I arrived back at my old alma mater, San Francisco State University, yesterday, and met with a number of individuals on that campus to discuss the recent hub-bub over the Great Killing of "Colonizers" Scandal of 2013.
As I walked onto campus I had a number of questions. The first was
whether or not people were satisfied with president Wong's response to
the November 7 Edward Said mural event
in which students from the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS),
and other groups, held up signs that read "My heroes have always killed
colonizers."
It should be obvious to any fair-minded person that when a
Palestinian-Arab student holds up a sign calling for the killing of
"colonizers" who they mean are the Jews of the Middle East. But even if
that can somehow be construed as not the case, is it not obvious that
American universities should not be in the business of financing
advocacy for the murder of any people or group or nationality?
Islamic peoples, of course, are among the most significant colonizers in recorded history and they colonized and exploited the Jewish land of Israel, the land of my people, for thirteen hundred years between the time of Muhammad until the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
For thirteen hundred years the Jews of Israel were a colonized people by Arab invaders and by the Ottoman Turks.
Islamic peoples, of course, are among the most significant colonizers in recorded history and they colonized and exploited the Jewish land of Israel, the land of my people, for thirteen hundred years between the time of Muhammad until the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
For thirteen hundred years the Jews of Israel were a colonized people by Arab invaders and by the Ottoman Turks.
My second question was concerned with the potential for ethnic tensions on that campus.
There was, after all, a time at SFSU, not so long ago, where a student
might get chased out of the quad for wearing a kippa or a Star of
David.
The final question was, what of GUPS president Mohammed Hammad
who directly threatened violence? In the case of Mr. Hammad we have a
student leader who explicitly called for the murder of Jews.
Read his answers over at Israel Thrives .
Spoiler alert:
"...rumor has it that Mr. Hammad, president of the General Union of
Palestine Students (GUPS) has been forcibly retired from his position...
and from the university, as well."
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
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