University of Michigan BDS Defeat: Jihad, Jew-hating BDS Posts ‘Overtly Threatening’ Photo to Facebook

The good news is that the Nuremberg-inspired BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction the Jewish state) measure was roundly and soundly defeated last night at a contentious (aren’t they always) vote at the University of Michigan. So threatening were the pro-jihad students and agitators that the vote was by secret ballot, so as to ensure that no one would be targeted for revenge.

The proceedings were broadcast via the internet, with more than 2,000 watching, in addition to the 350 students sitting in the capacity auditorium. After a six-hour session, which included speeches by dozens of students, for and against, two Jewish professors and the anti-Israel journalist and author Max Blumenthal, who used the forum to repeatedly pitch his new book, the Central Student Government voted down the resolution, 25 to nine, with five abstentions.

The Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday that at least one pro-Israel student “received death threats and that others have allegedly been called ‘kikes’ and ‘dirty Jews’” by proponents of the resolution who called for a “sit-in” of the CSG’s offices until the resolution was put back on the agenda for Tuesday night.

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Molly Rosen, a University of Michigan senior who was at last week’s meeting, told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that while the student speaker “did a great job” of keeping order at the meeting, many students “definitely were feeling intimidated because of how they voted on the issue.”

“I, personally, was not scared, but I know many students who are now not willing to express opinions in class for fear of retribution on campus or on social media,” Rosen said. (here)

This photo of a thug leader of the BDS (‘Boycott, Divest and Sanction’ the Jewish State) is illustrative of the kind of intimidation and threats Jewish students on college campuses face on a regular basis. These genocide fetishists think their Jew-hatred is pious and sanctioned by Allah.

And this particular SS-inspired thug is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s MSA (of course). The MSA is the Muslim Students Association. Here is the University of Michigan’s MSU facebook profile pic:

Destroying the Jewish state is their mission. Take a look at any and all of the MSA’s (or any Muslim group for that matter) initiatives and actions. It’s all destruction, hate and libel.

As revealed in documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a Texas court, the Muslim Students Association is a legacy project of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood is an organization formed by a Hitler-admiring Muslm named Hasan al- Bannain Egypt in 1928.

It was designed to function as the spearpoint of the Islamo-fascist movement and its crusade against the West. The Brotherhood spawned al-Qaeda and Hamas.

Its doctrines make up the core of the terrorist jihad conducted by organizations such as Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah,Hamas and the government of Iran.

Its agendas have been clear with world conquest as the goal. …To establish one Islamic state of united Islamiccountries, one nation under one leadership whose mission will be to reinforce adherence to the law of Allah…and the strengthening of the Islamic presence in the world arena…. The goal…is the establishment of a world Islamic state

Read this report on the MSA and the Jihad network here.

College campuses have become hotbeds for jihad activity and Islamic extremism. Univeristy of Michigan and all college campuses host  speakers like pro- Iranian khomenist, Reza Azlan and Omar Barghouti  (The NY Daily News wrote, Barghouti is “skilled as a propagandist” and that “he piles falsehood upon falsehood to present Israel as relentlessly oppressing the Palestinians in violation of human decency, and to hold Israel exclusively responsible for the ills afflicting them.” The Daily News says that Barghouti wants a “secular, democratic state built on an influx of Arabs who come to dominate the population and vote an end to Israel as a Jewish nation. That, ultimately, is the nefarious truth behind his libels.)

Jew hating Muslim Ali Abunimah  recently led a pro-divestment rally on the University of Michigan’s campus. But Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and mu other colleagues are rarely seen on college campuses.

This is as much the school’s fault as anyone’s. The environment is ripe for violence and thuggery when incitement to hate and violence is sanction and radical speakers are welcomed.

BY: Adam Kredo
March 26, 2014 10:23 am

A pro-Palestinian activist on the University of Michigan’s campus recently posted what experts described as “an overtly threatening” photo of himself wearing a traditional Arab headscarf and jamming a knife into a pineapple.

The emergence of the photo comes just days after Palestinian activists on the University of Michigan’s campus leveled death threats and racial epithets at pro-Israel students who opposed a resolution to divest from Israel.

Pro-Palestinian campus activists, angered by the student government’s recent decision to reject their divestment measure, leveled death threats at one student and have reportedly called other pro-Israel students “dirty Jew” and “kike.”

The student government again overwhelmingly rejected the divestment measure on Tuesday evening, prompting great anger from activists both on and off campus.

The vote was reportedly cast by secret ballot due to concerns about the council members’ safety, according to a report from the head of a leading pro-Israel campus group.

 The latest image raising concern among civil rights leaders comes from a Facebook posting by Michigan student Yazan Kherallah, a leading voice in the campus’s Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a virulently anti-Israel movement that championed the divestment measure.

Kherallah in late January posted a picture of himself on Facebook in which his face is covered by a Keffiyeh and he is jabbing a large knife into a pineapple. The words “it’s on” accompany the photograph.

Kherallah is said to serve as the divestment chair for the campus group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which authored the divestment measure and held “sit-ins” over the past weeks to intimidate student council members.

Civil rights leader Kenneth Marcus labeled Kherallah’s photograph as “overtly threatening” and said that it could contribute to the culture of fear within the University of Michigan’s pro-Israel community.

“In the context of the current controversy, the University of Michigan really needs to know what this student is trying to communicate,” said Marcus, a former staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “The knife is held in an overtly threatening way [and] coupled with a keffiyeh, it appears to be a gesture of warning or a threat towards Zionists.”

Marcus said that the use of a pineapple could have significant meaning as it has been used in recent months by the anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala.

“The use of a pineapple may be arbitrary. But in recent months, in France, the comedian Dieudonne has associated the pineapple with Zionists and Holocaust denial, especially with his use of the term ‘quenelle,’” a gesture similar to the Nazi salute, Marcus said.

“The pineapple may also be the closest one can get in a Michigan grocery store to a sabra,” a fruit associated with Israel and Jewish people, Marcus said. “Rather than speculating on who exactly this student was threatening, the university should find out as soon possible.”

Kherallah did not respond to comments sent to his Facebook page and university email address asking him to explain the photo and its context. He has positioned himself as a vocal proponent of the BDS movement, writing in recent days that he and his anti-Israel allies “will not be silenced.”

Kherallah, who says he is originally from Damascus, Syria, has also been referenced as a leading BDS activist in articles posted on the website Electronic Intifada, which has been hotly criticized for featuring anti-Israel and anti-Semitic materials.

Electronic Intifada is run by anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah, who recently led a pro-divestment rally on the University of Michigan’s campus.

“Investing in companies that profit from the military occupation and violence, no matter where or why, is unethical … it goes against the core values of this institution, and the legacies of the University of Michigan activists [who] have long fought for liberation and social justice before us … we ask that you divest our tuition from all unethical corporations that facilitate and profit from the military occupation of Palestine,” Kherallah told Electronic Intifada in early January.

Kherallah penned an op-ed on Saturday in the Michigan Daily accusing Israeli soldiers of terrorizing Palestinians.

“During my time in the West Bank, I witnessed the occupation’s brutal policies,” he wrote. “I saw the checkpoints, the segregated bus systems, the settlements, and Israeli soldiers’ terrorization of Palestinian towns and villages.”

Kherallah is also a contributor to the website “Michigan Muslims.”

Following days of pro-BDS sit-ins and tension between rowdy activists and student leaders, University of Michigan officials helped force the divestment measure to a vote scheduled for Tuesday evening.

Jacob Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, called Kherallah’s Facebook posting “totally outrageous” and said it “begs the question, should this vote even be taking place?”

“Should this vote be allowed to proceed when students and student government representatives, real human beings, are going to be asked to vote under the shadow of these death threats?” Baime said. “Is that really appropriate in a room filled with hundreds of people who are anti-Israel?”

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