“Hundreds of posters depicting Jewish and pro-Israel faculty and staff as ‘wanted’ were hung recently at the University of Rochester,” reports The College Fix.
“The posters criticize faculty members for their alleged response to the war in Gaza. One poster accuses a faculty member of ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘displacement of Palestinians.’ A different poster accuses another faculty member of ‘racism,’ ‘hate speech’ and intimidation,” CNN reported. Hundreds of these posters were plastered across the university.
“I want to be as clear as I can that the University of Rochester strongly denounces the recent display of ‘Wanted’ posters targeting senior University leaders and members of our faculty, staff, and Board of Trustees,” said university President Sarah Mangelsdorf. “This act is disturbing, divisive and intimidating and runs counter to our values as a university.”
Hot Air notes that the people who “put up the posters also did their best to make sure they wouldn’t be easily removed, using some kind of adhesive that damaged the walls….No one has taken credit for the poster and campus groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace aren’t talking.”
At San Francisco State University, left-wing students offered to donate money to kill Jews around the world.
At Drexel University, campus occupiers demanded that the university ban the Jewish groups Hillel and Chabad.
Stanford protesters spray-painted “Fuck Amerikkka”on a memorial for slain veterans.
Earlier, The College Fix reported on how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff harbor high levels of antisemitism.
Harvard told Jews to “hide” their menorah at night during Hanukkah.
In a 2023 Harvard-Harris poll, most young adults surveyed said they believed “Jews as a class are oppressors.” But the survey results may have been skewed in favor of left-wing students at elite colleges, who are more likely to harbor antisemitism.
Colleges allowed masked pro-Hamas rallies even in states that have laws banning public mask-wearing except for Halloween and health reasons, even though colleges would never tolerate mask-wearing right-wing protesters. With their identities hidden, these mask-wearing pro-Hamas protesters were emboldened to commit acts of vandalism and to physically threaten classmates they view as “Zionist.”
Left-wing protesters forced California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, to shut down for the semester, reported the Chico Enterprise-Record, and caused millions of dollars in damage through vandalism.
It is sometimes difficult for colleges to get the police to remove students who occupy portions of campus, if the college is located in a progressive city that sympathizes with the protesters. A law professor lamented a month ago that Baltimore police would “not assist in removing illegal encampment at Johns Hopkins University.” Indeed, city officials actually praised “the illegal encampment as a valid exercise of First Amendment rights, which is complete nonsense. It’s especially nonsensical because most of the protesters are trespassers with no connection to the university.”
“The City of Baltimore strongly stands with every person’s First Amendment rights. Barring any credible threat of violence or similarly high threshold to protect public safety, BPD currently has no plans to engage solely to shut down this valid protest or remove protesters,” said the City.
But there is no “First Amendment” right to camp out private property like the campus of Johns Hopkins University, contrary to what the City of Baltimore suggested. A university can tell trespassers to leave regardless of whether they are engaged in First Amendment activity. Camping out on someone else’s property is not a “valid protest,” even if the protesters have not yet made any “threat of violence.” The Supreme Court ruled that protesters do not have a right to camp out even on public property devoted to public use, like national parks, in Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence (1984).
Washington, DC, refused to remove protesters camped out at George Washington University, against its wishes, until the mayor was summoned to appear before Congress. The police then removed the encampment, right before the mayor was to have testified about why the city had refused to take action against the trespassing protesters.
