadis out and deports Left/liberal pro-jihadi Loons http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
Europe/canada denies christians/non-muslims entry and welcomes their murderers.
Sifter
5 years ago
If it was 1937 NYU would be giving this award to the Nazi Bund. Rewards violence, encourages assault, bullying Jews….what’s the difference, really?
Halal Bacon
5 years ago
this is what shitslam hates
R. Arandas
5 years ago
NYU has one of the highest Jewish populations in the country…if they ALL united, they would be able to counter such influence on campus.
lucifer69
5 years ago
Stop all donations to NYU now.
LeslieFish
5 years ago
This is proof that political extremes bend around until they meet. So-called “leftist” Islamophiliacs have become Jew-haters on the same pattern, with the same tactics, and *with the same allies* as the Nazis. Sometime look up the unholy alliance between the Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler in WWII.
Can the Jewish students at NYU mount a lawsuit to get these Jihadist-kissers banned from campus? Failing that, can they get small CO2 fire-extinguishers to carry around with them for self-defense? Seriously, history has shown that the only effective defense against these Islamonazis is a strong physical one.
My mistake, the NYU students divested in Dec 2018. Old News
Mike Kevins
5 years ago
What is it about the demorat party that inspires such loyalty. They have used and abused the black population for decades, not helping them one bit, and yet they still vote over 90% demorat. Now, it is the Jews. The dems have become virulently anti-semitic, going so far as to support BDS, which is supposed to cripple Israel financially and lead to its destruction. Wake up and realize what these people are doing to you and your people.
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