Anti-Israel Students at UNC Chant ‘No More Hillel’
“Hillel is a 100-year-old Jewish campus organization serving more than 180,000 students each year at more than 850 colleges and universities around the world.”
This was the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, of course.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
UNC chants of ‘no more Hillel’ met with cheers on campus
During a rally hosted by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on October 9, one speaker called for “an end to study abroad programs in Israel, academic research citing Israeli universities, and university divestment from Israel and Israeli-supporting companies.” The speaker continued, “No more Hillel.”
These words, it was reported by the student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, “were met with cheers from the crowd.”
SJP issued a statement to the newspaper that Hillel is “a fundamentally Zionist network masquerading as a Jewish campus organization.”
Hillel is a 100-year-old Jewish campus organization serving more than 180,000 students each year at more than 850 colleges and universities around the world.
Much of the organization’s programming focuses on Jewish learning, observing the Jewish holidays and Shabbat, arts and culture, and building the elements of a meaningful Jewish life.
A few days after the rally, UNC conducted its installation of its new chancellor. Demonstrators outside the academic hall where the installation took place chanted, “It is right to rebel, UNC burn in hell.”
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wonder how many of these little spank monkeys “help” out with mail-in votes and vote counting????
many, many, many
after all, they’re helping to save the world from Donald Trump and fascism
It’s true that Hillel is “fundamentally zionist”, at least to the extent that it does not allow anti-zionist programming to be held under its name. About 10 years ago the Swarthmore chapter was kicked out and had to change its name, because it insisted on hosting anti-zionist speakers.
Since anti-zionism is almost always a symptom of antisemitism, it makes no sense for a Jewish organization that exists to serve Jewish students to host antisemitic speakers.
Memo for Democrats: If you want to see “Nazi rallies,” just go to UNC. Plenty of antisemites there.