Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus
by ANDREW E. HARROD
January 8, 2017
"Today on American college campuses, there is only one group of students that you are allowed to attack and you can attack at will, and those are Jews," states the narrator in the new film Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus. This latest production from Americans for Peace & Tolerance, the makers of the J Street Challenge, engagingly examines how demonization of Israel's Jewish state is reviving anti-Semitism in American academia.
Hate Spaces extensively documents what has become a nationwide campus "hostile environment" for Jews, according to Susan Tuchman from the Zionist Organization of America. Student signs at colleges like Columbia University appear in the film with statements such as "Israel is a swollen parasite...the Jews: Too fat...Too greedy...Too powerful...Fight the Jewish mafia."
Quoted in Hate Spaces, University of California (UC)-Los Angeles Hillel President Natalie Charney notes an "anti-Israel culture" in which "singling out the only Jewish state creates an environment where it's ok to single out Jewish students." The film focuses on one of Israel's main campus adversaries, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a leading supporter of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel with deep links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The film notes SJP members chanting "Allahu Akbar" to celebrate the nonbinding 2013 UC-San Diego student council decision for BDS and a SJP chapter president's 2010 assault upon a Jewish UC-Berkeley student.
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