Is the anti-Israel indoctrination on campus starting to spill over into violence beyond the campus? That may be what we are seeing here.
Florida International University student made threats Thursday against the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU in Miami Beach, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Detective Argemis Colome said Oscar Aguayo, 21, threatened to "raise havoc" at the museum.
Ariel Roman-Harris, a spokesman for the Israeli consulate general office in Miami, said the threat prompted their decision to cancel their Thursday night event at the museum as a precaution.
The event was meant to commemorate the 100 years of the pivotal Balfour Declaration, a 1917 statement by the British supporting the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. It was organized in partnership with FIU's Global Jewish and Middle East studies programs, the Consulate General of the United Kingdom and the American Jewish Committee.
A website carrying Oscar Aguayo's name tells us that he is pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration Management, International Business and International Relations. And contains anti-Israel material.
Most notably there's a paper titled, "Broken Mends of the Past". The paper is an illiterate rant which features numerous ugly and false attacks. And mentions the Balfour Declaration.
How terrible is this paper? Here's a sample.
Most people will conjecture that the U.S. involvement in international affairs is unnecessary and futile, but it just so happens that the U.S. is a hegemonic power and its participation is vital not only to maintain its position, but also a good reputation among its neighboring countries such as the United Kingdom and France
This is an International Relations student who thinks that the UK and France are neighbors of the United States.
It was during and after WWII that an exalted spike of Jewish immigration to Palestine occurred; a bad timing when Arab nationalism was at its peak. The movement caused a lot of distress as the Jews wouldn’t mingle and assimilate to Arab culture and conflicts at all levels sparked: economic, social, political and religious. The first ones to strike with gun violence were the Jews
Anti-Semitic, ignorant and illiterate is no way to go through life, son.
Jews lived in Israel before the Arabs did. Also how is Oscar's assimilation to American culture coming along? Here we don't send threats to Jewish institutions over political differences.
The war of 1948-1949 was among Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq vs. Israel. Conclusion: Israel was the sole winner. Rumor has it that the U.S. and the British Commonwealth financially supported and gave weapons to Israel. Ever since, the native Palestinians were held captive for many years.
Rumor has it? The US had an arms embargo in place. British officers commanded the Jordanian forces that seized parts of Jerusalem. And Jordan annexed the West Bank and its "Palestinians".
Pesident Ronald Reagan saw that Israel was a strategic asset in the struggle against totalitarianism and as a means to destroy Soviet Union weaponry. Later, benefits expanded to the U.S. as testing of weapons, strengthening intelligence garnering and cooperation, and establishing a strategic base in a hostile region. Furthermore, foreign policy towards Israel was settled and Bush’s action in subsidizing Israel seemed reasonable as Israel could serve as a vital strategic point for U.S. operations during the Afghanistan war.
Israel is as close to Afghanistan as France is to America. But when your only real metric for understanding foreign policy is hating Israel, you don't need to know anything. And I mean anything.
In light of everything happened to this point, it remains incumbent that people ought to change and maybe even inform the Congress about the reality of the situation on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. It is recommended that Israel must be held accountable for its rebellious actions... Israel must face severe economic sanctions from the U.S. and the U.N.
So the real question is here who radicalized Oscar?
Oscar doesn't know where France or Afghanistan are, but he's learned to shout, "Death to Israel" with the worst of them. The odds are that he was radicalized on campus. Who might have radicalized him?