Today, The Jerusalem Post published an article by “proud CAMERA Fellow” and SUNY Binghamton student Justin Hayet called “My university won’t stand up for Israel”, in which he self-plagiarizes paragraphs of his February 11th column in the Pipe Dream on the ASA boycott, but this time adding irresponsible and volatile accusations against Binghamton SJP, including the claim that SJP members “bordered on anti-Semitism in their proud display of hate toward anything related to the Jewish state” during our Haifa Symphony protest on Feb 12th. The supposed “hatred” displayed at the hour-long demonstration is the reason, Justin alleges, that he has “not slept in days.”
Justin also writes that “roughly 80% of the student population, many of whom are Jews, are strategically being targeted for support by SJP” but does not explain what this means or where this number comes from.
The majority of the provisional board of Binghamton SJP is Jewish, and Jewish folks make up a significant part of our general body. Binghamton SJP stated its stance against anti-Semitism in its Feb 21st Pipe Dream column. If our organization turned out to be a front for anti-Semitism and racism, that would be pretty strange.
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