Are Colleges Finally Getting Tired of Anti-Israel Campus Antics?

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Between the UC Irvine 11 and now the suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine at Northeastern University in Boston, colleges may finally be getting sick and tired of anti-Israel campaigns that have gone on for decades resulting in physical assaults, arson, vandalism and countless lawsuits.

The American campus has become more ‘sensitive’ than ever with bans on offensive costumes and trigger warnings everywhere. Left-wing activism has traditionally gotten a pass, but even so a message is being sent to tone it down.

In a series of three videos, the APT documented its investigation into Islamic extremism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism at Northeastern University. Professors and members of the Spiritual Life Office are shown abusing their classes and Northeastern Holocaust Remembrance Week to promote an anti-Israel and, at times, anti-Semitic agenda. Students for Justice in Palestine leaders are seen vandalizing the campus with anti-Semitic messages, glorifying terrorist groups, and chanting for the destruction of Israel. All videos can be seen at shameonneu.com.

For the first time since these videos were released, NEU has taken some serious steps to deal with this insidious behavior. On March 7, 2014 members of Northeastern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) were informed by the school’s Center for Student Involvement that their chapter had been suspended for at least a year.

NEU’s Director of the Center for Student Involvement, Jason Campbell-Foster, offered a litany of charges against SJP, including their distribution of fake eviction notices across Northeastern campuses

The fake eviction notices violated one general rule and any number of specific rules about harassment. Unfortunately if history is any guide, even this slap on the wrist will be ameliorated and the disciplinary action against SJP conceals deeper problems at Northeastern.

Northeastern’s Economics Professor and Pakistani citizen M. Shahid Alam, was caught on video telling students that anti-Semitism is something that one should be proud of.

A Jewish student wrote a paper taking the position that Hamas, with its genocidal goals, cannot be given legitimacy. “Professor Sullivan rejected the student’s paper and threatened her with a poor grade unless she rewrote it … The Jewish student felt that she had no choice but to rewrite her paper.”

SPME’s site on Northeastern makes it clear that there is a deeper problem here at the faculty level.

  • wileyvet

    Let me guess. The M stands for Mohammed? Be proud of your anti-Semitism, says the Paki Professor in America, but say anything Muslims don’t like about Islam, and you’re a blasphemous Islamophobe, exhibiting bigotry and intolerance which cannot be tolerated by the intolerant Muslim.

  • Dyer’s Eve

    Time to show support: Thumbs up for Israel (live long, live strong). Love ya! As for the others; Saudi Arabia is Hitler’s toilet, the Ayatollah reads Cosmopolitan (I bet he really does), Palestine is a disease of the genitalia, however, I think it is better not to discuss the horn of Africa…

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Call the islamofascist outpost

      Pal-e-SWINE.

  • tickletik

    Daniel, I was very struck by the Jewish student who was gushing about how wonderful Sullivan was and how she now knows to properly hate Israel. And in the middle of her gibbering, I realized that I wouldn’t know how to show the truth. That is, I don’t have a thorough knowledge of my own history to counter her bs. I know bits and pieces, here and there, but no coherent whole narrative backed up by methodical honest research.

    Can you please ask your colleagues to come up with a list of books to read that every Jew ought to know about Israel?

    • Habbgun

      I would personally recommend you learn more about Judaism as a religion than history. If you do so you will see just how consistent Judaism is throughout the centuries. You will see you can learn directly from sources thousands and hundreds of years old. You will have more in common with Sephardic, Bukharian Jews, etc. and will see how consistent Judaism is between ethnically and racially disparate groups. You will see the Jewish connection to Zion. All these things let you know it is Jewish land and Jewish destiny. It will give you the message you need. It is not that the girl is wrong but that she is lost.

      Think of feminists wearing hijabs. How spiritually barren and unhappy do you have to be to have to go through torturous political stances just to do a religious act. Any religious act.

  • CowboyUp

    The faculty is a key component to this problem. These students were taught and encouraged to do this.