Anti-Israel Group at CUNY Appears to Call for Escalation of Violence

Anti-Israel Group at CUNY Appears to Call for Escalation of Violence

At what point do authorities start taking these threats seriously? CUNY has been a hotbed for this since the fall.

Campus Reform reports:

‘BRUTALIZE,’ ‘ESCALATE’: CUNY anti-Israel group threatens violence against NYC and police officers

An anti-Israel student group at the City University of New York posted a statement seemingly calling for the dismantling of the university and appearing to urge violence against New York City and the police.

The July 25 statement was published by CUNY for Palestine, a group that describes itself as “a network of CUNY students and workers organizing for Palestinian liberation on campus.”

“We are an autonomous group of students, faculty, community members and outside agitators who chose to disrupt the encampment’s status quo in order to dismantle CUNY’s active role in this genocide and ongoing apartheid,” the authors of the statement explain.

The document, which repeatedly refers to police officers as “pigs,” attacked the police for cracking down on disruptive anti-Israel protests, and appeared to support violent attacks on law enforcement and New York City itself: “The City of New York and their pigs continue to escalate their repression of the city. . . . The city of New York and their pigs are going to keep brutalizing and escalating, and so will we.”

The anti-Israel activists also warned that “Anyone that chooses to play the role of a pig is the enemy.” [emphasis in original].

“As the zionist entity continues its destruction of the Gaza Strip—and the United States maintains its genocidal hegemony from Palestine to Harlem—the working class people of the world escalate,” the group argued.

Although the group claimed that the takeover of university buildings by “students and outside agitators” can “draw attention to injustices and force institutions to address the demands of protestors,” it stated that the anti-Israel encampments that proliferated on college and university campuses did not go far enough.

CUNY for Palestine seemed instead to suggest that CUNY and other universities should be destroyed entirely.

“The encampments were an escalatory response, but they often failed to envision an end goal beyond a meeting, a committee or an email,” the statement continued. An encampment should not normalize the institution, it should disrupt it, dismantle it and abolish it. A principled encampment should not collaborate with the pigs.” [Emphasis in original.]

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