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Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Provost Francine Conway of Rutgers University issued a statement on Thursday apologizing for condemning rising anti-Semitism against Jews and hate in all forms after facing backlash from a pro-Palestinian group on campus.
The group, Students for Justice in Palestine, released a lengthy condemnation of Molloy and Conway’s statement in which they declared that the leaders’ statement came “at such a critical time involving global protests” that the “decision cannot be separated from widespread attempts to conflate antizionism with antisemitism and derail Palestinian voices and activism.”
The original statement from Molloy and Conway, released Wednesday, read: “We are saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States. Recent incidents of hate directed toward Jewish members of our community again remind us of what history has to teach us. Tragically, in the last century alone, acts of prejudice and hatred left unaddressed have served as the foundation for many atrocities against targeted groups around the world. “Last year’s murder of George Floyd brought into sharp focus the racial injustices that continue to plague our country, and over the past year there has been attacks on our Asian American Pacific Islander citizens, the spaces of Indigenous peoples defiled, and targeted oppression and other assaults against Hindus and Muslims. “Although it has been nearly two decades since the U.S. Congress approved the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, the upward trend of anti-Semitism continues. We have also been witnesses to the increasing violence between Israeli forces and Hamas in the Middle East leading to the deaths of children and adults and mass displacement of citizens in the Gaza region and the loss of lives in Israel. … “This recent resurgence of anti-Semitism demands that we again call out and denounce acts of hate and prejudice against members of the Jewish community and any other targeted and oppressed groups on our campus and in our community.” The Students for Justice in Palestine went on to claim that by lumping together the experience of black Americans, AAPI, and indigenous people, Conway and Molloy “trivialized” the […]
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