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Anti-Zionist Students Target Emory University Dorms With Mock Eviction Notices Blasting Israel
 by Shiri Moshe



Mock eviction notices were left outside dorm rooms at Emory University in Georgia by an anti-Zionist group seeking to criticize Israel, in a stunt that has disturbed multiple students and raised concerns over intrusion of personal space.

Emory Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) left the fake notices in residence halls and on dorm doors as part of its “Israeli Apartheid Week” program, which coincides with Emory Eagles for Israel’s ongoing “Israel Week.” The flyers shared allegations, disputed by Israeli officials, that Israel “routinely” gives Palestinians eviction notices “for no other reason than their ethnicity,” and is attempting to “ethnically cleanse the region of its Arab inhabitants.”

In a Tuesday post on social media, a Jewish and Zionist student leader on campus said she received dozens of messages from peers who woke up to the “abhorrent” flyers, and that some Jewish students whose rooms had mezuzahs — small cases with scrolls placed at the entrance of a Jewish home — had observed that “their doors had these papers while their neighbors didn’t have the notices.” The student clarified that she could not confirm whether only Jewish students were targeted.

Read more at: https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/03/anti-zionist-students-target-emory-university-dorms-with-mock-eviction-notices-blasting-israel/