Anti-Semitism is increasingly violent, open and unapologetic worldwide. It is not clear from this report whether these Students for Justice in Palestine members were Muslims or useful idiot Leftists, but in any case, their support for jihad terror against Israel is leading them to emulate their heroes in committing acts of violence against Jews.
This kind of attack is becoming increasingly common on university campuses, which are little more than centers for Leftist indoctrination these days, presided over by administrators whose ideological affinity for the thugs hinders their ability to do much of anything effective to stop them.
“Temple Univ. Jewish Student Punched In Face And Called ‘Kike’ In Anti-Semitic Attack,” by Daniel Mael, Truth Revolt, August 20, 2014:
A Jewish student on the campus of Temple University was assaulted on Wednesday afternoon and called “kike” and “baby killer” by members of the anti-Semitic student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Daniel Vessal, a Camera on Campus fellow and a member of the Jewish fraternity AEPi, was punched in the face by a violent member of the anti-Israel organization SJP at “Templefest” which is organized for students on campus to gain new information about campus clubs a week before the start of classes. Vessal is a managing information systems major at the Fox School of Business at the university.
“I’m walking down Polett Walk, one of the main walkways through Temple University and I see the SJP table,” Vessal told TruthRevolt from a local area hospital. “I go up to them and I really just wanted to see what angle they were coming from. I went up to the table and started talking to them. I said, ‘listen, you shouldn’t be protesting Israel- if anything protest the terrorists.’”
“At that point I walked away and after a little back and forth,” Vessal explained. “I came back to the table after a little while and explained that the Palestinians have a right to a state just like anyone else but that SJP should come at the right people. I said, ‘when Hamas stops sending the rockets, that’s when there can be peace. That’s when we can start.’”
“This one girl sitting at the end of the table was just laughing and laughing at me,” he explained “As she was laughing at me, people at the table were calling me a ‘baby killer,’ I said when she stops then maybe we could have a genuinely peaceful conversation.”
“And then this kid just rocks me in the face as hard as he can. My glasses flew off. After a two-second blur I had no clue what had happened. I couldn’t believe the kid actually hit me,” said Vessal who added that he needs to obtain a new pair of glasses due to the extensive damage.
Vessal told Truth Revolt that the student who punched him was one of four or five individuals at the table.
“When the police came over and were filing the report the kids at the table were screaming ‘You Zionist pig, you racist, that’s what you get,’” Vessal explained. “If anything, I thought they would be apologetic for someone in their organization doing something like that.”
Vessal told TruthRevolt that the campus police took the assailant and sent him home but did not detain him, which confused the victim.
“I don’t understand why after physical assault he just got sent home. This was not anti-Israel at all, it was completely anti-Semitic.”
Vessal proceeded quickly to the head of student activities on campus who immediately stated that SJP’s table needed to be shut down. The campus police disagreed and said they wouldn’t shut down the table only because they already sent the kid home according to Vessal. He said, “They should have shut down the table, especially when they are laughing and calling me a Zionist pig.”
A short time later, after experiencing a headache and neck stiffness, Vessal sought medical attention at the Temple University Hospital. He spoke to TruthRevolt just prior to undergoing a medical evaluation.
A copy of the medical evaluation provided exclusively to Truth Revolt listed mandibular pain, cervical sprain, and closed head injury.
Josh Josephs and Alex Winokur witnessed the assault and confirm Vessal’s account and added that they heard members of Students for Justice in Palestine call Vessal a “kike” while he lay on the ground.
“Daniel went up to talk to them and have an educated conversation, and try to rationalize their opinions,“ explained Josephs. “Alex and I, being not as educated on this topic, stood to the side and let them converse. The ‘conversation’ shortly escalated to the Palestine group being very arrogant and irrational. The people behind the table started attacking Daniel calling him a “Zionist, racist, baby killer.” Daniel asked the people behind if they could keep the name calling out of it, and just try to have a calm talk about their opinions.”
“Out of nowhere, a member of the group strikes Daniel, straight in the jaw with a closed fist. This led to Daniel going straight to the ground, losing his glasses and in immediate pain.”
“While on the ground, the members in this group were just pointing at Daniel and were laughing at him,” Josephs told TruthRevolt. “In addition, names including kike, stupid Jew, and Zionist, were used by the members in reference to Daniel.”
“This was unacceptable, uncalled for, and a clear act of Anti-Semitism. The organization ‘Students for Justice in Palestin’ at Temple is a disgrace to this University, clearly shown by acts like this,” Josephs and Winokur told TruthRevolt in a joint statement. “Temple University should be embarrassed to allow this type of behavior to happen right on campus, especially at a big event like this.”
“The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the university President to condemn this violent anti-Semitic act,” Aron Hier Director of Campus Outreach for the Simon Wisenthal Center told TruthRevolt.. He also insisted that the university “launch a full investigation into the alleged SJP member and his parent organization.”
Aviva Slomich, Director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) Campus Department told TruthRevolt that “this type of physical harassment and intimidation coming from members of Students for Justice in Palestine is becoming more and more common across US campuses and it should not be tolerated.”
“Those who participate in such violent, criminal activity should be immediately held accountable for their actions. We expect Temple University to address this outrageous behavior and stand up for and protect the civil rights of their students,” she concluded.
In the aftermath of the incident Vessal pulled the blinds on the Israeli flag in his window, no longer feeling safe. “I do not feel that it’s OK for someone to physically assault me on campus.”
Vessal is in the process of assembling a legal team to pursue legal action and has a meeting scheduled for Thursday with a campus detective. He said, “Before this I just thought Students for Justice in Palestine was crazy but I didn’t know it would lead to violence.”
In May of 2014, Temple University spokesman Brandon Lausch told the Washington Free Beacon that Temple University welcomed the controversial views on campus of Adjunct Temple University Professor Alessio Lerro, who, on a secret listserv, accused “Jewish scholars” of having “humungous influence” over the entirety of academia and stated, “It is time that Zionists are asked to finally account for their support to the illegal occupation of Palestine since 1967.”
Repeated phone calls to Temple University and an email to a campus spokesperson went unanswered.
What a surprise.
gravenimage says
Temple U: Students for Justice in Palestine members punch Jewish student in face, call him “kike”
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And that fact that this Jewish student was so liberal and conciliatory and believes in the “two-state solution” means nothing—he was still a “kike” to be physically assaulted to daring to suggest that Muslims should stop unilaterally attacking Jews.
My first boyfriend’s mother attended Temple as a college student—at least at the time, Temple had a large Jewish student body.
Not that that would save them from this savagery now.
Huck Folder says
Some background on the perps and their supporters:
http://www.templesjp.i8.com/about.html
Affiliations: Palestine Solidarity Movement, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.
“Q: Does SJP support terrorism?
A: SJP does not support or endorse terrorism. We only endorse & employ peaceful, non-violent tactics to bring to an end the violence and organized terror inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government, as it is being funded by US tax money.”
Hmmm. Well that’s OK then. And would it be OK if the US wasn’t funding “the violence and organized terror”? No? I thought not. Dipshits!
Here’s someone to contact, albeit an islamophile, and almost certainly an antisemite. How can he NOT be as a mohammedan? It’s in the koran!
Faculty/Staff Advisor [to SJP] Khalid Blankinship
E-mail: kblankin@temple.edu
Faculty/Staff Advisor Department: Religion
Faculty/Staff Advisor Phone: 215-204-5543
http://temple-news.com/news/groups-butt-heads-over-middle-east-crisis/
“Groups butt heads over Middle East crisis by Andrea Hanratty 27 January 2009”
“Dr. Khalid Blankinship, director of graduate studies for the religion department and ISLAMIC history specialist, said civility will best help the situation between the student organizations.” [Yeah!]
“These groups can’t do much, but it would be very helpful if they could begin to be civil to each other,” he said. “The Muslims, because they have been on the defensive in the United States, are probably more open to that because you do not find Muslim organizations going out of their way to berate the Jews or Israel.” [A list of Jew-haters would fill several pages.]
Pull the other one Khalid, it’s got bells on it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Yahya_Blankinship
“He [KB] was an advisor for the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002), produced by Unity Productions Foundation.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad:_Legacy_of_a_Prophet
“Funding for Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation [SHAME!], Arabian Bulk Trade, Sabadia Family Foundation, Irfan Kathwari Foundation, El-Hibri Foundation, Qureishi Family Trust, and many individual contributors.”
“Among the people in the film, the following are included:
Karen Armstrong – Former nun, author on Abrahamic religions and 2008 TED Prize winner”
“Daisy Khan – Executive director of ASMA Society and wife of Feisal Abdul Rauf”
“Jameel Johnson – Muslim and Chief of Staff for Congressman Gregory Meeks”
[Another dhimmicrat sock-puppet for mo.]
“Anwar al-Awlaki – Scholar, former Chaplain at George Washington University, former Imam in California and Washington D.C.”
The SJP and KB are in good company, eh? Here’s everything you didn’t want to know about that last ex-scumbag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Back to the ‘peaceful’ practitioners of the “Religion of Peace™”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Justice_in_Palestine
“As of 2010 SJP had more than 80 chapters at American universities. Some SJP chapters in the US have adopted the name Palestine Solidarity Committee or Students for Palestinian Equal Rights.
In Canada, some SJP chapters have adopted the name Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).
“The University of California, Berkeley chapter of SJP, formed in 2001, chose the memorial of the Deir Yassin massacre to occupy a campus building and disrupt a midterm exam in progress for over 600 students as part of a protest against their university’s investments in Israel.
The occupation was broken up by police after warning the students of trespassing. Seventy-nine protesters were arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest. [ONLY] One protester was jailed, on a charge of felony battery after he bit a police officer.
Following the arrests, SJP was banned from operating at UC Berkeley, prompting an SJP protest of two hundred demonstrators a month later.
University Chancellor Berdahl said, “It is important to understand that this is neither an issue of free speech, nor of the right to hold demonstrations on campus. The issue is the occupation of an academic building, interfering with the rights of other students to continue their education.””
“In March 2014 the Center for Student Involvement at Northeastern University suspended the SJP from campus for one year after an incident that the Center described as “intimidation” of fellow students.””
Those guys have form. I hope the victim uses some of those facts.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the additional information, Huck.
RonaldB says
This is a chilling report, showing unambiguously that fascism is taking over Temple University. I don’t mean that they tolerate Anti-Semitism. I agree the police should not be taking actions based on the content of the message, as long as it is not an immediate incitement to violence. What is chilling is that the police, and the administration, turn a blind eye to a physical assault on campus.
The fascist states of Europe began through violent street fighting and the violent suppression of the opposition by the fascists in Italy and Germany. Our own university administrations are eagerly allowing the fascist takeover of our institutions. Of course, the Jewish students, and the Christians, and all anti-Muslims should organize themselves for self-defense. That is properly a state function, but when the state refuses to meet its responsibility, it falls to groups to protect themselves, and we are all the poorer for it.
The age of Enlightenment, the impetus for advancement in science, technology, government, and human liberties, came about because of the notion that individuals deserved protection not because of who they belonged to, but because they were citizens. Individual thinkers became able to express new ideas, and ideas that were good enough, took hold because of rational considerations, and not because of who had the biggest army. The countries most associated with enforced ways of thinking, like Catholic Spain, or any of the Muslim countries, fell behind.
We’re entering a new Dark Age, where ideas are tolerated based on their popular acceptance, and the concept of individual liberties and rights are ignored by University administrators, who ought to lay claim to benefits of education, but instead show themselves to be a pack of sniveling, cowardly bureaucrats with a PhD on the wall.
Kepha says
Mr. Vessal, this is assault and battery. Just go to the municipal police and file a complaint. Let the University know that this isn’t just a “boys will be boys” prank gone slightly wrong.
And call it a hate crime–even though Uncle Kepha can’t, for the life of him, figure out what a “love crime” or “simple respect crime” is.
RonaldB says
“Uncle Kepha”
I agree with half your advice. The victim needs to bypass the PC-infested school administration and file a criminal charge.
I violently (figuratively speaking, of course) disagree with reporting it as a hate crime. Although it may serve to move the priority up a notch, and may even result in a stiffer penalty, the alternative is that the police decide it is not a hate crime, and then forget about it. In other words, distinguishing between a hate crime and a simple crime automatically injects a political element into what should be a simple case of criminal action and justice.
Do we really want a justice system that is tolerant of criminal assaults that are not politically or racially motivated? If the penalty for assault is not severe enough to discourage assault, the penalty for the crime itself ought to be increased. And if the penalty for uncomplex assault if severe enough to provide a real punishment, it should not be ramped up because of the “motivation” involved.
It’s all the same to the damaged victim.
Kepha says
Do we really want a justice system that is tolerant of criminal assaults that are not politically or racially motivated? If the penalty for assault is not severe enough to discourage assault, the penalty for the crime itself ought to be increased.
Good point, Friend RonaldB.
I also hate the whole idea of a “hate crime”–I can’t see how loving your neighbor or even showing him simple, common respect could result in your robbing, assaulting, or murdering him. However, if enough “hate crime” charges pile up against clients of the Left, you’ll probably start seeing the bastions of liberal jurisprudence suddenly waking up to recognize that a crime is a crime is a crime.
I wonder if Mr. Vessal shouldn’t also publicly charge the school administration with anti-Semitism for its cavalier treatment of an evident case of assault and battery against him. I also agree with John Spielman that SJP should also be named in a lawsuit.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
and SUE SJP for encouraging and allowing this assault by one of its members. Perhaps they can be bankrupted out of existance!
Max Publius says
Better start calling it Mosque U.
Have these mostly non-Muslim “students” ever asked themselves why they would be murdered if they ever stepped foot in Mecca?
Wtf? says
Temple U?
Where is the name derived from? What would the forefathers of this college think? Temples were usually the domain of Jerusalem and quite obviously Jewish in nature. Hang your head in shame Twmple U. I am not Jewish but I implore the sons and daughters of Zion to not give up against this last Islamic grasp at relevancy, the religion(sic) is doomed as more and more adherents are ashamed of the antics of these backward people. In my day the lefties were peace loving dope smoking happy people. Bring them back please!
Jax Tolmen says
Isn’t it funny how this attracts almost no mainstream media attention? Well – to the learned among us, this is just part of their attempts to obfuscate the truth and contort their selective reporting to portray Muslim’s as “victims”. I guarantee that if this situation had been reversed – there would be international uproar.
This is why I don’t like journalists. The idea of ‘journalistic integrity’ is an oxymoron in its most extreme. Good on Robert for advocating for the victim in this case – and sharing his story with the world. Someone needs to stand up for the real victims.
gravenimage says
Jax Tolmen wrote:
The idea of ‘journalistic integrity’ is an oxymoron in its most extreme.
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No it isn’t, Jax—it’s just practiced by all too few journalists today. But this *does not* mean that it is a bogus concept.
Davegreybeard says
@Wtf?
“In my day the lefties were peace loving dope smoking happy people. Bring them back please!”
That really depended on who you were, “back in your day.”
If you were a young soldier, returning from combat in Viet Nam, you were jeered, vilified and spit upon.
Those “loving dope smoking happy people” were always intolerant little wanabe tyrants, if you disagreed with them.
And now those same intolerant little tyrants have grown up, and are in charge. And they are in the process of destroying our country.
Make no mistake; the destruction of our country was always their aim, even though they may have seemed harmless “in your day.”
Kepha says
Davegreybeard, I’m with you on this. Even though I am not a veteran, I saw how badly Viet Nam vets were treated. Also, when I was an undergrad back in the Sillier ‘Seventies, I recalled how even suggesting that Mao Zedong was an imperialist in Tibet or East Turkistan or criticizing some domestic Leftist icon could get you assaulted by one of those “peace-loving happy people”.
As far as I’m concerned, the Left has always been full of humorless, destructive, potentially and actually violent creeps.
gravenimage says
All very true, Dave. While some opponents of the war really were peaceful “loving dope smoking happy people”—which still doesn’t mean that they were right—many more were quite violent themselves, including members of the SDS, Weathermen, and Black Panthers.
The Levite says
Look at the video from a mosque in NY from just a week ago, listen and look at the venom that is allowed to go on………….Whilst our governments continue to allow this to grow and allow hatred to immigrate and populate we will never have peace….
K says
The student who struck Vessal was Mid-Eastern or Pakistani. Vessal refers to him as “the kid.” Words like kid, youth, boy are typically weasel words used to denote criminals of a minority origin because they convey the impression that the criminal is not to blame for his actions. The trend is so prevalent that it’s become unconscious.
duh_swami says
How old is this kid? Jews and others need to learn that if you are going to confront the mob, or a single mobster, a physical attack is always possible because some of them like the ‘kid’ are always on the edge of violence. So don’t take a knife to a gunfight. How did this kid get close enough to strike? Was he sitting down and jumped up(that would be a warning), or was he already standing up? Never let a hostile get close enough to hit you, if you can help it. In today’s climate of sudden violence, it is wise, if you are in dangerous territory, to carry a legal personal self defense hand weapon…I carry ‘kubaton’, also known as yawara stick. Anyone interested in that, can google kubaton and how to use them for self protection.
Sarah L Nield says
Just to let you know, I am not a Jew but I am with Israel every inch of the way and have e-mailed the SJP informing them they should get out of the halls of academia and see a bit of real life.
I have also sent them a picture of the Israel flag and told them it’s thanks to them I am buying a product of Israel product this day. And there is nothing they can do about it. Call me a baby killer? I bet they support abortion (a woman’s right to choose) and a lot of other left-wing tropes their Muslim masters would remove from them if given the chance.
You must let young Vessal know from me that he is supported against these fascist bully boys in ways he does not understand and you don’t have to be a Jew to see anti-Semitism. I am just one. Sometimes it takes just one.
All it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing!
The Levite says
Well done Sarah, you are a brave person in a world of bigotry and violence…..
BC says
Is that the same Temple University that teaches Creationism and abhors
Evolution? One of their ‘professors’ appears on programmes about UFOs and alien abductions, in support I must add. I am surprised anybody takes them or their graduates seriously, but it is America after all is said and done.
Doc says
Our Muslim president has done a good job of destroying peace where he found it. None of this was going on until he showed up with his disdain for America Israel and above all Christ . Where is the voice we are supposed to have in congress ? This doesn’t stop until he’s stopped .
black dude says
I am totally against Islam. I hope it gets eradicated from the planet. Yet still, I must be honest and say that this website Jihad Watch and especially the comments section are becoming a little too much as the heinous, fanatic and blind ideology Jihad watch purports to expose and fight. Everything Jewish and connected to Israel is good and can never be in error. Everything President Obama says and does is ridiculed, degraded, and regarded as anti-American…. etc. Jihad Watch and it’s readers are becoming more and more infantile, brainwashed fanatics and hate-mongers…. just like many of the followers of the barbaric religion called Islam. For example, the Jewish guy Daniel went to the table to “school” and provoke them twice….. and got punched in the face. Just reading the article and the things he is saying in the article explains what kind of wise-ass “I know it all” haughty kinda of guy….. the guy is full of superiority complex. I don’t believe in violence. But I don’t feel sorry for this guy. Last but not least, Jews crying anti-Semitism all the time is pathetic. Islam is evil. But just because we hate Islam doesn’t mean we must blind ourselves and hate our consciousness. Let’s call a spade for what it is, lest we fall in the same satanic ditch as the Muslims.
gravenimage says
Good God—this (supposed) Anti-Jihadist thinks that it is perfectly acceptable for supporters of savagery to punch peaceful people in the face if they come across as ‘know it alls’.
It seems that he fits right in with violent Muslims.
No wonder he believes that those *opposing* Muslim barbarism are “fanatics” and “hate-mongers”. *Ugh*.
gravenimage says
In fact, I think the chances that “black dude” is “totally against Islam” are, frankly, slim to none.
Jay Boo says
DON’T FEED THE WILD BEARS
Many universities located near large cities are infested with low income thugs who receive generous grants from the federal government to attend below college level pre-full admission workshops posing as credit courses toward a degree.
Some of these academically under achievers merely scam the system as long as they can and use their experience at the colleges and universities to prey on unsuspecting students and faculty both on campus and nearby neighborhoods committing robberies, rapes and murder.
University administrators meanwhile ever hopeful to grovel for PC points fail to make the connection.
Tell me that I am wrong.
joeblough says
I think my tolerance and “give ’em the benefit of the doubt” attitude toward mohammedans just evaporated.
bill morgenstein says
My fellow AEpi fraternity brothers must learn to fight back! Although I guarantee that if a Muslim were punched he or she would be suspended from the university immediately and probably prosecuted for assault and Islamophobia (a phony word invented by that scum organization: CAIR)
Dennis Trisker says
Jewish people please see what s happenning to you! Will you wait until many of you are killed!