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UNC braces as anti-Israel group dubbed 'voice for Hamas' condones 'armed rebellion': 'By any means necessary'
[FoxNews] University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill may see more anti-Israel protests in new school yearAnti-Israel agitators at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are vowing resistance "by any means necessary" as the 2024-2025 school year officially begins on Aug. 18. An unofficial anti-Israel student group called UNC Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), representing Chapel Hill, posted a commitment to "resist by any means necessary" and said it condones "all forms of principled action" in a July 31 Instagram post. The group, which has received funding from Hamas-linked groups, according to research from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, is responding to the arrest of some 40 agitators on campus in May, when they set up an encampment on the school's quad to protest the Israel-Gaza war. "We will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated," SJP wrote in an Instagram post on their account with more than 14,000 followers. "A group of the defendants has released these points of unity to express their commitment to collective defense, fighting as a unified bloc for ALL their charges to be dropped while not losing sight of the ultimate goal of Palestinian liberation." Irina Tsukerman, fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Arabian Peninsula Institute and also president of Scarab Rising, Inc., a security and geopolitical risk strategic advisory firm, told Fox News Digital that SJP is a national organization with local chapters, and while some of the group's followers may be on college campuses, they also have supporters who are not college students and some who are not even U.S. citizens. "They do an outstanding job of portraying themselves as voices for Palestinians, whereas they are actually voices for Hamas," Tsukerman said. "I think many people follow without really knowing them or their agenda. … Also, the people who follow SJP get sucked into believing it's an actual human-rights effort … it's people who are born activists, and not all of these people are even U.S. citizens." Related: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 2024-05-02 Frat boys who saved Old Glory from advancing pro-Palestine mob are lauded as 'true patriots' and 'heroes' - as campuses across America descend into warzones between demonstrators and cops University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 2018-08-21 Protesters topple Confederate monument on UNC campus University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 2017-02-18 UNC condemns flyer inciting violence against Trump supporters Related: Students for Justice in Palestine: 2024-08-08 Good Morning Students for Justice in Palestine: 2024-08-08 Students for Justice in Palestine has just posted that they are ‘fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.’ Students for Justice in Palestine: 2024-08-02 A woman is arrested in vandalism at museum officials' homes during pro-Palestinian protests Posted by: Skidmark 2024-08-14 |
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