(Jewish Group) Video shows rapper's performance of anti-Semitic song at UNC event

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

"I cannot be anti-Semitic alone."

That's the declaration captured on video of a performer at last month's Conflict Over Gaza conference, an event held at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and co-sponsored by several UNC entities and departments, including the Chancellor's Global Education Fund.

"Let's try it together," rapper Tamer Nafar tells the audience before his performance, inviting them to sing. "I need your help. I cannot be anti-Semitic alone."

"Don't think of Rihanna when you sing this, don't think of Beyonce - think of Mel Gibson. I'm in love with a Jew/Oh/I fell in love with a Jew/Oh/Her skin is white and my skin is brown, she was going up up and I was going down."

The raw video was taken by filmmaker Ami Horowitz and shared exclusively with the ABC11 I-Team. Horowitz, based in New York, posted that clip and other anti-Semitic exchanges he said he experienced while visiting the campus the weekend of March 22 on his YouTube page.

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Then this happened...

UNC police begin investigation after anti-Semitic posters found in Davis Library

University officials have found several anti-Semitic posters on the bookshelves and tables in Davis Library this week, according to an email sent to campus from Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz.

"I am extremely disappointed and appalled that anyone would write these abhorrent messages and direct them toward members of our Jewish community," the email said. "This behavior conflicts with the University’s long-standing commitment to fostering an environment where all students, faculty and staff can be free from harassment."

North Carolina Hillel released a statement expressing outrage at the flyers that referred to "an evil Jewish plot."

"We are disgusted by the vile and hateful rhetoric on these flyers," the statement said. "The language is reminiscent of centuries-old, anti-Semitic rhetoric that incited the murder of thousands of Jews in pogroms throughout Eastern Europe and the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. This racist, repulsive language has no place on any campus or in any society."

This comes less than two weeks after Guskiewicz sent another email to campus, alerting the community that the Unsung Founders Memorial and an art installment outside of Hanes Art Center were vandalized with "racist and other deplorable language." Two individuals with ties to the Heirs of the Confederacy were arrested for the vandalism on Monday.

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[MosheFeingold]

1. There's a lot more to this

Than just the tacky rapper. He was just the entertainment.

The raw footage and interviews of participants at the conference were something out of 1930s Germany —- down to talk about needing to exclude or expel Jewish faculty because they are inherently “non-woke”.

The Nazis did a similar purge of the intelegensia to make sure they had academic cover for their actions.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Some sponsors want money back after anti-Semitic remarks made at UNC conference

Some sponsors are asking for their money back and a congressman is seeking a government investigation after an anti-Semitic song was performed by a Palestinian rapper at a "Conflict over Gaza" conference at UNC-Chapel Hill last month.

In a scathing letter to leaders of the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, which officially sponsored the event, UNC School of Law Dean Martin Brinkley said: "Due to your inclusion of conference content over which I had no knowledge or control, I have been forced to spend most of the last two days responding to outraged members of my own community who are ashamed and embarrassed to see the law school shown as a sponsor of what they consider hate speech."


"As the organizers, who I assume were present during the performance, I would have expected you to intervene and stop a performance that so obviously and painfully contravened campus norms and values, and that so undercut the cultural understanding that you claimed to promote," he wrote.

READ MORE: Full letter from the School of Law (.pdf)

UNC School of Government Dean Mike Smith sent a similar letter, saying: "It simply is wrong to defend this explicitly anti-Semitic performance under the cloak of academic freedom. It crossed a bright line and you should have the integrity to reject it and take responsibility for it."

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