The chancellor and provost of Rutgers University apologized Thursday for issuing a statement that denounced the recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks because he said it “failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members.”
The initial statement from Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Provost Francine Conway Wednesday said they were “saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States.”
The Thursday statement, titled “An Apology,” included the message that “our diversity must be supported by equity, inclusion, antiracism, and the condemnation of all forms of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Earlier Thursday, the Rutgers chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine issued a lengthy denunciation of Molloy and Conway’s initial statement.
The group said the statement “cannot be separated from widespread attempts to conflict antizionism [sic] with antisemitism [sic] and derail Palestinian voices and activism … it isolates them and shows that Rutgers does not stand with or support them in their struggle for freedom and liberation, and contributes to the racism efforts of zionists [sic] to erase Palestinian identity.”
Read more at NY Post.
{Matzav.com}
Good! They SHOULD apologize- Condemning anti-Semitism does not sit well with עשו שונא את יעקב so now at least they’re תוכו כברו
I am usually very hesitant to show my ignorance so openly, but I don’t recall seeing any rise in ANTI-Muslim, ANTI-Arab crimes or protests. Anti-Asian, yes. Probably due to the mounting evidence Sars-CoV2 is indeed the “China Virus. Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic, yes. But Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab? Where and when? I must have missed it.
please, their ‘apology’ means absolutely nothing. they are only apologizing for being stupid enough for saying out loud what they really believe