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radio-rebel-477 · 7 months

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This article details the occurrences of worldwide protests in support of Palestine against Israel and the country’s counterattacks on Hamas. With wide support for the former, Hamas is thought to be seeking freedom for civilians from an oppressive Israel and its equally responsible citizens. Within these protests, notions of Israel’s settler colonialism and zionism as violent and subjugating practices are used as arguments to condemn the country.

Upon reading, the first thing that stood out to me was the vocabulary of the protestors when speaking of the issue. The phrases and words such as “liberating Palestine,” “Gaza,” “Palestinians,” and "Hamas" seem to be used synonymously or at least in tandem to support the greater idea of the invasion as an attempt to free Palestine. However, as we have learned in class and history proves, such is not the case. Hamas is a terrorist organization that has assumed control of Gaza and brutally subjugates the Palestinian people under their control. Yes, it is true that Hamas is composed of Palestinians, but they do not represent the greater Palestinian people or their interests. Furthermore, the official position and charter of Hamas declare that their goal is to annihilate the Jewish people and destroy Israel. So when Hamas acts, it is not in the interest of the Palestinians or to create a Palestinian state for the people; they do so with the intent to impose suffering upon Israel and the Jewish people, using Palestinian civilians as a means to an end.

I find that people are afraid to admit that two things can be true at once. It is possible to say that the historical encroachment of Israeli settlements into the contested West Bank at the expense of Palestinians is wrong. It is also possible to say that a terrorist invasion and attack on Israel are wrong. Although Israel can be held accountable for its oppressive actions and policies towards Palestinians in other ways, terrorism is not solvency. Especially if the solvency is done with the intent to annihilate.

The main argument against the state of Israel is settler colonialism. However, this debate is muddled in semantics. Who is a settler? What constitutes colonialism? Definitionally, settler colonialism is the action in which a foreign body invades a native society to take them over and replace previous structures with imported ones. Due to the Jewish religious and historical ties to land in Palestine, we can say that in specific regions, Israel has a legitimate claim and is not conducting settler colonialism since the Jews are not foreign people. I agree that there is territory that is not related to Israel and has been taken over for political reasons, such as the back and forth of the Sinai. However, to declare that the entirety of Israel is a settler colonial state, which is what many view the country as, is simply incorrect.

A secondary charge against Israel is one of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians, and that their military response to freedom-seeking people led by Hamas is wrong. I will not deny that there are historical instances in which Israeli forces have committed acts that are heinous towards the Palestinians; however, the Hamas charter explicitly states that they seek the annihilation of Jews. Then is the latter not genocide? When one is supporting Hamas and their mirage of liberation, they are also supporting the genocide against Jewish people. This is not a baseless conclusion; the logical chain of beliefs proves it. One cannot agree with Hamas’ actions and also divorce themselves from the murderous intentions that the group has, since it dictates all of their actions.

This argument is often refuted by people suggesting that Hamas acts in retaliation towards Israel’s decades-long brutality; however, this rebuttal fails to include the retaliation of Hamas using rhetoric and actions of decimation, which is the same charge that supporters of the group accuse Israel of.

The argument of Zionism as a problematic ideology that serves to inflate Israel is used as a supplement to why the country is morally reprehensible. Zionism as an idea simply states that there ought to be a Jewish homeland. It was inspired by the realization that there is no safe space in the world for Jews besides one that can be created by them for them. The idea of Zionism is then thrown around as an excuse for a supposed Jewish supremacy and removal of Palestinians. The idea itself does not suggest or derive from either. However, it can be perverted by those in power to achieve those notions. Therefore, we must not find issue with the idea of Zionism that simply seeks a safe space for Jewish people, but rather with those in charge, I believe that there ought to be a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people, the history of their exile and suffering shows the need for it. However, if we blame Zionism for the horrors we see today, we do a disservice to the Jewish people and prove exactly why the idea was needed in the first place.

Like many others, I find the situation in Gaza and Israel to be absolutely horrific; however, I do not agree with the idea that people ought to take sides of “pro-Israel” or "pro-Palestine" in this situation. In the midst of conflict, survival is a priority, and we must be on the side of assisting and saving civilians on both ends. I agree that there should be a two-state solution; however, the two-state solution would not require Palestinians to be free from Israel; rather, it would require them to be free from Hamas. I agree that Israel has conducted improper acts in the past; however, the present must be treated as an isolated case of a people and country being violently invaded. Israel can be held accountable for its actions that are deemed wrong, but terrorism that thinks only in favor of terrorists and seeks decimation is not the way.

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loudlytransparenttrash · 7 years

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The truth about ‘Students for Justice on Palestine’ on campus

If you are on an American campus, you are probably familiar with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) because of their aggressive anti-Israel demonstrations and weird political theater. The organization started as a small, radical anti-Israel group in the hub of student radicalism, UC Berkeley, in October 2000, in response to the Palestinian Intifada which began at almost the same time. Within a year, chapters had spread to over 25 other campuses, including Yale and Princeton. By 2005, chapters had sprouted on campuses across the country and today they have a presence in over 200 of our universities.

When the SPJ organizes events at your campus, be prepared for an anti-Israel assault and be even further prepared for your liberal classmates to support and even join in on this blatant antisemitism and watch them get away with it because it’s coming from those who can do no wrong - Muslim students. The SJP fomented new radicalism about the Palestinian-Israel conflict and gave a new energy and visibility to Palestinian and Hamas propaganda. The SJP have moved far beyond legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and its policies into complete delegitimization of the Jewish state by organizing and sponsoring anti-Israel events and campaigns more actively than any other group in the nation.

SJP's declared mission is to “promote the cause of justice” but instead they echo much of what is said by the Hamas terrorists who seek to permanently end Israel's existence as a sovereign Jewish state. The reason for this is simple: SJP was in essence formed to help spread anti-Semitism through the halls of American academia; to wage a campus war against Israel by providing rhetorical support for the Jew-hatred undergirding the Second Palestinian Intifada which Hamas and allied terrorists had launched in late September 2000.

SJP's principal founder, Hatem Bazian, has quoted approvingly from a famous Islamic hadith which calls for the violent slaughter of Jews and which appears in Hamas's founding charter. “In the Hadith, the Day of Judgment will never happen until you fight the Jews. Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!” He once spoke at a fundraising event for a Hamas front group that the U.S. government later shut down due to the organization's ties to Islamic terrorism. Notwithstanding Hamas's calls for the mass murder and genocide of Jews, the website of SJP's UC Berkeley chapter describes Hamas not as a terrorist group but rather as “a vast social organization.” It is commonplace for SJP's rank-and-file members to support, or to at least decline to condemn, Islamic terrorism. At a UC San Diego talk by David Horowitz, a SJP student refused to condemn the terror group Hamas and said if she admitted her support for Hamas then she would be arrested by Homeland Security. Horowitz offered to rephrase the question and asked, “the head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes all Jews gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt them all down globally, are you for or against it?” The SJP shows her true colors by admitting she is for it yet everyone just shrugs their shoulders because she’s Muslim so it’s okay for her to want Jews wiped out. It’s Islamohobia to question her and all those within her group. The most significant and influential supporter of SJP is American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which was established in 2005 by none other than SJP co-founder Hatem Bazian. At least eight of AMP's current board members, key officials, and close allies were previously members of now-defunct Islamic extremist groups that funded terrorist activities.

SJP’s national convention was sponsored by the Islamic Association for Palestine, a now-defunct, Illinois-based front group for Hamas. The conference featured keynote speaker Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who served as the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization whose objectives include the destruction of Israel, the elimination of all Western influences in the Middle East by means of armed warfare, and the convergence of all Muslim countries into a single Islamic caliphate.

A number of SJP chapters hold annual commemorations in honor of the late Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group which Islam expert Robert Spencer has described as “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.” Al-Banna was an inveterate Jew-hater who firmly opposed the creation of Israel in 1948 and strove to forge a formal alliance with Hitler and Mussolini when World War II broke out. Al-Banna was also the mentor of Haj Amin Al-Husseni, the pro-Hitler father of Palestinian nationalism.

More recently, SJP chapters across U.S campuses have begun to drink saltwater to show their soladarity with Palestine terrorists, specifically convicted terrorist Marwan Barghout, currently being detained in Israeli prisons. They have called it the “saltwater challenge” where the participant drinks one cup of saltwater to show their support which coincides with a surge of SJP’s Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resolutions demanding that universities sell their holdings in companies that do business with Israel, some of which were introduced or debated during Passover, when Jewish students were unable to attend student government meetings to express opposition. SJP is America's leading campus promoter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative that aims to use various forms of public protest and economic pressure to advance the Hamas agenda of Israel's destruction. While Hamas pursues this goal in its low-intensity war against Israel by means of terrorism and bloodshed, BDS supplements those efforts by pushing for three forms of nonviolent punitive action designed to cripple Israel's economy and bring the nation to its knees politically: Coordinated boycotts that aim to intimidate and coerce corporations, universities, and individuals into breaking off their business relationships with Israel, decisions by banks, pension funds, corporations, and other entities to withdraw any financial investments which they may have made in the state of Israel or in companies that operate there and targeted sanctions, such as trade penalties or bans, arms embargoes, and the severing of diplomatic ties, imposed by governments around the world against Israel specifically. Using these tactics, SJP and its allies in the BDS movement seek to lay the psychological and rhetorical groundwork for creating the false impression that Israel has illegally and immorally usurped large swaths of land that rightfully belong to the Palestinians, likening Israeli public officials and soldiers to “Nazis” and delegitimizing in the minds of people worldwide, Israel's very right to exist as a sovereign state while promoting the idea that this illegitimate Jewish state should be replaced by an Arab-majority alternative. As NGO Monitor puts it, the effectiveness of BDS campaigns is rooted chiefly “in their ability to penetrate the public and political discourse and blur the lines between legitimate criticism of Israel and the complete delegitimization of Israel in the international arena.”

Particularly notable is the fact that since 2005, a number of SJP chapters have designated one week of every academic year as “Palestine Awareness Week” or, alternatively, “Israel Apartheid Week.” These weeks feature an array of SJP-sponsored events where Israel is repeatedly denounced in incendiary language as an apartheid state that is guilty of human-rights abuses, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and even genocide. Yet no one calls it antisemitic or questions the SJP because they are Muslim students and that would be Islamophobia.

Protests on college campuses are nothing new. They are a rite of passage for gullible young minds attracted to emotionally-exciting slogans, the simplistic solutions that people not yet educated but convinced of their own brilliance find plausible, and a chance to posture at being morally superior to their society. Campus protests start have to be taken seriously however when a thinly-disguised antisemitic hate-group begins to grow into a nationwide force, turning campuses into hotbeds of Jew-baiting rhetoric that has not been considered acceptable in America within living memory. That the group, which is recruiting U.S. college students by the thousands and the fact that it aligns itself with known Islamic terrorists is alarming.

If any group wanted to whip up a frenzy of protest for its cause, campuses filled with young, impressionable activists are the perfect, perhaps only, venue in which to do it. Real people have jobs, lives and families, which tend to give them a somewhat more responsible view of the world. College students yearn for serious commitments in their responsibility-free lives, and often find them in extremist politics. They are doing it in a calculated way. The SJP calls Israel "this generation’s South Africa" and call the Jews the real Nazis. These absurd accusations pack a punch with college students on liberal campuses, who are primed and ready to protest anything that non-white people tell them to.

The SJP says it’s up to today’s college students to help put an end to the "Apartheid State of Israel" by demanding that their colleges and universities divest from companies that do business there. Specifically, the group aims to create public sympathy in the U.S. and around the world for the Palestinians, resulting in economic sanctions against Israel, eventually toppling its "apartheid" regime. SJP is targeting Starbucks, the eternal favorite for student protests of all kinds, plus General Electric, Disney and scores of other companies, using protests on college campuses to pressure these companies.

What’s troubling about SJP isn’t its flair for dramatic protests or their displays where they dress up as Jewish soldiers and act out raping and beating Palestine civilians, nor is it the group’s opposition to Israel as everyone is entitled to voice his or her own ridiculous opinion in this country. What’s troubling is that the SJP is attracting kids with inflammatory words like "apartheid," and "repression," when they should be saying, "terrorist" and "suicide bomber."

College students who are recruited into this organization need to know, first and foremost, that they are cozying up to a group with proven ties to terrorism and the Islamic jihad against Israel, America, and the rest of the non-Muslim world. Secondly, they need to open their eyes to realize that the SJP’s tactics are moving well beyond benign, non-violent protests of U.S. foreign policy.

The group is turning our campuses into forums for open antisemitism which is going either completely ignored or supported by our colleges in fear of inciting an accusation of Islamophobia since it’s coming from Muslim students so instead antisemitism gets linked and blamed on all white/conservative students for no other reason than they are white/conservative.

SJP supports what most Palestinians call for: nothing less than the abolition of the state of Israel and the only way to bring a lasting peace to the region, they say, is to eliminate Israel. Think about that. Why is this group continuing to go unchallenged? Supporters of this group and those reblogging this group’s posts and accusations need to do their research. This is a dangerous and dishonest organization taking advantage of the ignorance of America’s college youth to promote a deadly agenda. We saw the same thing in the 60’s, we should know better.

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