Jewish Students Forced Out of USC Student Government for Pro-Israel Views

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Last Thursday emailed Rick Caruso, Chairman of USC’s board of trustees and to Ms. Folt, the president of USC, about what needs to be done to stop the naked orgy of harassment, bullying and demonization of Jewish students on the USC campus.

Issuing handwringing statements about how deplorable this vicious habit has now become is insufficient. For one thing USC needs to start enforcing its own code of conduct. As things are, if it were not for double standard USC would have no standards at all.

Please take a moment to read Daniel Greenfield’s trenchant article below on this highly vexed issue and forward it to Rick Caruso, [email protected] & Ms. Folt, [email protected] and request that urgent and effective action be taken to eradicate this scourge. Remember, volume counts.

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3 Jewish Students Forced Out of USC Student Government for Pro-Israel Views

Students for Justice in Palestine purges Jews from USC student government.

By: Daniel Greenfield, FGM, Aug 17, 2020:

Truman Fritz and Rose Ritch won the most votes in the race for president and vice president of the USC Undergraduate Student Government. Isabel Washington scored the most votes in the Senate race. Six months later, all three USC students were harassed into resigning.

The story of how that happened exposes the ugliness of campus bullying and anti-semitism.

Of the three USC student government leaders and one student who was next in the line of succession who were forced out, three were Jewish, one of them gay, and one was African-American. The cancel culture campaigns against them were led by Islamic students.

Three of the four students were targeted for supporting Israel.

Isabel Washington, a Jewish African-American student senator, was the first to be forced out after false accusations of “anti-black racism”, of holding “white supremacist ideologies”, and, of “Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian statements”.

Shaden Awad, an RA at USC, and apparently a supporter of American Muslism for Palestine, attacked Washington for her role at Hillel, a Jewish campus organization where Washington serves as the Jews of Color Co-Chair, writing “Even if all the orgs on campus that r Jewish r also Zionist That’s not an excuse For you to join That’s still blood on ur hands.”

“I didn’t join them bc they’re zionist. I joined them because I’m Jewish,” Washington replied.

A petition calling for her expulsion, with over 1,200 signatures, declares that “a woman with years of internalized racism, classism, and Zionism behind her should not be given the luxury of being a USC student”.

The same petition also went after Nathaniel Manor, who would have been next in line to succeed Washington,, because he “openly identifies as a Zionist” and had communicated, “in texts that Palestinians are dying because they refuse to ‘let Israel exist’, blaming Palestinian people for their own displacement and genocide.”

Some of the petition signatories had been involved with Students for Justice in Palestine.

After outrage at the antisemitism scandal at USC went viral, the anonymous creator updated the petition to argue that, “being anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic are not the same.”

“USC SJP calls for the immediate resignation of Isabel Washington as a USG senator and the prevention of Netanel Manor from succeeding Senator Washington and demands that the University hold Mr. Manor accountable for his display of Islamophobia and anti-Arab/Palestinian rhetoric,” the USC chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, an antisemitic hate group with a long history of harassing Jewish students, posted.

Manor had been targeted by Muhammad Yusuf Tarr, the former president of USC SJP and a Muslim Student Association leader, an organization with its own history of antisemitism, who had celebrated a call by Marwan Barghouti to free convicted terrorists.

Barghouti was convicted of responsibility for 5 murders, including that of a Greek monk. But at USC being someone who, “openly identifies as a Zionist” is a serious offense, but not supporting the murder of Jews and anyone else living in Israel who doesn’t support terrorists.

When David Horowitz came to USC to speak about Islamic antisemitism, Muhammad had protested against his talk. And that’s still a topic that can’t be discussed at USC.

While Jewish student leaders have been purged, SJP is free to operate on campus.

That’s despite the fact that Students for Justice in Palestine is a racist hate group whose various chapters have a long history of harassing and even physically assaulting Jewish students.

“I was physically assaulted in an elevator in 2013.  I heard my friend get called a ‘Zionist kike’ by SJP. Today I was called a ‘kike’ on campus by SJP. My two female friends and I were shoved to the ground and physically assaulted at our own Israel event in 2014,” a University of California student related.

Rawan Eid, USC SJP’s former president, had expressed support for Hezbollah and other terrorists responsible for killing Jews.

But at USC, being a member of SJP allows you to demand the heads of Jewish students.

In addition to targeting Isabel Washington, SJP had also demanded the “the immediate resignation of Truman Fritz and Rose Ritch from their positions as President and Vice President of the Undergraduate Student Government.”

Rose had been one of the reasons why Isabel was targeted.

“Seeing people want to impeach Rose bc she’s a Zionist, but they don’t know I’d be the new VP, and I’m also a Zionist,” Isabel had posted.

The antisemitism crisis at USC finally went viral when Rose stepped down from her role as vice president with a resignation letter that described being “harassed and pressured for weeks”.

“I have been told that my support for Israel has made me complicit in racism, and that, by association, I am racist. Students launched an aggressive social media campaign to ‘impeach [my] Zionist a**’,”’ she wrote.

Another letter to President Carol Folt of USC by the Brandeis Center, a Jewish civil rights organization, documented part of the sustained pattern of antisemitic harassment of Ritch.

Abeer Tijani, a Muslim USC student, had led the impeachment campaign, claiming that Ritch, “has been outspoken on issues that alienate Palestinian Trojans”. While Tijani later went on to deny that she meant that being pro-Israel was impeachable, her words speak for themselves.

More attacks on the Jewish VP came from Emad Askar, the Director of Health and Wellness of USC’s Interfraternity Council and a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine hate group.

Emad falsely claimed that “Zionism is not Judaism”, defending his attacks on Ritch by insisting that the, “occupation of Palestine represents a larger struggle of oppression for numerous groups in the United States and throughout the world.”

When Isabel Washington was forced to resign, Emad whined that the student government hadn’t condemned her as a “zionist”.

Even during the election, Ritch was attacked for her role in Trojans for Israel.

“There never was an explicit like, ‘dirty Jew,’ like anyone ever invoking even the word ‘Jew.’ It was all under that kind of cloak of anti-Zionism,” she said.

President Carol Folt of USC responded to Ritch’s resignation letter by calling it “heartbreaking”

and touted the USC Shoah Foundation’s Stronger Than Hate program as the answer. But the Stronger Than Hate program praises the Black@USC instagram account which played a key role in inciting attacks on Jewish students and its only mention of the antisemitism crisis, among its rants about George Floyd and ICE, is to put the blame on the Jewish students.

“Several members of the USC USG government resigned amidst accusations and revelations of microaggressions, racist memes and expressions of antisemitism,” its mission paper notes.

It fails to mention that the students were Jewish and the victims of antisemitic harassment.

The word “Jewish” only appears 3 times in a 19 page program from the Shoah Foundation which had been created to record the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, but now touts Black Lives Matter while dismissing antisemitic harassment at USC. Israel isn’t mentioned at all.

Stronger Than Hate is not the solution to what happened at USC: it’s a symptom of the problem.

Folt’s letter failed to note the role that campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine have played and continue to play in the harassment of Jewish students. She did not address the fact that multiple Jewish student leaders, not just one, had been forced out by the harassment. And she did not condemn any specific acts, including the petition, or any of the harassers.

That’s a far cry from USC’s response when a Trojans booster had tweeted that BLM was a terrorist group. That woman was quickly banned from buying tickets or attending USC games.

The double standard is blatantly grotesque.

Criticising BLM will get you banned from USC, but harassing Jewish students will not only result in your demands being met, but will earn you a spot of honor at the USC Shoah Foundation.

“This is antisemitism, and cannot be tolerated at a University that proclaims to ‘nurture an environment of mutual respect and tolerance,’” Ritch wrote in her letter of resignation.

USC is in violation of its own codes  and those of the Department of Education.

President Folt stated that, “what happened to Rose Ritch is unacceptable, and we must all take up her challenge to do better.”

That should begin with confronting campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.

Two of the three Jewish students targeted by SJP and its campus allies had impeccable progressive credentials. One was black and the other was gay. That did not save them. They were not harassed because they were insufficiently politically correct on any issue. Except one.

Rose Ritch and Isabel Washington’s work with Hillel made them targets. As did Ritch’s role at Trojans for Israel. It was their Jewish affiliations that led to the harassment. Their tormentors had made it their goal to ban any pro-Israel Jewish students from holding student government offices. This is not a new tactic. It was innovated by Hatem Bazian: SJP’s founding father.

“Hatem Bazian was more responsible than any other student on campus for trying to make life miserable for Jewish students,” Rabbi Doug Kahn, who led Jewish outreach in San Francisco, had charged.

Bazian’s tactics included blocking a Jewish student from sitting on the Student Judicial Council at SFSU because he “supported the state of Israel and was therefore, by definition, a racist.”

More recently, SJP had targeted student government leaders at UCLA for taking trips to Israel. And a student was asked if being Jewish would be a “conflict of interest” when sitting on the student judicial board. At UC Santa Cruz, a Jewish member of the student government was warned to abstain from a BDS vote because he had been “elected with a Jewish agenda.”

This is swiftly becoming the new normal. And there are no sanctions for this strategic harassment of Jewish students on campuses where wearing the wrong Halloween costume or posting something dumb as a 15-year-old can end a college career before it even gets started.

College presidents issue letters claiming to be troubled or concerned. And then do nothing.

As long as Students for Justice in Palestine is free to target and harass Jewish students for supporting the existence of a Jewish State, USC and other campuses are safe spaces for hate.

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dapto
dapto
3 years ago

They will next build concentration camps on this campus and terrorize them all until they put them to death. Zeig Heil USCU you Nazis.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

GET ARMED PEOPLE ……… YOU’VE BEEN WARNED !!
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Watch Me Swooce Right In
3 years ago

Around blacks, never relax!

patd
patd
3 years ago

You don’t have to worry about the intlligent ones…it’s just the moronic ignorant feral animal criminals!

Artlover
Artlover
3 years ago

Quote: Isabel Washington, a Jewish African-American student senator, was the first to be forced out after false accusations of “anti-black racism”, of holding “white supremacist ideologies”, and, of “Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian statements”. She needs to sue them to the bone! Bloody Nazi bastards!

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

the jews were “bullied” and “harrassed”? well grow up and fight back! by resigning, they repeated the mistake of the european jews in the 1930’s and allowed evil to win. the fact is that democrats and muslims hate jews, and these jewish kids better realize that they are going to have to start bringing a gun to knife fight, not whimper and quit when someone calls them names.

Glen Benjamin
Glen Benjamin
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Jews are their own worst enemy, from Masada to world war 2 Europe to the 1967 war to today. Unfortunately my people never learn.

Last Puff
Last Puff
3 years ago
Reply to  Glen Benjamin

It truly makes me sad to agree with you

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago
Reply to  Glen Benjamin

Not true. The Jewish word is split between those Jews, usually practicing, religious ones, who only seek a ‘let me live in peace’ lifestyle and those Jews in name only who want full acceptance by the world around them, even if it takes shedding their heritage.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Glen Benjamin

Masada was the last stand against the Roman empire and considering how ruthless the degenerate Romans were, I’m glad I wasn’t there. They brought legions all the way from Britain to fight against the Israelis.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

You may not realize it but after the crusades, when Jews, defending themselves fought crusaders and killed many , the authorities, from church to civil, forced Jews to disarm.

It was also the Jews who first fought occupying Germans during WW2. Not until after the Warsaw ghetto did major partisan groups form to fight the nazis.

There were 11 million Jews in Europe before the war and several hundred million non- Jews. Imagine if only one in 5 thousand ‘christians’ had protected a single Jew the holocaust would have never taken place. Hardly anyone stood up to perform a ‘moral christian duty’ to save a life.

Beth Pickelsimer
Beth Pickelsimer
3 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

I see your point, but it is critical to add perspective when making this kind of pronouncement. Most of the world was kept isolated from the truth by news reporting. The New York Times, most notably, hid and deliberately excluded coverage of Hitler’s advances through Europe, Concentration camps and extermination, the countless atrocities committed. The NYT was entirely complicit in the genocide of Jews.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago

everyone in Europe knew what was in store for the Jews. No one could believe, or imagine the mass killings. Neighbors don’t just suddenly disappear without anyone taking note. Yet the christian neighbors were all in for the plunder till the Germans got wise and started transferring Jewish wealth to the homeland.
Well over a thousand years of christianity and no morality to show for it.

Beth Pickelsimer
Beth Pickelsimer
3 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

Point take. I was actually referring more to the American perception and reaction as a direct response to the negligence of the New York Times.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago

the owners of the NYTimes were well off, fearful Jews…afraid to be recognized as such, or tarred as being less than patriotic citizens.
they were ashamed and distressed by the Eastern Jews who lived in very rough conditions on the lower East side of manhattan, and out of sheer desperation of being lumped together as a single group the Times went out of its way to attempt to Americanize those new immigrants through dropping their religion and culture.
Thus the likes of Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Jerome Kerns, etc were created…all Jewish products that enriched America far beyond anyone’s true comprehension. There isn’t a single field in the arts and sciences or politics that Jews didn’t penetrate, or rise to its highest ranks. And that, too, created its own forms of anti-semitism through jealousy and resentment… as it barely took a single generation to accomplish.
Hollywood, America’s greatest PR vessel, was a Jewish creation; its stars virtually unknown as Jews. Names like Theda Barra, Kirk Douglas, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, tony Curtiss… you get the picture.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

Over a million Christians, including my great uncle died fighting the Nazis. Then there’s the fact if Catholic men and women hadn’t been willing to die killing muslums Europe would’ve fallen under the muslum sandal heel and there never would’ve been a Reformation or Renaissance.
As Robert Spencer pointed out, many more Jews CHOSE to live in Christian Europe than to live under the muslum sandal heel — even considering the Christian persecution they experienced.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago

you are conflating religious wars with political wars. WW2 was not fought as a religious war.
The nazis attempted to eradicate the Jews because they were the underpinnings of christianity, which replaced the german teutonic gods and mythology.
RS doesn’t know what he is talking about if he made that remark. For the first 1000 years of christianity the center of Jewish religious life, thought and philosophy was centered in modern day Iraq. That all shifted westward to Europe through north Africa because of muslim trepidations. The Jewish communities of Europe descended from the Jewish slaves the Romans took in Judea. As communications between the two Jewish community centers were disrupted by mongol, turkish, arab, goth and visigoth, hun and crusader invasions and wars the Jewish world was split in two, much like the roman and Greek church world.

If RS thinks Picking oneself up and moving from Asia to Europe just like that was easy he is a fool. The Jews in Asia thought christianity was full of idol worshipers, bowing and kowtowing to plaster saints. Moving to such lands would have been anathema. The Jews of Europe looked at muslims as nothing more than a religion based on hallucinations, fantasies of arabian nights and descendants of Amalek.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

as a follower of Jesus Christ, who is jew as were all of the apostles, i’ve never understood european anti-semitism. the first 5 books of my Bible are the Torah. Jesus taught us that he had not come to change one jot or tittle of the old testament. the justice system of western civilization is based on the Torah. God tells us in the Torah that he chose to bless the world through the descendants of jacob whose name became israel, and history shows that wherever jews thrive, the world is green and the gentiles thrive as well. just look at the jewish side of the walls around israel vs. the muslim side. one is green and thriving, and the other is desolate and impoverished. so to answer your question, i am hoping that the jews are coming around to realizing that their best and most ardent supporters are the protestants of america who actually read the Bible and try to lead their lives as commanded by the God of the jews, who to christians came to earth to save us from our sins and is the risen messiah.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

European anti- semitism sprang from a practicality. At a time when the church was attempting to convert pagans to christianity the burning question was; why convert to the daughter religion and not the mother religion? And why were the Jews adamantly against the new religion if the new god was himself a Jew? So the church started persecuting Jews, showing the disadvantages inherent in converting to Judaism. The stronger the church grew the greated the persecutions became.
The church was supported by the elites because of the dictum, “render unto Caesar Caesars…”, which ultimately led to church supported serfdom across Europe. Jews were never serfs tied to the land.

Sgt Snuffy
Sgt Snuffy
3 years ago

Kind of amazing that the so called Center of Higher Learning is treating Jews the same way the Nazis did when they came to power in Germany. All Jewish Professors, Teachers, and Students were expelled and driven from Universities and Schools in Germany and eventually fled to another country or ended up in a Nazi Extermination Camp. And now these same So Called Centers of Higher Learning have the nerve to call Republicans Fascist and Nazis. Projection is a Great Thing isn’t it my friends. And the Democrats Socialist are Masters at it.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

USC is a public university. Uber liberal Jews have been supporting this for years.

Glen Benjamin
Glen Benjamin
3 years ago

I thought USC was private but they probably still get federal money. 0kus they can nit harass. So do what Democrats do and sue everybody fir millions.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  Glen Benjamin

They re private. I was confusing it with UCLA with is a state school

patd
patd
3 years ago

Due to the joint efforts of USC and the city of Los Angeles, Southern California has been designated a “Manufacturing Community” by the federal government and will receive priority access to $1.3 billion in funds for local aerospace and advanced manufacturing. USC President C.L. Max Nikias and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti made a joint announcement at a press conference on May 28.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

USC is a private university and tuition is much, much, much more expensive than anything you’ll see at a state college or university.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

Your right, I’n confusing it with UCLA

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

UCLA is just as full of Jew hating muslums and their tools as USC so don’t be disconcerted.

patd
patd
3 years ago

Doesn’t matter…they still receive federal funding:
Nearly two-thirds of USC undergraduates receive some sort of financial aid, including need-based grants, merit scholarships, Federal Work-Study and loans. Among the 2018 entering first-year class, nearly two-thirds received some form of financial assistance, with approximately 23 percent receiving a USC merit-based scholarship.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

The last I heard the tuition for one year at USC was $30,000 and that was over a decade ago.

Arsonist
Arsonist
3 years ago
R
R
3 years ago

Hitlers first and most ardent supporters were the colleges. How little has changed. The moslem student union is a criminal organization. And, school adminisrators have no guts and allow this to go on and on. Trump 2020! Our only hope.

Glen Benjamin
Glen Benjamin
3 years ago

Trump passed an executive order to stop this crap. Pressure needs to be put on USC by all Jews especially alumni. Plus email President Trump to immediately withhold any federal funds from the school. Plus email the President if the university. Finally all Jewish students harassed should sue the school for unsafe conditions and harassment, sue fir anything that might stick and due so for millions.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
3 years ago

The Antisemitism scourge throughout academia is not new; indeed, it has amplified over the decades. Of course, the universities, colleges, and others are no more than incubators of antisemitic indoctrination. USC is but one of copious rife with Jew-hatred, hatred for Israel, America, Trump’s pro-Israel policies, etc.

Antisemitism holds no concern within the parameters of the so-called Democrats and their tag-along Fascists/Commies, nor shall it ever. The latter will continue its culture of Jew/Israel-hatred in tandem with its anti-Constitutional Republic diktat. Hitler, Stalin were avowed antisemites; thus, they must be laughing in the abyss of Hell.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Thanks to f’ing muslums, muslum apologist (worms), muslum sympathizers and muslum collaborators this will become the new normal across universities and colleges throughout North America (this includes you Canada).

cylde
cylde
3 years ago

Dumb asses need to go where they will be appreciated, conservative groups.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

In the early 21st century David Horowitz (I believe) uncovered that the Muslum Student’s Association at USC had, on the front page of their website, one of the ahadith that calls for the worldwide extermination of Jews.

Last Puff
Last Puff
3 years ago

This is nothing compared to what we are going to see if Biden / Harris end up in the White House, these anti Semites are going to feel totally empowered

patd
patd
3 years ago

What would happen if blacks are forced out for pro black little moron views????

ahem
ahem
3 years ago

A purge? Good lord.

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