Israel lobby wants to brand antiwar students as “terrorists” | The Electronic Intifada

Israel lobby wants to brand antiwar students as “terrorists” | The Electronic Intifada

Fueled by demands from Israel lobby groups, US students who are organizing against Israel’s genocidal attacks are facing accelerated repression by their own university administrations.

These McCarthyite efforts are being encouraged by the Biden administration.

But students and civil rights groups are fighting back…

A coalition of civil rights organizations have urged more than 650 US universities “to protect your students from the ongoing campaign to harass, defame, and silence supporters of Palestinian human rights.”

Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights also demanded that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights address rising Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian attacks….

Brandeis University, meanwhile, revoked its recognition of its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter this week after students planned to hold a candlelight vigil for the ten thousand Palestinians killed in Israel’s month-long attacks.

Using a racist trope that equates support for Palestinians rights to a call for the death of Jews, the university falsely and libelously claimed that National SJP “has called on its chapters to engage in conduct that supports Hamas in its call for the violent elimination of Israel and the Jewish people….”