Posted on 06/04/2021 3:14:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Rutgers illustrates the lack of understanding that anti-Semitism is a metaphor for racial hatred.
Whatever the situation in the Middle East, there is no excuse for the importing of prejudice against Jews to the streets in Britain and the U.S. In both countries, there is anxiety about the increase in antisemitic incidents and expressions in recent months. Inevitably this increase is related to the misinformed commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which has led to anti-Semitic incidents and the expression of anti-Semitic views. This has caused a reaction. A full-page paid advertisement issued on June 1, 2021 by a variety of non-Jewish organizations and persons said that “New York Stands against Anti-Semitism.”
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A somewhat confusing picture emerges from the attempt of academic leaders at Rutgers University to comment on anti-Semitism. About 1/6 of the students at Rutgers are Jewish. In recent months they have been attacked, their cars slashed, their fraternity house defaced during Holocaust Remembrance Day. The first statement on the Rutgers website on May 26, 2021 by Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Provost Francine Conway denounced the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the U.S. They stated that the resurgence of anti-Semitism demands that “we again call out and denounce acts of hate and prejudice against members of the Jewish community and any other targeted and oppressed groups on our campus and in our community.”
Though the statement of the two university officials was not limited to a condemnation of anti-Semitism, the day after its publication, the Rutgers chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, (SJP), denounced it for being inadequate at a time when Israel’s occupation of Palestine was finally receiving widespread criticism.
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Is Rutger (no “s”, thank you) still trying to dig itself out of a simple comment made two weeks ago?
Rutgers is run a bunch of little Eichmanns.
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