Advocate: It’s just a” call for a one-state alternative with equal right for everyone under the law.”
Anti- Israel individuals and their supporters expressed worries about” Islamophobia” at last week’s Princeton Public Schools Board of Education appointment, particularly regarding a student protest coordinated with , Princeton University students.
One scholar claimed students ‘ keffiyehs —” images of Arab history and weight” — had been” confiscated”, and that strike individuals were called “agitators”.
The student also complained about being “filmed without consent” (once they were off school grounds, mind you ), the videos of which were subsequently put on social media and ( allegedly ) led to cyberbullying.
Another scholar alleged she had been called a “terrorist” on “numerous times”, and that when Osama bin Laden “died” one asked her if she “was ok”.
Princeton grad scholar Syed Bahri said , he and another Princetonites had been “approached” about the strike, and thus assisted the Princeton HS members.
Even though protest individuals chanted” From the valley to the lake, Palestine will be free,” Bahri claimed that PHS learners had “merely interacted” with himself and his collegiate contemporaries and that there was no aspect of “hate” associated with the opposition.
Asma Elhuni of American Muslims for Palestine New Jersey told the school board that it’s really just” a call for a one-state alternative with equal right for everyone under the law” despite the word being generally understood as a phone for the destruction of Israel and its citizens.
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The phrase “addresses a very specific geographic location where Jews are people of privilege backed by law, by arms, and have institutional power the way white people hold the power in the [red ] S]tates” is a critical oppression studies mode, according to Elhuni.
The website of American Muslims for Palestine New Jersey has a section titled” The Beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland.”
In fact, the process of forcing Palestinians to flee their homes and move into exile started after the UN divided Palestine in November 1947. From that time, until an armistice was signed on Jan. 1, 1949, Jewish militias and terrorist groups killed 13, 000 Palestinian, forced 750, 000 – more than half the Palestinian population — into exile and permanent refugee status, and depopulated and/or destroyed more than 500 villages. The Nakba continues today as a result of Israeli occupation measures intended to force Palestinians to emigrate to Palestine.
( Just do n’t ask why that armistice was required, or what happened to Jews in the Palestinian-occupied area of the partition, not to mention in the rest of the Muslim world. )
Here’s the executive director of American Muslims for Palestine at George Washington University earlier this year yelling that while the United States and Israel” stand for” imperialism, Palestinians and their allies will “take them back.”
Blind hatred in the U. S. 2024:
Executive Director of’ American Muslims for Palestine ‘ at GWU Encampment:” We Will Take Back America, Just Like We Will Take Back Palestine, You Will Be the Past, We Will Be the Future”. #standuptohatred via: MEMRI pic. twitter.com/yAowXz1TXW— StandWithUs ( @StandWithUs ) May 28, 2024
Walkout activists at Princeton University claimed that they had no idea what to do about spreading Islamophobia by graffitiing their school, “running through the school with drums during AP testing,” and dispensing unapproved flyers with the words” Teacher, what did you do during the Gaza genocide”?
Not to mention, there were no obvious ramifications from the district or school for students quitting exams to march in the walkout. All they had to do to leave campus, it seems, was to sign out —” as per school protocol”. Oh.
The Daily Princetonian, which only recently reported on the board meeting, failed to mention the coordination between Princeton HS and college students, instead zeroing in on the Muslim community’s concerns.
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