U. Missouri Student Pleads Guilty to Destroying Jewish Group’s Shabbat Display
“It’s very painful that a student would feel so hostile when seeing pictures of kidnapped Jewish people”
Imagine the outrage from the left if this was an LGBT pride display or a BLM display.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Missouri student pleads guilty after destroying Jewish group’s Shabbat display
A student at the University of Missouri has pleaded guilty to a charge of property damage for flipping over a table belonging to pro-Israel, Jewish students in November.
An activist group called Students Supporting Israel posted to Instagram on Nov. 29 that a person had upturned and wrecked a table that they had set up on the Columbia, Missouri campus to spread awareness for Israeli hostages of Hamas.
Daniel Swindell, who helped set the table up for Students Supporting Israel, told The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle that a woman had walked up to the table, argued about both Israel and its war against Hamas, and then flipped the table over.
“It’s very painful that a student would feel so hostile when seeing pictures of kidnapped Jewish people,” Swindell told the Chronicle in December.
Missouri student Ilay Kielmanowicz and Swindell set up two tables, one of which had “books and pamphlets about Israel and Jews and Zionism and the Israeli Palestinian conflict, which students were able to take,” Kielmanowicz told The Maneater, a student newspaper at the university.
The other table, which had Shabbat table settings on it, was reportedly flipped over by the culprit, causing the place settings to break. The campus police arrested the student after receiving a 911 call.
The university’s official Instagram account commented on Students Supporting Israel’s Nov. 29 Instagram post.
“Yesterday, there was an incident of vandalism at Speakers Circle on the MU campus,” the school wrote. “The perpetrator was arrested for 2nd-degree property damage and is scheduled to appear in court. The individual has also been referred to the Office of Student Accountability and Support to go through our student conduct process.”
“We support freedom of speech and freedom of expression on our campus. We do not tolerate acts of vandalism or violence,” the statement concluded.
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Even the author of this article sounds critical of the group, calling them “activists”. Is the schools dei staff circling the wagons for this person? Expel her for her ACTIONS, which are NOT PROTECTED. There should be a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY. If this is a slap on the hand, the next person may be more violent. Send a message.
Huh? What’s critical about “activist”?
The offending student should be expelled
huh?
no one was allowed to say the name of the criminal?
The name of the “culprit” is being withheld to protect her from the consequences of her actions. Not the way to deter future criminal conduct.
“It’s very painful that a student would feel so hostile when seeing pictures of kidnapped Jewish people”
It’s guilt.
Hmmm. Mr. Mun Choi is President of the University of Missouri. Perhaps he needs to resign immediately. He did not see fit to expel or even name the student who committed the anti-semitic hate crime. Of course everyone knows that if an Asian or White student had thrown over a pro-Palestine table then that student would be publicly shamed and removed.
REMINDERS: The bullies did not withhold Kyle Rittenhouse’s name, even though he was a minor who was defending himself from violent rioters and attempted murderers.
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