‘Long Live the Intifada’: University of Michigan Student Group Calls for Israel’s Destruction

Students Allied for Freedom and Equality protested a speech of Vice President Kamala Harir, who they claim supports ‘genocide.

On Thursday, a student group from the University of Michigan was anti-Israel. marched through campus They praise violent attacks on the Jewish state and call for Israel’s destruction.

Members Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), while chanting, carried Palestinian flags through the quad. “Long live the intifada” And “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a call For the destruction of Israel. They were protesting Vice President Kamala Harris on campus, who was there to discuss the climate policy of Biden’s administration.

The latest anti-Semitic incident at American college campuses is this protest. Last week, George Washington University’s Jewish students protested. filed They filed a discrimination claim against their school alleging that the school retaliated after they had reported their professor for his anti-Semitism. According to the University of Michigan, anti-Semitic hate incidents have increased by twofold on college campuses over recent years. a report From the AMCHA Initiative.

SAFE is an affiliate with Students for Justice in Palestine, a national organization known for opposing Jewish speakers in universities and supporting the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movements (BDS). According to a 2019 report Students for Justice in Palestine and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy have expressed their support for terrorists convicted and are the “main driver of Jew-hatred on campus.”

Students for Justice in Palestine and the University of Michigan’s SAFE public affairs office did not respond to our requests for comment.

Wolverine for Israel campus group and pro-Israel student group, condemned the demonstration “a call to violence against Israelis and the Jewish state.”

In an Instagram postSAFE has denounced Harris’s actions “support for Israeli apartheid” That “has caused immense ecological destruction.” Protesters protesting the event made fun of the vice president by chanting. “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide.”

This is strange considering Harris’s past history of support for anti Israel protests. In 2021 she praised A college student accused Israel of being a terrorist organization “ethnic genocide.”

“Your truth should not be suppressed,” Harris nodded, as the student critiqued U.S. defense funding for Israeli-made missile systems.

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary, has also accused Israel “war crimes” She was previously a spokeswoman for MoveOn.org (an anti-Israel group).

According to a White House official, Washington Free Beacon “The Biden Harris administration will fully and forever respect the