More of the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism on the Left.
“Anti-Zionist Students in Chicago ‘Honor’ Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader, Members Killed in Gaza,” by Shiri Moshe, Algemeiner, November 26, 2019:
Anti-Zionist students held a “die-in” protest in downtown Chicago last Wednesday to “honor and remember” Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were killed during recent hostilities with Israel, including an Islamic Jihad commander and other operatives who were acknowledged by name.
The rally — organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Chicago, a city-wide network of campus activists — sought to condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza, and “honor and remember the 36 Palestinians that were killed in Gaza last week,” the group said in a social media post on Sunday.
Dozens of people were in attendance as SJP members used a megaphone to broadcast the names of Palestinians who died amid an escalation of violence with Israel, which one speaker described as “a two-day attack on the people of Gaza, killing 36 innocent Palestinians.”
The first name read, according to a video recording shared by SJP Chicago, was of Bahaa Abu al-Atta, a senior Islamic Jihad commander who was killed by a targeted Israeli strike on Nov. 12. His assassination led to an exchange of hostilities that saw more than 450 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza at Israeli communities, and dozens of Israeli attacks on Islamic Jihad targets.
Gaza health officials reported that 16 civilians were among the 34 Palestinian fatalities recorded over two days of fighting, indicating that 18 were affiliated with terrorist organizations. The Israeli military has stated that around 25 of those killed were Islamic Jihad members, and shared photos of some wearing the terrorist group’s uniforms. It also announced an investigation into a strike that killed several members of the same family, including minors.
Nearly 60 Israelis sustained injuries or received treatment for shock linked to rockets attacks from Gaza, which damaged homes, businesses, and public infrastructure.
Yet Islamic Jihad — which is blacklisted by the United States and European Union, and aims to replace Israel with an Islamist Palestinian state — was not acknowledged at the SJP die-in, which repeatedly portrayed the Palestinian casualties in the recent clashes as civilians.
The protesters — whose ranks included members of SJP at DePaul University, Benedictine University Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago — also made a point to chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan that has been used by Hamas and other Palestinian nationalists to call for the establishment of a Palestinian state in place of Israel….
Jake says
What sick individuals. Lord help us if people like this ever get into positions of power.
toomanyhobbies says
Crime ridden, high murderer rate CHICAGO people WAKE UP!!
Jule Bacal says
Gangs saying they take on ISIS identity to really ‘be bad’. These problems in the crowded poverty pockets of society have been ignored too long. Prison for profit is not a solution. Obviously.
Jule Bacal says
There has been something wrong with mainstream people in general for a long time with popularity of horror shows, chainsaw murders, zombies, jokers, death and carnage like its funny entertainment, war games, zapping people off the screen like swatting flies…really….why the sickness? and adoring jihadists like real ‘freedom fighters’ from the bad guys… I don’t get how this happened to so many (my age even) but never to me. I’m not religious, I do not believe in any devil…just the kinkiness of humans throughout the ages-and many times religion made it worse. (not always) Whats the Sadism doing in USA? Where does it come from? (to say Devil is not only a lame excuse but its not taking responsibility for what we are & working on it.)
revereridesagain says
The parents are as bad as their brainwashed kids. If I had one in college who did that s/he would be working to pay the rest of her way through school because I would withdraw every cent I was not legally required to donate to her “education”.
Joe says
This would have been a great place to hand out free copies of Robert’s new book. I wonder if they would read it or injure the person who was trying to educate them.
jca reid says
Pathetic! Like to see them on a University Campus in Islamalamaland &, after reading the Koran, or the hadiths – biographies of Mohammed’s Life, they pass comment on him committing mass murder rape, paedophilia, mendacity etc. Wonder how long they’d live? Of course the Muslims will give them a fair trial before hanging them or, chopping their heads off!
underbed cat says
Chicago area is heavily democratic, some very left leaning, union dominant,and by the heavy number of mosques built, in the suburbs promoting Islam, until it becomes too late to undo, ignorant of the actual verses, that obligates believers in the doctrine in the Quran to convert or slay infidels, defend the deception with fibs of omission, or finance jihad with sakat charitable giving.The face of Islam is not only hidden by the pious veiled woman but by the directions of the Quran that are taught in the mosque,to show a friendly face but maintain a hard heart. It is perfected as having no ties to Islamic jihad, denied are the verses that would shock the public, denied are the seriously dangerous teaching that command young muslim children to memorize the Quran, another word for radicalizing to some, but seriously kept completely out of view. Islam forbids speaking truthfully and must always deny any criticism as slander by repeating peaceful sounding verses omitting verses of warfare. If you speak about it, you are a racist, bigot, deplorable etc. Many of the peaceful sounding verses are taught to be used to be repeated to the non believers and for protection, against exposure of a successful misinformation campaign against exposure of the goal of sedition once the population is large enough,aided by open refugee borders, to resist or resort to terror for the rest of the non- muslim citizens. Conversion by the Sword or deception of tolerance is hand in hand. The deception is so well organized and completely accepted as true, that it has divided the country, which is exactly meeting the goal for conquest. In the information age it is truly strange this has occurred but it is well financed and foreign money detection is washed away. So these protests occurred and the attacks on and in Israel get supported by omission once again and every Friday on the Gaza stripe protests with camera crews got their photos of rock throwing chants, but unseen is the other history and the violence that threatened conquest, in my opinion .
gravenimage says
Chicago: University students honor Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader
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Despicable–ignorance, or something even worse.