From the ISM: Another Red Herring.

Berkeley’s Middle East Children’s Alliance was a co-sponsor of the now notorious mural event at SFSU. Their  Program Manager for Cross-Cultural Programs, Ziad Abbas was the keynote speaker at the event.   MECA has not made a public statement in support of the controversial  messaging, nor have they publicly disavowed it. Perhaps they know better than to return to the scene of the crime.

There has been overall silence from the normally hyper- driven  anti-Israel machine regarding this event. Even rats know to flee a sinking ship.

Enter the ISM, who has no issue with promoting lawlessness.

They have printed  a letter from an anonymous group "Justice for AMED" , claiming to represent  "women of color, Indigenous, anti-racist and queer feminists", who  "refuse to remain silent while our movements and communities are slandered. For, as our rich histories of struggle teach us, an attack upon one of us is an attack upon us all".  They claim the message “My heroes have always killed colonizers’ is

“...part of a broader narrative aimed at countering the depiction of the “Indigenous warrior who has been labeled a terrorist, unpatriotic, and/or savage while defending the land, the people, and our traditional ways....”

They add

Both stencils raised awareness of indigenous and anti-colonial struggles and resistance. However, they were both taken out of context and distorted as a pretext in Benjamin’s larger crusade to shut down Palestinian programming, students and professors across the state of California.

In what context is the promotion of murder ever acceptable?
 
"Justice for AMED" claims

Taking the statements and icons of struggle and resistance out of context, Benjamin hoisted charges of anti-Semitism that were inappropriate, offensive and false, enabled only through a larger cultural climate of Islamophobia and a general lack of knowledge about Palestinian struggles for dignity and justice.

Translate that as "NO!!!! We are the victims!"

Justice for AMED and the ISM have yet to comment just how  the GUPS president's statement,  “I seriously can not get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier.” reflects the Palestinian struggle for dignity.

 seriously can not get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier.”

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/did-sfsu-student-post-selfie-with-knife-i-want-to-stab-an-israeli-soldier/2013/12/03/

“I seriously can not get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier.”

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/did-sfsu-student-post-selfie-with-knife-i-want-to-stab-an-israeli-soldier/2013/12/03/