SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Zionist Organization of America, on Wednesday, March 26, wrote to San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong urging him to investigate a recent event held by SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi where she and others glorified and condoned terrorism to SFSU students. AMCHA Initiative coordinated the letter after obtaining an audiotape of the March 6 event. According to eye-witness accounts, Jewish students were in tears following the meeting.
Incitement and intimidation on campus is unacceptable. Follow the link to read more about Professor Abdulhadi event at SFSU.
Today the campus activists on ZOA’s #IsraelMission met David Wilder, a Hevron Community leader.
His response on Hevron being an “apartheid city”: #Jews only have access to 3% of the city, whereas #Palestinians have access to the entire city and all of the infrastructure that offers. So yes there is an apartheid, but it’s not against the city’s Palestinian population.
ADL doesn'€™t acknowledge others™ work on Northeastern University anti-Semitism, groups say
Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA Center for Law and Justice, explained that ZOA “prepared a letter back in July detailing all of the problems that Jewish students were suffering” at Northeastern. The letter noted that international affairs professors Denis Sullivan and Berna Turam as well as economics professor M. Shaid Alam promoted an anti-Israeli agenda and mocked Jewish students for their views. ADL followed up by sending Northeastern President Joseph Aoun its own letter, which Tuchman said repeatedly referenced ZOA’s initial letter.
“ADL never sent us a copy of [their] letter, never reached out to us to work together on the issue,” Tuchman told JNS.org.“We would be much more effective if we were working collaboratively,” she said.
Tuchman added that ADL also did not mention the work of ZOA and APT on Northeastern anti-Semitism in a recent letter by ADL New England Region Board Chair Jeffrey Robbins to his board.
“No mention of the fact that ZOA contributed to that effort, no mention of the fact that [Northeastern] Hillel contributed to that effort, no mention of the fact that [APT President] Charles Jacobs contributed to that effort,” Tuchman said.
The 12-page report from the ZOA cataloged a litany of student horror stories, including intimidation, class harassment and teachers indoctrinating an alternative reality version of Middle East and Israeli history. The report focused on Professor of International Affairs Denis Sullivan, now Co-Director of Northeastern’s Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, who did not respond to The Algemeiner’s requests for comment.
In a statement issued to The Algemeiner, Northeastern University said: “If any member of our community feels marginalized for any reason, the university has a range of offices and avenues where grievances can be heard and resolved. This includes a dedicated Office of Diversity and Inclusion, our extensive student affairs operation, and the university ombudsman.”
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Susan B. Tuchman, the human rights lawyer who heads the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice and prepared the report based on extensive student interviews, said the school’s statement was “just another slap to students and their concerns.”
“The Northeastern University statement says that students should complain if anyone ‘feels marginalized for any reason.’ But as the ZOA letter points out, Jewish students repeatedly complained. Their complaints were ignored, or the hostility they were subjected to was justified,” Tuchman told The Algemeiner.
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