You noticed my racism? You must be Islamophobic.
The University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Student Association approved a resolution Wednesday calling those who do not support a pro-Palestine agenda “Islamophobic.”
While most of the list did not excite much debate, the final three claims raised some concerns because they ascribed Islamophobia to students who had merely expressed criticism of the SJP student group, condemning two students for “falsely accusing” Palestinian classmates of extremism in news articles and rebuking GSA President Milan Chatterjee simply for sharing one of the articles on social media.
This would be the Pardes Seleh piece accusing Students for Justice in Palestine of anti-Semitism.
Radical SJP activists Rahim Kurwa and Yacoub Kureh, infamous for their militant harassment of Jewish students, are leading the initiative to force the GSA to fund their anti-Semitic activities. Kurwa once appeared on a panel with a Hamas supporter in Spain. Kureh placed mock eviction notices targeting Jewish students in dorm rooms during his undergraduate years at Harvard. The pair have elicited help from Ian Coley, a GSA Math and Physical Sciences (MPSC) representative, to bully GSA officers and advance SJP’s anti-Semitic interests.
A staunch ally of SJP, Coley voted against a recent GSA resolution condemning anti-Semitism. He was also at the forefront of a failed effort to block the GSA’s endorsement of pro-Israel advocate and UC Regent Avi Oved’s plan to create a Student Advisor position—an initiative that would boost student representation on the UC Board of Regents.
Students for Justice in Palestine has a long history of anti-Semitic activity. But the group's usual tactic is "Jews to the front" by using anti-Israel pro-terrorist activists of Jewish origins as their shields to Jewwash their hate. And so SJP argues that it can't be anti-Semitic because... look at this Jewish guy right here. He's our leader.
And yet now SJP is making the claim that opposition to it is Islamophobic.
So either Students for Justice in Palestine is an Islamic organization. Or it's just a bunch of people concerned about destroying Israel. Right now the hate group is trying to be both.