".........Ismael Khoufaify, Director of Advocacy of the Governance Council of
Minority & Marginalized Students at New York University, recently
had a rough week. Swastikas had again been discovered in a campus
building; someone in the dining halls marked Black History Month by
serving watermelon kool-aid; some pro-Israel students expressed polite
disagreement at a Jewish Voice for Peace anti-Israel hatefest. Khoufaify
wrote on Facebook:
“The last few days have sent me spiraling into a deep state of
reflection. In the last week our NYU community has gone through hell and
back. From swastikas, to kool-aid, to Zionism.” For Mr. Khoufaify,
Nazism, racism, and Zionism were equally egregious.
Campus anti-Israel activists like to claim there is a “Palestine
exception” to free speech, but from where we stand, Khoufaify’s
flippant, arguably antisemitic, remark reflects what is really occurring
on campuses all over the globe. Here are just a few more examples. Last
week a University of Virginia panel featuring Israeli military
reservists was forcefully disrupted,
apparently violating multiple campus rules. Several days earlier, at
the University of California at Berkeley, there was an antisemitic death threat
against a Jewish professor. A week prior to that, students wishing to
hear the moderate Israeli former minister Dan Meridor at London’s Kings
College were confronted with a menacing mob of screaming demonstrators. At Princeton University in November the local Hillel chapter cancelled
at the last minute a talk by Israel’s deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi
Hotovely in response to pressure from “pro-peace” students. In January
2017 the School of Oriental and African Studies student union passed a resolution banning anyone affiliated with Zionist ideology from speaking on campus on any topic whatsoever.
Other veritable mob scenes have also occurred in recent years, in some
cases (the University of California at Irvine, University College
London) requiring police intervention to escort audience members or
speakers out of the venue."
Continue to read the integral article at:
The Silencing of Pro-Israel Students on Campus
By Andrew Pessin and Doron Ben-Atar
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/257840/the-silencing-of-pro-israel-students-on-campus?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=799a52a2e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-799a52a2e0-207784133
See also Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis boycotted by atheopat groups:
University Denies Free Speech to Ken Ham and Boots Him from Speaking
AiG President Gets Tossed from Speaking in Ironically Named Constitution Hall
by Patrick Kanewske and Mark Looy on February 6, 2018
https://answersingenesis.org/religious-freedom/university-denies-free-speech/
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