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Students Supporting Israel takes a proactive approach to highlight issues rarely addressed on campus.
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Issues like salaries paid to the families of Palestinian terrorists for killing Jews as part of a policy called “pay for slay” were on display. (Photo: Courtesy.)
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Students Supporting Israel (SSI), a pro-Israel campus group, recently resumed its annual Palestinian Apartheid Week, which mimics the Israeli Apartheid Week, a campaign in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. This year’s campaign was particularly significant, as SSI set up camp in the same room as an anti-Israel student campaign at New York University (NYU). This move was a bold attempt to challenge the narrative of anti-Israel activists by exposing their hypocrisy and the horrors that Palestinians endure due to their leadership.
The NYU SSI campaign featured an “End Jew Hatred” sign alongside posters that condemned Israeli “occupation” and equated “Palestinian liberation [with] black liberation.” The SSI posters included a quote from Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, referring to “the dirty feet of the Jews.”
Other posters featured images of Palestinian terror victims captioned “Their Lives = Palestinian Terrorist Salaries” and “‘freedom fighters’ do not slaughter children in their sleep,” referring to the massacre of an Israeli Jewish family in 2011.
NYU’s campus has a history of anti-Israel activity, including the distribution of mock eviction notices to Jewish students by Students for Justice in Palestine. However, SSI’s decision to participate in the Palestinian Apartheid Week campaign was a bold move to challenge this narrative.
Similar campaigns also took place at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Florida Atlantic University, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. The SSI chapters set up tables with messaging similar to that of NYU’s Palestinian Apartheid Week, alongside Israeli flags.
SSI has grown significantly in membership, with over 50 chapters today. The organization sponsors a variety of creative outreach initiatives, including van campaigns, collaborations with Jewish summer camps, and an annual conference. However, Palestinian Apartheid Week is perhaps the boldest initiative yet, aimed at turning the tables on anti-Israel activists.
By appealing to students’ democratic and human sensibilities, Palestinian Apartheid Week presents enemies of the Jewish State as antisemitic human-rights abusers. SSI activists hope that students who stop by the campaign tables will reconsider their anti-Israel sympathies and what those sympathies imply.
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SSI’s campaign seeks to highlight a basic truth that is often overlooked in discussions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The leaders of the Palestinian Authority have systematically rejected every peace deal offered to them, including those that would have created an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Instead, the Palestinian leadership has used violence and terrorism to pursue its political goals.
Despite this reality, many students on college campuses across the United States are often sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. SSI’s campaign seeks to challenge these sympathies by presenting a different perspective on the conflict, one that highlights the atrocities committed by the Palestinian leadership against their own people.
Furthermore, SSI’s campaign challenges the notion that the Israeli government is solely responsible for the conflict. Many anti-Israel activists on college campuses blame Israel for all the problems in the region, ignoring the role that Palestinian leadership has played in perpetuating the conflict. By highlighting the actions of the Palestinian Authority, SSI’s campaign seeks to shed light on the complexity of the situation and encourage more nuanced discussions about the conflict.
Palestinian Apartheid Week trailer. (Video: Students Supporting Israel)
SSI’s decision to participate in the Palestinian Apartheid Week campaign was a bold move to challenge the narrative of anti-Israel activists. The organization seeks to highlight the atrocities committed by the Palestinian leadership against their own people and challenge the notion that the Israeli government is solely responsible for the conflict.
While the campaign may not change the minds of every student who stops by their tables, it offers a different perspective on the conflict and encourages more nuanced discussions about the situation in the Middle East.
By engaging in peaceful and creative outreach initiatives, SSI hopes to foster greater understanding and dialogue between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students on college campuses across the United States. Ultimately, the goal is to promote peace and reconciliation between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, and to build a brighter future for both.
To learn more about Palestine Apartheid Week visit SSI.
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