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George Shay's avatar

Clearly, the Trump Administration should designate SJP as a terrorist organization and prosecute it and its members to the full extent of the law, as well as take the most extreme actions possible against any academic institution that countenances its presence on campus.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

——The coming year, therefore, will pose a test for university leaders, both students and administrators:

"Will they stand for the values of free discussion and open inquiry?"

American academia hasn't stood for these values in quite a while, maybe not since this year's freshmen were infants. In the minds of our progressive clerisy, "free discussion and open inquiry" could lead to some students "feeling unsafe", esp among the "marginalized", thus these things are discouraged if not denounced. The last place anyone should expect "free discussion and open inquiry" is at an upscale American university.

...."and fulfill their role as guardians of a safe environment for students, free of bullying and intimidation?"

The progressive clerisy has already answered this question: for every other group "speech is violence", esp if it is ugly and based on retrograde stereotypes, but for Jews "violence is speech", meaning that a pack of shrieking kids calling for your murder needs to be placed "in context", and should be excused because these shrieking kids just care so deeply about Palestinian children and their blood and tears.

"Or will they continue to allow an organization that promotes terror to terrorize our campuses under the guise of free speech?"

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all our most prestigious universities have converted to the Social Justice faith (it is their product, creation and credential, after all) and in the Social Justice faith, Israel is the world's great pariah, Jews are automatically suspect unless they publicly denounce their faith and people, and Zionists are the new Nazis.

Just like its Marxist grandparent, the Social Justice movement has decided that Jews are the enemy that needs to be destroyed for its utopian vision to be achieved, and as this movement is based in our most famous universities, this is the last place Jews should look to for support. Hating Israel and its supporters is a new mandatory belief for entry into the progressive clerisy that runs our colleges and culture, which means the old is new again.

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Dana Ramos's avatar

There are lawsuits against SJP. It will be interesting to see how those unfold.

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Malcolm's avatar

Nothing will come of it, even if they lose they will simply shapeshift and continue, to kill a snake you have to cut off its head, there is no other option available.

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Bruce Halpern's avatar

I would really like to who funds them. I have my suspicions that it may be Hamas directly or Qatar. It can't just be a US homegrown organization. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it is important to prove the funding link.

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Philoblogius's avatar

Just look at these, or any other protest photographs, and you’ll see that young women are being radicalized across the west, yet no one wants to talk about it

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Jonah's avatar

It was seeing student groups like this back in 2001 that made me from a Liberal to a conservative.

These people are vile.

I tried to organize some kind of dialogue between the Palestinian students and Hilllel. Debates, you bring your speaker, we bring ours, etc.

No dice.

Their response was before they'd do anything with us, we had to sign a statement that said Israel has no right to exist and we murder their people out of hatred.

But hey... what is it they call it? "Criticism of Israel"?

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Malcolm's avatar
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No its an Iran Islam anti Jew PR Hate team, when are Jews going to WTFU and realize that you cannot win a war of attrition by sitting down to have a chat with your enemy, that has never through out human or Jewish history led to a positive outcome, all it has ever done is give the enemy a chance to regroup and come back at us even stronger than before, every ceasefire or break in hostilities leads to another more aggressive onslaught against world Jews, and while they learn an adapt their attack strategies we don't.

All this B/S on the campuses is our own fault, another ceasefire with lost opportunities means another war down the road and more dead Jews, this wont end until we end Iran and all of their hostile elements against the Jews. We seem to have a huge issue coming to grips with our own history and our destiny, peace is not something we have the option to attain, 2025 will go down in human history as one of the most fatal errors of all time, not eliminating the Iranian regime has brought us to a crossroad and all of our leaders have made the wrong choice, allowing the Iranian regime to remain in power will lead to the greatest catastrophe to fall on the Jews and the world, allowing the existence of SJP to exist will be a massive problem both in Israel and the USA.

A long time ago one of my CO's said something that stuck in my head, one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and if we want to survive as a people and as a nation, its time we started fighting fire with fire and finding our own freedom fighters, we have so many enemies all over the world, and law-fare is failing us and some of our own people are now our worst enemies, and with this I say I would rather GOD judge me than any man and its time we start to retaliate against all that stand against us in ways that will make them understand that it does not pay and is not in their best interests to keep on going against us.

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Kip🎗️'s avatar

The "Palestinian" movement is psychotic.

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Steven Brizel's avatar

Snap is a Hamas sleeper cell and should be treated as such by law enforcement

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Dr. Jonathan Freeman's avatar

Two typos in:

“Contrary to its own claims, University is not a voice for the Palestinians. In fact, through its “anti-normalization” ideology, its goal is to shout down the many Palestinians and Jews who do seek a peaceful future, and instead manipulate the Palestinian cause in order to promote an atmosphere of hatred, intimidation and radicalism on campus. The result is that rather than contributing to debate and dialogue, University seeks to destroy these bedrock values of the modern university.”

Should the word “University” not be “Students for Justice in Palestine”?

It might be interesting to conduct a content analysis of the words used in pro-Palestinian rhetoric, (mainly angry, violent and hate-filled?) and pro-Israeli, (mainly rational, sympathetic and humane?). Just a suggestion.

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Liora Jacob's avatar

“Justice” in Palestine, eh?

Deuteronomy 16:20:

“Justice, justice you shall pursue, that you may live, and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.”

Hmm….

No wonder Muslims deny the legitimacy of the Bible.

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Dan's avatar
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Hamas is now monitored here in London in alliance with the Re-formed international organisation ‘The Nazi Party’, from 2014 in fact. The report on this is with the Authorities here in Europe, and is verified. So these SJP-supporting students are now Nazi-adjacent, and the threat to Jewish students is very real, for both ‘The Nazi Party’ and Hamas are sworn to Genocide, and therefore to murder. ‘The Nazi Party’ also planned War in The Ukraine, (monitored from 2014 here in London) from this date too, and this has been verified as well.

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