Submitted by William (United States), Oct 23, 2022 at 18:35
Raphael Israeli, "Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology." (United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2004), p.364.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q1qCskJr0XsC&pg=PA364 364]
... when Del Valle saw and read tracts distributed by Muslims at the Place de la Republique in Paris crying 'Mort aux Juifs!!!' (Death to the Jews!!!), unqualified racist appeals to exterminate Jews for what they are, then he and others understood that the Jews in Palestine, otherwise known as Israelis, as well as others, were earmarked for destruction, and that was the real issue, not Muslim terrorism.
Del Valle cites the Gud Magazine of the extreme right in France which, in association with the Islamists, praised the Nazi-Palestinian alliance of World War II; this had been geared to eliminate the Jews of Palestine and facilitate ther ise of a totally Arab state in Palestine, headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem, on their ashes.
The American public did not need reports from Paris to awaken to the reality of hatred for Jews and Israelis in some Western circles, since it has been exposed to its own home-grown haters in the United States itself, not only those among its allies such as Israel.
For example, a pro-Palestinian march at San Francisco State University, one of many, was reported in April 2002, in which the marchers distributed leaflets on campus which depicted a can bearing a photograph of a mutilated baby with the legend: 'Palestinian children meat - Slaughtered according to (the leaflets stated) Jewish rites under American license.' A counter-rally on campus by pro-Israelis met with heckling and slogans, such as 'F*** the Jews', 'Jews, go back to Russia!', and even 'Too bad Hitler
did not finish the Job'. ...
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Melissa Radler, "Anti-Semitic riot at San Francisco State University", Jerusalem Post, May. 16, 2002.
[https://jr.co.il/articles/sf-univ.txt]
After being surrounded by a mob of students shouting, "Hitler didn't finish the job," and "Get out or we'll kill you," pro-Israel students at San Francisco State University are finally finding an ally against hate.
The university president is so fed-up with the hate-filled atmosphere on the Bay Area campus that he has asked the local district attorney's office to help bring pro-Palestinian hate-mongers to justice.
The May 7 incident received widespread press attention after an e-mail was circulated by Prof. Laurie Zoloth, director of the Jewish studies program at SFSU, describing the virulence of the anti-Semitic rhetoric and the campus's seeming inability to halt such occurrences. More than 100 anti-Semitic incidents, including graffiti, vandalism, hate speech, and violence have occurred on US campuses since January, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Zoloth, who attended the campus Hillel's Peace in the Middle East Rally along with several hundred students, faculty, and members of the community, described how Palestinian supporters descended on a group of 50 students who stayed behind to clean up and conduct a prayer service, after singing Hebrew songs and hearing speeches in support of Israel. "They screamed at us to 'go back to Russia' and they screamed that they would kill us all, and other terrible things," she wrote in the May 8 e-mail.
"As the counter-demonstrators poured into the plaza, screaming at the Jews to 'Get out or we'll kill you' and 'Hitler didn't finish the job,' I turned to the police and to every administrator I could find and asked them to remove the counter-demonstrators from the plaza, to maintain the separation of 100 feet that we had been promised.
The police told me that they had been told not to arrest anyone, and that if they did, 'it would start a riot.' I told them that it already was a riot." After approaching Dean of Students Penny Saffold, who called the San Francisco Police, pro-Israel demonstrators were marched to the campus Hillel House under police protection and a guard was posted at the door.
Zoloth also described what life is like for Jewish students and faculty at SFSU, noting her despair at the emergence of posters around campus equating Zionism with racism and Jews with Nazis, and pictures of cans of soup labeled "Canned Palestinian Children Meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license." "This is not civic discourse, this is not free speech, and this is the Weimar Republic with brown shirts it cannot control," she wrote.
After staying silent for nearly a week, university president Robert Corrigan posted a statement condemning the incident on SFSU's Web site on Monday. But in a move that Jeffrey Ross, ADL director of campus/higher education affairs, praised as a positive departure from many campuses' public silence on anti-Semitic incidents, Corrigan noted a request to the office of District Attorney Terence Hallinan to assign a member of its hate crimes unit to work with SFSU and consider bringing legal action against certain students. "Despite the claims of some, this is not an anti-Semitic campus. But as history shows us, silence and passivity can at times of crisis be very little different from complicity," Corrigan said in the statement.
In the Bay area, where anti-Israel protests have been the norm on campus for decades, Ross credited the University of California, Berkeley, as being the first school in the area to take legal action against pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Last month, 79 protesters were arrested after taking over a building on campus, and Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended from operating on campus for a month. "In both cases, you've got administrators who are trying to do the right thing in very difficult circumstances. We're pleased that they're working beyond the rhetorical to law enforcement, when law-enforcement is appropriate," Ross said.
But it remains unclear whether those who have been terrorized will be placated by Corrigan's vow to crack down on anti-Semitic demonstrators after nearly two years of virulent anti-Israel demonstrations.
As Zoloth noted in her e-mail, the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American atmosphere that has pervaded campus extends far beyond the scope of one protest that spun out of control. "After nearly seven years as director of Jewish studies, and after nearly two decades of life here as a student, faculty member, and wife of the Hillel rabbi, after years of patient work and difficult civic discourse, I am saddened to see SFSU return to its notoriety as a place that teaches anti-Semitism, hatred for America, and hatred, above all else, for the Jewish State of Israel, a state that I cherish," she wrote.
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Sabina Citron. "The Indictment: The Arab-Israel Conflict in Historical Perspective". (Israel: Gefen, Publishing, 2007). pp. 41-42.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=vzuU0IiBU50C&pg=PA42]
The ongoing terrorist attacks against Israelis in restaurants, malls, buses and bus stations finally forced Israel to respond to put an end to them. She was forced to return and enter Jenin in April 2002, as the place sponsored terrorists and an explosives factory. Israel was subsequently accused by the Arabs of committing a (supposed) massacre. The fools and intellectuals in the West, who are ready to believe anything false that the Arabs concoct, demanded an investigation on behalf of the United Nations. The United Nations investigators found no more than 52 bodies in the area, most of them terrorists. They were connected to explosive charges. Israel lost 23 fighters, victims of these charges. Nevertheless, there is no end to the Arab propaganda, similar to what was shown in Muhammad Bakri Jenin's film, Jenin.
A riot broke out at San Francisco State University following a propaganda campaign by students incited by the Arabs. On their signs was painted a canned food box with a picture of a baby and the inscription: "Meat of a Palestinian child, made in Israel. Murdered according to (the Antisemitic students added the idea of) rites with an American license"! The president of the university did not respond for a week. After Jewish students were beaten and were hurled with: "Hitler didn't finish the job!" and "Go away or we will kill you!" The president of the university asked the district attorney to investigate several students. And this after months and years of incessant incitement by Arab students and the spread of different anti-Semitic propaganda against the State of Israel and the Jewish people in general.
The despicable act at San Francisco State University is not unique. Arab students in North America have been involved in anti-Israel propaganda for decades. Only the scandal of the baby's picture on the sign drew any reaction.
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Summary of Student Events, SFSU
[https://www.sfsu.edu/~news/response/summary.htm]
On April 4, 2002, a flier was circulated to increase attendance at a rally, "Genocide of the 21 Century," hosted by the Muslim Student Association (MSA) on April 8 at San Francisco State University. In the upper right-hand corner of the flier, a picture of a baby with the caption, "Palestinian Children Meat -- Slaughtered According to Jewish Rites Under American License," was depicted. The General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) and Associated Students (AS) were also listed on the flier. All student organizations receive funding from student fees via Associated Students.
S.F. State issues comprehensive plan to address inter-group campus tensions, (SFSU) June 21, 2002:
Sanctions against the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) for actions at the May 7 rally that violated procedures and guidelines for rallies/demonstrations. GUPS has been put on probation for one year, losing its funding and its Web site for the year and facing stronger sanctions in case of future violations of rally rules or the student code of conduct...
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