No proof that a policeman hijab was pulled off, according to Temple Police.
Following Temple University’s suspension of its Kids for Justice book in Palestine last month, the neighborhood Council on American-Islamic Relations is accusing police of removing an blogger’s dress.
According to , The Temple News, the momentary suspension of SJP includes” all businesses related” to the party “including meetings, activities, gatherings and humanitarian situations”.
The Philadelphia DA’s Office dropped the charges against the four SJP people who were detained for disrupting the College of Engineering occasion, but the Temple Department of Public Safety promised to give the Office more information.
A Temple spokesman said that “failing to adhere to school policies and these instructions has consequences for undergraduate organizations as well as personal students.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, calls the Temple SJP expulsion” an additional case of an “increasingly angry strategy to reduce any criticism of Israel and criminalize Muslim students,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. “
Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, the executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia, criticized Temple for claiming it is “open to talking,” and said it is “always bad” to dismiss student groups for engagement.
CAIR claimed authorities took off new Temple grad Johara Shamaa’s dress for her brush killed, and consequently” denied her right to wear the mind scarf while she was being detained.”
CAIR Legal Director Adam Attia called the circumstance a” degrading violation “and” major defilement.”
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In a speech, Shamaa said officers left her” feeling deeply exposed” and that her” personality and ideas have been violated.”
” Yet,” Shamaa continued”, I recognize and understand that any problems, suffering, shame that I went through and the various protesters went with is nothing in comparison to what our brothers, our families and loved ones in Gaza and all of Palestine are facing.”
CAIR also alleged police had” shoved “and” grabbed “activists during a scuffle.
( Attia mentioned the Philadelphia PD in his statement, but CAIR at large demanded a” complete investigation” into both the Philadelphia PD and the Temple PD and said it would” consider all legal options. )
In response to these and other allegations, Temple Public Safety noted in a statement , that:
— There is no proof that the police removed a hijab. Instead, the person was helped by TUPD and a coworker when the hijab slipped out of her hair.
— There is no evidence that protestors were’ brutalized,’ or ‘ placed in a chokehold’.
No evidence that a demonstrator was pushed down the stairs is presented.
No evidence exists that anyone’s top was pulled off to reveal their chest.
— There is no evidence that anyone was groped.
Pennsylvania State Representative Chris Rabb, who according to his X bio is a” rabble rouser” and uses” he/him “pronouns,  , spoke out in favor of the Temple SJP protesters.
” I do not like the politics of its administration,” Rabb said”. I do not like the fact that they’re using resources that are subsidized by Pennsylvanians to surveil, to intimidate, to harass, to brutalize, to suspend, to retaliate against people who are expressing their views.”
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