‘You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes’
By Chloe Valdary for Tablet Magazine
The
student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is
prominent on many college campuses, preaching a mantra of “Freeing
Palestine.” It masquerades as though it were a civil rights group when
it is not. Indeed, as an African-American, I am highly insulted that my
people’s legacy is being pilfered for such a repugnant agenda. It is
thus high time to expose its agenda and lay bare some of the fallacies
they peddle.• If you seek to promulgate the legacy of early Islamic colonialists who raped and pillaged the Middle East, subjugated the indigenous peoples living in the region, and foisted upon them a life of persecution and degradation—you do not get to claim the title of “Freedom Fighter.”
• If you support a racist doctrine of Arab supremacism and wish (as a corollary of that doctrine) to destroy the Jewish state, you do not get to claim that the prejudices you peddle are forms of legitimate “resistance.”
• If your heroes are clerics who sit in Gaza plotting the genocide of a people; who place their children on rooftops in the hopes they will get blown to bits; who heap praises upon their fellow gang members when they succeed in murdering Jewish school boys and bombing places of activity where Jews congregate—you do not get to claim that you are some Apollonian advocate of human virtue. You are not.
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