Hat tip College Insurrection and Washington Free Beacon
It appears that Tufts University in Boston is putting its imprimatur on a workshop for anti-Israel activists by the Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization notorious for its intimidating tactics on college campuses against supporters of Israel.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/tufts-university-hosting-islamists-to-train-students-in-direct-action/
"A Tufts spokeswoman endorsed the SJP conference as part of the “robust exchange of ideas,” which “can be challenging and uncomfortable,” according to a statement provided to the Free Beacon by Katie Cinnamond Benoit, the school’s associate director of Public Relations."
Nonsense. This statement from Tufts gives the university's seal of approval on campus intimidation. The very term, "Direct Action", also utilized by the inappropriately-named Jewish Voice for Peace, means disruption of speaking events by those they disagree with. JVP put that into "direct action" when they disrupted the speech of Benjamin Netanyahu in New Orleans a few years back.
Taher Herzallah, whose Facebook page is featured in the article, was one of the so-called Irvine 11 who disrupted the speech of the Israeli ambassador to the US in 2010. He is now a national campus coordinator for American Muslims for Palestine, a like-minded group of intimidators whose co-founder is the same man who founded SJP-UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian.
Shame on Tufts.
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If Tufts is a private university, it can lend its name to anything it wants. (A public university could not).
If I were setting policy for Tufts, I would not give official endorsement to such an event. I might sign off on a group of Tufts students choosing to sponsor the event, and pay costs for renting university facilities to accommodate the off-campus participants. Or I might suggest that they find suitable commercial facilities for their event.
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