More from SJP Vassar - it is "alright" to republish articles from antisemitic White Nationalists

Vassar Students for Justice in Palestine justified their publication of a link from the Occidental Quarterly on their Facebook page as well.

This is a screencap of the discussion:

"If the idea is alright, who cares where they come from?" Would they have the same response if they found out a supporter of Israel had links to racist sites on his or her blog? I doubt it - it would be used as a way to characterize that person also as a racist.

What is wrong with them?

SJP Vassar and White Nationalism

NOTE: the following is taken from the excellent blog: Mystical Politics at: 

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Last night I tweeted to @SJPVassar about their use of an article from the Occidental Quarterly (seeprevious post), and this is the response I got.

I didn't think it was possible to prove that there exist links (intellectual, political) between at least part of the pro-BDS movement and far right antisemitism and white nationalism, but here it is. I wonder who is writing the tweets for SJP Vassar. If someone is really antiracist, as they claim to be, they would stay far, far away from even a hint of connection to the organized racist and antisemitic far right. 

And it's not accidental - the SJP Vassar Tumblr just posted from another white nationalist on Tumblr.

This is the Tumblr blog of "neonationalist":

His slogan? "I have no white guilt."

Abunimah and Blumenthal’s freedom ride

from Mondoweiss

NOTE: Isn't it amazing how one can see only what one wants to see and hear only what one wants to hear? If you are a lion, a giraffe looks like lunch, I guess. This utter Jew hater thinks what Blumenthal and Abuminah said was okay? 

For weeks now I’ve been hearing about Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal’s joint appearances and though it was one of the rainiest days ever in New York last Wednesday I drove up to Vassar College to hear them talk.  
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I interviewed the accused Kansas gunman 33 years ago. He was hateful then, too.

By Robert Satloff, Published: April 14

Robert Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

When I learned that the man accused of shooting innocent bystanders Sunday at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kan., was a former Klansman named Glenn Miller, I shuddered.

Thirty-three years ago, when I was an undergraduate at Duke University, I read a small item in the Raleigh News & Observer that mentioned Miller, then the grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Miller, it turns out, ran a paramilitary training campin rural North Carolina.

I couldn’t understand how, in late-20th-century America, the KKK could operate in the open less than an hour from our elite, ivory-tower campus. I was an editor of Duke’s daily newspaper, the Chronicle, so I did what any reporter would do: I called Miller and asked for an interview. Always looking for publicity, Miller readily said yes, but he had one condition. “We ain’t no equal-opportunity employer, you know,” he said. “So don’t bring down no blacks and no Jews.”

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Extremist Ali Abunimah Speaks at Haverford and Bryn Mawr

The following is a letter by our CCAP group at Haverford and Bryn Mawr, which was distributed prior to the event in an effort to raise awareness of the extremist and anti-Semitic speaker who was coming to campus. The event with the radical anti-Israel writerAli Abunimah attracted about 50 people. 

We, writing on behalf of numerous students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges condemn the blatant and vitriolic bigotry, intolerance, and anti-Semitism of Ali Abunimah in the highest terms. Mr. Abunimah is not only extremely anti-Israeli, he is clearly anti-Semitic:

Abuminah has compared Israel to Nazi Germany numerous times, something that the United States Department of State, in its “Report on Global Anti-Semitism,” declared anti-Semitic in no uncertain terms. He has stated “Supporting Zionism is not atonement for the Holocaust, but its continuation in spirit,”[1] and has referred to the Israeli press as “Der Sturmer.”[2] He has even gone so far as to compare Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, to “Death Squads.”[3]This false and painful accusation has absolutely no basis in historical reality, and instead only seeks to hurt Jews by comparing them to their most horrific oppressors.

Abunimah has publicly tweeted for a Third Intifada: “Isn’t it the time for a popular Palestinian revolution in the form of a third intifada?”[4], and then linked an essay that called for a third violent intifada. In the Second Intifada, over 800 Israeli civilians were killed, while over 5,000 were seriously injured in terrorist attacks specifically targeting noncombatant and civilian locales, such as cafes, movie theaters, restaurants, and in one of the most deadly attacks, a Passover Seder. As students at Haverford we cannot feel safe when a speaker on campus advocates such senseless violence. CLICK TO KEEP READING

Are all boycotters of Israel anti-Semitic?

Do you treat Jews in a manner different from other people? Israel is the quintessential Jewish project of modern times. Reflect. Prof. Michael Curtis in one of the most important pieces on the subject for many years

NOTE: This is a great article. The kind you post on the fridge and refer to every time you enter a debate or discussion about Israel. Succinct and filled with clear cut facts and usable retorts. 

Kristallnacht  in Baden-Baden Germany. Plus ca change?

IT is regrettable but now necessary to ask two questions. The first: are all those individuals, whatever their religious origin, political beliefs, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or nationality, who are in favor of some form of boycott of Israel, anti-Semites; haters of Jews?

The second: are those international bodies, so-called charity organizations, ill-informed academic groups, biased and bigoted mainstream churches, and trade unions who are critical of Israel equally critical of other countries for allegedly similar actions or non-actions?

By now, almost everyone is conscious of the existence of anti-Jewish sentiments and actions for centuries. Sometimes, anti-Semitism has been based on religious considerations, sometimes on supposed biological differences, sometimes on alleged negative attributes or patterns ascribed to Jews.

The result has been relentless civic and political discrimination, second-class citizenship, physical attacks, harassment, property losses, persecution, pogroms, and the Holocaust.

In recent years, anti-Semitic expressions, in public as well as in private, have substantially increased in a number of European countries. Some emerge from the attribution of economic and political problems to Jews. Some are demands for ethnic purity, of which Jews are devoid, and nationalism as in Hungary and Greece.

Others are expressions of discomfort with Jewish adherence to traditional religious rituals and practices. In many countries, as shown most recently in Sweden and France, anti-Semitism is fueled by Islamic authorities, ranting against Jews and against Israel for alleged occupation and oppression of Palestinians.

Especially troubling is that this prejudice is being spread in schools and universities of these countries, as well as in Arab nations. CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING

A Century of Anti-Semitism on the American College Campus

by Benjamin Ivry the Jewish Daily Forward

Published March 29, 2014, issue of April 04, 2014.

Note: Looks like a great book. Sigh, I guess it will need an epilogue to discuss the BDS movements, the ASA "boycott" and the resurgence of Jew Hatred on campus today. 

Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present
Edited by Eunice G. Pollack
Academic Studies Press, 470 pages, $65

In 2012, the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise published “Israel and the Campus,” a study noting 674 anti-Israel events at 108 United States and Canadian universities during the 2011-12 academic year. It remains undetermined how many of these events led to the development of full-fledged anti-Semitism on campuses making American Jewish students feel uneasy during their bright college years because of who they are. But there’s nothing new in that, as “Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present” edited by Eunice G. Pollack proves.

One chapter in the book, written by Andrew S. Winston, points out that in 1914, Columbia University’s dean, Frederick Keppel, expressed concern in a letter to a colleague that “ill prepared and uncultured Jews” from the City College of New York were transferring to Columbia. East European Jewish students, who were recent immigrants, were considered socially and morally inferior to their more prosperous and well-established German Jewish brethren. Yet even eminent Jewish professors were objects of concern. The pioneering American psychologist Joseph Jastrow, of Polish Jewish origin, was described in a letter by Columbia’s department head of psychology to Columbia President Seth Low as possessing the “merits and defects of the Jewish race to a very marked degree.” Things were not better at Harvard, where in 1923, the psychology department chairman Edwin G. Boring, when asked to write a letter of reference for Gilbert Joseph Rich, who would later publish key texts on the psychology of sound, came up with this missive: “You would get a good and enthusiastic worker cheap in Dr. G. J. Rich at the University of Pittsburgh, but I most emphatically do not recommend him, because he has some of the personal unpleasantnesses that are usually associated with Jews.”

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Read more: http://forward.com/articles/195371/a-century-of-anti-semitism-on-the-american-college/#ixzz2xMPi8U9E

Anti-Semitism Gets the Boot

by Michael Curtis American Thinker 3.28.14

NOTE: Something is better than nothing and this push back and calling out of antisemitism is very, very good. 

The fight against and the rejection of the virus of anti-Semitism and racism is gathering steam in unexpected quarters. The latest groups to reveal this are prominent football associations, the English Football Association, and UEFA (Union of European Football Associations). The latter is the European governing administrative body of soccer, founded in 1954 to represent national football associations of Europe but which now has 54 member associates. From its headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, it runs national team matches or club competitions. 

The English Football Association (FA) was the first to act. The action concerned the French football player, the 34-year-old Nicolas Anelka, whose parents came from Martinique and who converted to Islam. As a leading football striker he had been well paid in his highly successful career, playing for different clubs and for the national team of France for which he has been a regular starter. In the English Premier League match between his team, West Bromwich Albion, and West Ham in London on December 28, 2013, Anelka after scoring a goal made the insulting ‘quenelle’ gesture. CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING

US issues scathing attack against UNHRC for singling out Israel

from JP online 3/28/13

NOTE: Any doubt that Jew Hatred and antisemitism exist? Where are the other leaders who will stand up? Thanks to the Obama administration for standing firm on this. 

Israel not represented at meeting due to Foreign Ministry strike; US takes particular issue with the council’s Agenda Item 7, which mandates that Israel must be debated at every session of the forum.

THE MEETING hall of the United Nations Human Rights Council.Photo: Reuters

The United States on Friday issued a scathing attack against the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday for its continued biased treatment of Israel and charged that the council was harming the peace process.

America was the sole country to vote against five anti-Israel resolutions with the UNHRC approved on Friday afternoon as it met in Geneva at the close of its 25th session. 

“None of the world’s worst human rights violators, some of whom are the objects of resolutions at this session have their own stand alone agenda item at this council,” Schriefer said.

“Only Israel, a vibrant and open democracy, received such treatment,” Schriefer said. CLICK TO READ IT ALL HERE

Anti-Israel academic boycott turns ugly at Vassar

Posted by William A. Jacobson    Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 10:25am LEGAL INSURRECTION

NOTE: Long day for Vassar College. Starting this morning with the excellent letter written by over 60 Alumni and Parents against the growing climate of Jew Hatred at Vassar. Since then we've seen articles in Legal Insurrection, Honest Reporting and more. Here's an update from Legal Insurrection. I expect as this day wears on we'll see more in the wider press as word gets out. Let's hope the excellent administration at Vassar pays attention and helps to set the dialogue on a constructive course. 

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or CLICK THIS to read from today's JPOST.com article by Caroline B. Glick titled: 

Column One: Campus brownshirts rising

“to ensure the safety of individual representatives”

by Diana Muir Applebaum 3/26/2014 from her blog

Yesterday evening, at the end of a week-long sit-in at the student union,  the student union, acting under special rules designed “to ensure the safety of individual representatives“, voted against urging the university to divest from corporations doing business with the government of Israel.

“To ensure the safety of individual representatives.”  Not to insure decorum, or open debate, or rancor, or invective.  “To ensure the safety of individual representatives.”  To insure the “safety” of student government representatives.  On an American campus.  In 2014.

I am not a journalist, nor am I writing from Ann Arbor.  One of the journalists covering this story, Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon drew attention to a Facebook post  that sheds light on why student government leaders and Jewish students at the University of Michigan may have reason to worry about their personal safety.  Two months before the vote an Ann Arbor student named Yazan Kherallah posted a selfie on his Facebook page.  Kherallah is a vocal, public supporter of the movement to divest form Israel at the university.  The photo showed Kherallah wrapped in a keffiyeh that concealed his face so that only his eyes are showing,  holding a pineapple in one hand and a knife in the other as though he was about to stab the knife into the pineapple (ananas in French.)   Kherallah’s message reads: “It’s on. Kareem Hakim Hassan Hamid Mazen Abbas Youssef Ahmad Bazzi Omar Attalla Hussein Fardous @the rest of team ananas”

Team ananas?

The reference is to the French Holocaust denier and Jew-baiting French political activist and anti-Semite, Dieudonné M’bala M’bala.  The reference is to  Dieudonné’s Holocaust mockery song, Shoah-nanas.   The title blends Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, with the French word for pineapple, and is wildly popular with anti-Semites across the French-speaking world and beyond.  The video has circulated in several languages.   Here, at and following 4:13, you can see the jovial Jew-hater  Dieudonné  laughing, dancing and singing as an actor  dressed in the grey pajamas of  Nazi death-camp inmates – complete with yellow star – dances with pineapples.   Sample lyric, “You take me by the Shoah, I’ll take you by the pineapple.” CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING

4 Jewish groups urge probe at SFSU

from San Diego Jewish World March 26, 2014

NOTE: This is the second time today we're reporting on this (scroll down for the earlier piece). Let's hope this stays front and center. We added her to our AntiSemite watch list, too.

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Zionist Organization of America, on Wednesday, March 26,  wrote to San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong urging him to investigate a recent event held by SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi where she and others glorified and condoned terrorism to SFSU students. AMCHA Initiative coordinated the letter after obtaining an audiotape of the March 6 event.  According to eye-witness accounts, Jewish students were in tears following the meeting.

“This is the same professor who was the faculty advisor to the SFSU knife-wielding student investigated by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force,” said UCSC Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA cofounder.  “Is she trying to recruit new soldiers from the SFSU student body?”

“A professor promoting terrorism to impressionable students?,” asked UCLA Professor Leila Beckwith, AMCHA cofounder. “This is dangerous.”

Abdulhadi is SFSU Ethnic Studies Professor and Director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED).  AMED sponsored the event last fall where students could make posters that said, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers,” meaning Jews, and images of the convicted hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun.  Abdulhadi was also the faculty advisor to Mohammad Hamad, the SFSU student shown wielding a knife on social media with the caption, “I love this blade…it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier” and publicly threatened SFSU Jewish students, Israelis and supporters of Israel. CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING

Europe's alarming push to isolate Israel

by Alan Dershowitz 3/15/2014 in CFCA/Antisemitism.org

Source: newsmax

By Alan Dershowitz

When President Barack Obama warned of "international fallout" if Israel fails to embrace the latest U.S. Middle East peace proposal, Newsmax asked noted author and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz to comment on the growing talk of a European boycott against Israel.

Why are so many of the grandchildren of Nazis and Nazi collaborators who brought us the Holocaust once again declaring war on the Jews?

Why have we seen such an increase in antisemitism and irrationally virulent anti-Zionism in western Europe? CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING

Wandering In The Academic Wilderness

By: Jerold S. Auerbach

Published: March 26th, 2014

from the Jewish Press by Jerold Auerbach

NOTE: Read this and weep. Most of us go about our lives, busy with work, kids, family and when time allows, we catch up with the news, magazines, etc. And we have a fairly good handle on current events. But every so often we're whacked on the side of the head and realize how utterly ignorant we are of reality. Wellesley? In our lives? NOW? And if this is happening at Wellesley, where else is it this bad? Vassar? Michigan? Loyola? Brooklyn? NYU? Just how endemic is anti semitism? What is the message our college aged children hear? Where are the defenders of truth? Are we once again letting the blood libel to spread unchecked? Christ Killers? Money grubbers? When will we come together and really say, "ENOUGH!" And how can we do that? 

In the good old days of what passes for higher education, before the state of Israel was relentlessly pilloried by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movements and professional academic associations,there was only garden variety anti-Semitism.

During much of the 20^th century, elite American colleges and universities carefully policed their admission gates to restrict the entry of Jews. Like its Big Brothers – Harvard, Yale and Princeton – Wellesley College, where I taught history between 1971 and 2010, designed admission policy to perpetuate a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite.

This challenge became imperative after World War I, when hordes of socially undesirable candidates with academically superior credentials – in a word, Jews – threatened to inundate the academic citadels of privilege. With Harvard in danger of becoming “Hebrewized,” Yale fearful of being “overrun” by Jews, and Princeton anxious lest Jews “ruin [it] as they have Columbia and Pennsylvania,” the solution was obvious.

Just as Congress enacted immigration restriction laws to curtail the entry of undesirables from Southern and Eastern Europe, so colleges imposed quotas to exclude Jews. Questions about religious affiliation were embedded in the selection process.

So, too, were geographical distribution preferences, personal interviews, and photographs, all designed to filter out Jews. More than sixty years after her graduation, a Wellesley Jewish alumna still remembered an oblivious classmate who had complained: “Isn’t it awful how Jews turn up everyplace and how they have horns.”

Several years before my arrival, two faculty members circulated a petition among their colleagues asking Wellesley trustees to drop the provision in college bylaws restricting the faculty to those who professed Christianity. Half the faculty signed but the trustees, reaffirming their commitment to religious freedom, declined to change the bylaws. KEEP READING CLICK HERE

Hamas Holds Military Rally at Al Quds University

BY: Adam Kredo  
March 25, 2014 2:33 pm

the FreeBeacon

Militant Hamas members held yet another pro-terror rally on the campus of Al Quds University, a Palestinian school that has come under fire in the past for allowing terror groups to hold anti-Israel demonstrations on its campus.

Scores of masked Hamas activists were captured on film parading on the university’s campus carrying mock missiles and other propaganda associated with the terror group, according to photosfirst published by reporter Tom Gross.

Al Quds, which reportedly receives funding from liberal billionaire George Soros, has found itself in hot water before for hosting terrorist entities on its campus, which is located in Palestinian-controlled territory near Israel.

A similar demonstration by Islamic Jihad late last year on the school’s campusgarnered national headlines and condemnation. The backlash over the event led Brandeis University, one of Al Quds’ closest partners, to sever its ties with the institution after it insufficiently responded to the event.

The latest Hamas demonstration occurred on Sunday and featured scores of masked men and women in hijabs marching across the campus with jihadist propaganda and fake rockets similar in design to those used to attack Israel, according to Gross’s photos.

The ongoing terrorist demonstrations could prove problematic for the many Western organizations that fund and partner with Al Quds. CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING

NOTE: Where is the BDS movement against this terrorist school? As the article goes along there are signs of hope as both major funders and moderate Palestinian students claim to be sick of this type of behavior. That is where the change has to come from. 

Roger Waters justifies anti-Israel boycott with fake Gandhi quote

NOTE: We spend too much time fressing over Waters but this excellent piece at Legal Insurrection points out a huge BDS lie that Waters spouts and keeps alive. Ghandi never said this: 

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