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| US group dispatches mobile ‘antisemite’ billboards to homes of anti-Israel students | |
| 2023-01-20 | |
A political The provocative campaign was the latest sally in a high-profile dispute over anti-Zionism on the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, campus. The group, Accuracy in Media, said a pair of truck-mounted billboards had "visited" two students at their neighborhoods in Texas while they were home during the university’s winter break. The signs said "Berkeley Law’s antisemite class of 2023," with the students’ names and organizations. The president of Accuracy in Media, Adam Guillette, said the student leaders had tried to keep their names out of the controversy. The group previously named individual students on billboards in Berkeley, then in internet ads, he said. Sending the billboards to students’ homes in another state was the latest step in the campaign, Guillette added in a statement. "When I visited Berkeley multiple students told me how scary it was to be a Jew on campus. I’ve experienced antisemitism and I can relate. But rather than keeping our heads down and trying to avoid notice from those who hate us, we must put these antisemites on the defensive," hesaid. "Accuracy in Media will continue this campaign on and off campus for as long as is necessary." The two student groups were among nine at the law school that banned Zionist speakers last year. The ban led by the campus’s chapter of Students for Justice in Paleostine applied to speakers who support "Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Paleostine." It included other anti-Israel measures including a commitment to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The decision set off an uproar after a prominent pro-Israel commentator published an op-ed saying the university had created "Jew-free zones." A number of leading US Jewish groups condemned the school, although some Zionist students have downplayed the controversy, saying the issue was blown out of proportion. Last month, the federal US Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights said it will investigate claims the law school hasn’t done enough to protect its Jewish students. The university said it will cooperate with the investigation and has strong anti-discrimination policies in place. The investigation is the latest in a series by the federal office to probe anti-Jewish discrimination on college campuses under civil rights laws. Accuracy in Media waded into the Berkeley controversy in October when it displayed an image of Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... giving a Nazi salute on a mobile billboard near the campus. "All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand," the billboard said. The sign was intended to oppose antisemitism, but alarmed students and drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, Berkeley Hillel and the local Jewish Community Relations Council. The ADL said of the billboard, "The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million." Accuracy in Media, based in Washington, DC, says it is "on the front lines of the culture war." It describes its mission as using "citizen activism and investigative journalism to expose media bias, corruption, and public policy failings." Related: Berkeley Law School: 2022-06-28 Biden's Title IX proposal mirrors action memo from Soros-funded group pushing gender identity into rules Berkeley Law School: 2022-04-26 Secretive Soros-funded group works behind the scenes with Biden admin on policy, documents show Berkeley Law School: 2019-06-02 Palantir has no place at Berkeley: they help tear immigrant families apart Related: Accuracy in Media: 2022-11-08 There are strategic ways to do it... not to raise the flag': Undercover video catches wife of Colorado Senator admitting Dems are quietly defunding the police - and that the Inflation Reduction Act is really a health and climate bill Accuracy in Media: 2021-09-24 US journalists could get up to $50K bonus in spending bill Accuracy in Media: 2015-03-13 POW's and Cuban Accountability. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 The fight is already lost in Berkeley. Also in California public education altogether. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-20 15:47 |
| #9 This effort should have been targeted in Berkeley. One is either on the side of the private citizen or not. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-01-20 14:26 |
| #8 Here's a quick way to tell: are you on the side of the billionaires, or on the side of the little guy who has no way to fight back? If you're on the side of the ADL, congratulations, you're a terrible person. |
| Posted by: Punky Elmigum9411 2023-01-20 10:19 |
| #7 The billboards in Berkeley seem like a waste of money to me Super Hose, the student activists came from Texas, so the billboards followed them home over the Christmas break. You’re right — there’d be no traction for pointing out that they adopted a fashionable idea in Berkeley. a pair of truck-mounted billboards had "visited" two students at their neighborhoods in Texas while they were home during the university’s winter break. I regard anything out of the ADL as left wing propaganda from an infiltrated institution. I agree. I wish I didn’t have to, but they've gone over to the dark side. Congratulations, Punky Elmigum9411 — you are a fashionable thinker. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-20 09:47 |
| #6 I loved Accuracy in Media's radio spots with Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-20 08:04 |
| #5 AIM has a web site some may want to visit. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2023-01-20 07:57 |
| #4 Of course, it's a bit difficult to sue someone for telling the truth about you... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-20 07:21 |
| #3 Another despicable move by the ADL. A powerful organization, funded by globalist billionaires, attacking the little guy. They're nothing but bullies. When you don't have the facts, argue the law. Wjrn you don't have the law, argue the facts. When you have neither, persecute the prosecutor. Note that, just like with Kanye, the globalists at the ADL aren't calling these kids liars. |
| Posted by: Punky Elmigum9411 2023-01-20 07:02 |
| #2 The ADL has devolved to Southern Poverty Law-Lite |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-01-20 06:02 |
| #1 The ADL said of the billboard, "The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million." Berkeley is a non-trivial problem. Having a prestigious public university discharge KKK level bigots into America’s already polluted supply of lawyers will plague American Juris Prudence for decades. There seems to be no Florida solution available as California politics has devolved into a Lebanon like scape where progress towards good seems impossible. The billboards in Berkeley seem like a waste of money to me as the city is a new Sodom. I can’t say that I am a fan of the mobile billboards, but I have no alternative proposal. Currently, I regard anything out of the ADL as left wing propaganda from an infiltrated institution. Let me know if I am wrong. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-20 05:36 |