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University of Michigan: Pro- “Palestinian” activists violently threaten pro-Israel students

Mar 21, 2014 4:36 pm By Robert Spencer

SAFESitInWe see this again and again: Leftists and Islamic supremacists increasingly imitate Hitler’s Brownshirts, violently menacing anyone who dares stand up against their support for jihad terror, oppression and hatred. It is a tacit admission of abject intellectual bankruptcy, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t potentially lethal.

“Palestinian Activists Violently Threaten Pro-Israel Students,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, March 21:

Pro-Palestinian activists on the University of Michigan campus have had the cops called on them for threatening pro-Israel students and staging a sit-in over the student government’s refusal to back an anti-Israel initiative to divest from the Jewish state.

University of Michigan police were contacted Wednesday evening after two pro-Palestinian activists allegedly threatened a student who refused to support their boycott initiative.

The threatening rhetoric used by these pro-Palestinian activists is part of wider campaign by the University of Michigan’s pro-Palestine group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which is part of the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement (BDS).

The pro-Palestinian faction’s violent rhetoric has sparked an atmosphere of fear among pro-Israel students and led at least one to ask that the police launch an investigation into these threats.

SAFE, which describes itself as “a Palestinian solidarity group at the University of Michigan,” has been staging sit-ins at the university’s student government chambers and elsewhere, according to insiders and the group’s Facebook page.

On Wednesday of this week, SAFE apparently staged one of its sit-ins in the university’s student government chambers. That is when SAFE activists started shouting threats at those who do not support BDS, according to a police report and University of Michigan Police official.

“A student reported that around 6:30 p.m., two males yelled threats at him while they were in the Central Student Government chambers,” states a “threat of violence” police report from that evening. “They are described as Arabic males, approximately 20 years old and wearing white scarves. One reportedly had light brown skin, black hair, and a trimmed beard. The other was described as shorter than the other subject and thinner hair.”

An official with the university police told the Washington Free Beacon that the past week has been rife with tension following “an effort by a pro-Palestinian group” to promote divestment from Israel.

“There have been sit-ins conducted in those chambers by both students and non-students who are supporting a pro-Palestinian perspective,” said the police official.

“This report we took Wednesday evening was a student who was in the chambers and he alleges that two unknown men described in the incident [report] had yelled at him some threats and he left the area.”

While the official could not reveal the name of the individual who was threatened, she told the Free Beacon that these pro-Palestinian activists have been staging these BDS events for several days.

The university student involved in the incident stated on his Facebook page Thursday that police are looking into multiple threats leveled over a 48-hour period this week.

“I am immensely thankful to the University of Michigan’s Department of Public Safety for continuing to investigate all the threats against me over the last forty-eight hours,” the student stated in a posting obtained by the Free Beacon, which is withholding the individual’s name….

Campus insiders said the Michigan incident is just the latest heavy-handed campaign by anti-Israel activists bent on using U.S. college campuses as a means to foment hate for the Jewish state….

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  1. mariam rove says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    Threats and violence is an integral part of Islam. Let’s not forget this. M

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 7:08 pm

      MSA OFF CAMPUS NOW!!!

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    A couple of interesting articles, both WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM, and both indicative of how desperate and deluded the Left are on the question of “Palestine”:

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4095/abbas-bds

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4169/palestinian-authority-human-rights-violations

  3. tpellow says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    Meanwhile, Israel, which deserves the West’s solidarity, is threatened with more military attacks on another front:

    “Syria will join in next Israeli battle with Hezbollah, top officer says.”

    Read more: Syria will join in next Israeli battle with Hezbollah, top officer says | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/army-official-sees-need-to-adapt-to-shifting-northern-front/#ixzz2wdLVNgJl
    Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook

  4. jack says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:03 pm

    all this nonsense, crap, bullshit in the name of pushing a neurotic “faith”. These idiots should be embarrassed.
    “Shiity” or “Sunny ” let us kill each other in the name of Allah (allah). What a bunch of fucking fools. And the big guy Mo himself was honking bobo with a 6 year old. What a guy, bet he had a cool beard

    Islam sux

  5. kilfincelt says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    I wonder if Juan Cole was there to egg them on. In any case the university should consider permanently removing any student or person who threatens violence against another. I question, however, whether those doing the threatening are, in fact, students. Universities, especially ones like Michigan, attract dissidents who just want to stir up trouble. Some of these people will be students but not necessarily all of them. My comment is based on observations I made while a student at the University of Michigan.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 11:59 pm

      Making threats or engaging in actual violence against another student should be cause for expulsion; and the names of such “students” should be circulated to all other educational institutions.

      All visibly pro-Israel students and faculty whether Jewish or Gentile should be prepared to travel in pairs and equipped to *record* – all you need these days is your mobile phone, but a concealed camera of some kind would be better – each and every occasion on which violence is threatened against them and/ or attempted or achieved. Then submit the record to the police when reporting the threats and/ or attempted or actual assault.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Mar 22, 2014 at 12:02 am

        Furthermore, if the “students” engaging in threats and/ or attempting or carrying out attacks are found to be “international” students, foreigners present in the USA (or wherever: this stuff could happen in Canada, Australia, the UK, just as readily), then it should be cause not only for expulsion from the university but cancellation of their student visa and eviction to their country of origin, pronto.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 10:34 pm

    Divest and Boycott
    Clothing made in Muslim countries.
    Shish Kebab restaurants
    cherries from Turkey
    mushrooms from Indonesia
    coffee from Muslim countries

  7. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    How can I invest in Israel? Any mutual funds with that objective? I want to be a proud investor in Israel. Even if it is a small amount.

    • Ayatrollah says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 10:40 pm

      Please let me know

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Mar 21, 2014 at 11:56 pm

        Ayatrollah, here are a couple of investment ideas for you:

        https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/03152E109

        http://www.vaneck.com/funds/ISRA.aspx

        • Ayatrollah says

          Mar 22, 2014 at 12:45 am

          That first one is $$$ and not a good performer. The second looks better. I may look into it for fun. Thanks

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 25, 2014 at 4:05 pm

        Ayatrollah, you might also consider patronizing Israeli companies in the US (or other Western nations).

        Max Brenner Chocolates is one such company, which Robert Spencer has praised in the past.

        When Jihad sympathizers picketed one of their shops in Australia, JW commenter Dumbledore’s Army proudly crossed the picket line and patronized them.

        I always buy Isreali products when I can.

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 11:25 pm

    Fakestinian is not an unreasonable accusation for this new ethnicity that never existed until 1947. Arabs have mostly thought of the West Bank as ‘Lower Syria’. The Ottoman Empire used several administrative units to carve it up. Britain’s ‘Palestine Mandate’ included all of Jordan. Palestine is Jordan.

    Nevertheless, threatening Jews and others who support a Jewish homeland is not part of free speech.

  9. Paleologos says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    Two year old article, but on point and a disturbing trend …

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/most-and-least-muslim-states_n_1626144.html

    R/

    Paleologos

  10. EYESOPEN says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    Gee, that didn’t take long, did it, for representatives of the so-called “religion of peace” to start threatening people who refused to boycott Israel? And on an American campus. Yep, things are indeed beginning to heat up here. ALL Americans should take note and get their heads out of their posteriors – especially the likes of Karen Armstrong and the Saudi whore, John Esposito.

  11. Salah says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 1:10 am

    “Leftists and Islamic supremacists increasingly imitate Hitler’s Brownshirts”

    That’s because we have a Hitler in the White House. We all know it and we’re doing nothing about it. We deserve what we get.

    That’s how we should react:
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  12. Lyma says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Its disgusting that America is so afraid of muslims. They commit atrocities and next thing the government will come to say Islam is a religion of peace. Is America so ignorant about Islam or just cowardly. I greet France who don’t take their rubbish.

  13. Lyma says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 8:06 am

    Thats right. Or better still, students or non students, don’t even give them visa at all, let them go to Saudi or Iraq etc. Prevention is better than cure. For God’s sake when will America learn?

  14. richard Sherman says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 8:39 am

    Typical Muslims. They all revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS in 627. Sociopaths emulating a sociopath.

  15. Truth says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 9:31 am

    The evil Muslims know they can attack people on college campuses because it’s illegal to have a gun on campus. If they attack people off campus, they might be shot by someone defending themselves.

  16. U of M Mom says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 10:38 am

    They know that U of M would never divest. U of M couldn’t afford to do it. 50%+ of their endowments comes from Jews. But, they’ll keep trying. And..lest we forget, it’s U of M Dearborn that has footbaths. Anyone want to join me on a doggie walk and when the paws are dirty, footbaths will be available. 🙂

    • Bill C. says

      Mar 24, 2014 at 1:48 am

      Mom, great idea!

      But, do NOT forget the earlier comment about taking cellphones with cameras at the ready.

      And perhaps, since you’re obviously a woman, make sure your walking buddies are men and the dogs are well-trained to be protective.

  17. RodSerling says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 12:32 am

    “There have been sit-ins conducted in those chambers by both students and non-students who are supporting a pro-Palestinian perspective”–from the article.

    These supremacist genocidal a-holes and their useful idiots have been allowed to cause disruptions at universities throughout the West for decades.

  18. ralph3796 says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    Just send the SORRY, Sorry, sorry Idiot Muslims’ off to their Allah and those 72 virgins.

  19. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    University of Michigan: Pro- “Palestinian” activists violently threaten pro-Israel students
    ……………………………..

    These Muslim thugs aren’t “activists”…

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