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Jewish leaders slam UPenn for hosting anti-Israel activists during High Holidays
Not that the timing particularly matters. But do note the extremely weak rejection of the event by UPenn’s senior management of the event the university they’re in charge of hosting.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostine Writes Literature Festival features lineup including Roger Waters, speakers who have called for Israel’s destruction and compared Jewish state to Nazi Germany.

Jewish groups have slammed the University of Pennsylvania for hosting a festival featuring speakers who have been harshly critical of Israel, drawing accusations of antisemitism, during the Jewish High Holiday period.

The Paleostine Writes Literature Festival will take place on the university campus, starting on September 22 and ending two days later on the eve of Yom Kippur. The event is being sponsored and hosted by UPenn’s Wolf Humanities Center.

The festival says it is "dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Paleostinian writers and artists."

One of its most prominent speakers is Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a well-known pro-Paleostinian activist who has been repeatedly accused of antisemitism.

Commentator Marc Lamont Hill, another participant, was fired by CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
 in 2018 for using the term "from the river to the sea," a call used by the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group to advocate for Israel’s destruction.

Also appearing is Rutgers professor Noura Erakat, who opposes Israel’s existence and has compared Zionism to Nazism; author Randa Abdel-Fattah, who called Israel a "demonic, sick project" and supports its destruction; writer Wisam Rafeedie, who earlier this year praised the 1972 Lod airport massacre, which killed 26 people; and Susan Abulhawa, who has called Israel a "Nazi state" that will "someday be demolished."

Its sponsors include the New York group al-Awda, which calls for Israel’s destruction, has expressed support for terrorists, calls the Jewish state a "genocidal settler-colonial" entity and urges the expulsion of "Zionists" from New York colleges.

UPenn sought to distance itself from the event, saying in a statement that it was "not organized by the university."

"We unequivocally — and emphatically — condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values," said a statement from the univeristy’s president, provost, and dean of the school of arts an sciences.

Waters has been repeatedly accused of antisemitism by Jewish groups and authorities in the US, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Israel.

He has floated an inflatable pig emblazoned with the Star of David at his concerts, berated performers who included the Jewish state in their tours, accused the "Jewish lobby" of holding sway over the music industry, compared Israel to Nazi Germany, and appeared onstage in a costume resembling Nazi attire.

The US State Department in June accused Waters of "Holocaust distortion" and having "a long track record of using antisemitic tropes." The Anti-Defamation League has also said Waters employs antisemitic rhetoric.

Hill, a BDS supporter, has complained that Israel’s Iron Dome defense system hampers Hamas’s "military leverage" over Israel, lauded Paleostinian terrorists, suggested mainstream media outlets are "Zionist organizations," placed sole blame for Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 violence on Israel, and defended his ties to the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Hill’s hiring last month by the City University of New York as it grapples with allegations of widespread antisemitism on its campuses was heavily criticized by Jewish groups and their supporters.

The ADL said in a report last week that anti-Israel activities on US college campuses nearly doubled to 665 incidents in the 2022-2023 school year, including many instances in which Israel was condemned or students who support Israel were harassed.

UPenn is a private ivy league university in Philadelphia with around 23,000 students.
Posted by: trailing wife 2023-09-17
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