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July 10, 2017
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Students
for Justice in Palestine Normalizes Hatred
by Ariel Behar • Jul 7, 2017 at
4:40 pm
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Three terrorists are shot and killed after fatally stabbing a police
officer. A student activist group echoes social media accounts calling
their deaths an "execution."
This warped reaction can only involve Israel and those bent on its
destruction.
In this case, three Palestinians attacked and killed Israeli border
police officer Hadas Malka outside Jerusalem's Damascus Gate before being
killed by other officers nearby. Student's for Justice in Palestine (SJP) expressed its
displeasure by sharing a Facebook post that states, "Three
Palestinian teens were executed this evening by Zionist occupation forces
at the Damascus Gate in occupied Jerusalem..."
ISIS claimed responsibility for Malka's murder. Hamas praised the
attack, the Jerusalem Post reported, "but disputed Islamic State's claim,
stating that the perpetrators were affiliated with the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine."
Terrorist organizations therefore are competing for credit in killing a
23-year-old woman. SJP could have condemned her death, or it could have
stayed silent. Instead, it turned the attack into an opportunity to accuse
Israel of wrongdoing.
Such twisted logic is entirely consistent for SJP.
Its University of Chicago chapter hosted convicted felon Rasmieh Odeh in May. Odeh spent 10 years in an Israeli prison after being
convicted for her role in a 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two students.
SJP's New York University chapter managed to turn the controversial
police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile into an attack on
Israel exactly one year ago: "We must remember that many US police
departments train with the #IsraeliDefenseForces," the group wrote on it Facebook page. "The same forces behind
the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of
Palestinians."
The Fordham University dean of students faced backlash after banning an SJP chapter on his
campus because he said it was hard to accept a group whose entire focus was
delegitimizing one country only, Israel.
SJP consistently spews anti-Semitic sentiments as well as hatred for the state of Israel. As such, it is quite
skilled at making noise and getting attention, but less successful in
accomplishing any of its goals.
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