Anti Israel Rally. (Photo: Alan Popely / https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanpopely/ © with Attribution, NonCommercial)
The
level of ant-Jewish “hateful, anti-Semitic and violence-inciting
conduct” by members of Students for Justice In Palestine (SJP) at four
City University of New York campuses has been growing alarmingly, while
the university isn’t doing enough to protect them, the Zionist
Organization of America has complained in a 14-page letter to CUNY’s
chancellor and board of trustees.
ZOA urged the http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/60236/italian-professors-u rge-academic-boycott-of-technion-for-supporting-occupat ion-technology-and-business/#kmJkLfVTjFUQboWI.97 - university
to investigate the group with an eye to banning it from all 23
university campuses. “Please do not wait until the situation escalates
further and someone gets hurt,” wrote ZOA President Morton Klein. “This
group does not deserve a place on any CUNY campus until it can
demonstrate that it will respect and abide by the rules and standards
that apply to everyone else.”
Among the incidents cited by ZOA:
At John Jay College, which specializes in criminal justice, Jewish
students have been the target of so many slurs that at lease three have
transferred. One John Jay administrator responded to a Jewish student’s
concerns by saying, “What are these white kids complaining about?”
On Nov. 12 at Hunter College, during a demonstration for free
tuition, Jewish students were denounced as “racist sons of bitches,”
“fascists” and “Nazis” and were greeted with comments such as “Jews out
of CUNY.” One student tweeted at the time, “Full-blown http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/49245/anti-semitism-is- 11;n-the-rise/ - anti-Semitism allowed at my college . . . I witnessed this and froze in fear.”
At Brooklyn College, the pro-Palestinian group disrupted a faculty
meeting last week and called a professor wearing a yarmulke a “Zionist
pig.” Brooklyn College slammed the “hateful” comments and the
disruption.
At the College of Staten Island, a pro-Palestinian demonstrator told a Jewish student last November, “I don’t hug murderers.” http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/12638/jewish-teacher-beate n-paris-swastika-drawn-chest/ - Swastikas also defaced the college’s desks and walls.
“Such bigotry would never be tolerated by CUNY if it were being
directed against another ethnic, racial or other targeted group,” Klein
wrote. “CUNY should not be tolerating it when the bigotry is directed
against Jews.”
A CUNY official said it just received ZOA’s letter on Tuesday and
that a detailed response would be issued after consulting with campus
officials.
CUNY also noted that the university’s college presidents had issued
statements condemning some of the incidents of bigotry mentioned in the
ZOA letter.