Anti-Israel Academics Launch Campus Antifa Group for Faculty

Anti-Israel academics at Purdue University and Stanford University have created the Campus Antifascist Network, or CAN, to combat what they call “fascists” using the First Amendment to showcase their ugliness and violence — but which is really aimed at bolstering the leftist movement.

Interestingly enough, the two professors at these universities who launched the campaign have also been outed as hard core anti-Israel activists. How so?

Both have led up the academic angle to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

The Washington Free Beacon has the story:

Prominent anti-Israel academics launched a campus antifa group earlier this month for faculty across the United States.

Purdue University’s Bill Mullen and Stanford University’s David Palumbo-Liu created the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN) to combat “fascists” who use “‘free speech’ as a façade for attacking faculty who have stood in solidarity with [targeted] students,” as Palumbo-Liu described it on his blog.

Mullen, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed, said the mission of CAN was “to drive racists off campuses and to protect the most vulnerable from fascist attack,” and “to build large, unified demonstrations against fascists on campuses when they come.”

When Inside Higher Ed asked Palumbo-Liu about CAN’s views on the use of violence—such as the alleged assault by masked, black-clad antifa members of a conservative student earlier this week—he said the group “would advocate self-defense and defense in various forms of those who are being threatened by fascists, but not violence.”

Palumbo-Liu was more forthcoming about his opposition to the alt-right and white supremacists on campuses, saying he was primarily concerned by their “propensity to physical violence, aggressive confrontation and provocation, and violations of others’ civil rights.”

In his blog post, Palumbo-Liu wrote that CAN would support faculty who fascists “aggressively sought to smear, bully and intimidate … especially faculty of color.”

“Progressive scholars such as Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, Johnny Williams, Dana Cloud and George Ciccariello-Maher, among others, have each been threatened with violence, or firing, for strong anti-racist social justice commitments,” he claimed.

Trinity College’s Williams wrote on social media after GOP House Whip Steve Scalise was shot that white people are “inhuman a-holes” who need to “die.” Drexel University’s Ciccariello-Maher tweeted in 2016, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide,” and this year tweeted that he wanted to “vomit” when he saw someone give their first-class seat on a flight to a uniformed soldier. Both were investigated by their respective academic institutions for these comments.

Meanwhile, both Palumbo-Liu and Mullen have been leading figures in the academic campaign to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. In 2014, Mullen issued a call on anti-Israel site Electronic Intifada to “de-Zionize our campuses.” Palumbo-Liu, in a 2016 piece titled, “9 things you need to know about the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” recommended readers look to alternative news sources for their information on the region, including several sites accused of publishing anti-Semitic content. He later updated the article to remove If Americans Knew from the list, after receiving backlash for recommending an outlet that has repeatedly published conspiracy theories about Jews. IAK has been marginalized even by virulently anti-Israel groups, such as the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace.

CAN has created an open-access “anti-fascist syllabus” that “analyzes past and present contours of fascist thought and organizing in their various forms, and provides tools for understanding and for fighting fascism today … Primarily, the syllabus articulates fascism as an historical expression of capitalism’s tendency to exploit and dominate poor, working class, and oppressed people.”

“The syllabus is … intended for students, activists, teachers, unionists, workers, and communities: Muslims, Jews, women, LGBTQI+ individuals, socialists, communists, anarchists, people of color, working-class people, and the alternatively abled, and is an act of solidarity with these communities’ struggles for self-defense,” according to the description.

The syllabus has collected dozens of articles from left-leaning sources such as the American Socialist Quarterly, Socialist Register, The Nation, Mother Jones, Jacobin magazine, and publications from the defunct communist Sojourner Truth Organization.

In the wake of the white supremacist march at Charlottesville, CAN issued an invitation for more academics to join its cause. The group has already reportedly seen a spike in membership.

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G.j. Cox

6 years ago

And we wondered where all the Marxists/Stalinists went? Just check your local schools. BTW, check out the link between Antifa and the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group in Germany.

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Ron rockit

6 years ago

The Jewish voice for peace and other sappy lefties (the useful idiots) are about to be eaten by this antifada nazi movement.

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David

6 years ago

Reply to  Ron rockit

Let’s hope so. But the Muslims have been less stupid than we’ve expected, and they’re willing to die for Jihad. We need to infiltrate more.

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Sgtsnuffy

6 years ago

THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE FASCIST TO THE CORE . THAT THEY ARE EXPERT AT PROJECTION OF WHAT THEY ARE UNTO OTHERS !!!!

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roccolore

6 years ago

Anti-Israel = pro-fascism

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Gregory Brittain

6 years ago

But instead of Molotov cocktails, they throw Chardonnay cocktails.

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Julian Farmer

6 years ago

The answer is simple. They are a clear and present danger to our countries and the future. This is child abuse and sedition. I would have no hesitation in shooting them. This is legal self-defence. I am sick of the bloody Left= sick of it.

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Robert Batchelor

6 years ago

Isn’t it interesting that the so-called “anti-fascists” are the true fascists yet they can’t see it. Either way, these idiots need to be dealt with in the same manner they’re trying to silence speech. This is a repeat of 1917 except this time it’s in The United States.

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David

6 years ago

We have to cut down the welfare state, so that government funding to these institutions is cut down. Yes, Purdue is starting to seem like a problem, but I don’t know much about it. Stanford is historically a problem, and it’s very wealthy and powerful. MIT’s administration is clearly leftist and SJW. Yale has a lousy President but now their terrible undergraduate dean went to become provost at Northwestern — but at least I am not aware of Muslim leanings from those people.

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