Heavy Backlash Forces Brown University’s Hillel to Pull Sponsorship of ‘Nakba Day’ Event

Algemeiner Journal ^ | 5/12/16

[Nachum]

Brown University’s Hillel has pulled its sponsorship of a Wednesday event commemorating the 1948 Palestinian Arab exodus from Israel — more commonly referred to as the “Nakba” — following heavy backlash, The Algemeiner has learned.

Hillel, along with other pro-Israel and Jewish student organizations, initially agreed to sponsor the campus event set to feature a film screening and discussion of the Nakba, an Arabic word which literally translates as “disaster” or “catastrophe.” Nakba Day is generally observed on May 15, the day after Israel’s Independence Day on the Gregorian calendar, and often sees heavy rioting and violent protest by Palestinians across Israel and the West Bank.

The initially planned event, titled “Jews Facing the Nakba,” was cancelled by its student organizers following Hillel’s withdrawal of support. However, a new private screening, sans Hillel’s sponsorship, will take place Wednesday evening. Several other pro-Israel and Jewish groups, such as Brown Students for Israel (BSI), remain sponsors of the screening.

According to part of a statement — published by pro-Israel blogger IsraellyCool — that was posted on the private Facebook group for the event:

We regret to inform you that internal and external pressures have made the ‘Jews Facing the Nakba’ event unfeasible at this time. The event was previously backed by a politically diverse coalition of students and Hillel staff…Due to the fact that there is no longer unanimous support from Israel-related student groups for this event taking place within the Hillel building, Brown/RISD Hillel can no longer endorse this event. As a group of Jewish students committed to the well-being of the Brown Jewish community, we strongly believe that watching these films and having the difficult conversations that will follow are critical…In order for Hillel to maintain its integrity as a pluralistic Jewish space, the community

[Nachum]

Hillel actually was connected to this? Ugh.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bizarre.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's like the Catholic student organizations sponsoring... whatever the anti-Catholic monstrosity du jour. And it happens all the time. It's sickening.

Glad Hillel backed off, even though they only backed off half way.

[Lent]

"The film being screened at the now private event was produced by the Israeli NGO Zochrot. According to the watchdog group NGO Monitor, Zochrot engages in raising public awareness about the Nakba and stresses the “Palestinian right of return” to all of Israel. The group calls for a “one state solution” and has accused Israel of ethnic cleansing. “This agenda is equivalent to calling for the elimination of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” an NGO Monitor report stated."

Okay. That about settles that. Instead of the phony 'Nakba Day', invite Efraim Karsh so he can recount what really happened as he recounts in 'Palestine Betrayed' and then let them be schooled further on the 'New Historians' as the author did in 'Fabricating Israeli History'. Nothing like getting the history straight before getting all politically correct.

Pulling the sponsorship was the right thing to do of course but this historical revisionism will be a festering propaganda wound waiting for a future opportunity to undermine the truth

[PGR88]

Hillel at a school like Brown are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Given the total leftist propaganda one is swimming in at a place like that, there’s no other way to survive there.