Tablet Magazine

Shortly after the start of the organized pro-Palestinian student riots on campuses across the country last fall, the Rutgers University chapter of Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) issued a set of demands that followed a standard template now evident at multiple universities. In addition to divestment from Israel, incorporating anti-Palestinian racism into all mandatory DEI training and race-based curricula, and the creation of an Arab Cultural Center, the students demanded that Rutgers “hire additional professors specializing in Palestine and settler-colonial studies and institute a department of Middle East Studies.” Since then, Rutgers and other universities have caved to the demands of the mob.

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