At CUNY, Students Blame Israel for Tuition Hikes

[shira]

As if more proof were needed to show SJP's true Jew hating colors.

On November 9, the 77th anniversary of the Nazi “Kristallnacht” pogrom, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced on its Facebook page that it was participating in the Million Student March on the 12th to protest tuition increases at the City University of New York (CUNY). This is an important issue that should be debated on its merits.

However, SJP is not interested in the merits. For SJP, the problem is “the Zionists.”

SJP’s post, signed by SJP chapters throughout the CUNY system, declares that the “The (CUNY) Zionist administration invests in Israeli companies, companies that support the Israeli occupation, hosts birthright programs and study abroad programs in occupied Palestine, and reproduces settler-colonial ideology throughout CUNY through Zionist content of education. While CUNY aims to produce the next generation of professional Zionists, SJP aims to change the university to fight for all peoples (sic) liberation.”

The Million Student March itself does not take this line and clearly does not have anything to do with the SJP demand to purge “Zionists” from CUNY. Their tuition protest is a serious issue, worthy of public debate. The hijacking of their march by extremists cannot be in their interest, and the organizers should condemn and distance themselves from SJP hate-speech.

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http://www.thetower.org/2556-at-cuny-students-blame-israel-for-tuition-hikes/

[shira]

1. SJP’s Black-White Prism

Students for Justice in Palestine: your name is a paradox. You claim to stand for ‘justice in Palestine’, and always find a way to blame Israel for every single human rights atrocity committed against Palestinian-Arabs, yet you wholly ignore the multitude of human-rights violations committed by Hamas and Abbas against their own people and against others. You say nothing about the honor killings, the incitement of youth, the hateful ideologies held towards Jews and Africans and Christians and Muslims of a different sect; you shut your mouths about the lack of humanity given to women within Gaza and under Abbas’s rule, about the zero tolerance policy surrounding free speech. You make no qualms about the complete absence of religious freedom anywhere in the Palestinian Authority or in Hamas-ruled Gaza. You say absolutely nothing about the millions of dollars stolen in aid money by Hamas and Abbas, while their civilians live an exploited and destitute existence. These crimes against humanity are meaningless to you, SJP, because in this scenario, the ‘oppressor’ and the ‘oppressed’ both look the same through your black-white prism.

You claim to stand for ‘justice in Palestine’, and yet you ignore the multitude of human-rights violations committed by other Arab nations – Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt – against Palestinian-Arabs; you say nothing about how they are treated as if they are undeserving of humanity, about how they are trapped in a cage of refugee status. You simply turn your heads, because these atrocities are committed towards Palestinian-Arabs by other Arabs, and therefore, do not fit into your black-white prism.

When Jews are being stabbed on the streets, these acts are excused, because in this black-white prism of yours, the Jews are always the oppressors, and the Palestinian-Arabs are always the oppressed. When suicide bombers blow themselves up on buses, the victims of these terrorists are the oppressors, the perpetrators are the oppressed.

I could go on, and on, and on, but I’m hoping that you get the point.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sjps-black-white-prism/

[6chars]

2. Not Israel, they blame "CUNY's Zionist administration"

This is worse, actually.

Can we this one time all agree that criticism of Zionism is anti-semitism?

[Scootaloo]

5. Only if we agree that criticism of communism is anti-Slavic.

[Scootaloo]

7. I don't have any information about them, or the situation at CUNY

and you'll pardon me for not taking The Israel Project's tabloid as unvarnished truth.

Point is? Zionism is a political philosophy. It's totally open to criticism. If that bothers you... tough.

[Shrike47]

3. If they're serious, they're nuts and bear watching for possible terrorism.

[grossproffit]

4. +1 SMH

[leftynyc]

9. They're serious

The Zionists are to blame for all their troubles. I'd kick their asses out of school. Imagine having to teach these people - if they got less than an A they'd whine about Zionists. Fuck them.