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		<title>Pro-Israel Penn State Students Assaulted for Putting up ‘Palestinian Wall of Lies’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Violent response to a counter-balance to the anti-Israel narrative promoted on campus.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>This article is reprinted from <a href="http://www.theblaze.com">The Blaze</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The Collegian of Penn State <a title="Opens in a new window" href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2011/04/01/YAF_protest.aspx" target="_blank">reports</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A 10-by-10-foot sign drew conflict and crowds of more than 50 people outside the HUB-Robeson Center Thursday afternoon.</p>
<p>The sign, part of a demonstration by the Penn State chapter of Young  Americans for Freedom, was titled “The Palestinian Wall of Lies.” It  featured two large silhouettes of men with guns and outlined 10 “lies”  the group believes Palestinians propagate.</p>
<p>YAF President Samuel Settle led the demonstration, handing out  pamphlets and attempting to strike up conversation with passersby.</p>
<p>“Many people have hatred for Israel and that’s why this is  important,” Settle (junior-political science and history) said. “People  need to look at the facts.”</p>
<p>But the demonstration didn’t go without opposition.</p>
<p>One student — who fled the scene before providing comment — yelled  obscenities at Settle and the rest of the group, calling it “terrible”  and proceeding to kick the group’s box of handouts across the sidewalk.</p>
<p>Other students simply shook their heads. Some even laughed.</p></blockquote>
<p>One student’s opposition to the sign took an aggressive turn. In the  video below, a pro-Palestinian student gets into an argument with the  YAF demonstrators about the sign. Near the end, the pro-Palestinian  student’s frustration and anger reaches a bit of a boiling point,  causing him to reach for the camera and then kick a box belonging to the  YAF demonstrators across the quad-like area.</p>
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<p>The YAF president, Samuel Settle, describes the incident in his <a title="Opens in a new window" href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/01/video-penn-state-yaf-students-assaulted-for-putting-up-palestinian-wall-of-lies/" target="_blank">own words</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, members of the Penn State Young Americans for  Freedom (YAF) set up a Palestinian Wall of Lies outside of the HUB  Student Center at the University Park campus. The demonstration began  shortly before 1:00, and received an almost immediate hostile reaction  from two nearby Arab students. The students described the Wall as  “bullshit” and “a f***ing lie,” but were initially nonviolent.</p>
<p>Shortly afterwards, the Wall began attracting significant  attention, including from a reporter and photographer with the Daily  Collegian student newspaper. Most of the reception was positive; in  particular, a group of Israeli students came around to express their  support. At this point, one of the two Arab students came back around  and began arguing with the YAFfers and Israelis, using abusive language  and saying, “I have a problem with Israelis.”</p>
<p>The argument lasted for about 3 minutes, during which the aggressor  became increasingly aggravated, ultimately demanding that the YAFfers  stop filming him. His request was refused, at which point he lunged for,  but missed, the camera I was holding. He then kicked over a crate full  of YAF pamphlets and stormed off. A photographer from the Collegian was  present at the time.Although this display was disappointing, it was not  surprising. This was the only student to actually become violent, but  many other students from the MSA came by at various points to verbally  denounce the Wall, and often to personally insult those present. None of  these people were able to point out a single error on the Wall, and  they dispersed once it became clear that they were being filmed.</p>
<p>On whole, the event was a great success. As mentioned,  with the exception of some MSA members, the Wall seemed to get a mostly  positive reception. Several of the students indicated that they were  extremely pleased to see a counter-balance to the anti-Israel narrative  frequently promoted on campus.</p></blockquote>
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