A student group at Tufts University is facing backlash after a statement praising the “creativity” of Hamas terrorists who used paragliders to launch an attack in Israel that killed over 1,000 people, including 22 Americans.
The Tufts group Students for Justice in Palestine called the terrorists “liberation fighters paragliding into occupied territories,” adding that they “particularly demonstrated the creativity necessary to retake stolen land.”
The embassy added: “It was not without cost, as in recent days hundreds of Palestinians have suffered martyrdom in the struggle for the liberation of themselves and their land.”
Similar statements were made by other pro-Palestinian groups at universities such as California State, Harvard, Columbia and NYU, sparking outrage.
The group’s statement was first shared Tuesday by the New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, which called it “obscene.”
The university rejected the organization’s message on Wednesday.
“We condemn the terrorism and atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel,” said spokesman Patrick Collins. “We strongly disagree with the SJP’s statement and condemn it. We want to make it clear that no student group speaks for the university.”
A student group at Tufts University is facing backlash after a statement praising the “creativity” of Hamas terrorists who launched an attack in Israel using paragliders
The group’s statement was first shared Tuesday by the New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, which called it “obscene.”
A fire burns after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Ashkelon, Israel
A man holds his dog after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Ashkelon, southern Israel. The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides
Many of the school’s notable alumni have taken to social media to express their disappointment with the group’s statement.
“As a person and a graduate, I am outraged by this and expect decisive action from the university administration.” This is one of the worst international terrorist attacks of all time and Tufts SJP praises Hamas’ creativity. “Incredible,” said Matthew Levitt, a former Georgetown professor and former director of the Reinhard Counterterrorism Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“SJP participates in the obscene glorification of anti-Semitic mass murders at my alma mater and praises the “creativity” of Hamas in carrying out its “historic” act of mass rape, murder and child murder,” wrote journalist John-Paul Pagano.
Tuft’s Students for Justice in Palestine group is just the latest to run into trouble after appearing to cheer the Hamas attack that sparked the biggest conflict between Israel and Palestine in decades.
Harvard University faced massive backlash after 31 of its fraternities issued a joint statement “blaming the Israeli regime for all the violence.”
In their statement on Sunday, the groups said the attack that left more than 1,000 people dead “did not occur in a vacuum” and claimed the Israeli government has forced Palestinians “in an open prison for over two decades.” Heaven” to live.
The Tufts group held a prayer vigil for Palestinians on Tuesday
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman claimed that other CEOs want to know who they are so that “none of us accidentally hire one of their members.”
The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management said he had been approached by “multiple CEOs” and added: “You shouldn’t be able to hide behind a corporate shield when making statements that support the actions of terrorists who, like us now learned to have done this, decapitated babies, among other unimaginably despicable acts.’
Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine also released a statement blaming Israel for the terrorist attacks and claiming that Hamas’ actions were a “counteroffensive against its settler-colonial oppressor.”
The Ivy League schools were also joined by a group from Northwestern University called Justice in Palestine, which said it “remains steadfast in our commitment to highlighting the profound injustices facing the Palestinian people.”
The Harvard statements were widely condemned, including by former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who wrote on
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU School of Law, sent a weekly newsletter saying that the innocent slaughter of Israeli children, women and citizens last week was Israel’s “full responsibility.”
The first part of the statement from Students for Justice in Palestine and a Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University
Meanwhile, an LGBTQ+ law firm has had its job offer rescinded by the president of New York University’s Law School Bar Association after she said Hamas’s slaughter of children in Israel was “necessary.”
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU School of Law, sent a weekly newsletter saying that the murder of innocent Israeli children, women and citizens last week was Israel’s “full responsibility.”
On Tuesday, law firm Winston & Strawn – which regularly highlights its legal work representing the LGBTQ+ community – told in a statement that its job offer to Workman had been withdrawn.
The number of U.S. citizens confirmed dead in the Israel-Hamas war has risen to at least 22, with at least 17 missing, the State Department said Wednesday. That’s an increase in the death toll compared to 14 the day before.
US citizens are among an estimated 150 hostages captured by Hamas militants during their shocking weekend attack on Israel, President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday.
The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides.