In particular, it is the latter photo – which depicts a favored form of torture in Gaza — that ties SJP to the Muslim Brotherhood-spawned Hamas terrorist organization which rules the region.
The provocative posters, which caused a major outcry, were the brainchild of David Horowitz, a UCLA alumnus and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles. They were used to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the “epidemic of Jew hatred on college campuses.”
The posters were seen in several locations at UCLA and at UC Irvine, Drake U in Des Moines, DePaul U in Chicago, and U Mass in Amherst, around the end of February.
At UCLA, campus police and students took them down, according to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.
UCLA spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez told the Jewish Journal that “while the university cherishes free speech, the posters recently discovered on and off campus stigmatize and stereotype a particular group, and we repudiate them in the strongest possible terms.”
But the campus has been a hotbed for anti-Israel activity for years.
Much of it is aimed directly at Jewish students attending the university, and while most is carried out by the student organizations, there are real questions about the driving force behind them.
When those incidents occur, little or nothing is said, yet when these posters appeared, UCLA raised a hue and cry, outraged and “an outside group” was interfering in campus affairs.
It did prompt UCLA Chancellor Gene Block to issue a public letter condemning the posters – and this time an incident in which student government members questioned the objectivity of a Judicial Board nominee because she was a Jew.
However: “The UCLA Police Department is vigorously investigating the matter of the posters,” Block wrote. “No student should be compared to a terrorist for holding a political opinion.”
No? Why not? The SJP has for months been chanting on college campuses, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Horowitz told the Jewish Journal the SJP should be recognized as a hate group. He said he believes “its campus privileges and financial support [should be] removed as they would be if it were an anti-black hate group, or an anti-Hispanic hate group, or an anti-Muslim hate group. They would not grant them the campus privileges they have.
“They have offices, they have money; they have the ability to put on events and invite people and the ability to intimidate others, particularly Jews,” he said.
Horowitz added that he does not want SJP’s free speech rights revoked by either the government or by UCLA – he just wants the group recognized as a hate group; such a move would revoke its official recognition as a student group.
But wait. A student was called a terrorist because she was a Jew. How did that impact on her candidacy?
How might that have been viewed, if the panel were white, Christian or Jewish, and she was a Palestinian Muslim? Or in Ferguson or in the south, if she was a Black Christian? Where is all the brouhaha? Where are all the protests, the marches, the violence, the riots?
No shootings?
