Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine' doubles down on 'Israel trains racist cops' meme
Being exposed to the radical Left at NYU more than 30 years ago turned me into a conservative. It's gotten much worse since I was there.
The Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine,' an extremist anti-Israel group at NYU, is doubling down on its accusation that Israel is behind the training of police officers that 'causes' them to shoot black 'activists.'
“Our statement regarding the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando
Castile—and the rampant murders of Black Americans by the police—was not
a suggestion that their deaths are part of an Israeli conspiracy.
Israel did not literally kill either of these men: that much is
obvious,” the SPJ chapter said in its follow-up post on July 9.
That post reiterated the assertion that the IDF training of some American police officers is behind a brutal ethos.
“The
IDF assists the NYPD and other American police departments in their
oppression and murder of black people,” the second post said. “These
groups share a common logic that manifests in several types of
oppression, white supremacist racism among them.”
The accusation
that Israel’s counter-terrorism training of American officers
contributes to police brutality is not new for this group, or other
Palestinian sympathizers. Pro-Palestinian activist Alice Rothschild
recently wrote an opinion piece for the anti-Zionist website Mondoweiss
called “Modern day lynchings: an international view.” In 2015 black
student groups at Yale, Columbia and UC Berkeley signed onto a statement
calling for solidarity between blacks and Palestinians. It also
denounced “police and soldiers from the two countries [who] train
side-by-side.”
There is NOTHING in this world that the Left cannot find a way to blame on Israel.
Jewish woman forced to hide from anti-Israel 'activists' at UC Irvine
You all remember the University of California at Irvine, the place where then-Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren was heckled and forced to stop speaking? Well, it happened again. Last week, a Jewish woman was forced to hide from anti-Israel 'activists' at Irvine outside a meeting at which a movie about the IDF was being screened.
Let's go to the videotape.
Here's how the woman, Sophomore Eliana Kopley, was trapped outside.
Sophomore Eliana Kopley had just left a Holocaust-related event when
she was walking toward the facility featuring a screening of “Beneath
the Helmet,” a documentary about the Israel Defense Forces. As she
arrived at the event hosted by Students Supporting Israel, Ms. Kopley
was met by an angry crowd pounding on the doors and windows—engaged in
violent chants targeting the Jewish state.
“I was terrified. There is no other word to describe how I felt,” Ms. Kopley told the Haym Salomon Center.
As the mob tried to gain entrance to the event, one protestor shouted, “If we’re not allowed in, you’re not allowed in!”
With the crowd physically forbidding Ms. Kopley from attending the
event and chants inciting violence against Jews and Israel such as
“Intifada, Intifada—Long live the Intifada!” and “F**k Israel!” Ms.
Kopley walked away from the scene.
But she was not alone. A group of female students followed her as she escaped to safety in the room nearby.
“When I turned back, at that moment, I looked at one of the girls and wanted to hide and cry,” Ms. Kopley said.
Throughout this entire time, Ms. Kopley never hung up the phone with
her mother, who was anxiously fearful on the other end of the line.
“My mom keeps asking what’s going on. But I couldn’t even say
complete sentences. All I managed to say was ‘protesters’ and she
started yelling at me to call the cops,” Ms. Kopley said.
So she did. As the chanting heightened, Ms. Kopley remained on the
line with 9-1-1 until an officer found her shortly after. Two officers,
who decided it would be best to put on black rubber gloves to protect
them from sharp objects, escorted her through the crowd of protesters to
the nearby film screening safely.
#BDS_Epic_Fail: Former 'white shoes' law firm withdraws Harvard Law School funding due to BDS
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
Back in the 60's and 70's, New York law firms were split into 'Jewish law firms' where Jews could be accepted and predominated, and 'white shoes law firms,' which for the most part did not accept Jews. By the time I came out of law school in the mid-'80's, the world was changing (my first law firm was one that was known as a 'white shoes' law firm and I had offers from others) although there were still vestiges of the old regime.
For the uninitiated, the “Milbank Tweed Student Conference Fund” (or Milbank Fund, named after the multinational law firm that
endowed it), was established in 2012 to support the activities of
student-run organizations at Harvard Law School. The Dean of Students
office allocates the funds through an open application process. As part
of the arrangement, Milbank Fund recipients are required to recognize
the contribution by ensuring that all promotional materials for
Milbank-funded programming include at least one reference indicating
Milbank as a headlining sponsor.
At the start of this semester, HLS announced, without explanation,
the sudden termination of the Milbank Fund. We are writing today so that
the record may reflect that the termination of the Milbank Fund is, in
fact, completely our fault.
In our defense, we couldn’t have possibly foreseen how our actions
would come to affect the rest of the campus community. On the eve of our
first-ever Milbank-sponsored speaker event, titled “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack”,
the only thing we were really concerned about was what type of food to
order for our fellow classmates. Like many others, we are an
organization that recognizes the value of quality food as a major key to
the success of any lunch talk.
So we ordered pizza—about $500 worth. We made sure to get a little
something for everyone, because inclusivity! We got some margheritas for
the traditional, buffalo chicken for the carnivorous, and of course,
some formaggio for our colleagues with a more refined palate. The pizza
was delicious, and for that, we must take a moment to sincerely thank
Milbank for its generous contributions.
Even though we had only used Milbank’s money for the pizza (our
speakers, two civil rights attorneys and an undergraduate student,
graciously offered their time at no additional cost to the school), we
held up our end of the deal by including, in all promotional e-mails and
at the bottom of the event’s official Facebook page, some iteration of
the following sentence: “This event is brought to you by the generous
support of Milbank LLP.”
...
Ironically enough, a very similar sequence of events would unfold at
Harvard Law School in the aftermath of our event. The very next day, the
Dean of Students office—citing a flood of angry phone
calls and emails received from Milbank executives and other off-campus
parties over the previous 24 hours—asked an organizer of the event to
disassociate from Milbank in all past and future Justice for Palestine
programming.[1]
As a start, the organizer was asked to immediately remove the reference
to Milbank’s “generous support” from JFP’s Facebook event page.
After acknowledging that they recognized the irony in asking a
student to retroactively edit the description for an event that was
about free speech and its exceptions, the Dean of Students
administrators proceeded to make it very clear that our cooperation
would be greatly appreciated. Even though the event had already passed,
it was evident that the administration was feeling tremendous pressure
to do something, anything, to appease Milbank.
In exchange for a written guarantee that JFP’s future funding (be it
from Milbank or any other source) would not be adversely affected, we
agreed to remove the sentence from the Facebook event page. Though that
guarantee was promised to us, we never got it.
Turns out, that’s because our request was directly incompatible with
what Milbank was demanding. Administrators would later reveal that
Milbank had gone so far as to demand that JFP’s Milbank funding be
rescinded completely. According to Dean Minow, this was not a demand her
administration could honor, so Milbank decided to pull out all of
its annual $250,000 in student activity funding as a result of her
administration’s “principled stance” in support of our right to speak
openly and honestly about Palestine.
The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is Hamas on Campus. An organization dedicated to wiping Israel off the map.
Find out how the The SJP was created to be Hamas on Campus and work in tandem with the Muslim Brotherhood proxy, the Muslim Students Association (MSA).
Let's go to the videotape.
I am going to guess that 99% of the college students in the US who have been exposed to the SJP have no clue what they're really about.
This is rich: Hillel, J Street University and Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine' sponsor an event together
And you thought that Hillel would have nothing to do with Students for 'Justice' in 'Palestine' and other anti-Zionist groups, and that's why 'Open Hillel' was started. And you also thought that 'pro-Israel, pro-peace' J Street wouldn't partner with groups that promote BDS. Well, you were wrong. And what started on the east coast has now come to the west coast.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a club new to
Occidental this year, collaborated with Hillel and J Street last
Wednesdayto co-host a candlelight vigil mourning the
lives lost in the most recent Gaza-Israel conflict. Approximately 30
members of the Occidental community gathered in the middle of the Quad
in remembrance of those killed, and also in a stand of solidarity.
The Gaza-Israel war has left many like-minded students
shaken and questioning the cyclical, systematic nature of the violence,
prompting the idea for the on-campus vigil.
“Yes, we need to remember lives of the people that were
lost, but [the vigil] is also to draw in people and give them the sense
that this has got to stop,” Beebe Sanders (senior) said.
Testimonials read aloud at the vigil gave the gathering a
closer view of the horrors that have become Israelis’ and Palestinians’
reality. One such account was from the perspective of a father, who
witnessed the bombing of his house while his children were inside.
“Our main goals were that people walk away with a sense
of togetherness, with a sense that as Americans, as all people, we have
some investment in this conflict,” J Street Co-Chair Ben Poor (senior)
said. “I hope people felt that they had a chance to mourn and to reflect
on the events of this summer as a campus community.”
The collaborative event served as an introduction to SJP,
which was established by Sanders, seniors Janan Burni and Robert
Rodriguez-Donoso and Yasmine Dabbah (sophomore). SJP is a national
organization established in 2001 with more than 80 chapters, the purpose
of which is to advocate for human rights and a peaceful resolution to
the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We wanted to start SJP because we felt there was a lack
of voice for Palestine on issues such as human rights and advocating for
an end to the occupation,” Sanders said.
You American Jews keep blindly donating money to Federation to support this, okay? But at least call Hillel to register a protest!?!?!
The Swarthmore chapter of
Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP), an offshoot of the
well-known anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), on
Sept. 4 co-hosted a discussion on the recent Gaza conflict with J
Street U.
“We are co-hosting a discussion with J Street tonight at 7:30 in Kohlberg 116. Everyone is welcome,” Swarthmore SPJP tweeted.
Additionally,
J Street U and SPJP, along with other Swarthmore campus groups
including Hillel and Christian and Muslims clubs, last week held a vigil
to honor those who died in the Gaza conflict. (Hillel International’s
Israel guidelines forbid engagement with groups or speakers that
“delegitimize, demonize or apply a double standard to Israel,” but
Swarthmore Hillel last year decided to reject those guidelines and align
with the “Open Hillel” movement.)
On a national level, J Street states that it “opposes the global BDS movement”
and believes that BDS is an “inappropriate way” to try to resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But in response to an inquiry about the
Swarthmore events, a J Street spokesperson explained how the lobby’s
co-sponsorship policy does not preclude partnering with pro-BDS groups.
“Our policy in terms of
co-sponsorship is pretty consistent. We do not support BDS, but we do
not have any problem with co-sponsoring programs with organizations that
do,” Jessica Rosenblum, J Street’s director of media and
communications, told JNS.org.
J Street’s co-sponsorship policy extends to groups on both the anti-Israel or pro-Israel side of the spectrum.
This proves once again Congressman Gary Ackerman's statement that J Street's heads are so open that their brains have fallen out.
Except, of course, when it comes to actually doing something that is pro-Israel....
That policy was reflected by J Street’s decision in July, during the
Gaza conflict, to pull out of a communal Israel solidarity rally in
Boston. Shaina Wasserman, J Street’s Boston director, wrote in a letter
to the local Jewish Community Relations Council that the lobby decided
to pull out of the rally because the event did not include speakers who
represented its “pro-Israel, pro-peace perspective.”
“What was
missing for us in this rally, and what ultimately precluded our
co-sponsorship, was that despite our efforts, there was no space made to
raise the issues that follow from our commitment to Israel’s Jewish and
democratic future,” wrote Wasserman.
I hope that the Israeli government is paying attention and will stop sending representatives to J Street events...
The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country.
Tamari's experience is not unique. In a cyber-age twist on Israel's vaunted history of airport security, the country has begun to force incoming travelers deemed suspicious to open personal email accounts for inspection, visitors say.
Targeting mainly Muslims or Arabs, the practice appears to be aimed at rooting out visitors who have histories of pro-Palestinian activism, and in recent weeks, has led to the expulsion of at least three American women.
It remains unclear how widespread the practice is.
However, asked about Tamari's claims, the Shin Bet security agency confirmed she had been interrogated and said its agents acted in accordance with the law.
...
The security procedures appear to be getting stricter: Recent searches of journalists at official events have been invasive enough to create a series of mini-uproars and walkouts — a situation that has dovetailed with increasing concerns that the government is trying to stifle dissent.
It's got nothing to do with stifling dissent and everything to do with the country's security. How many other countries in the world need to be seriously concerned that people are arriving from abroad to attempt to undermine the country's existence?
Butto said she has led three tour groups to the region over the past year, and in each case, at least one member of the group was asked to open their email. She said Muslims, Arabs, and Indians were typically targeted, and in most cases, were denied entry.
Butto said agents typically want to see people's itineraries, articles they have written or Facebook status updates.
Indians? There's a non-Jewish Indian (from India - now lives in Europe) who reads this blog, and with whom I met while he was here, and he didn't say anything like this.
But in any event, when you travel to the US, they want all your details before you ever get on the plane, and I am sure that if they had serious concerns about someone that could be resolved by checking their Facebook status, they do it while you're flying across the Atlantic. Israel doesn't have the power to obtain information in advance about people arriving here like the US does, and yet our concerns about terrorism are at least as serious.
The article goes on to mention the story that appeared on Mondoweiss earlier this week, which I blogged here. But it innocuously refers to the organizations with which the women are involved as 'Palestinian activist groups' and makes it sound like their involvement was limited to when they were in college. If you read my post (linked in this paragraph), you will get a more complete picture.
Please note the following:
American Embassy spokesman Kurt Hoyer said the embassy does not comment on specific cases. But he said the embassy is "usually" contacted whenever an American citizen is not allowed to enter Israel, or any other country.
The embassy typically remains in contact with local authorities throughout the process until a decision on entry is made.
He said the U.S. stresses to all governments "to treat American passport holders as Americans, regardless of their ethnic origin ... At the same time, any sovereign nation has the right to decide who to let in, and not to let in."
...
Emanuel Gross, a law professor at Haifa University, said such a practice would seem to be illegal in Israel.
"In Israel, you need a search warrant to go into somebody's computer," he said. "I'm skeptical that the security guards asked a judge first for a warrant and I'm skeptical that a judge would give it."
Hoyer has it right. As to Gross' comments, I'm not sure how someone who is not a citizen of a country would get the rights of a citizen - at least unless and until they are allowed into the country. The US, for example, doesn't exactly give civil rights to the people who are imprisoned at Guantanamo (which is physically in Cuba, but which is US sovereign territory).
Why might Israel deport two young American women who landed at Ben Gurion Airport? (UPDATED with screen shot of Linked-In page)
The virulently anti-Israel Mondoweiss blog publishes an account from two young Arab women who were denied entry into Israel. There's a lot missing.
The account was written by Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, two University of Virginia graduates from the New York City area, who are American citizens of Arab (I assume 'Palestinian,' although they don't say that) extraction. The account is about as unbiased as they get.
“Do you feel more Arab or more American?” she asked. I had answered the ten previous questions very calmly, but with this question I looked back at the security official confused and irritated. She couldn’t have been much older than me—her business attire and stern facial expressions did not mask her youth.
“I don’t know, I feel both. Why? Does this affect my ability to get in?”
She ignored my question. “Surely you must feel a little more Arab, you’ve lived in many Middle Eastern countries.”
I did not see the correlation. I have never felt the need to choose. “Yes I have but I also lived in the US for the past seven years, and was born there, so I feel both.” My response did nothing to convince her.
“Hm. Will you go to Al-Aqsa?”
“Yeah, maybe.”
“Will you go to Jewish sites as well?”
“Yes, why not? We want to see everything.”
“But you have been here two times already. Why are you coming now for the third time? You can go to Venezuela, to Mexico, to Canada. It is much closer to New York, and much less expensive!”
I realized the conversation was going nowhere. “Right, but I wanted to come back here again. Don’t you have tourists who come back more than once?”
“I’m asking the questions here,” she replied disgruntled.
“Okay, we are going to do something very interesting now!” Her face transformed from a harsh stare to a slight smirk. She proceeded to type “www.gmail.com” on her computer and then turned the keyboard toward me. “Log in,” she demanded.
“What? Really?” I was shocked.
“Log in.”
I typed in my username and password in complete disbelief. She began her invasive search: “Israel,” “Palestine,” “West Bank,” “International Solidarity Movement.”
...
She sifted through my inbox, reading every single email with those keywords. She read sentences out loud to her colleague, sarcastically reenacting and mocking old Google Chat conversations between Sasha and me about our future trip to Jerusalem. I squirmed in my seat.
The Israeli authorities have a notorious reputation for denying entry to Palestinians of all citizenships, and I had received all sorts of advice, solicited and unsolicited, on how to cope with the problem. The security officer opened an email from a friend living in Jerusalem who had advised me to remove myself from internet searches. “They are heavy on googling names at the airport recently,” he had written. “See if you can remove yourselves, not crucial but helpful.”
The security guard found this especially hilarious. With a laugh, she called her blonde colleague over and reread the sentence mockingly. “You can tell your friend, not only do we google you, we read your emails, too!”
Read the whole thing. Read the comments too - they're downright hostile to Israel. Look at the pictures of Najwa and Sasha. They look like they'd be stoned in Tehran or Gaza City. Perhaps they could take some fashion lessons from Catherine Ashton.
So why did Israel deny these two young New York professionals entry into the country? Here's what they're not telling you:
First, they don't discuss what those gmail searches produced but I'd bet there were a whole bunch of hits from the "International Solidarity Movement" search. I don't have to tell you all who the ISM is.
Second, a look at Najwa and Sasha's linked-in pages produces some interesting information (Thanks to Stephen L for the inspiration). Najwa worked for UNRWA in Tripoli, Lebanon [corrected, CiJ] from January 2010 through January 2011. I assume that was with a different passport than the one used in her two previous trips to Israel. You can't enter Lebanon with an Israeli stamp in your passport. At the University of Virginia, Najwa was also the President of 'Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine' (sometimes known as 'Students for Justice in Palestine').
The SJP fomented new radicalism about the Palestinian-Israel conflict and gave a new energy and visibility to Palestinian propaganda. Even the progressive Forward quoted activists who claimed that the SJP moved “far beyond legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and its policies into complete delegitimization of the Jewish state.”[3]
The SJP equates Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with apartheid South Africa and calls for divestment from Israel and an end to the ‘occupation.’ It organizes demonstrations and political theater to dramatize the plight of the Palestinians whom it sees only as innocent victims. SJP chapters have set up mock checkpoints, mock “concentration camps” with barbed wire to demonstrate how Palestinians suffer, mock “apartheid walls” and even fake re-enactments of IDF soldiers beating up pregnant Palestinian women.[4] Some chapters even organize Deir Yassin remembrance day to mark what Palestinians have claimed was a massacre of Palestinians in 1948. In 2002, the Berkeley SJP staged this event on Holocaust Remembrance Day and directly competed with the commemoration Jewish students had organized.[5]
SJP also agitates to prevent pro-Israel speakers from visiting their campuses. The De Paul University SJP captured media attention in April 2005 because it protested against a pro-Israel professor who had argued with SJP members at their campus table. The University deferred to SJP and fired the professor, Thomas Klocek. He has brought a legal suit against the school.[6]
SJP chapters are only loosely affiliated with one another, and some are more radical than others, but as a whole, the group will not even condemn terrorism.
Obviously, there's enough there to make Najwa an undesirable from Israel's perspective.
There's not quite as much out there on Sasha, but she does list 'Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine' among her UVa activities, and the fact that she was traveling with Najwa undoubtedly opened some eyes.
I want to go back to the very biased account for a minute. Here's how they describe their call from the American embassy.
At 6:15, a guard came and told us that the US embassy was phoning for us. My parents had called them from Virginia after our two-minute conversation to inform them of what was happening. Sasha answered the phone. “Oh, thank God, we’ve been trying to get in touch with you! This is Sasha. We’ve been through a lot the past few hours.”
“As I told your friend’s parents yesterday, there is really nothing we can do. I’m just glad that you’re going to be able to get on the next flight.” the woman said dispassionately.
“This is ridiculous. They went through my friend’s email. Is that legal?”
“Well, they can do whatever they want. There is nothing we can do. They are their own country, and they make their own rules.”
“If only you could see the conditions we are in. I just wish you could come and smell the room.”
“Oh, I’m really sorry, but at least you’ll be getting on the next flight,” her voice was annoyingly monotonous.
That's the bottom line. Every country - including Israel - has the right to control who enters. If you want to come here, you have to play by our rules. And if the authorities suspect you're here to help a radical terror group, you won't be allowed in. Just like the US has its 'no fly' lists and insists on having name, rank and serial number on every arrival in advance, Israel will bar anyone it believes is affiliated or assisting a 'Palestinian' or Islamist terror group. And Lebanon, Syria and a whole bunch of other Arab countries will bar anyone with an Israeli stamp on their passport. Deal with it and stop whining.
You can find the Google cache version here (and yes, Najwa, there's a screen cap of it available if you'd like me to post it). Thanks to David Appletree via Twitter.
UPDATE TUESDAY 10:35 AM
I understand that the Google cache version of Najwa Doughman's Linked-In profile has been removed. I am posting the screen cap as a ScribD embed below (Hat Tip: David A).
Surprise: 'Students for Justice in Palestine' avoid opportunity for dialogue
UCLA's Students for Justice in Palestine avoided dialogue at a pro-Israel event on Wednesday night. Instead of staying and listening to two Israeli soldiers speak about their experiences, they interrupted the evening, and coordinated a "walk out" from the room.
“More than any other university in Israel, the Technion, which is involved in the research and development of military and arms technology, is directly implicated in war crimes. Its joint programs with the Israeli military and its cooperative research programs with two of Israel’s major weapons corporations, Elbit and Rafael, renders Technion a full participant in the actions carried out by the Israeli military.... The Cornell administration cannot plead ignorance of these facts. We refuse to collaborate with this.”
No one asked them to be part of it. They can always drop out of school. Heh.
Black students diss 'Students for Justice in Palestine'
This incident may yet be regarded as a watershed in the campaign by 'Palestinians' and their supporters to characterize Israel as an 'apartheid state.' The incident took place at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts this past week. Kadima MK and former Shin Bet director Avi Dichter was the speaker. The morons from 'Students for Justice in Palestine' were there.
In response, a group of African American student leaders from traditionally 'black colleges' have taken out advertisements in student newspapers all over the US in which they have published an open letter to the 'Students for Justice in Palestine.' Their message: You guys are clueless (Hat Tip: Herb G).
"The use of the word 'apartheid' by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in its characterization of Israel is patently false and deeply offensive to all who feel a connection to the state of Israel," the letter, which ran or is slated to run in papers at Brown University, University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Maryland and Columbia University over the next few days, reads. "Your organization's campaign against Israel is spreading misinformation about its policies, fostering bias in the media, and jeopardizing prospects for a timely resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Such irresponsibility is a blemish on your efforts."
The letter continues to state that "playing the 'apartheid card' is a calculated attempt to conjure up images associated with the racist South African regimes of the 20th century," and calls the strategy "as transparent as it is base."
"Beyond that, it is highly objectionable to those who know the truth about the Israel's record on human rights and how it so clearly contrasts with South Africa's," the letter reads, noting that under apartheid, black South Africans had no rights in a country in which they were the majority of the population.
Saying that the analogy manipulates rather than informs, the letter requests SJP to "immediately stop referring to Israel as an apartheid society and to acknowledge that the Arab minority in Israel enjoys full citizenship with voting rights and representation in the government."
"Decency, justice, and the hope of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East compel us to demand an immediate cessation to the deliberate misappropriation of words and of the flagrant mischaracterizations of Israel," the letter concludes. "Your compliance with this request will be viewed as a responsible and appropriate first step toward raising the level of discourse."
It's great to see that the next generation includes kids who can think independently and who aren't sucked in by the false rhetoric of the mainstream media. Apartheid is probably the most overused word in current discourse.
Video: 'Students for Justice in Palestine' disrupts an IDF soldier at Hampshire College
This is a parody video done using a video by yet another group of students calling themselves Jewish (who knows if they really are) who were proud of their efforts to shout down an IDF soldier.
This entire video is worth watching for one comment the soldier makes around the 6:00 mark, and I suggest that all IDF soldiers and pro-Israel speakers do the same anytime someone starts their heckling with "I'm Jewish...."
Let's go to the videotape.
Great line, wasn't it?
For those who have forgotten, some people at Hampshire College claim it was the first academic institution in the US to join the BDS movement. Morons.
As an update to the continuing disruptions of Israel events on campus by 'Students for Justice in Palestine,' the pro-Israel students at the University of Pittsburgh did a little editing of the 'Students for Justice in Palestine' video of their own heroics.
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