Recent days have witnessed what #JewishStudents & watchdog groups describe as a raft of #antisemitic incidents on #college #campuses.
#Jews #Jewish #antisemitism #HateCrimes #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #ViolentExtremists #RacistOpportunists #NationalSecurity #Israel #Hamas #war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/31/antisemitism-college-campuses-jewish-hamas-gaza/
And anonymous posters flooded a #Cornell msg board w/ #violent #threats, prompting the school’s president to alert the #FBI. “If you see a Jewish ‘person’ on campus follow them home & slit their throats,” one message said. Another threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus & shoot all you pig jews.”
#Jews #Jewish #antisemitism #HateCrimes #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #ViolentExtremists #RacistOpportunists #NationalSecurity #Israel #Hamas #war
#College #administrators braced at the start of the #Israel-#Hamas conflict for an outbreak of #antisemitism, #Islamophobia, #harassment & even #violence. #FreeSpeech advocates predicted infringements on #constitutional rights (Not all speech is free. Look it up.). Now, as the raid by Hamas against #Israeli #civilians gives way to wider combat in the region, those fears appear to be coming to fruition.
#Jews #antisemitism #HateCrimes #ViolentExtremists #RacistOpportunists #NationalSecurity
The solemn & peaceable candlelight vigils from earlier this month preceded uglier confrontations, leaving #Jewish college #students feeling anxious, afraid & #unsafe.
Amid what the #Biden admin described as an “alarming rise” of #antisemitism on #college #campuses, some #JewishStudents say they feel more vulnerable than ever before.
#Jews #HateCrimes #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #ViolentExtremists #RacistOpportunists #NationalSecurity #Israel #Hamas #war
A group called #StopAntiSemitism, which publicizes acts of #bigotry against #Jewish people, said that it received a few reports of incidents daily before the #Oct7 Hamas attack — occasionally a couple of dozen. Now, some 500 reports are arriving DAILY….
#Jews #antisemitism #HateCrimes #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #ViolentExtremists #RacistOpportunists #NationalSecurity #Israel #Hamas #war
#Israel’s counterattack against #Hamas …has brought forth intense protests nationwide, incl’g on #CollegeCampuses. At many rallies for #Palestinian #sovereignty & #HumanRights, demonstrators have used variations of a phrase that some #Jewish #students call a #threat: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
(click on #FromTheRiverToTheSea for #HateSpeech here on #mastodon + my thread quoting an article which got some *lovely* comments: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/111315979818166362)
The #Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False It does not accurately describe either the foundation of #Israel or the tragedy of the #Palestinians. By Simon Sebag Montefiore “…Whatever the enormous complexities…, one truth should be obvious among decent people: killing 1,400 people & kidnapping >200, including scores of #civilians, was deeply wrong. #Oct7 #terrorism #geopolitics https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/
Defenders of the phrase #FromTheRiverToTheSea often say that the line refers to a #OneStateSolution to the conflict between #Israelis & #Palestinians over that tract of land between the #JordanRiver & the #MediterraneanSea, in which #Arabs & #Jews could have equal voting rights. But the #UN & the #US position is that #Israel has a #RightToExist as a #JewishState & that the conflict should be solved w/a #TwoStateSolution, one country for each group.
#Jewish #students hear #FromTheRiverToTheSea as an open call for the #eradication of #Israel, a haunting proposition given the legacy of the #Holocaust that led to Israel’s creation. The phrase has been printed on fliers & projected onto the facade of a bldg at #GWU George Washington Univ. It has been accompanied by other boilerplate like “Glory to our martyrs,” in which #JewishStudents see praise for killing Jewish #civilians, as #Hamas did earlier this month.
"The conflict should be solved w/a #TwoStateSolution, one country for each group"
A two-state solution
hmm...
Something like this, perhaps
@LouisIngenthron that is correct. I was referring to things such as the speech posted by Patrick Dai, the 21-year-old junior at Cornell University who was arrested yesterday & charged federally under 18 U.S.C. § 875 w/ “posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications,” per the US Attorney’s Office for New York’s Northern District. The charge is punishable by up to five years in prison.
#Antisemitism #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #NotAllSpeechIsFreeSpeech
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