POSTERS AT SDSU ALLEGE TIES TO TERRORISM BY SOME MUSLIM STUDENTS, SPARKING PROTESTS

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May 3, 2016 (San Diego) — Muslim student groups at San Diego State University are calling for action after posters appeared on campus claiming certain Muslim students are allied with Palestinian terrorists and anti-Semitism.

The posters were the works of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles and named seven students by name along with the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement described as a “Hamas-inspired genocidal campaign to destroy Israel, the world’s first Jewish state.”

BDS has called on companies to boycott Israel and on its "Who Profits" websites, names and shames Israeli companies and individuals doing business in disputed terroritories and denouncing what it considers military excesses by Israel.  But now some of its members and advocates are raising objections to pro-Israel groups using similar tactics.

Advocates of the Horowitz Freedom Center's flyers contend that their posters name and shame certain pro-Palestinian activists to hold them accountable for anti-Semitic hate speech, joining or speaking at rallies advocating elimination of the Israeli state and for alleged financial or other ties to officially recognized terrorist groups. Jewish activists at Canary Mission have set up a website documenting individuals spreading anti-Semitism.

Congress has a;sp heard testimony documenting ties between Hamas and leaders of the BDS movement.

Horowitz has been invited to speak this week at SDSU by a Republican students group that has indicated it will go forward with the event and not give in to pressures it views as bullying tactics. 

At a recent demonstration, pro-Muslim protesters blocked SDSU president Hirshman, who is Jewish, from exiting his vehicle for a full hour, until police intervened to protect Hirshman.(Photo, right, from Students for Justice in Palestine Facebook page)

San Diego State President Elliot Hirshman, in a meeting with students groups on Monday, including Associated Students, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Muslim Student Association.

Afterwards the school issued a statement indicated that the parties agreed to “undertake a review of university policies to insure we are balancing freedom of expression and protection from harassment.”

Some students called on Hirshman to outright denounce the posters, as UCLA's president did when similar ones surfaced there.

But others praised the Horowitz Center's efforts to protect Jewish students on campus and stop what they view as incitement to hatred of Jews amid growing global anti-Semitic violence.

 


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Comments

WHY SO MUCH HATE

I find it interesting that these so called U.S. Muslims, do not condemn those "radical Muslims" that are killing other Muslims publicly, but rather demonstrate their new found freedoms here against the very people that teach them. Or is their another agenda? Burning and killing children (Pakistan) is not worthy to condemn? Where's the demonstration?

I find it interesting that so-called Christians

do not condemn the fourteen years of war against Muslims in various countries, conducted and abetted by the US Christian country against Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan and Yemen, for some examples. Where is the Christian outrage at the death of hundreds of thousands of Muslims, the injuries, the destruction, the displacement? What would Jesus do??

Disgusting posters and administration's response

An outside interest group coordinating a campaign of intimidation and harassment across Californian campuses is absolutely disgusting and deserves the firmest response from administration and the police. Just imagine if members of Open Hillel were named as supporters of the genocidal Israeli government... there would be greater accuracy in the claim and I can just imagine the response might be firm from everyone all the way to Napolitano. BDS is a non-violent campaign to get justice for Palestinians and stop Israel's violations of international law. The mighty forces opposing it show themselves to be the bullies who cannot argue against its goals rationally.

the truth must hurt

there are too many muslims tied to or sympathetic to terror and sharia