Posted on 05/31/2021 4:06:22 AM PDT by blam
Following protests from the radical anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group, the chancellor and provost of Rutgers University issued an apology for a previous condemnation of antisemitism, promising to be “more sensitive and balanced” in the future.
On Wednesday, amid a worldwide surge in attacks against Jews, the leading New Jersey university’s Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Provost Francine Conway condemned antisemitism, stating they were “saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States.”
“Recent incidents of hate directed toward Jewish members of our community again remind us of what history has to teach us,” the statement said.
The statement also noted “increasing violence between Israeli forces and Hamas in the Middle East leading to the deaths of children and adults and mass displacement of citizens in the Gaza region and the loss of lives in Israel.”
In response, the school’s pro-Palestinian Students for Justice in Palestine group released a statement on Thursday demanding an apology while blasting the original statement condemning antisemitism and accusing the university of contributing to “racist efforts of zionists to erase Palestinian identity and existence.”
According to the group, the school’s decision to condemn antisemitism “cannot be separated from widespread attempts to conflate antizionism with antisemitism and derail Palestinian voices and activism.”
“The statement released by Chancellor Molloy and Provost Conway thus cannot be interpreted as anything other than a deflection from Rutgers University’s role in financially supporting the Israeli state, and thus its human rights abuses and occupation of Palestine, by direct or indirect means,” the group’s statement adds.
Following pressure from the radical anti-Israel group, the chancellor and provost apologized later that day for the initial statement condemning antisemitism, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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Communists have always been home to anti-Semitism.
Our universities are full of anti-Semites teaching our children how horrible Israel treats the Palestinians.
We know the truth, but truth is irrelevant today.
The media will allow the Democrats to be the home of anti-Semites as long as possible.
People who run universities should just shut up regarding political situations. These two were simply virtue signaling. Rational people know what to think and how to behave. Irrational people do not care what they say.
And the trend of the American jew of voting DNC never changes.
Does anything good come out of New Jersey? Even Princeton, of world-wide reputation, has become an intellectual garbage dump.
Is Rutgers now pro-Holocaust?
US universities have morphed from institutes of higher learning into cesspools of disinformation.
I am so sick and tired of those pre-election articles telling us that blacks, Jews, women and hispanics are moving to the right and will vote for conservatives.
It is no different than the Qanon garbage, telling us that everything is planned and will all work out. We should just sit back and let the plan unfold, trusting those in charge.
Where has that gotten us in the last 40 years? Nowhere.
But every election cycle, we see the same articles and same stories telling us that everything is moving in our direction. Meanwhile, we keep losing ground and our country has gone full communist. Most do not realize it yet.
At one time that was a fairly good school wasn’t it?
And this is why neither of my kids attended Rutgers.
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