My alma mater, San Francisco State University, has emerged as among the most violently anti-Jewish universities in the United States.
It sponsors student organizations that call for the murder of Jews and now holds panel discussions that seek to undermine the well-being of the Jewish State of Israel and thus undermine the well-being of the besieged Jewish minority, more generally.
On Thursday, March 6, between 4 PM and 7 PM, a number of anti-Jewish activists, including SFSU professor, Rabab Abdulhadi - who does not believe that calling for the murder of Jews by GUPS is actually the calling of murder for the murder of Jews by GUPS - are meeting to spread hatred. If you would like to attend simply drop by the Ethnic Studies and Psychology building, room 116, between those hours.
This is their description of the event:
During January 2014, a delegation of six academics and one labor rights activist based in the U.S. and Canada went to the West Bank and the 1948 areas of Palestine. Each delegate came to bear witness to the political and economic realities confronting Palestinians as a result of Israel’s occupation of their homeland and to build working relationships and solidarities with Palestinian scholars, artists, and activists consistent with their 2005 call for “a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights” (BDSmovement.net). Several of the delegates are members of the Asian American Studies Association, the American Studies Association, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and were active in securing their association’s resolutions in support of the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (ACBI).Repeatedly, delegates experienced and witnessed the realities of Israeli apartheid, racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, and undermining of Palestinian rights. This report will provide a brief reflection on those experiences and a public reaffirmation of our support for resolute actions in support of the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.I want to take this bit by bit because I find it fascinating.
During January 2014, a delegation of six academics and one labor rights activist based in the U.S. and Canada went to the West Bank and the 1948 areas of Palestine...The "West Bank," of course, refers to heart of the Jewish homeland, Judea and Samaria, the place where Jews originated over 3,500 years ago. The term, itself, was introduced by the Jordanians after the '48 war in order to rob Jewish people of Jewish heritage and Jewish land.
Its continued use today serves the same purpose.
Judea and Samaria have been referred to as "Judea" and "Samaria" for millenia. If you wish to use the term "West Bank" then you must recognize that you are using anti-Jewish terminology that was designed to erase Jewish history.
As for "1948 areas of Palestine," the phrase has no meaning whatsoever. The only people who have ever had national sovereignty on that bit of land are the Jewish people and they did so thousands of years before Arab imperialists marched in.
Each delegate came to bear witness to the political and economic realities confronting Palestinians as a result of Israel’s occupation of their homeland...It must be recognized, as a matter of social justice and human rights, that the tiny bit of land referred to, no bigger than the American state of New Jersey, is the traditional homeland of the Jewish people.
The homeland of the Arab peoples is Saudi Arabia. It is not Israel.
The Arab-Muslims invaded the Middle East directly after the death of Muhammed in the 7th century.
They did so primarily by force, conquered Spain, and almost conquered the rest of Europe, as well.
build working relationships and solidarities with Palestinian scholars, artists, and activists consistent with their 2005 call for “a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights” (BDSmovement.net).The main promoter of the BDS movement is Omar Barghouti and he calls specifically for the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. This is something akin to calling for the end of France as the end of the State of the French people or calling for the end of Cambodia as the end of the State of Cambodian people.
Given the history of the Jewish people under Arab-Muslim imperial rule, not to mention European domination and slaughter for so many centuries, what Barghouti wants, and therefore what BDS, and its SFSU supporters want, is for the dissolution of the lone, sole Jewish state and, therefore, the potential genocide of the Jewish people.
I do not believe that we are going to allow this to happen and if San Francisco State University wishes to support the call for the murder of Jews by organizations like the General Union of Palestine Students then they may, in the future, experience some drop off of Jewish support.
Repeatedly, delegates experienced and witnessed the realities of Israeli apartheid, racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, and undermining of Palestinian rights.This is where the Big Lie gets delicious.
Apartheid! Racial Discrimination! Ethnic Cleansing! Palestinian Rights!
This is the kind of language, in the contemporary iteration, that has traditionally lead to the slaughter of the Jewish people. What is going on in San Francisco State today is little different than what went on in 1920s and 1930s Germany. The Nazis also spoke of Jewish depravity and evil-doing toward the "indigenous" population.
In every generation we are told why we deserve a good beating and in this generation the apparent reason is because we are allegedly mean to the Arab majority in the Middle East.
They blow up our children with suicide bombers and then accuse us of "racism" for putting up a fence to prevent genocidal violence.
400 million Arabs and 6 million Jews.
70 to 1.
And San Francisco University gives money to an organization that incites hatred by the majority population toward the minority of Jews, within living memory of the Holocaust.
