Student groups at California State University, Long Beach face backlash over a “disgusting” pro-Palestinian rally poster featuring a paraglider after Hamas terrorists used the plane to launch their deadly invasion in Israel.
The La Fuerza Student Association shared a poster for the “Day of Resistance: Protest for Palestine” event in which a drawing of protesters appears carrying a Palestinian flag, with a paraglider in the corner.
“Join us and CSU United Students Against Apartheid tomorrow at the Central Quad from 1:30 to 4:30,” La Fuerza wrote in a caption for Tuesday’s event.
“We will unite and march in support of Palestinian liberation and against the Zionist occupation in Palestine,” the group said.
“FROM PALESTINE TO THE PHILIPPINES, STOP THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE,” he concluded.
The event sparked backlash online, with critics slamming the poster as “disgusting.”
The La Fuerza Student Association made a poster for the event “Resistance Day: Protest for Palestine” in which a drawing appears of protesters carrying a Palestinian flag, with a paraglider in the corner. La Fuerza Student Association
“It’s disgusting that no one has taught them better,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter.
Another added: “How can a college student be so completely disconnected from the reality of Saturday’s massacre?”
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It is just the latest in a series of student organizations across the country that have expressed support for the terrorists who invaded Israel on Saturday and kidnapped and killed civilians.
The group, along with CSU Students United Against Apartheid, will protest in the quad on Tuesday. Brad Nixon – stock.adobe.com
Students for Justice in Palestine is also planning a National Day of Resistance for its university chapters on Thursday, and at least six SJP chapters have announced they will hold campus events on that date: Arizona State University , University of Arizona, Butler University, University of Louisville, Binghamton University and University of Virginia.
At least two other chapters, at Michigan State University and the University of Mary Washington, are calling for events at off-campus locations, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The national group previously described Hamas’ massacre of Israelis as “a historic victory for the Palestinian resistance” and called for “not just slogans and demonstrations, but an armed confrontation with the oppressors,” the ADL reports.
Students for Justice in Palestine are also planning a National Day of Resistance for their university chapters to be celebrated on Thursday. AFP via Getty Images
Its National Day of Resistance toolkit now promises to bring that “spirit of resistance” to college campuses across America, encouraging chapters to use tactics like protests and demonstrations, or to use “a sit-in, a riot, or a educational event.”
Some chapters have also published their own statements in support of Hamas, including the SJP at the University of California, San Diego, which republished a message from the Palestinian Youth Movement after the invasion, saying: “The resistance lives.”
SJP from California State University, Sacramento also shared a post that said: “As Muslims, we have a religious obligation ordained by Allah SWT to support the liberation of Palestine by any means necessary.”
And at Harvard, 31 student groups said they held Israel “completely responsible” for Hamas’s actions.
Harvard student groups say the Hamas attack “did not happen in a vacuum.” AFP via Getty Images
The groups claim that the Hamas attack “did not occur in a vacuum” and the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in an “open-air prison for more than two decades,” according to the letter obtained by The Post.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all the violence that is taking place,” they wrote in a letter.
“The apartheid regime is solely to blame,” the groups say.
Harvard groups blame Israeli policies for Hamas actions.AP
The letter has since been condemned by former Harvard University president Larry Summers.
“In nearly 50 years of membership at @Harvard, I have never felt as disillusioned and alienated as I am today,” said Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton who later advised President Barack Obama in the White House. he wrote on his X social media account.
“The silence of Harvard’s leadership thus far, along with a vocal and widely publicized statement by student groups blaming Israel alone, has allowed Harvard to appear, at best, neutral in the face of acts of terrorism against the Jewish State of Israel”.
“Instead, Harvard is being defined by the morally unconscionable statement apparently coming from two dozen student groups blaming all violence on Israel,” he wrote, adding, “I am disgusted.”
The Post contacted Harvard administrators for comment.
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