Poster held by a protester at a UC Berkeley student senate meeting on Feb. 3, 2020. Photo: Moi Stern Weisleder. …
Bears for Palestine also held several propagandistic events. They screened “Farha” and “Tantura,” films that significantly distort the events leading up to and during the Israeli War of Independence. “Farha” draws inspiration from the imagination of director Darin Sallam and historical revisionist Ilan Pappe. “Tantura” primarily draws on the falsified accounts of Theodore Katz, a protege of Pappe known for fabricating historical accounts to advance a political agenda.
Bears for Palestine also hosted events promoting the libel of Jewish control over Palestinians. They even invited Berkeley students to an event to “free Palestine” from “the river to the sea.” This is a call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
I welcome any students interested in the truth about this vile hate campaign to check out CAMERA on Campus’s Apartheid Week Exposed website.
Despite efforts by Bears for Palestine to spread Jew-hatred and anti-Israel propaganda, Jewish and pro-students at Berkeley proudly gathered near Bears for Palestine’s libelous displays, respectfully holding Israeli flags and sharing hyperlinks to resources from groups such as CAMERA and Students Supporting Israel.
We will never back down; it is time for administrators and the ASUC to do the right thing and stand with us against Jew-hatred by adopting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and instituting policies to address incidents of antisemitism on campus sufficiently.
