Pro-Palestinian Radicals at UMass Dispense Guilty ‘Verdicts’ for Administrators
“the Western Massachusetts People’s Tribunal”
This movement looks more like China’s ‘Red Guard’ movement all the time. It’s like history is repeating.
The College Fix reports:
UMass pro-Palestinian radicals dispense guilty ‘verdicts’ to administrators
At the end of October, roughly 60 University of Massachusetts students and staff showed up to “present” so-called “verdicts” to university administrators “guilty” of contributing to the oppression of the Palestinians.
According to the Daily Collegian, while the “biggest targets” of the Western Massachusetts People’s Tribunal three days prior were the weapons-manufacturing defense technology companies RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) and L3Harris, far-left UMass community members accused UMass administrators of “complacency in [Palestinian] genocide.”
According to its website, the tribunal’s goal is the “permanent end of the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians” with a “preliminary” goal of divestment via universities and local governments.
A total of 11 groups were involved with the tribunal including Jewish Voice for Peace, The Radical STEM Bloc, and the UMass Coalition for Palestine.
The tribunal’s judges included Amherst College “Writer-in-Residence” George Abraham (pictured), author of the forthcoming poem collection “When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America,” Hannah Moushabeck, author of the picture book “Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine,” and “Latinx Talk” Editor Isabel Espinal, a “scholar of equity in libraries” and UMass’s academic engagement librarian for Afro American Studies, Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies [and] Gender, Sexuality Studies.
UMass Coalition for Palestine Representative Eric Strong spoke out against the school’s reaction to a May 2024 anti-Israel protest, claiming he and fellow activists were “punched, kicked, knelt on, choked, slammed to the ground and beaten with batons” by police officers.
History professor Kevin Young, who studies “social movements, labor, political economy, and imperialism in Latin America and the United States” according to his faculty page, chided the university for its “institutional neutrality” and statements about why it won’t divest from Israel.
A member of the UMass Amherst Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, Young said the university’s logic mean “divesting from genocide is a political action, [but] investing in genocide is neutral and non-political.”
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Expell them.
I’m still dumbstruck that Massachusetts police “punched, kicked, knelt on, choked, slammed to the ground” etc. left-wing lunatics rather than the normies who were taking videos of them.
Unless, of course, he’s lying.