{"id":112362,"date":"2024-04-21T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=112362"},"modified":"2024-04-20T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:14:03","slug":"27-05-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=112362","title":{"rendered":"Police Stop Anti-Zionist Agitators From Accessing Florida University President\u2019s Home as Students Revolt Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Police Stop Anti-Zionist Agitators From Accessing Florida University President\u2019s Home as Students Revolt Nationwide<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dion J. Pierre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustrative: Pro-Hamas students rallying at Harvard University. Photo: Reuters\/Brian Snyder<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An extremist anti-Zionist group on Thursday was prevented by local police from marching to the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential House at Florida International University (FIU), which is the home of school president Kenneth A. Jessell.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the campus newspaper\u00a0Panther Now<\/em>, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) planned the action as part of \u201cPalestinian Prisoner Day,\u201d an event held by the group to honor terrorists who are detained in Israel. As the demonstrators approached Jessell\u2019s home, a blockade of police formed to obstruct their path.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the aggression displayed in marching a mob to someone\u2019s residence, the students complained that the police\u2019s response was disproportionate to any threat they may have posed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTake a look over there. Do you know how many cop cars are there? All these cops for a bunch of students who are just chanting,\u201d SJP co-president Zuhra Alchtar was quoted by\u00a0Panther Now\u00a0<\/em>as saying when the police arrived on the scene. \u201cThe ivory tower gets so shaken when a bunch of people speak. They can\u2019t stand it. They have to call the big guns; they have to call the priority response team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The demonstration came as anti-Zionist students across the US have been recently crossing the line from peaceful expressions of free speech to riotous behavior, flagrantly violating school rules, disrupting business, and even exposing Jewish students to racist and antisemitic rhetoric unlike any uttered publicly in the US since the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Vanderbilt University\u00a0suspended and expelled<\/a>\u00a0several protesters who occupied an administrative building and proceeded to relieve themselves and perform other private functions inside. To infiltrate the building, the students \u201cassaulted a Community Service Officer\u201d and \u201cpushed\u201d officials who suggested having a discussion about their concerns, according to school officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Columbia University, students were reportedly suspended \u2014 although it has recently been alleged that the university reduced their penalties to probation \u2014 for\u00a0inviting<\/a>\u00a0to campus a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that has committed airliner hijackings and mass shootings. This week, two days of protest\u00a0convulsed<\/a>\u00a0the campus and resulted in the arrest and suspension from school of US Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s (D-MN) daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

In several documented cases, anti-Israel protesters resorted to verbally abusing Black officials with racial epithets and violated their personal space. The Vanderbilt protesters told a Black police officer that his racial identity demanded his being an accessory to their machinations, according to video of the scene, and at Pomona College earlier this month, the school\u2019s president\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that protesters called a Black administrator a racial slur.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0similar incident<\/a>\u00a0took place at George Washington University when US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield visited the campus last week. An SJP spinoff, formed after the school\u2019s chapter was suspended, distributed pamphlets describing the ambassador as a \u201cpuppet\u201d and a \u201cBlack body\u201d who is \u201cused \u2026 to carry out repression and dissent.\u201d After the event concluded, a protester approached GW dean Colette Coleman and clapped her hands in the official\u2019s face.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such incidents have occurred alongside an unprecedented surge in antisemitic incidents and extreme anti-Israel activity on US college campuses that have upended the lives of many Jewish students.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s (ADL)\u00a0new annual audit<\/a>, there were 922 antisemitic incidents on college campuses in 2023, a \u201cstaggering\u201d 321 percent increase from the previous year. Across the nation, 8,873 incidents added up to the most ever counted by the ADL since it began tracking such data in 1979. Most of the outrages occurred after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel and amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

In California, an elderly Jewish man was\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0when an anti-Israel professor employed by a local community college allegedly pushed him during an argument. At Cornell University in upstate New York, a student\u00a0threatened to rape and kill<\/a>\u00a0Jewish female students and \u201cshoot up\u201d the campus\u2019 Hillel center. In a suburb outside Cleveland, Ohio, a group of vandals desecrated graves at a Jewish cemetery. At Harvard University, America\u2019s oldest and, arguably, most prestigious university, a faculty group\u00a0shared an antisemitic cartoon<\/a>\u00a0depicting a left-hand tattooed with a Star of David dangling two men of color from a noose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other outrages were expressive but subtle. In November, large numbers of people traveling to attend the \u201cMarch for Israel\u201d in Washington, DC either could not show up or were forced to scramble last second and final alternative transportation because numerous bus drivers allegedly\u00a0refused<\/a>\u00a0to transport them there. Hundreds of American Jews from Detroit, for example, were left stranded at Dulles Airport, according to multiple reports. At Yale University, a campus newspaper came under fire for removing from a student\u2019s column what it called \u201cunsubstantiated claims<\/a>\u201d of Hamas raping Israeli women, marking a rare occasion in which the publication openly doubted reports of sexual assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

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