Thursday, March 22, 2018

Pro-Israeli and supporters of the Zionist cause are threatened in USA

 ".........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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