(Algemeiner) Mitchell Bard - UCLA is allowing the national conference of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to be held on its campus on November 16-18. SJP believes Zionism "can be destroyed," which is a call for mass murder. While SJP members claim they are just critics of Israeli policy, on Nov. 2 the SJP Facebook page had a graphic regarding who controls the press. A dozen media outlets were listed - along with the names, photos, and titles of Jews who work at them. Next to each picture was a Jewish star. As Dan Diker noted in his expose of SJP, the group "has maintained links to convicted terrorists and terror groups" and "sanctions violence, bigotry, harassment and intimidation of Jewish and Israel-friendly students and faculty on campus." The group's support for terrorists is reflected by past invitations to the conference given to convicted terrorists such as Khader Adnan, a senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Rasmea Odeh, a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Professor Judea Pearl told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: "I have served on the faculty of UCLA for 49 years and I have never thought I would see the day when the symbol of my university would turn into a Hamas recruitment poster." "The NSJP Conference reminds us that hate did not stop at Pittsburgh. U.S. campuses, emboldened by our blindness and inaction, are now offering racist groups a fertile ground to spawn their venom, test out intimidating tactics, and gain academic legitimacy." Do the right thing UCLA, and cancel the conference. The writer is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and the Jewish Virtual Library.
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