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Viral video shows people removing posters of kidnapped Israeli hostages

Demonstrators and DPS were recorded on separate videos removing signs near a campus entrance.

Days after posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas were posted on and around USC’s campus, demonstrators and DPS officials were filmed removing them.

ATVN reported Thursday several students from the USC Chabad House put up those posters on and around campus. The posters were placed around Jefferson Avenue, 28th Street, Troy Hall and other locations around campus.

The posters are missing signs of people captured by Hamas, a militant group and U.S.-designated terrorist organization, during their surprise attack against Israel on October 7. The signs list the name, age and pictures of the victims. They also urge the reader to “please help bring them home alive.”

In a video posted to USC Chabad’s Instagram story Thursday night, two individuals were filmed taking down and throwing away posters of the hostages held by Hamas.

The video was filmed near University Avenue at the front of the school. Posters were put up on street lamps and bus stop benches.

In the video, two individuals with a bag full of crunched-up posters are confronted about taking down the posters.

The video, which received national attention, shows the following interaction:

“Excuse me, why are you taking those off? Why are you taking those off?”

“Because it’s causing the conflict to be worse…”

“My friends are one of those 200 people and you’re taking them off.”

“And that’s sad but I don’t see how that helps the conflict. People are just killing each other more and more.”

In a separate video obtained by Annenberg Media, a Department of Public Safety officer was also seen taking down posters that were on campus. In a university statement, a representative said that the university was enforcing its policy outlined in the USC Student Handbook.

The university “[applies] that policy consistently, without regard to the content of the flyers,” according to the representative.

The posters are part of the international movement #KidnappedFromIsrael. Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid, two Israeli artists from Tel Aviv, created the project and its accompanying website, which features testimonials from familiesaffected by the kidnappings and a list of 203 of Hamas’ hostages.

“We want people to pass by and look and understand that this is real… we’re talking about real people being held captive,” Bandaid said in an interview with Annenberg Media. “We’re talking about people: Babies and toddlers, men, women, grandparents… being held by militant people with guns.”

Rabbi Dov Wagner, who runs the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at USC, called the teardown of the posters “an attempt to erase the value of human beings.”

“This isn’t a political statement; these people are being held hostage,” he said.

Junior Andrew Turquie said he was disappointed by the removals.

“I was quite upset. I felt like our community wasn’t being supported again. I felt like you were using university policies or guidelines per se to put down the Jewish community,” Turquie said.

On Instagram, USC Hillel put out a message regarding the posters getting taken down.

“The intent of the students who posted these flyers was to draw attention to the tragedy of these 200 Israeli hostages,” the message read. “We will not allow them to be erased. These are our friends and our family, and we are praying for their safe return”

Innocent lives are being lost on both sides of the war, which further calls for empathy and kindness from the student body, according to Wagner. However, “rather than hearing and empathizing with each other, it just seems that things are being erased to the loudest voice,” he said.

Wagner said that the USC community should focus on exhibiting resilience and strength. Students can come together to connect and bring positivity to each other during these times, and while community members may not reach a consensus at the moment, they can, “at the very least, not call for the erasure of the other,” he said.

“It’s important for people all over to pause a little bit before saying something,” Wagner said. “Is it achieving something? Is it bringing light to the world, or are you just trying to bring someone else down?”

Kidnapped from Israel’ flyers reflect anguish over hostages even as they draw controversy

The two Israeli artists were visiting New York when the frantic texts and calls began: Hamas had attacked Israel, leaving a trail of grisly killings and taking hostages. 

Too far away to help, the couple decided to use their street art backgrounds – designing stark red-and-black flyers bearing the word “kidnapped” above photos and names of the abducted, from children to the elderly.  

Nitzan Mintz, 32, and the artist who goes by the name Dede Bandaid, 36, took stacks of them into Manhattan on Oct. 9 to paste them up and give them out. Few passersby, however, were interested.

Dejected, they went home, put the flyers in a public cloud storage file, posted on social media and went to bed. “When we woke up, it was already going viral,” Bandaid said.

The “Kidnapped from Israel” flyers have since become viral symbols of more than 200 Hamas hostages – plastered on walls, subways and telephone poles in cities across the U.S. and beyond, translated into 30 languages and promoted by some celebrities.

But while they have highlighted the plight of the hostages, the posters have also at times highlighted public divides over the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its complicated history.

Bandaid has seen many posters torn down in his daily treks into the New York streets. It also has happened in South Florida: A dentist in Miami was fired after being filmed tearing down flyers. A New York college studentdrew outrage for a similar incident. And the flyers have been targeted in other U.S. cities as well as in Londonand Melbourne, Australia.

Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 6,400 have died on both sides, according to the United Nations. 

Though the rationale behind tearing down posters is often unstated, Bandaid said he wants peace for all sides. The project’s aim, he said, is simply to keep the hostages in the public eye and press for their release. 

“They can tear it down,” he said. “We will put it back up.”

Street-art campaign goes viral

The flyers, which the creators describe as a form of guerrilla public street art, were modeled on missing-persons posters familiar to U.S. residents.

The idea came out of brainstorming sessions with Mintz and others in the wake of the attacks and was created in partnership with Israeli designers including Tal Huber, who Bandaid said was in Israel in the days after the attack, listening to rockets fly overhead. The website also credits designer Shira Gershoni.

“We heard about the enormous number of people being kidnapped, and from all ages – babies, toddlers, to elderly people … just horrible,” Bandaid said. “We said: 'We have to do something. To put the message out there, to tell the story.'”

It wasn’t long before demand for the flyers crashed their public DropBox. So they created a webpage with downloadable flyers. 

The campaign took off. People with tape and staple guns, and their own printouts of posters downloaded from the site, began spreading the flyers in cities from San Francisco to New York, as well as in Europe and South America. They became features of pro-Israel demonstrations and appeared on college campuses.

Two weeks into it, Bandaid said, about 25,000 people are visiting the site each day. It now also includes video clips of Israelis being kidnapped and video testimonials by family members of hostages. 

“People also made billboards and digital TV trucks with advertisements that drive around the cities like in London and Berlin,” he said. “It's everywhere.”

Fliers drawn into public divides 

The posters’ rapid spread has at times drawn the project into public debates surrounding the conflict.

U.S. polls have shown that while older generations remain more strongly sympathetic to Israel, millennials, and many who are younger, are almost evenly split on whether they align more with Israelis or Palestinians. 

Videos of people taking the flyers down at various locations, including New York University, have fueled outrage. New York Jewish Weekrecently reported that flyers were torn down within minutes of going up at the Union Square subway, contributing to a heated exchange between a poster and a pro-Palestinian activist.

In Boston, a woman found ripping down posters of Israeli hostages at a shopping center has been fired from her job, the Boston Herald reportedthis week. 

And in Miami, dentist Ahmed Elkoussa was fired after he was filmed taking down posters. ElKoussa has since contended that he removed signs because he worried they would fuel tensions. 

“Anything inciteful is not the answer right now,” he told WPLG-TV.

After Harvard University student groups drew a fierce backlash for issuing a statement blaming the violence on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, the flyers appeared all over campus.

Bandaid, too, has seen the flyer torn down as he walks the streets of New York each day, pasting up hundreds of the posters. 

He knows the debate is charged, but he says the campaign is about freeing innocent hostages, seemingly something people could agree upon.

“That could be their kids, their mother, their grandparents.”

‘Kidnapped’ project upends artists' lives 

Two weeks since it began, the project has come to consume Mintz and Bandaid’s daily lives, he said.

They and others talk daily with families of hostages, obtaining permissions, family photos or getting updates. Many are now reaching out to them, fearing their loved ones' plight will be forgotten. 

“It’s a situation that we never thought we were going to be in. We’re artists, and we’re talking to families whose world has just collapsed,” he said. “There’s a lot of pain.”

The flyers give a powerful window into that pain. Among them: a 34-year-old mother and her two daughters, pictured smiling by the seaside. A 9-month-old Israeli-Argentinian baby, pictured holding a colorful ball. A 40-year-old Israeli, smiling in a sun hat, who was taken from a music festival. 

In some ways, they were reminiscent of the missing-person flyers that appeared around New York after 9/11.

The couple stay glued to fast-moving developments. On Monday, Hamas released two women. Two days earlier, Hamas released an American-Israeli mother and daughter who had been visiting Israel from suburban Chicago. 

What will happen next – as hostage families worry about what a ground invasion will mean for the captives – isn’t clear. It’s day by day for families of hostages and those advocating for their release, whatever means they are using. 

“And every day is like you don't know how it's going to start,” Bandaid said. “And you don't know how it's going to end.”

My Old Friend Is Ripping Down Posters of Kidnapped Children

My daughter is scared of the dark. We got her a nightlight—it glows purple—which helps. Still, she likes my husband or me to lie in bed with her until she falls asleep. She’ll wrap her arm around my neck as she drifts off, and whisper things like “I love you, Mommy” and “What are we doing tomorrow?” She is four and a half. 

My son likes for me to read him a book before bed. Right after I give him a bottle of milk, he looks up at me with his stunning green eyes and begs, “Book! Book!” though the k is silent—a syllable he has not yet mastered—so it sounds more like “Buh! Buh!” I read The Going to Bed Book, by Sandra Boynton, to him. He is one and a half. He giggles as I place him in his crib and turn off the lights.

More than thirty Israeli children, some as young as 9 months old, are currently being held captive by Hamas terrorists inside Gaza. If they are still alive, they have now spent seventeen nights away from their beds. Some of them are alone. Some of them are with their siblings. Some of them watched their parents die in front of their eyes.

None of them are getting bedtime stories or purple nightlights. 

There are a lot of horrors that have been reported in the last seventeen days—rape that broke women’s pelvic bones, babies riddled with bullets, children whose fingers and feet were cut off, entire families that were burned to death with their hands tied behind their backs, a pregnant woman whose fetus was cut out of her stomach while she was still alive. For parents, though, there may be nothing as agonizing as the ongoing terror of children being held captive by an ISIS-style jihadist terrorist organization that revels in Jewish suffering. As one parent put it, that would be worse than death.

There have been widespread, grassroots efforts to bring attention to the kidnapped civilians, especially the children. One information campaign that has been gaining traction is called Let the World Know, which was started by Anna Tambini, an Israeli woman who lives in San Francisco. Volunteers across America, and around the world, have been hanging posters of the hostages on streetlights and posts, subway walls and coffee shops. Each poster has an individual picture and name with a simple call to action: “Take a photo of this poster and share it. Please help bring them home alive.” 

There is no Israeli flag on these posters. There is no mention of politics. They are as anodyne as the missing children that used to appear on the side of American milk cartons. 

And still. People all over the world—especially young, cool-looking people, with nose rings and neon backpacks—are ripping them down.

Across the internet, videos have emerged of people angrily tearing down these posters wherever they find them. In NYC. In L.A. In San Diego. In Santa Cruz. In Richmond. In Miami. In Philadelphia. In Ontario. In Paris. In London. They are ripping the faces of real people who are missing—babies, children, teenagers, women, elderly—to shreds.

I’m not sure non-Jews and ordinary passersby understand how painful this is. The Jewish world is tiny and connected. Nearly everyone knows someone who knows one of those faces. A friend’s friend. The in-laws of the sister of a boy who went to your school. And that’s just me.

I was scrolling Instagram this week when I came across another one of these videos. This one was of a woman and a man together ripping down the posters in Williamsburg. I almost skipped past it when I noticed something. I turned up the volume. 

After the woman finishes scraping the remainders of the poster from the street post, while muttering the word calba, the Arabic word for dog, she then turns to the camera—presumably to the person filming her vandalism—and says, “Fuck you. Fuck you. And burn in hell.”

And that’s when my heart dropped: I know her. 
 

Sarah—who I’ve since learned from the internet seems to go by the name Lucky and prefers they/them pronouns—and I went to college together at Northwestern. We weren’t close friends, but we performed in a show we wrote together along with five other women, and we were friendly enough to have hung out more than a few times. We even have a handful of pictures together on Facebook from 2011 (which I dug up in order to prove to myself that this was the same person). In more than one photo we are side by side, arms wrapped around each other, smiling. 

I remember having lunch or coffee with Sarah before I went to study abroad in Jerusalem my junior year, and we talked about our very different perspectives. She was Palestinian, and she told me that her family was unable to travel to Israel. I listened. How unfair, I thought at the time, that I’m about to board a flight to Tel Aviv, when her family members aren’t even allowed to go visit their place of birth. We left the meal—and the conversation—without raising our voices. Without saying “fuck you” or “burn in hell.” 

I haven’t talked to Sarah in twelve years. I don’t know how she went from the girl I performed with at Kresge Hall, ranting about feminism and consent—typical college-aged defiance and edge—to standing on a street corner, tearing apart pictures of kidnapped Israelis and flinging them to the ground like a dirty tissue. In her online bio it says that she has a master’s in social work from University of Chicago and that she is working to better her community through “internal, interpersonal, and systems change.” It also says that she is “dedicated to supporting queer and trans youth as they learn to love themselves, radically and unapologetically, and gain a healthier understanding of their resilience and power.” (Sarah perhaps doesn’t know that queerness can get you arrested, and far worse, in Gaza.) On a “30 Under 30” award she won a few years ago, she describes herself as a prison abolitionist, a therapist, a social worker, a sexual assault crisis counselor, a teaching artist, a resource advocate, and a performer in participatory educational theater. 

It is painfully ironic that the one thing you don’t need an advanced degree or elitist jargon for—you know, standing against the kidnapping of innocent children—is the one thing this “queer, gender-fluid femme of color,” as she labels herself, is utterly unable to grasp. It may well be that those advanced degrees are precisely what has emboldened her to commit such acts in the name of progress or power or resilience or resistance. 

I’ve watched the video over a dozen times. It is unbearable to think that I was friends with this person. 

But I was. I know this person. I knew her. She was not an antisemite. She was not a sadist. And so, with the splinter of hope I have left, I wrote a long text message to the number I have saved in my phone from so long ago. I asked why she thought, as she wrote on a now-private (or deleted) Instagram post, that these posters are “propaganda.” I told her, calmly, that these are real people and real children. And on the other side of those posters are real mothers and real fathers and real brothers and real sisters who are living in agony waiting for any sign that their loved ones are alive.

I ended with this: “The only purpose of this message is to explain my people’s very real suffering and pain, and hope that it touches or resonates with you in some way. I hope it makes you reconsider ripping down any more posters in the city.” And finally: “None of what I’ve written takes away from Palestinian suffering. I cry for everyone.” 

If she got the message, she hasn’t answered me yet. 

Before bed the other night, my daughter asked me if I knew what was going on in Israel. 

“I do,” I told her. “Do you?” 

“Yes,” she said with confidence. She continued, “But will the bad guys come here to Atlanta?” 

“Never,” I told her. 

“How come?” she pushed. Before I could answer, she came up with her own: “Because we lock our doors, right? So they could never get in?”

“That’s right,” I told her. I didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth.

When she’s older, however, I will tell her this: if anyone stole my kids from their beds, I would go to the ends of the earth to bring them home, including—at a very minimum—putting up posters on every damn block in America. 

My former friend says she is dedicating her life to bettering the world, to justice. Yet she proudly rips the faces of captured children and calls them dogs. Because they’re Jews. Tonight I will linger a little longer when I kiss my daughter and son goodnight.

Candace Mittel Kahn is the executive producer of Honestly and audio projects at The Free Press.

..mr. tit for tat trying to equate the tearing down of posters to institutional government and corporate censorship. 

..political analysis not his forte.

..you don't get to ignore the occupation. the very core of this dispute. a barbaric travesty....yet you do.  

..over and over again you repeat that the war in the ukraine can end. all russia has to do is leave. but you don't say the same about the occupation of the palistinian people. a sad political hypocrisy.  

..yet you ignore the vastly superior violence inflicted by israel. in both breath and scope. then try and equalize the violence being produced. 

..that is not only political dishonesty but racist in it's implication that palestinians deserve these current attacks. and that they brought the occupation on themselves.

..a totally ridiculous position viewed through a human rights lens. talk like this i would imagine would be similar to having a discussion with trump. round and round you go. where nothing changes except increased violence.

..that's a lie. and an argument for you to refuse to see the massive humanitarian crisis that the occupation is. 

..the issue with the palistinians is a land and water grab. there has never been a serious threat against the state of israel for many many years. 

..the other issue is one of race. which is why they call it apartheid. 

..every year for many many years the un has condemned the occupation. you are very well aware of this. yet you ask. any action is then vetoed. again you know this and yet you ask.

..why do you pose that question? you see the power players in the world stacking up sides as they bring the world to the brink of destruction. you attempt to use this leadership to make your case?  

..that argument doesn't address the massive human rights violation of the occupation, the indiscriminate bombings and the apartheid state. 

..that argument is a get out of jail free card. and something you repeat over and over when faced with a ligitimate arguement. 

..in #66 you asked me 2 questions. in #67 i answered those questions. you need to respond to #67 as a natural conversation flow instead of veering off into the wild blue yonder.   

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On Sunday, Nov. 5, following a large and successful protest for Palestinian life and human rights in Calgary, protest organiser Wesam Khaled was arrested by Calgary police.  Charged with "disturbing the peace," the police told Khaled that the charge was related to his use of the chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which the police decided to treat as an “offensive anti-semitic comment.” We reject these attempts by Canadian politicians at all levels of government to demonize such protests and falsely accuse protest organizers as antisemitic, when protesters are simply calling for Palestinians to be able to live in their homeland as free and equal citizens.

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One fifth of the citizens of Israel are Palestinians.
 

From the river to the sea the Hamas government wants Palestine to be Jew free.

josh wrote:

JKR wrote:

One fifth of the citizens of Israel are Palestinians.
 

From the river to the sea the Hamas government wants Palestine to be Jew free.

 

How many of the 3 million or so Palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza are Israeli citizens? From the river to the sea means one state with equal rights for all. Understandable that you would react in horror to that.

Most Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza are not Israeli citizens. Officially Palestinian leaders in peace negotiations have told the whole world they support a two-state solution. Are they lying? Plans for a two-state solution have come close to being agreed upon but Palestinian negotiators have always left the negotiating table after supporting a two state solution. Is that why Palestinian leaders always leave the negotiating table and fail to sign a final peace agreement because they don’t really want peace with Israel?

Countries around the world support a two-state solution including China, the U.S., Russia, France, and the UK. Palestinians could have had a state over twenty years ago but unfortunately Arafat walked away from a peace deal. As Abba Eban once famously said - the Palestinian leadership never misses an  opportunity to miss an opportunity.

josh wrote:

Countries around the world may accept it, Israel does not.

In the early 2000’’s Israel agreed to a two-state solution but Arafat walked away from that peace agreement. Israel also accepted the two-state solution agreed to by the United Nations in 1947/48 but Arab countries opposed it and instead went to war against Israel.

NDPP wrote:

Apartheid Israel destroyed any possibility for Palestinians of an equitable or viable 'two state solution' long ago.

China, Russia, France, the UK, the U.S., the EU, the Arab League, and most other countries in the world support a two-state solution. In any case Israel and Palestinians will have to establish some kind of peace agreement if there is to be peace between Israel and Palestine. Without a peace agreement there is no reason to believe the status quo won’t continue indefinitely.

The Demand For A Ceasefire is Necessary But Not Sufficient: The Demand MUST Be For Decolonization and Palestinian Self-Determination

https://blackagendareport.org/news/1663/33/The-Demand-For-a-Ceasefire-is...

No more subordination of Palestinian rights for Apartheid Israel!

Columbia University suspended a student group Jewish Voice for Peace because of their opposition to Israel.

josh wrote:

Columbia University suspended a student group Jewish Voice for Peace because of their opposition to Israel.

Luckily Columbia University is opposing anti semitism.

New York Post; Hundreds of Columbia professors sign new letter saying they’re ‘appalled’ and ‘horrified’ about campus antisemitism; By Jesse O’Neill

https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/metro/hundreds-of-columbia-professors-decr...

Hundreds of Columbia professors sign new letter saying they’re ‘appalled’ and ‘horrified’ about campus antisemitism

Jewish students gathered Monday to call on the university to take action against antisemitism on campus.

More than 200 faculty members at Columbia University said Tuesday they were “appalled by the spate of antisemitic incidents” on the Manhattan campus, a day after scores of their colleagues signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 terror attack.

The new letter came after Jewish students rallied on campus to blast the administration’s “inaction” on what they called an “unsafe” atmosphere in the weeks since the attack, due to at least one attack on an Israeli student, death threats and rampant hate speech and vandalism.

While the faculty members agree “there should be robust debate about complex and difficult issues” concerning the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, they say “there is no excuse for Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians.”

“We are horrified that anyone would celebrate these monstrous attacks or, as some members of the Columbia faculty have done in a recent letter, try to ‘recontextualize’ them as a ‘salvo,’ as the ‘exercise of a right to resist’ occupation, or as ‘military action,'” the letter reads.

The new missive is signed by many highly distinguished professors and notable academics from around the world.

They includine honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire Philip Bobbitt, who is professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia; noted physicist Tanya Zelevinsky, who is winner of the prestigious Brown Investigator Award; and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science Asaf Cidon, who is winner of the National Science Foundation career award.

The statement continued: “Finally, the University cannot tolerate violence, speech that incites it, or hate speech. Just as we condemn any bigoted comments or acts directed at Palestinian and Muslim students, we are appalled by the spate of antisemitic incidents on campus since October 7,” citing “epithets, physical assault, and swastikas.”

“In the same way that the University defends other groups from this sort of disgusting conduct, it is essential to do the same for Jewish and Israeli students,” the letter said.

In a statement to The Post Monday, a university spokesperson said “antisemitism or any other form of hate … will not be tolerated”

“We are using every available tool to keep our community safe and that includes protecting our Jewish students from antisemitic discrimination or harassment.”

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However, the university has not elaborated on which “tools” they are using and what action they are taking beyond the letter-writing campaigns. Officials chose not to elaborate Tuesday when pressed for additional comment on how they planned to counter the “hostile and unsafe environment” on campus.

English major Ken Vasques, 21 said Monday the university has been on edge since Israel waged war on Gaza following the coordinated terror attack that killed more than 1,400 residents of the Jewish state.

“It’s been a weird time to be on campus. There has been a feeling of dread. There’s a feeling something will break out,” he said.

“The vans parked outside of school have been doxxing people. Students have been covering the vans every day. The school hasn’t done anything. You would think the school would put the students’ safety first,” Vasques continued.

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“Professors have been hesitant to address the war or students’ response to it. One of my professors moved the whole class to Zoom because the atmosphere around campus has been so tense.

“As a student I feel I have to be mindful of what I say and I think professors have felt that as well.”

josh wrote:

JVP are Jews, Murdoch Post fan.

Is there anything in that article that’s not true?

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP): What You Need to Know

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/jewish-voice-peace-jvp-what-you-need-know

• Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism.
• JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel. JVP’s staunch anti-Zionist positions place it squarely in opposition to mainstream American Jews and Jews worldwide, most of whom view a connection with Israel as an integral part of their social, cultural or religious Jewish identities. JVP promulgates the view that Jews who identify even tangentially with Israel are motivated by white supremacy, Jewish racial chauvinism and religious supremacism.
• The spread of JVP’s most inflammatory ideas can help give rise to antisemitism. Many left-wing groups have uncritically accepted JVP’s anti-Zionist claims, elevating their harsh rhetoric related to Israel and Zionism and furthering the widespread antisemitic vilification and ostracization of many American Jews who identify as Zionists. This has helped to create a hostile environment for Jews on many campuses and in many progressive spaces.
• JVP alleges that law enforcement missions to Israel organized by Jewish groups help to perpetuate police brutality. Since 2017, JVP has claimed that Israel, alongside a few U.S.-based community and Jewish organizations, is responsible for “police brutality, especially against people of color, on American streets” because those organizations have facilitated periodic seminars between American and Israeli law enforcement officials. This “Deadly Exchange” narrative has metastasized within American progressive circles, with some implicating Zionism and Israel in the murder of George Floyd and the broader oppression of people of color in the United States. JVP’s willful misrepresentation of policeexchanges injects extreme anti-Israel animus into important social justice movements, detracting from pressing civil rights work and often leading to the vilification of American Jews.
• Approximately 12 JVP chapters are active on college campuses, where members often work closely with chapters of the anti-Israel student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to promote anti-Israel initiatives, messages and events.
• In addition to JVP’s promotion of messaging that descends into the antisemitic vilification of “Zionists,” the group has expressed support for violence and, occasionally, classic antisemitic tropes. Some JVP members, leaders and chapters propagate rhetoric or sponsor events where participants express support for violence or terror against Israelis and vilify Zionist Jews. In a few instances, they have espoused blatant antisemitic tropes, including modern manifestations of the blood libel and allegations of Jewish dual loyalty to the countries in which they live.

Statements and Images That Invoke Classic Antisemitic Tropes

Occasionally, JVP activists or speakers at JVP events veer into classic antisemitic ideas and themes. In at least two instances, JVP or participants at a JVP-organized event propagated allegations related to the blood libel. In another instance, a JVP leader argued that genocidal sentiment towards non-Jews is embedded in Judaism, a claim that has also been made by hardcore antisemites

Montreal lecturer suspended in fallout of Concordia altercation over Israel-Hamas war

A professor telling a woman to go back to Poland and calling them a whore seems perfectly rational.

..according to the above video..4.57 mark..2/3rds of americans want a cease fire. 

and growing.

A day after Elon Musk agreed with blatant anti-Semitism on Twitter, the head of the U.S. Anti-Defamation League, praised Musk for banning the slogan "from the river to the sea" on Twitter without saying a word about Musk's anti-Semitism.  The head of a group supposedly dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism praising an anti-Semite because they are anti-Palestinian 

https://x.com/emilyctamkin/status/1725701411860599194?s=20