Pro-Israel Students at U. Michigan Called Kike, Dirty Jew
When did hateful, disgusting antisemitism become acceptable on college campuses? Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon provides the shocking report below.
Pro-Israel Students Called ‘Kike,’ ‘Dirty Jew’ at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan would not explain how it is responding to death threats and racial epithets that were reportedly issued by pro-Palestinian activists at students who oppose a resolution to divest from Israel.
University of Michigan police were first contacted last week after two pro-Palestinian activists shouted “threats of violence” at a student who refused to support their boycott initiative during a “sit-in” at the student government’s headquarters.
The Washington Free Beacon has further learned that the pro-Israel student received death threats and that others have allegedly been called “kikes” and “dirty Jews” by backers of the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to delegitimize the Jewish state through economic means.
The atmosphere of intimidation and violence could leave the University of Michigan vulnerable to legal action and political retribution on a national scale, according to multiple sources in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere who are monitoring the situation.
Kenneth Marcus, a former staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told the Free Beacon that he has contacted high-level university officials to discuss the situation but that these calls have yet to be returned.
In addition to the death threats made against one pro-Israel student, Marcus has been informed that other “students have been called ‘kike’ and ‘dirty Jew’ and other epithets.”
Pro-Israel Students Called ‘Kike,’ ‘Dirty Jew’ at University of Michigan (The Washington Free Beacon)
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The apostle Paul wrote in Galatians, concerning those who argued that Gentiles must first become Jews before accepting Christ, “they would affect you, but not well. They would exclude you that you might affect them.” He could have been speaking of the Arab Muslims populating many American universities and ramping up what anti-Semitism there is to an hysterical fever pitch. They are affecting us, and not well. We are too politically correct to affect them and to demand they cease their endless Jew-hatred. So, now we have that ancient beast rearing its head again. If we do not stop it in its tracks, it will not end well.
When in the late 1970s I attended The University of Michigan I recall that there was a sizable proportion of Jewish students and faculty. If that is still the case, I hope they reply vociferously to these attacks. For all of the “diversity” proclaimed by UM there persists poisonous, polarized, and intolerant sectors of this university that, I believe, diminishes its stature.