Showing posts with label Jewish Student. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish Student. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Guests in the USA or just Terrorists?

This is NOT Israel. This is the United States of America. If these Pally Students who are Guests in the USA and may be on Foreign Scholorships need to harass American Students who are Jewish then send them back to Gaza and the West Bank. If they are so called "Freedom Fighters" and claim they are slaves in Israel HOW DID SO MANY OF THEM GET OUT TO COME TO THE USA? In order for them to leave they had to go to Tel Avi Airport to take a plane to the USA. They didn't swim here and like so many Jews who were victims of the hands of Nazi Muslims and the Nazi Christians (Hitler was a Christian) and had to travel on freightships to leave detention camps in Europe for freedom in Israel. It was then after the Declaration of Independence did the Muslim Countries declare war on the Victims of the Concentration Camps.

Has anyone been to Gaza? The inner Cities and the Beaches are gorgeous and at one time when Israel had open boarders Gaza was a busy international tourist area with white sandy beaches and hotels that served drinks and music. Now it's a crime to have music at a wedding or to even think about going onto the beach since it's loaded with mines.

This hate for Jews is deep rooted. You can find this hate in the Koran. This hate was written by a thug who raped, stole, and defaced the Earth with his distruction. Yet they cannot see it since they are so involved in the chanting of their prayer, beating their wives, raping their children, and hating the Jews.  Islam does not mean peace it means submission. Now you do have a few Muslims who want to live a normal life of minding their own business and loving their wife and children but the few who are radical and the students who feel they need to imagine dying for a cause will make them a martyr.  I have heard more Palestinians whose mission in Israel have gone wrong and they are hurt or dying calling for MOMMY rather then Allah.

Why is it when these children who want to be a suicide bombers realize after they get to their destination that they need a back up person to blow them up if they change their minds? They should realize it's not for their Allah who is not merciful it is for those who sit behind that mask telling the lambs, the children to die for them them. A G-d would not want his children to die for masked men. Hamas is not Allah nor are they messenagers of Allah,

It is time to stop all Federal, State, and Local money aid to these schools who recieve Jewish and Christian tax payers money. These colleges need to clean up their acts and allow everyone the right to peaceful living and learning on the college campuses.

Outrage as Pro-Palestinian activists leave eviction notices for Jewish NYU Students

  • The eviction notices were slid under the doors of Jewish students in an NYU residence hall
  • The group Students for Justice in Palestine has taken credit for the notices
  • The group claims the Israeli government routinely evicts Palestinians living in Israel


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613692/Outrage-Pro-Palestinian-activists-leave-eviction-notices-Jewish-NYU-Students.html#ixzz3001BYzLo 



Jewish students at New York University have been targeted by a pro-Palestinian group that reportedly slipped 'eviction' notices under the doors of several Jewish students in one of the university's Greenwich Village residents halls last week.
'If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014 we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings. We cannot be held responsible for property or persons remaining inside the premises,' the fake eviction slips read.
The NYU student group Students for Justice in Palestine have taken credit for notices, which came with a disclaimer at the bottom stating, 'this is not an eviction notice,' and explaining that the notices were meant to draw attention to the group's claim that the Israeli government issues similar eviction notices to Palestinians living in Israel.
Phony: These phony eviction notices were slid under the doors of several of NYU's Jewish students
Phony: These phony eviction notices were slid under the doors of several of NYU's Jewish students
NYU's Palladium residence hall on 14th Street in Manhattan reportedly was targeted because of its large Jewish population
NYU's Palladium residence hall on 14th Street in Manhattan reportedly was targeted because of its large Jewish population
The pro-Palestinian group targeted the NYU resident housing facility Palladium, on East 14th Street in Manhattan, because it is believed to house a lot of NYU's Jewish students, the Times of Israel reports - according to the paper, the building even has elevators that operate without buttons for students acknowledging the Sabbath.
A spokesman for NYU says the prank crossed a line.
'It is disappointingly inconsistent with standards we expect to prevail in a scholarly community,' spokesman John Beckman told the New York Post. 'Our Residence Life and Housing Office will be communicating with the students in the dorm, looking into the matter, and following up appropriately.'
According to Beckman, it's unclear why the group targeted the Palladium dorms.
Credit: The student group Students for Justice in Palestine have taken credit for the 'eviction' notices
Credit: The student group Students for Justice in Palestine have taken credit for the 'eviction' notices
'However, were it to be the case that the fliering was done there because it was perceived to be a dorm with a higher proportion of Jewish students, that would be troubling, dismaying and a matter of deep concern for our community,' Beckman said.
Students for Justice for Palestine took credit for the fliers in a blog post on its NYU website. 
'NYU SJP's eviction action created more dialogue than ever before,' the headline of a blog post on the site reads.
Students say they we troubled by the phony eviction notices.
'Dialogue': The students seem to thing their stunt was a success and has 'created...dialogue'
'Dialogue': The students seem to thing their stunt was a success and has 'created...dialogue'
'We thought we were getting evicted. We were panicking a little bit,' sophomore Gabrielle Doria, 20, told the paper.
Similar pranks, the paper reports, have recently happened at other universities, including Rutgers, Michigan and Northwestern.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

ZOA officially protests bullying of Jewish students by anti-Semitic profs at Northeastern University

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ZOA officially protests bullying of Jewish students by anti-Semitic profs at Northeastern University

 

 

By Ilya Feoktistov and Charles Jacobs


If they find out I’m Jewish, they’ll target me.”

This is one of a litany of chilling claims by Jewish students at Northeastern University about the anti-Semitic hostility they have been forced to deal with on campus, as quoted in a letter recently sent by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to Northeastern’s President Joseph Aoun. First alerted by our organization’s exposés of the university’s hostile climate for Jews, the ZOA’s own investigation has gone much further to lift the curtain on what Jewish students can expect to face if they enroll at Northeastern.

ZOA’s letter, based on first-hand reports from students, shows that the problem at Northeastern is not simply a case of professorial academic bias against Israel. Northeastern’s professors are using the basest forms of social bullying and intimidation to silence Jewish students who dare defend their Jewish identity in the classroom.

According to ZOA’s investigation, Professor Denis Sullivan, Director of the university’s Middle East Center goes furthest in abusing his authority in the classroom to violate his students’ academic freedom. Here are some vignettes from what the students told ZOA about Sullivan’s lack of academic ethics in class:

“A Jewish student in the class raised her hand and asked a legitimate question… Instead of answering the question, Professor
Sullivan personally attacked the student, as the rest of the class snickered. …She was so traumatized by the attack that she began crying and had to leave the room.”
“According to one Jewish student, when you question what Sullivan tells the class about Israel, Sullivan ‘finds a way to make you feel stupid.’”
A Jewish student wrote a paper taking the position that Hamas, with its genocidal goals, cannot be given legitimacy. “Professor Sullivan rejected the student’s paper and threatened her with a poor grade unless she rewrote it … The Jewish student felt that she had no choice but to rewrite her paper.”
“One student reported that he is afraid even to reveal his Jewish identity in Sullivan’s class.”
When a Jewish student questioned the anti-Israel position of a visiting Palestinian diplomat Sullivan brought as a guest to his class, “Professor Sullivan publicly ridiculed the student.” The diplomat “refused to answer the question, characterizing it as offensive.”
Sadly, Sullivan is not the only Northeastern professor who has victimized Jewish students, according to the ZOA:
“When a Jewish student respectfully challenged” Northeastern Sociology and International Affairs Professor Berna Turam’s justification of Islamic honor killings during class, “Professor Turam – and the other students in the class – laughed at the student, humiliating her. On another occasion, Professor Turam laughed at and publicly mocked this same student as she presented her research proposal in class … Strangely, Professor Turam repeatedly referred to this student as “Rachel” – a Hebrew name – despite being told that this is not the student’s name. This student stopped wearing her Star of David to Professor Turam’s class.”
Readers of this column will have heard by now about Northeastern’s Economics Professor and Pakistani citizen Berna Turam’, who was caught on video telling students that anti-Semitism is something that one should be proud of and bragging about intimidating pro-Israel students in his classes. As the ZOA’s investigation revealed, in an e-mail to Northeastern’s President Joseph Aoun, a Jewish student personally recounted his feelings in response to hearing Alam’s hateful words:
“I sat painfully listening to Professor Alam insinuate that students should be proud to be called anti-Semitic. I had never in my life, ever, experienced anti-Semitism firsthand until this past year when I witnessed Professor Alam and Professor Sullivan display an age-old hatred against the Jewish people ... No one should experience hatred like this in their learning environment.”
Aoun never did respond to the Jewish student, although his cold shoulder was better than the treatment other Jewish students got from campus administrators. At a seminar on campus inclusiveness held by the President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion, a Jewish student spoke up about how marginalized he and other Jews felt on campus. As the ZOA recounts, “Interim Dean Uta G. Poiger publicly embarrassed the student. Instead of showing compassion for the problems that he and other Jewish students have been enduring at Northeastern, Dean Poiger questioned the veracity of Jewish students’ campus experiences and thereby publicly demeaned them and their concerns.”
The responses of other campus administrators to the issue have been disappointingly similar, according to the ZOA. For example, Northeastern Provost Stephen Director has said that claims of anti- Semitic incidents on campus “are completely unfounded, and we reject them. The present-day facts are clear: Northeastern is fully supportive of Jewish life and learning.”
The former President of the American Jewish Committee of Boston, Larry Lowenthal, who is now on Northeastern’s payroll, went so far as to defend the Professor Sullivan:
“As an Adjunct Professor in the Jewish Studies program at Northeastern University, I wish to offer some personal comments on the controversy surrounding Professor Denis Sullivan ... At all times, Sullivan treated me and my views with dignity, sensitivity and deep respect. In my personal experience, Northeastern has provided an open, unhindered and stimulating environment for the expression of Jewish and Zionist points of view.”
And perhaps most disappointing has been the reaction of Lori Lefkovitz, the Chair of Northeastern’s Jewish Studies Department. She has refused to acknowledge any problem, stating that: “I am sorry that there are those who are unsatisfied with an accounting of the present state of Jewish life and learning at the school.” She claimed that concerns about anti- Semitism on campus are “designed to put us on the defensive and to make the Jewish community less supportive of Northeastern at precisely the moment when Northeastern deserves kudos and the strong support of Jews who care about Jewish campus life.”
Lefkovitz invited Professor Sullivan to speak at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Newton, where her husband is the Rabbi.
Discussing the initial Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) exposé of Northeastern’s mistreatment of its Jewish students with members of Mishkan Tefila, Lefkovitz said the Jewish community should not “dignify it by taking it too seriously.” It is particularly disappointing to see the head of Jewish studies at Northeastern place more importance on being a dutiful employee than on protecting the Jewish students in her charge.
Jewish leaders naturally want to claim that there is no hostility toward Jewish students within their spaces of influence, yet this only abets the further marginalization of those students. Faced with undeniable proof that they’re wrong, they are caught in a trap. Admitting that there is a problem would raise questions about their lack of response in the past and in the present. Denial allows them to avoid stressful conflict with those among their fellow professors who abuse Jewish students, and with the administration, which refuses to stop the abuse. The abandonment of Jewish students on campus is a massive scandal that has not yet been entirely exposed.
Northeastern University exemplifies the ugly atmosphere that makes being a pro-Israel Jewish student so difficult on today’s campuses.
ZOA’s letter to Aoun exposes with intense moral clarity the stark failure of Jewish leaders and American educational institutions to keep Jewish students safe from a hostile environment. It should be a clarion call for all Jews and people of conscience to speak out in condemning this failure. Only consistent and unyielding pressure will protect Jewish youth from hatred.

Ilya Feoktistov and Charles Jacobs are Research Director and President, respectively, of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (www.peaceandtolerance.com).

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