Editor's note: In the following article from the Glendale Community College paper El Vaquero, Glendale Police Detective Lt. Tim Feeley is said to consider the display of posters created by Jew Hatred on Campus, which characterized the anti-Israel hate group Students for Justice in Palestine as "#JewHaters," to be a "hate incident." College President David Viar admitted that the posters would be considered "protected free speech" in a court of law, but similarly described them as “inflammatory, hateful, and offensive.” These characterizations are absurd. Students for Justice in Palestine has one goal which is to slander and delegitimize the only Jewish state in the world, and the only democracy in the Middle East, and to aid the terrorist forces of Hamas and Hezbollah bent on destroying it. The SJP chant "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is a call to eradicate the Jewish state. SJP is a hate group and its existence violates the rules of diversity and civility that are supposed to govern campus behavior. The #JewHaters posters merely gave voice to these facts in a succinct and eye-catching way.
Posters Spark Debate About Hate Speech
From the El Vaquero
Several inflammatory posters titled “Students For Justice in Palestine” with the hashtag “Jew Haters” emblazoned on the bottom appeared throughout the college last week, prompting debate among the administration and faculty members about free speech versus hate speech.
One set of posters showed images of suicide bombers. Other posters showed a mother and child armed with guns. The meaning of the label “Jew Haters” was unclear. Some assumed it used anti-Semitic speech while others viewed it as an attack on the SJP. However, author and right-wing activist David Horowitz took credit for the posters.
Several other campuses reported similar incidents, including UCLA; however, in an interview with the Jewish Journal, Horowitz said that he would not name all of the targeted campuses to protect the anonymity of the students involved in posting up the fliers.
Horowitz also told the Jewish Journal that the posters are part of an effort to “raise awareness of the epidemic of Jew hatred on college campuses, like at UCLA,” stating that the SJP is not just critical of Israeli policies. Rather, he referred to the organization as a “hate group” that is anti-Israel.
Originally published in the Glendale Community College El Vaquero.