Two Claremont Colleges conducted investigations: Pitzer exonerated its
Students for Justice in Palestine members and pilloried a Jewish Israeli
faculty member from the other school, while Claremont Mckenna found the
Pitzer students and the faculty member behaved poorly.
The Jewish Press
Published: May 28th, 2013
Najib
Hamideh and other Students for Justice in Palestine bar students entry
to Claremont McKenna College cafeteria in "Israeli checkpoint street
theater demonstration," March 4, 2013
A recent article in The Jewish Press laid
out the framework of a March 4 clash between a student who had been
involved in a street theater demonstration – a “mock Israeli checkpoint”
– and a Jewish professor. What could have been merely a tense
situation became toxic largely because the professor is Israeli and the
student is an Arab Palestinian.
The sensationalized news hook was that the professor called the student
“a f[expletive deleted] cockroach.” As some also reported, the professor
said his inappropriate language was provoked by the student saying to
him, “I will hunt you down.”
Facts that are only now coming to light suggest that there is more – and
maybe less – to the story. Working carefully through the details
reveals important facts about the way anti-Israel groups act and are
treated on American college campuses today. PLS CONTINUE READING: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/cockroach-as-anti-arab-slur-and-other-narrative-creations/2013/05/28/
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
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