From FreeBeacon.com….
Student leaders at the University of Chicago peddled anti-Semitic tropes in a letter condemning Israel after a ceasefire ended a weeks-long conflict set off by the terrorist group Hamas.
In a joint letter with the Students for Justice in Palestine, the incoming Undergraduate Student Government called on May 22 for university officials to divest from Israel and “make accommodations” for Palestinian members of the school community. The unsigned letter states, “From the river to the sea, USG supports a Palestine that is free.” Anti-Israel activists use this slogan to call for the wholesale destruction of the Jewish state.
The University of Chicago is the latest American university where student leaders have condemned Israel for defending itself against Hamas. Israeli counterstrikes sparked a wave of anti-Semitic violence in the United States. Police are investigating one assault in New York City, where six men beat and pepper-sprayed a Jew while allegedly spewing anti-Semitic remarks. And a group of men screamed “Free Palestine,” “fuck you Jew,” “die Jew,” and “we’re going to rape your wife” at a Jewish family in Miami.
In the letter, student leaders demanded the university suspend study abroad programs in Israel and participate in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the Jewish state. BDS is an anti-Semitic movement popular on college campuses and designed to put economic pressure on Israel by cutting ties with the Jewish state’s companies.
