Top Ten College Administrations Friendly to Terrorists and Hostile to the First Amendment

April 28, 2022 By College

Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus,

Vassar SJP sold T-shirts picturing convicted terrorist Leila Khaled with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism.”

Editor’s note: The David Horowitz Freedom Center has prepared a report on the “Top Ten College Administrations Most Friendly to Terrorists and Hostile to the First Amendment.” These campuses provide financial and institutional support to terrorist-linked campus organizations such as the Hamas-funded hate-group Students for Justice in Palestine while actively suppressing speech critical of Israel’s terrorist adversaries and their allies in the United States. Frontpage will be highlighting one campus from this report each day. Vassar College is the latest campus to be added to the list. The Freedom Center also placed posters on Vassar’s campus linking SJP to Hamas terrorists. These posters serve as a challenge to the Vassar College administration to defend speech that exposes the truth about SJP and its ties to terrorism. 

Vassar College: John Chenette, Interim President, and Ed Pittman, Associate Dean of Campus Life and Diversity

 A small liberal arts college located in the quiet town of Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College has for several years been home to a radical, anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas student movement against the Jews and Israel.

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In March, 2016, the Vassar Student Association passed a resolution supporting the BDS movement against Israel by a vote of 15-7. The Amcha Initiative, an organization that tracks anti-Semitism on campus, gives insight into the atmosphere as the BDS resolution was debated: “A Jewish student who attended the BDS vote outlined antisemitic activity by pro-BDS students during the meeting, stating, ‘One Jewish student talked about how the BDS campaign had invoked every anxiety nightmare she had ever had. She was crying as she spoke. Pro-BDS students laughed at her.’…Another Jewish student talked about Israel’s founding in the wake of the Holocaust. He was immediately accused of using the Holocaust as a political tool to justify the ‘genocide’ of another people.” 

Other events at Vassar indicate the campus SJP chapter’s support of anti-Israel terrorism. In February 2016, Vassar SJP sold T-shirts picturing convicted terrorist Leila Khaled holding a gun with the words “Resistance is not Terrorism” written below the graphic. SJP Vassar also endorsed the T-shirt’s message by a post on social media: “Check out our friends at Existence is Resistance!!! They will be selling sweet fucking antiZionist gear at our events. 100% of profits goes towards organizing Palestinian resistance #ExistenceisResistance.”

In May of 2014,   Vassar SJP managed to briefly shock even the radical campus administration by posting a “racist, anti-Semitic graphic” on its social media Tumbler page, depicting a 1940’s-era Nazi propaganda poster of a many-armed figure wearing a loincloth featuring the Star of David and holding a bag of money. The organization was briefly suspended, but was quickly reinstated.

Mostly silent during these outpourings of hatred, the reaction of Vassar administrators was quite different when the David Horowitz Freedom Center challenged the false and one sided campus narrative on Israel by hanging up posters critical of SJP and the BDS movement, and naming campus activists who supported these genocidal causes. Vassar Interim President Jon Chenette sent an email to the entire campus stating that the posters had been taken down and destroyed and that “Those in our community who were singled out in these postings deserve our unconditional support.”

Associate Dean of Campus Life and Diversity Ed Pittman went even further to heal the supposed wounds caused by the Freedom Center’s posters, organizing two separate sessions of an “all campus dialogue.” He stated: “Our best approach in these situations is to stand ready to support those who are impacted. It’s such a politically fueled issue that words and sometimes images are used to hurt, threaten and intimidate others because of their views.” Pittman concluded that the goal of Campus Life and Diversity was “to offer counter opportunities for discourse,” when he and Chenette had just done the very opposite. 

For their immediate destruction of posters critical of SJP and coddling of students who may have been offended by them, while continuing to allow Hamas propaganda targeting Jewish students to appear on campus, Vassar administrators Jon Chenette and Ed Pittman make the case for Vassar’s inclusion on our list of administrations most friendly to terrorists and hostile to the First Amendment.

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  • DrArtaud

    “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” has become the “X (fill in desired person or group) Who Cried anti-Semitism.”

    In a society with Free Speech, pushing this obsession with anti-Semitism too far is not consistent with our values. As a Catholic, I’ve heard demeaning, insulting, and often false information from hundreds of people about Catholicism. I listen to Shortwave Radio, Catholicism is frequently denigrated by Christian Preachers. But I can turn off the radio or tune to another frequency. Sensibilities and threats are two different things. We all have sensibilities, most of us learn to buffer things we’d rather not hear.

    We need to differentiate between “opinion or ignorance”, and “malicious intent” towards individuals or groups. When physical harm is intended, I agree, if focused on Jews alone, it’s anti-Semitism. But Christians are in the crosshairs of many groups that also hate Jews. Perhaps anti-JudeoChristian is a more realistic term.

    Pam Geller (Jewish) and her “Paint Muhammad” contest is right, it’s Freedom of Speech. I support that. Though I don’t support its principle; after Pam’s display ran it’s course, in the news; muslims somewhere started a “Paint the Holocaust” contest. Of course, that was branded as hateful and anti-Semitic, but if you can dish it out be prepared to take it.

    Incredibly, I’m having trouble even finding a representative cartoon from that “contest”. My first try produced a field on Google I’ve never seen before, offering to “report inappropriate predictions.”

    Abandoning Google, I found this on another search engine:

    There’s a difference between drawing an offensive caricature and participating in the negation of a historical fact.

    Actually, there’s not. We are free to disbelieve in the Holocaust, believe in UFOs, a flat earth, or climate change. This is really the salient point. When one group asserts something as fact (I believe the Holocaust occurred, don’t get lost on the point I’m making) and holds others criminally responsible for not believing it, we have entered truly dangerous grounds. We have taken Freedom of Speech and created instead a legally enforceable thought. And that’s insane. Climate Change, Transgenderism, Homosexual Marriage, and Gender Fluidity (to name a few) will become govt mandated thoughts if we maintain that everyone will be forced to respect and believe in the Holocaust.

    The threshold of anti-Semitism must be predicated on intent to physically harm or to induce others to physically harm individuals or groups, not on offended sensibilities. Misrepresenting, or making fun of Jews and Judaism is no different than doing the same to Christians and Catholics. In fact, Christians make up a large percentage of the U.S. population, Jews only less than 2%, you’d think the initial efforts would be to stamp out anti-Christian views.

    Neither of these two cartoons following contain offensive material, just ironic.

    Image: Freedom of Speech

    Image: muhammad vs Holocaust

    The following article contains very explicit pictures of the Holocaust, do not view if scenes of death and suffering bother you. Frankly I can’t look through it without tearing up. But please take note of the other victims mentioned. The Holocaust took the lives of 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 non-Jews, we must not forget them when we talk about the Holocaust.

    Article: World War II - The Holocaust