Nerdeen Kiswani
One masked demonstrator held up a picture of the slain Hamas leader and yelled, “The martyr is beloved by Allah! Israel is the enemy of Allah!”
Group activists have committed “some of the most horrific anti-Jewish violence that New York City has seen over the last three years,” said Mitchell Silber of Community Security Initiative.
“We vehemently stand against the Zionist movement within CUNY that aims to criminalize and demonize Palestinian students and workers,” reads the statement.
After a faculty vote to boycott Israel and a commencement speech filled with anti-Israel rhetoric, New York politicians are set to hold hearings on the matter.
Canary Mission: Nerdeen Kiswani, the force behind a violent and aggressive anti-Israel group in New York City, has been chosen to give a commencement address.
Within Our Lifetime handed out a map to participants with 10 specific addresses of Jewish and Zionist NGOs and foundations across the city.
“We’ve seen time and again where these social-media companies don’t take a strong enough stance and lift the restrictions. I don’t think they care enough to understand what the issue really is,” said Douglas Sandoval, campus advisor at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
Among those in the collage were Rasmea Odeh, convicted of two bombings in 1969, and Leila Khaled, part of a Palestinian group that hijacked a TWA flight that same year.
