Palestinian vandals target Jewish students in the UK

Palestinian vandals target Jewish students in the UK


(JPost) Anti-Israel activists defaced the Union of Jewish Students stall
at the National Union of Students annual conference in sheffield, England
this week, covering the group's Star of David logo with boycott Israel
stickers.

UJS staff discovered the vandalism on Tuesday - alleged to have originated
from the group Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Anti-Israel graffiti marred
the Jewish group's stall, posters and banners.

In a statement, UJS said it was "appalled" and labeled the incident as
"anti-Semitic. The conference should be "a safe place for all students," a
UJS spokesman said, and "the singling out of Jewish students and the direct
attack on Jewish religious symbols is anti-Semitism." The group, which
represents over 8,000 Jewish students across the UK, called for
organizational intervention to ensure the incident was "swiftly" and
"appropriately" tackled.

"UJS has already gained much support for and continues to call for further
support in ensuring that there is no place for hate in NUS or against Jewish
students," the spokesman added.

At the conference on Wednesday - held in Sheffield and attended by over
1,000 studnts from across the UK - the newly re-elected National Union of
Students president Liam Burns condemned the vandalism and promised a full
investigation.

"NUS does not tolerate racism, fascism or anti-Semitism in any of its
forms. Anti-Semitism is vile. It is hate and has no place in our movement,"
Burns said.

"We will work day and night to drive hate out of our student movement,
education system and society. We have of course launched a full
investigation into this incident and will do all we can today to get to the
bottom of it," he said.
The vandals from the radical Palestine Solidarity Campaign realized they
have to do some serious damage control:

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a radical group that advocates a
one-state solution and avidly supports the boycott and sanctions campaign
against Israel, issued a statement on its website condemning the incident.

"As soon as the PSC was made aware of this unacceptable use of its
stickers, the PSC immediately removed the stickers from its stall," the
group said. "PSC condemns the defacing of the UJS stall. The PSC opposes all
forms of racism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia."
But, of course, it's nothing more than just another case of taqqiya and must
be called for what it really is.

Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who spoke at the conference earlier
that day, commented on the vandalism.

"The deliberate defacing of the Star of David, a sacred symbol of Judaism
and of the State of Israel, was an indication of the increasingly blurred
line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism," Sacks said.

"It is part of a long, slow, insidious process intended to undermine
academic freedom and it must not be tolerated," Sacks added.

Raheem Kassam, director of Student Rights, a group tackling extremism on
campuses, said it was completely unacceptable that anti-Semitic activists
targeted Jewish students through disrespecting property rights.

"No student, no matter what their background or religion, should have to
tolerate intimidation and the defacing of private property like this, it
speaks volumes about the academic rigor of the culprit's arguments," Kassam
said.

sutartsorric wrote:
On Apr 30, 11:04 am, " Bullwinkle" <.BDTJ@loa..mo> wrote:
Palestinian vandals target Jewish students in the UK

What proof do you have that these people were both vandals and/or
Palestinians?

I guess no proof that they were palestinians, but they show the same brave
traits:
http://www.studentrights.org.uk/article/1909/anti_semitism_at_nus_conference