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grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 06:38 PM Feb 2020

Jewish Student Says She Left CUNY Law School After Being Targeted by Antisemitic Harassment...

for Supporting Israel

Rafaella Gunz — a journalist focusing on LGBT and feminist issues — was studying at the CUNY School of Law when she became a target of pro-Palestinian groups, particularly Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as a result of her criticism of their attitudes toward Jews and Israel.

Last month, she published an article in The Jewish Journal, titled “Campus Antisemitism Made Me a Zionist,” that detailed her struggle, saying that her Jewish identity had been strengthened as a consequence.

“There were reactions to my article, if you look at the comments on there, basically calling me Islamophobic, calling me racist, a liar, just all these horrible things by my classmates, telling people that are supporting me to shut the f**k up, all these types of things,” she told The Algemeiner in an interview.

Anti-Israel groups on campus then circulated a petition that, Gunz said, did not mention her name, but given that she was the only pro-Israel activist on campus, was unquestionably directed at her personally.

“All the student groups signed it, professors signed it, a bunch of my classmates signed it, so it’s basically saying that if you are anything less than unequivocally supportive of the Palestinian groups, you shouldn’t be at this school,” she noted. “And then I was accused of ‘Zionist violence.’ I don’t know how my words are violent, but there it is.”

https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/02/27/jewish-student-says-she-left-city-university-of-new-york-law-school-after-being-targeted-by-antisemitic-harassment-for-supporting-israel/

I know Rafaella. Attending CUNY Law School was her dream.

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Jewish Student Says She Left CUNY Law School After Being Targeted by Antisemitic Harassment... (Original Post) grossproffit Feb 2020 OP
this is the weirdest crono Feb 2020 #1
Not surprising. Behind the Aegis Feb 2020 #2
 

crono

(81 posts)
1. this is the weirdest
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 08:41 PM
Feb 2020

thing, when i was growing up it was the raciest right-wing skinheads that where anti-semetic. when did the left adopt these policy?

Behind the Aegis

(54,875 posts)
2. Not surprising.
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 08:45 PM
Feb 2020

Anti-Semitism, one of the only bigotries certain groups feel is acceptable.

BTW: Here is your post to that article...

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