Columbia University Hosts ‘Zionists Are Racists’ Forum

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Universities and colleges, controlled totally by the hard-left, are becoming increasingly hostile and threatening environments for Jewish and pro-Israel students. The worst thing about this Columbia University forum is that it is just another anti-Israel event in an endless stream of them on campuses today.

“Columbia University Hosts ‘Zionists Are Racists’ Forum,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 27, 2017:

Columbia University is facing criticism from pro-Israel groups for hosting an on-campus forum entitled, “Zionists are Racists.”

The event, set to be held Monday evening in a university building, is being organized by Columbia University’s “Apartheid Divest” groups, which is comprised of several anti-Israel organizations committed to boycotting Jewish goods and individuals.

The event will feature speeches by individuals critical of the Jewish state, according to information publicly posted on Facebook.

The event is just another salvo in the campus war over Israel, which has become bound up in accusations of anti-Semitism against Jewish students and, in some cases, violence.

Much of this is being spearheaded by virulently anti-Israel campus organizations, including Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, and Jewish Voice for Peace, both of which advocate boycotts of Israel. SJP has been banned on some college campuses for promoting anti-Semitic materials. Both organizations are backing the forum at Columbia.

Monday evening’s event is being billed as an opportunity to “learn about Israel’s racist and imperialist policies,” according to event information.

“Come learn about Israel’s racist and imperialist policies and hear Barney Pityana, leading figure in the Black Consciousness Movement and the South African Students’ Organisation, as well as a close comrade of Steve Biko, will discuss what the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] struggle looks from the perspective of South Africa (sic),” the organization writes on a Facebook page promoting the event.

Similar events have been held at universities across the country and have been tied to a rising wave of anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses, according to multiple pro-Israel and Jewish organizations.

Multiple commenters on the Columbia organization’s Facebook page blasted the group for advocating anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews.

One pro-Israel leader told the Washington Free Beacon that the event is merely an excuse to forward pernicious lies about the Jewish state and foster an atmosphere of hostility towards Jewish students.

“This is a stance that has long been rejected by all people of good faith, including the overwhelming majority of Americans, because it’s an obvious and anti-Semitic attempt to erase the history of Jews as an indigenous people in the land of their origin,” said Josh Block, president and CEO of the Israel Project, which works to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses and elsewhere.

“Anyone is entitled to think and say what they want, even when those things are hateful and outrageous,” Block added. “But let’s be clear that’s what this is: Hate directed at Jews.”

The Columbia event is being held amid an uptick in threats against Jewish community centers and other facilities. At least eight Jewish centers were hit with bomb threats on Monday in yet another wave of potential violence.

“On a day in which there are more bomb threats and Jewish nursery school children are being evacuated from classrooms and parents frantically racing from work to yet another eight Jewish community centers, and there are more desecrated Jewish cemeteries to clean up, it raises real questions about the judgment of administrators at Columbia who would let a campus like Columbia become a place that feels unwelcome and unsafe safe for Jewish students,” Block said. “Our elected officials need to take notice if they won’t fulfill their duty to provide an atmosphere conducive to learning and free of the fear of such discrimination.”…

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

Time for pro Israel counter protests to get active and nasty.

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CrustyB

7 years ago

To a liberal there is:
1. No form of evil in the world besides “racism.”
and

2. Everything is “racism.”

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IzlamIsTyranny

7 years ago

Muslums complaining about xenophobia is like Mao complaining that Stalin is an atheist dictator.

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Michael Garfinkel

7 years ago

This is a shop-worn technique from the old Nazi playbook: put a Jew in charge (President of Columbia Lee Bollinger), and as was the case with the Judenrats, or Jewish Councils – you can torment the Jews ’till the cows come home.

And it still works! Columbia is now ranked the most anti-Semitic university in the country.

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Tilt

7 years ago

Reply to  Michael Garfinkel

Progressive Jews (JINO’s) share only one thing with all other Jews, they too would have been summarily thrown into the gas chambers by the Nazi’s

Progressive Jews that forged an unholy alliance with the proto-Nazi’s of Islam, are a demented form of Nazi’s themselves…

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James Stamulis

7 years ago

Columbia has become the east coast version of Berkley.

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