Posted on 03/21/2014 2:38:52 PM PDT by Nachum
Pro-Palestinian activists on the University of Michigan campus have had the cops called on them for threatening pro-Israel students and staging a sit-in over the student government’s refusal to back an anti-Israel initiative to divest from the Jewish state.
University of Michigan police were contacted Wednesday evening after two pro-Palestinian activists allegedly threatened a student who refused to support their boycott initiative.
The threatening rhetoric used by these pro-Palestinian activists is part of wider campaign by the University of Michigan’s pro-Palestine group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which is part of the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement (BDS).
The pro-Palestinian faction’s violent rhetoric has sparked an atmosphere of fear among pro-Israel students and led at least one to ask that the police launch an investigation into these threats.
SAFE, which describes itself as “a Palestinian solidarity group at the University of Michigan,” has been staging sit-ins at the university’s student government chambers and elsewhere, according to insiders and the group’s Facebook page.
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Impossible, muslims are more pacifist than the quakers
This article is just trying to communicate with “the rest of us” by calling them “cops”. Ann Arbor has officers of their Department of Public Safety. They’re so PC that they can’t let them be called “police”.
HF, former $20k/year Ann Arbor real estate tax bill payer, which is, in part, how they chase away non-liberals. If one was in some way beHOLDEN to the university, you’re just expected to suck it up and be thankful for the generous retirement you probably couldn’t have wrangled on your own—as a liberal, of course.
We need to pray for the Christians and Israelis standing against these haters.
“While we don’t have all the details, we are unfortunately not surprised” by what happened at the University of Michigan, David Walker, the Eastern region campus coordinator for the Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a pro-Israel group active on many college campuses across the nation.
“This sounds very much like the type of hostility with which we are familiar,” Walker said. “Pro-Israel students are on the frontlines of the battle against Israel’s detractors, and often those detractors use intimidation to advance their agenda.”
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