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/

Mohammad Hammad of SFSU: Anger Management Issues?

Mohammad Hammad, President of the General Union of Palestinian Students at San Francisco State may very well have anger management issues. When the story of GUPS incitement first broke, he exalted in the attention.  The fact that  Jewish community members felt threatened by the actions on campus only served to vindicate his feelings. "We have them on edge", he triumphantly wrote.

The following are screen shots to a now password protected Tumblr account associated with Mohammad Hammad.

Mohammad Hammad Tumblr

Mohammad Hammad declares  "This is my Thing. I'm ready to destroy". 

Mohammad Hammad Tumblr

And here's where Mohammad introduces his plan- not a heart felt apology for embarrassing his school and his cause, but a counter-campaign. Kill the messenger, so to speak

Mohammad Hammad Tumblr

From the ADL Blog


Hammad’s posts on his pub­lic Face­book and Twit­ter pages reveal a stu­dent with a record of express­ing desire for vio­lence against Israel and its sup­port­ers. In Decem­ber 2012, for exam­ple, Ham­mad responded to a tweet by a pro-Israel user about an Israeli sol­dier that had killed a Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist in the West Bank with the fol­low­ing remark: “You are a sick­en­ing sup­porter of ter­ror­ism, I only wish it were you on the other end of this monster’s barrel.”

In a recent tweet, he also described a hash­tag that was being used to poke fun at Hamas as being “enough to turn any­one into a mil­i­tant with your peo­ple as the targets.”

In the past year, Ham­mad, an Inter­na­tional Rela­tions major at the uni­ver­sity, has also retweeted sev­eral tweets by OpIs­rael, an inter­na­tional hack­ing group that tar­gets Israeli and pro-Israel Web sites. In Novem­ber 2012, he wrote a tweet about the hack­ing group Anonymous’s appar­ently suc­cess­ful hack­ing of an Israeli Web site with the hash­tag “#win.”

Elder of Ziyon reports on hate speech at San Francisco State

By Tuesday November 19, the super hero of pro-Israel blogging, Elder of Ziyon had written about the story, adding a photo of the offensive stencil

SFSU Pal student group signs "My heroes have always killed colonizers"

At San Francisco State University, the General Union of Palestine Students recently held a celebration of Edward Said, where they have a mural honoring him.

At the event, according to AMCHA, the GUPS students set up tables with stencils for making posters with images of known terrorists as well as with the words “MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS KILLED COLONIZERS,” which students displayed in the campus square.

Yes, to SFSU, it is acceptable for Palestinian Arabs to call for the murder of Jews who live in Israel. Free speech, right?

The event was covered by the SFSU newspaper, but they didn't mention the hate posters. The comments do, though.

One fan of GUPS put the photo above on Indymedia, with the ironic subhead "Rejecting normalization is not incitement to violence." Well, this is.