The real purpose of this nasty political farce is to pressure US universities to crack down on criticism of Israel
‘The false equivalence of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is belied by the reality on the ground in the … burgeoning Jewish anti-Zionist movement.’‘The false equivalence of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is belied by the reality on the ground in the … burgeoning Jewish anti-Zionist movement.’
Michael Schill, president of Northwestern, Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers and Gene Block, chancellor of UCLA, were calm, if occasionally annoyed, as the Republicans on the committee told them they should be “ashamed” for using insufficient violence against protesters, called for the defunding of specific programs and the firing of individual faculty members, demanded that undergraduate students be expelled and compared pro-Palestinian demonstrators with Nazis and the segregationist...
The attempt to paint the anti-war movement as violent and malicious veered, at times, into the absurd. In one prolonged exchange, the hearing was shown a viral video, produced by a young Zionist influencer at UCLA. In the video, the man is standing in a path on campus, facing a small group of silent pro-Palestinian protesters wearing keffiyehs. The young man declares that he wants to pass them to go into an academic building.
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