Daniel Segal
Overview
Daniel Segal [Daniel A. Segal] blamed Israel for Hamas terrorist war crimes in late 2023. He has equated Israel with Nazi Germany, demonized pro-Israel Jews, expressed support for terrorists and promoted hatred of Zionism and Zionists.Segal has also demonized Israel and opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
In 2018 and 2019, Segal led a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement campaign at Pitzer College (Pitzer), where he has been a professor since 1986.
Pitzer is one of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate colleges that share a campus in Claremont, California. The colleges are a consortium called The Claremont Colleges (Claremont) and alternatively are known as “5Cs” or “7Cs.”
In June 2022, Segal was the faculty advisor for the campus Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter (Claremont SJP). He held the position as early as 2013.
As of February 2024, Segal was listed as a professor of anthropology and history at Pitzer.
As of the same date, Segal served on the “organizing collective” of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). He was also a member of an advisory group guiding the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (Anthroboycott).
Segal has also served on the Academic Advisory Council of Claremont College’s Open Hillel since 2015.
As of August 2021, Segal served as a “Coordinating Committee member” of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter in Los Angeles (JVP-LA) and he was reportedly a member of the JVP academic advisory council in 2017. As of March 2022, Segal indicated in his Twitter bio that he was still affiliated with JVP, in Los Angeles.
As of February 2024, Segal was listed online as having received a PhD and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago (UChicago), and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University (Cornell).
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
On October 9, 2023, Segal tweeted: “Funny too that the US condemns violent resistance to Israeli oppression but never supported nonviolent resistance to the oppression: those who didn’t/don’t support nonviolent resistance are violence’s truest acolytes, the steadiest opponents of peace.”
On October 10, 2023, Segal tweeted: “...The root cause of the violence today in Palestine-Israel is…the Israeli state oppression of Palestinians. This violence didn’t begin this week or with Hamas. It’s been intrinsic to the Israeli state throughout its existence as a settler colonial state.”
On the same date, Segal also tweeted: “...Oppression begats [sic] resistance, some of it violent, some of it deadly. To abhor violence, to replace it with peace, requires supporting non-violent resistance, in this case BDS…”
On October 23, 2023, Segal tweeted: “During AIDS crisis, homophobes invoked ‘promiscuity’ & ‘sodomy’ to block a humane response to mass dying of gay men; Zionists use ‘Hamas’ to block a humane response to mass dying in Gaza. It’s weaponization of Hamas…”
The phrase “Never Again” is often deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.
On November 13, 2021, Segal tweeted: “As a Jew, I am obligated to support #BDS, bcs ‘never again’ means for any of us. Seeking security for a people by attaching it to a state, a militarized state, is evil: we know the consequences. Scott Stringer needs to take time to study & reflect more deeply. #PalestinianFreedom.”
On October 18, 2021, Segal tweeted: “A sad, whining apartheidist. Never again means to any one: you betray the lesson of the Holocaust.#PalestinianFreedom.”
On September 15, 2021, Segal tweeted: “To all observing, may this be the Yom Kippur when we seek atonement for the sins done in our Jewish name by the Israeli apartheid state: it's denial of freedom to Palestinians. ‘Never again’ must mean to any human being or it too is wickedness. #YomKippur2021 #GmarChatimaTova.”
On July 21, 2021, Segal tweeted: “This proud Jew says 'please check your racism, please check your hate. Your apartheid disgraces Judaism.' Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom from the River to the Sea. #BDS because 'never again' means for all humans.”
Segal’s tweet addressed Jerusalem attorney Daniel Siedemann who led a U.S. Congressional delegation headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, three days earlier.
On June 24, 2021, Segal tweeted: “2/2 self-respecting Jews know ‘never again’ means never again to anyone. Hillel Intl is now a pro-Israeli apartheid and anti-Palestinian organization that deserves no institutional support on any college campus anywhere.”
Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
Also on October 23, 2020, Segal tweeted: “ZOOM legal counsel sent @pitzercollege letter threatening to shut us down, but we zoomcasted LEILA KHALED! We Resisted the Censorship! Write & tweet @zoom_us & tell them END THE CENSORSHIP! #AcademicFreedom #PalestinianLiberation …”
Segal retweeted a September 12, 2021 tweet that read: “Four of the Palestinian political prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison last week have been recaptured by Israeli forces. Their bravery and the hope they have given to the movement for Palestinian freedom is immeasurable.”
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.
Segal retweeted a September 13, 2021 tweet that read: “Last Monday 6 Palestinian political prisoners escaped from an Israeli prison by digging a tunnel with spoons. Today, protesters threw 465 spoons in front of the Israel embassy in a gesture of Solidarity with the 4,650 Palestinians caged by the occupiers.”
Segal retweeted a December 11, 2021 tweet that said: “Call to Action: Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, 15-22 January 2022.”
On January 4, 2022, Segal tweeted in support of Hisham Abu Hawash after he ended his 141-day hunger strike, writing: “Stay strong!!!”
In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.
On June 18, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Holocaust denial is evil & lies; Nakba denial is evil & lies; hasbara is Nakba denial, just as Zionism is ethnic cleansing. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
On July 16, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Shabbat shalom to all the Jews against Zionism. Bcs [because] Zionism is a racism. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
On February 18, 2022, Segal tweeted: “Shabbat Shalom to all who reject and resist Zionism. #BDS #PalestinianFreedom.”
On March 31, 2022, Segal tweeted against someone who was opposed to Within Our Lifetime (WOL) activists calling for “intifada” during a march in New York City.
Segal wrote: “Since evidence & reason are fully against you, against the Israeli apartheid state, against Zionism, against the Jewish supremacist state, the only thing you got is lies & hate: shanda propaganda!”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
On December 22, 2019, Segal tweeted: “Dedicate this Hanukah to resisting Zionist wickedness. With every flip of a latke, call out the brutality of the nakba, the occupation, the seige of Gaza, the refusal to allow the right of return.”
On May 10, 2021, Segal tweeted: “ … Zionists have no right to build in occupied Palestine, no. …”
Also on June 24, 2021, Segal tweeted in support of a doctor who was suspended by her hospital for a May 2021 Facebook post said: “We will uncover your thirst to kill our Palestinian children … A state based on atrocity, inhumanity, racism and cannibalism never lasts long! Hey #israel … your end is coming sooner than you think.”
Segal’s tweet was addressed to Phoenix Children’s Hospital in defense of Dr. Fidaa Wishah. His tweet said: “Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom.@PhxChildrens must not cave to racist hate of Zionist groups that cry wolf about anti semitism as a tool to oppress Palestinians.”
On March 3, 2022, Segal tweeted: “of course, the criminal Israeli state can't oppose the criminal Russian state engaging in illegal warfare and occupation, since that's Israel: illegal warfare & occupation.���
On November 29, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Happy Hanukah to all Jews who know the only real security is through solidarity and radical love--not a hyper-militarized state that uses violence in support of a Self/Other binary.”
Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights commemorating the victory of the Jews led by the Maccabees over the Greek Empire in the 2nd century BCE. This resulted in the liberation of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Second Temple. The eight-day festival is celebrated by lighting special Hanukkah candles.
On August 25, 2021, Segal co-wrote a letter on behalf of JVP LA where he said: “we in Jewish Voice for Peace-LA do not merely defend but fully and proudly embrace the proclamation, ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free’...”
On August 6, 2021, Segal tweeted: “#BDS is the path to justice.. Israel is a criminal state, and a desecration of Jewish faith.”
On July 19, 2021, Segal tweeted: “... Inside '48 is also occupied territory.Free Palestine from the River to the Sea. #PalestinianFreedom.Because apartheid, because ethnic cleansing, because settler colonialism, because racism are wrong.”
The phrases “Occupied 48” or “48 Palestine” are two common ways that anti-Israel activists refer to the State of Israel.
On May 28, 2021, Segal posted a letter to a Pitzer website that he signed with the California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF) in support of the SJP chapter at Middlebury College (Middlebury SJP). The letter accused Israel of having an “apartheid regime” and a “status as a criminal apartheid state.”
On January 25, 2021, Segal tweeted: “How dishonest & evil a person are you willing to be. Never again means never again for any human being: you betray the memory of the Holocaust.” Segal was responding to a tweet that defended Israel’s distribution of vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic.
All Israel's citizens, including Arabs, were provided equal and free access to a coronavirus vaccine.
On April 7, 2020, Segal tweeted: “Resist the occupation! Resist the siege of Gaza! Resist Israeli apartheid, in WB [West Bank], East Jerusalem, Gaza, & inside 48. Resist white nationalism, resist Jewish nationalism, resist all exclusionary nationalisms. Resist Zionism. Resist the wickedness of moderate demands for justice.”
On March 29, 2019, Segal tweeted: “When I was a kid my relatives would say the worst thing that could happen to Israel is that it would cease to exist; but 2day the worst that could happen is that Israel commits a new genocide…”
The letter accused Israel of practicing “Jewish supremacy” and of “colonial rule.” The authors said “we strongly disagree with the silencing of critical views of Israel that the adoption of the IHRA definition entails.”
Another aspect of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The definition also includes “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” and “Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
On November 29, 2021, Segal tweeted in support of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) for its vote to oppose the adoption of the IHRA definition. Segal described the vote as a “principled, pro-active & *gutsy* championing of academic freedom, w/out being compromised by support for Zionism. In the US, we need the same.”
Segal was reportedly “a strong proponent for the Suspend Pitzer Haifa campaign and was previously involved in leading the initial faculty vote in 2018 that catalyzed the College Council motion the following year.”
On September 10, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Shabbat shalom to all who work to insure that from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
On August 11, 2021, Segal wrote a blog post titled: “One Land Acknowledgment Present, One Missing: Fatuous Virtue Signaling at McMaster University.”
In the blog, Segal wrote: “Put simply: academic boycotts of Israeli universities are an important strategy in the struggle for academic freedom for Palestinians, as well as the struggle against Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing.”
On June 5, 2021,Segal tweeted: “An opportunity to vote for social justice and a just peace! @mes_aaa, pls lead the @AmericanAnthro to a principled stance in regard to Palestine and Israel, grounded in our discipline's commitment to recognize & respect all humanity. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
Segal’s tweet urged the Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to pass a resolution “To Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions.” The resolution claimed Israel practices “ethnic cleansing, colonization, apartheid” and that “Israel has consistently stood with other white supremacist and settler colonial regimes worldwide …”
On May 22, 2021, Segal tweeted a photo from an anti-Israel rally immediately after Israel entered into a ceasefire ending Operation Guardian of the Walls(OGW) against Hamas. One rally speaker cast [00:00:20] Israel as a “white supremacist” state and Segal wrote: “McArthur Park in LA now: Palestinian freedom is in the park & on the streets. #BDS #FreePalestine #EndApartheid.”
In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.
On January 13, 2019, Segal tweeted in opposition to a statement in support of Israel by a Jewish journalist.
Segal wrote: “... The facts on the ground are Zionism has been and is project that violates human rights and causes great social suffering. As a Jew, I think you have an ethical obligation to denounce Zionism. And support #BDS.”
The faculty motion was a non-binding recommendation to Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver. The motion called for the “suspension of the College’s exchange with Haifa University, until (a) the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel based on ancestry and/or political speech and (b) the Israeli state adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities.”
After the faculty vote, the motion calling for the Haifa program boycott was sent to the Pitzer College Council (PCC), Pitzer’s “primary legislative body,” which “votes on policy recommendations forwarded by the faculty as well as committees.” The PCC includes faculty and student senators who issue recommendations to the Pitzer president. The president is then free to approve or disapprove the recommendations.
On November 18, 2018, Claremont SJP issued a statement supporting the pro-BDS faculty vote, saying that it was “imperative” to end the “deeply problematic” Haifa program. Claremont SJP also circulated a petition to the public titled, “No Academic Freedom Under Occupation,” which accused Israel of having “increasingly draconian policies” and employing a “systemic practice of racial discrimination.”
On November 29, 2018, President Oliver responded to the faculty recommendation, opposing it and calling it a “repudiation of our educational mission… an anathema to Pitzer’s core values.” Oliver also critiqued the faculty’s singling out of Israel for special scrutiny, while ignoring Pitzer’s study abroad programs in countries with repressive regimes like China and Nepal.
On December 24, 2018, Segal tweeted: “What Birthright does is promote myopia about the Israeli state's apartheid & other violations of humanan [sic] rights of Pal sisters & brothers. #SuspendPitzerHaifa #BDS.”
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
On February 21, 2019, Segal tweeted: “Time for @jstreetdotorg to realize the gravest threat is not that Israel will cease to exist as Jewish state, but that an even more extreme Israeli government will commit genocide. Jstreet, time to support #BDS & #SuspendPitzerHaifa !”
On March 14, 2019, the PCC passed an amended motion to end Pitzer’s Haifa program. Segal co-sponsored the motion along with Pitzer Professor Claudia Strauss, who served as the Chair of the Pitzer Faculty Executive Committee (FEC). Their motion was a non-binding recommendation for Oliver and it passed with 68 voting in favor, 25 against and eight abstentions.
The amended motion outlined a “uniform policy” ending study abroad programs in countries that “restrict entry on the basis of either (a) legally protected political speech or (b) race or ancestry (as distinct from citizenship).” The only country specifically named in the amended motion was Israel. The motion claimed that the Haifa program violated the “uniform policy” and would be suspended immediately.
On the same day, Pitzer’s student newspaper, The Student Life, reported: “In advance of the Haifa vote, the organization [Claremont SJP] has focused on outreach to Pitzer faculty and student senators, and on building a coalition of other campus groups.”
Also on March 14, 2019, Oliver released a statement declining to implement the PCC motion, noting: “By singling out Israel, the recommendation itself is prejudiced.”
In the statement, Oliver also said: “Although some claim that this is not an academic boycott of Israel, I disagree. The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission.”
On March 15, 2019, Claremont SJP posted on Facebook that they would “continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.” Claremont SJP also posted an online petition demanding Oliver rescind his veto of the PCC motion and included the hashtag “#ProApartheidOliver.”
On March 24, 2019, Segal also tweeted a link to the petition, which he signed, and encouraged others to sign on: “To demand veto be overturned.”
On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP posted a Facebook event page for its “Palestine Freedom Week,” scheduled for March 25 to April 7, 2019. The event page advertised the BDS campaign against the Haifa program and used the hashtags “#SuspendPitzerHaifa” and “#MelvinWontListen.”
Also on March 25, 2019, Segal published an article on the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss promoting the BDS campaign.
On March 31, 2019, the Pitzer College Student Senate, introduced two resolutions at an “Emergency Meeting” called to address the Haifa program boycott campaign.
The first resolution said: “The Pitzer College Student Senate votes no confidence in President Melvin Oliver and, if President Oliver does not retract his anti-democratic decision by the end of the day on April 11, 2019, call for his immediate resignation or removal from office.”
Pitzer Senate president Shivani Kavuluru and vice presidents Kamyab Mashian and Dawson Reckers were among the co-sponsors for the second resolution. Their resolution censured Oliver’s veto and demanded that he retract his veto.
On April 7, 2019, the Pitzer Senate reportedly voted down the resolution of no confidence with 12 for and 20 against. The resolution censuring Oliver’s veto passed 29-0.
On March 17, 2022, Segal wrote a blog post where he suggested an equivalence between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “the Russian state’s assault on Ukraine” and called for Oliver to rescind his veto of the motion to suspend the Haifa program.
As of May 2022, Pitzer continued to offer its semester abroad program at the University of Haifa.
On June 4, 2021, Segal published an article on the Mondoweiss site titled: “An open letter to nine college administrators united in opposition to BDS.” In the Open Letter, Segal called Pomona President Gabrielle Starr’s rebuke of the ASPC resolution an “abuse of institutional power to bully undergraduates” and an act “of fealty to a settler colonial state, an apartheid state, an ethnic cleansing state.” On April 15, 2021, Claremont SJP and 5C JVP introduced their resolution to the ASPC Senate that mandated ASPC compliance with BDS.
The resolution was titled [p.1], “Banning the Use of ASPC Funding to Support the Occupation of Palestine” and it required [p.2] that ASPC “internal spending” could not be used on products or services from companies that “knowingly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The Claremont SJP and 5C JVP resolution cited [p.2] a list of mostly Israeli companies compiled by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a guide for which companies to boycott. ASPC internal spending includes multiple items such as funding 5C student clubs and student-run events.
The resolution created [p.2] an oversight role for Claremont SJP over the ASPC-run Coop Store and the Coop Fountain restaurant. ASPC would “work in tandem with members of SJP, and other pertinent parties, to perform an annual check on the ASPC’s businesses to ensure all goods sold adhere to the guidelines outlined in this resolution.”
The resolution also said [p.2]: “Clubs that fail to divest and/or refrain from such uses of funding would face the loss of all Claremont Colleges Student Government Association funds.” This clause effectively mandated BDS compliance even for pro-Israel and Jewish student organizations like Claremont Hillel and Claremont Chabad.
Claremont Colleges pool mandatory student activity fees and distribute the money to the 5C student governments. ASPC provides almost 47% of the funding for all 5C clubs, although each 5C student government can fund 5C clubs.
In spring 2021, ASPC gave more than $10,000 to 5C clubs. It also gave $30,000 for student-run events at Pomona that were coordinated through the ASPC’s Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The full ASPC spring 2021 budget was $216,700.
The Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP resolution also said [p.2] that ASPC’s “end goal” would be to lead other 5C student governments to pass similar BDS resolutions.
On April 22, 2021, the ASPC Senate passed the resolution with a vote of 10-0-0. Five senators were not present, representing one third of ASPC Senate’s 15 seats.
On the same day, Claremont SJP issued a press release calling the resolution’s passage “an important first step in reducing our complicity with a country that maintains an illegal military occupation and regularly commits crimes against humanity against the indigenous Palestinian population.”
On April 23, 2021, following criticism of the resolution reportedly among campus and national Jewish groups, Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body opposing the resolution. Starr said that requiring student clubs to boycott Israel was “deeply concerning.” He said that since the vote “was held without representation from any student opposition,” the ASPC Senate should “reverse course and allow for full discussion.”
On April 29, 2021, the ASPC Senate held a Zoom meeting that included a “comment period” for student senators and student guest speakers to express their feedback on the resolution.
On April 30, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly decided to “table the resolution” for further discussion on the resolution’s call to deny funding to student clubs that failed to adhere to BDS.
On May 6, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly passed a modified resolution that omitted the original clause forcing student clubs funded by ASPC to comply with BDS.
The final resolution mandated BDS compliance for internal ASPC spending, PEC-coordinated events and the two ASPC-managed businesses. Claremont SJP also received its new oversight role regarding the compliance of ASPC businesses with the resolution.
Claremont SJP created its Facebook page on June 2, 2011.
The petition supported Palestinian students detained or incarcerated by Israel for participating in terror-related activities and direct terror activity. Among them was Mays Abu Ghosh, Bir Zeit University student who was arrested by Israel for activism in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group.
Samidoun advocates for the release of all Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are members of Hamas or other terror groups like the PFLP. Multiple Samidoun activists have been identified as PFLP members, including Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun’s European Coordinator.
On March 26, 2021, Claremont SJP posted to Facebook an event page for an online panel titled “Free Them All!” that featured Samidoun’s Mohammed Khatib. The event page said speakers would give discuss “the importance of supporting and organizing for the freedom of political prisoners as part of the Palestinian national liberation struggle.”
“Pinkwashing” is an accusation anti-Israel activists use to demean Israel’s engagement with the LGBTQ community as a publicity ruse. “Greenwashing” is an accusation that Israel advocates manipulate the environmental community in order to gain support for Israel. “Faithwashing” is an accusation that supporters of Israel engage in interfaith dialogue to promote a pro-Zionist agenda.
On March 27, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled “Open Air & Cages: Prison Abolition from Attica to Gaza,” as part of PFW 2019, held on campus from March 25 - April 7, 2019. The event’s Facebook page called the United States and Israel “white supremacist and settler colonial projects.”
The same event page also said: “This event will work through the solidarity pacts of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Black Panther party who attempted to draw ‘comparisons between racial capitalism in the United States and Israel ...’”
Yasser Arafat, known as the “father of modern terrorism,” was the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). During the second intifada, Arafat encouraged children to carry out “martyrdom” operations against Israel.
Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a revolutionary Marxist political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966. BPP advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government. BPP members were involved in many fatal firefights with police; in 1967, Newton allegedly killed police officer John Frey.
On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled, “Visit the Mock Apartheid Wall,” where they built a wall on campus meant to simulate Israel’s security barrier.
On April 9, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted PFW 2018, held on campus from April 9 - 21, 2018. The event’s Facebook description read: “2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba — the planned mass expulsion of more than 750,000 indigenous Palestinians to establish an exclusionary Jewish-majority state in Palestine.”
Nakba is an Arabic term for “catastrophe” and refers to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel.
Hamas has been designated aterrorist organizationby the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.
Martin was a former anchor for Russian state news agency RT and Venezuelan state news agency Telasur. She has compared [00:00:13] Israel to Nazi Germany and spread anti-Israel propaganda. Martin’s husband, Michael Prysner has defended terrorism and has referred to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the “Apartheid Defense Forces.”At the Claremont SJP event, Martin reportedly accused a Jewish student journalist of being “associated with ‘white nationalists.’” Prysner also called Israel an “attack dog” of the United States.
At the same event, Claremont SJP screened the film “Gaza Fights for Freedom,” which Prysner and Martin directed and produced. The film’s website said: “Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
March participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.” Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.
Rioters threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires. Participants also sent scores of kites bearing incendiary devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes.
The violent riots continued until the end of 2018, accompanied by military-style attacks carried out by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other terrorist organizations. The attacks included gunfire, armed rioters penetrating Israeli territory, throwing IEDs and hand grenades and the continued launching of incendiary kites into Israel.
Photojournalist, Yasser Murtaja was reportedly a Hamas spy who useddrones to film Israeli positions and was shot as he filmed the 2018 “March of Return” protest in Gaza, on April 6, 2018.
On April 14, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted an event on campus, titled “Voices of Palestine Resistance” to promote the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
The event’s Facebook description said: “The presentation includes an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film by three ISM volunteers serving in Nabi Salih and featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.”
Ahed Tamimi, who has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers, was detained after she was filmed punching and kicking Israeli soldiers. Ayyad, also known as “Janna Jihad,” is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi and an anti-Israel youth activist and amateur journalist.
A Tamimi family stronghold, the village of Nabi Saleh is notorious for weekly gatherings where photographers document scenes of Palestinian residents and international activists clashing with Israeli soldiers. Much of this is instigated by the Nabi Saleh Tamimi clan.
In March 2019, the Pitzer College Council (PCC) also voted to suspend the program, but Pitzer President Melvin Oliver said he would veto the PCC recommendation. The PCC is a body of student and faculty members who vote on recommendations to the Pitzer president.
On March 15, 2019, Claremont SJP wrote on Facebook “#ProApartheidOliver” and said that they would “continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.” Claremont SJP also posted an online petition demanding Oliver rescind his veto of the PCC motion.
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In June 2022, Segal was the faculty advisor for the campus Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter (Claremont SJP). He held the position as early as 2013.
As of February 2024, Segal was listed as a professor of anthropology and history at Pitzer.
As of the same date, Segal served on the “organizing collective” of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). He was also a member of an advisory group guiding the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (Anthroboycott).
Segal has also served on the Academic Advisory Council of Claremont College’s Open Hillel since 2015.
As of August 2021, Segal served as a “Coordinating Committee member” of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter in Los Angeles (JVP-LA) and he was reportedly a member of the JVP academic advisory council in 2017. As of March 2022, Segal indicated in his Twitter bio that he was still affiliated with JVP, in Los Angeles.
As of February 2024, Segal was listed online as having received a PhD and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago (UChicago), and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University (Cornell).
Blaming Israel for Hamas Terrorist War Crimes
On October 7, 2023, the day over 1,200 Israeli citizens were massacred by Hamas terrorists, Segal tweeted: “Israeli state apartheid, ethnic cleansing & settler colonialism are ongoing violence against Palestinians; some of the resistance provoked is violent also.All who support the oppression, all who oppose non-violent BDS, have more blood on their hands today. #PalestinianFreedom.”Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
On October 9, 2023, Segal tweeted: “Funny too that the US condemns violent resistance to Israeli oppression but never supported nonviolent resistance to the oppression: those who didn’t/don’t support nonviolent resistance are violence’s truest acolytes, the steadiest opponents of peace.”
On October 10, 2023, Segal tweeted: “...The root cause of the violence today in Palestine-Israel is…the Israeli state oppression of Palestinians. This violence didn’t begin this week or with Hamas. It’s been intrinsic to the Israeli state throughout its existence as a settler colonial state.”
On the same date, Segal also tweeted: “...Oppression begats [sic] resistance, some of it violent, some of it deadly. To abhor violence, to replace it with peace, requires supporting non-violent resistance, in this case BDS…”
On October 23, 2023, Segal tweeted: “During AIDS crisis, homophobes invoked ‘promiscuity’ & ‘sodomy’ to block a humane response to mass dying of gay men; Zionists use ‘Hamas’ to block a humane response to mass dying in Gaza. It’s weaponization of Hamas…”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
On October 28, 2023, Segal tweeted: “As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, *Israeli state commits genocidal acts*...”
Segal was mocking the title of a New York Times article called: “As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies.”
On November 15, 2023, Segal tweeted: “US has lied so often for so many years about ‘intelligence,’ in every war of my lifetime, that its claim today about Hamas & hospitals is worth no more than toilet paper already used to wipe…”
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
Segal was mocking the title of a New York Times article called: “As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies.”
On November 15, 2023, Segal tweeted: “US has lied so often for so many years about ‘intelligence,’ in every war of my lifetime, that its claim today about Hamas & hospitals is worth no more than toilet paper already used to wipe…”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis as young as an infant of nine months and as old as 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Equating Israel with Nazi Germany
From January 2019 to June 2022, Segal tweeted the slogan “never again” at least 47 times in order to equate Israel with Nazi Germany, a contemporary form of anti-Semitism.The phrase “Never Again” is often deployed as a general declaration against genocide, invoking the Nazis’ war of extermination against the Jews.
On November 13, 2021, Segal tweeted: “As a Jew, I am obligated to support #BDS, bcs ‘never again’ means for any of us. Seeking security for a people by attaching it to a state, a militarized state, is evil: we know the consequences. Scott Stringer needs to take time to study & reflect more deeply. #PalestinianFreedom.”
On October 18, 2021, Segal tweeted: “A sad, whining apartheidist. Never again means to any one: you betray the lesson of the Holocaust.#PalestinianFreedom.”
On September 15, 2021, Segal tweeted: “To all observing, may this be the Yom Kippur when we seek atonement for the sins done in our Jewish name by the Israeli apartheid state: it's denial of freedom to Palestinians. ‘Never again’ must mean to any human being or it too is wickedness. #YomKippur2021 #GmarChatimaTova.”
On July 21, 2021, Segal tweeted: “This proud Jew says 'please check your racism, please check your hate. Your apartheid disgraces Judaism.' Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom from the River to the Sea. #BDS because 'never again' means for all humans.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On April 10, 2019, Segal tweeted: “The choice for liberal Zionists is clear: be apologists for apartheid, fascism, annexation, ethnic cleansing OR social justice allies of Palestinians. What do you think ‘never again’ means? @truahrabbis @jstreetdotorg @dylanotes @rabbijilljacobs @PeterBeinart Support #BDS now.”
Demonizing Pro-Israel Jews
On February 20, 2022, Segal tweeted: “Putting a tie on apartheid & murderous ethnic cleansing just doesn't matter. The Israeli state is an unjustifiable evil, at the expense of our Palestininian sisters & brothers. It's a shanda [disgrace]. No Jew should shill for this evil. #BDS #PalestinianFreedom.”Segal’s tweet addressed Jerusalem attorney Daniel Siedemann who led a U.S. Congressional delegation headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, three days earlier.
On June 24, 2021, Segal tweeted: “2/2 self-respecting Jews know ‘never again’ means never again to anyone. Hillel Intl is now a pro-Israeli apartheid and anti-Palestinian organization that deserves no institutional support on any college campus anywhere.”
Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization serving college students at 850 universities worldwide.
Supporting Terrorists
On October 23, 2020, Segal tweeted a link to an online Pitzer event on Zoom featuring terrorist Leila Khaled. He wrote in the tweet: “RESIST THE CENSORSHIP! 2pm PT: LEILA KHALED & commentary from Richard Falk, Miranda Sheffield...in a Claremont Colleges webinar:”Leila Khaled is a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and participated in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970. As of 2017, Khaled was a member of PFLP's Political Bureau. Khaled has said that the second intifada failed because it was not violent enough, advocated [00:36:07] for the use of children in terror activities and compared Zionists to Nazis.
Also on October 23, 2020, Segal tweeted: “ZOOM legal counsel sent @pitzercollege letter threatening to shut us down, but we zoomcasted LEILA KHALED! We Resisted the Censorship! Write & tweet @zoom_us & tell them END THE CENSORSHIP! #AcademicFreedom #PalestinianLiberation …”
Segal retweeted a September 12, 2021 tweet that read: “Four of the Palestinian political prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison last week have been recaptured by Israeli forces. Their bravery and the hope they have given to the movement for Palestinian freedom is immeasurable.”
On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison in Israel. The escaped prisoners were convicted members of the terror organizations Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who were jailed for their involvement in attacks carried out during the second intifada. All were recaptured by September 19, 2021, by Israeli authorities.
Segal retweeted a September 13, 2021 tweet that read: “Last Monday 6 Palestinian political prisoners escaped from an Israeli prison by digging a tunnel with spoons. Today, protesters threw 465 spoons in front of the Israel embassy in a gesture of Solidarity with the 4,650 Palestinians caged by the occupiers.”
Segal retweeted a December 11, 2021 tweet that said: “Call to Action: Week of Solidarity to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners, 15-22 January 2022.”
Ahmad Sa’adat is the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He is currently serving in an Israeli prison for terror activities, including his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi. Under Sa’adat’s leadership, the PFLP perpetrated many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians during the second intifada.
On January 4, 2022, Segal tweeted in support of Hisham Abu Hawash after he ended his 141-day hunger strike, writing: “Stay strong!!!”
In October 2021, six prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)'s armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, chose to prolong their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention by Israel. The six men were Kayed al-Fasfus, Miqdad al-Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr and Ayyad Hureimi.
Hatred of Zionism
On May 23, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Self-respecting Jews are anti-Zionists, bcs Zionism is settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing and apartheid--and racist. Self-respecting Jews aren't racist. They support Palestinian freedom. & #BDS.”On June 18, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Holocaust denial is evil & lies; Nakba denial is evil & lies; hasbara is Nakba denial, just as Zionism is ethnic cleansing. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
On July 16, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Shabbat shalom to all the Jews against Zionism. Bcs [because] Zionism is a racism. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
On February 18, 2022, Segal tweeted: “Shabbat Shalom to all who reject and resist Zionism. #BDS #PalestinianFreedom.”
On March 31, 2022, Segal tweeted against someone who was opposed to Within Our Lifetime (WOL) activists calling for “intifada” during a march in New York City.
Segal wrote: “Since evidence & reason are fully against you, against the Israeli apartheid state, against Zionism, against the Jewish supremacist state, the only thing you got is lies & hate: shanda propaganda!”
Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.
Hatred of Zionists
On January 17, 2019, Segal tweeted against the blockade of Gaza, writing: “Be inspired to show ethical leadership and urge Israel to open it's borders to nearly 2 million it imprisons in Gaza #EndLiberalZionistHypocricies Support #BDS.”The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces.
On December 22, 2019, Segal tweeted: “Dedicate this Hanukah to resisting Zionist wickedness. With every flip of a latke, call out the brutality of the nakba, the occupation, the seige of Gaza, the refusal to allow the right of return.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
On May 10, 2021, Segal tweeted: “ … Zionists have no right to build in occupied Palestine, no. …”
Also on June 24, 2021, Segal tweeted in support of a doctor who was suspended by her hospital for a May 2021 Facebook post said: “We will uncover your thirst to kill our Palestinian children … A state based on atrocity, inhumanity, racism and cannibalism never lasts long! Hey #israel … your end is coming sooner than you think.”
Segal’s tweet was addressed to Phoenix Children’s Hospital in defense of Dr. Fidaa Wishah. His tweet said: “Self-respecting Jews support Palestinian freedom.@PhxChildrens must not cave to racist hate of Zionist groups that cry wolf about anti semitism as a tool to oppress Palestinians.”
Demonizing Israel
On March 14, 2022, Segal tweeted: “there's no IDF [Israel Defense Forces], there is only an offense force, an offensive military, no defense force…”On March 3, 2022, Segal tweeted: “of course, the criminal Israeli state can't oppose the criminal Russian state engaging in illegal warfare and occupation, since that's Israel: illegal warfare & occupation.���
On November 29, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Happy Hanukah to all Jews who know the only real security is through solidarity and radical love--not a hyper-militarized state that uses violence in support of a Self/Other binary.”
Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights commemorating the victory of the Jews led by the Maccabees over the Greek Empire in the 2nd century BCE. This resulted in the liberation of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Second Temple. The eight-day festival is celebrated by lighting special Hanukkah candles.
On August 25, 2021, Segal co-wrote a letter on behalf of JVP LA where he said: “we in Jewish Voice for Peace-LA do not merely defend but fully and proudly embrace the proclamation, ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free’...”
On August 6, 2021, Segal tweeted: “#BDS is the path to justice.. Israel is a criminal state, and a desecration of Jewish faith.”
On July 19, 2021, Segal tweeted: “... Inside '48 is also occupied territory.Free Palestine from the River to the Sea. #PalestinianFreedom.Because apartheid, because ethnic cleansing, because settler colonialism, because racism are wrong.”
The phrases “Occupied 48” or “48 Palestine” are two common ways that anti-Israel activists refer to the State of Israel.
On May 28, 2021, Segal posted a letter to a Pitzer website that he signed with the California Scholars for Academic Freedom (CS4AF) in support of the SJP chapter at Middlebury College (Middlebury SJP). The letter accused Israel of having an “apartheid regime” and a “status as a criminal apartheid state.”
On January 25, 2021, Segal tweeted: “How dishonest & evil a person are you willing to be. Never again means never again for any human being: you betray the memory of the Holocaust.” Segal was responding to a tweet that defended Israel’s distribution of vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic.
All Israel's citizens, including Arabs, were provided equal and free access to a coronavirus vaccine.
On April 7, 2020, Segal tweeted: “Resist the occupation! Resist the siege of Gaza! Resist Israeli apartheid, in WB [West Bank], East Jerusalem, Gaza, & inside 48. Resist white nationalism, resist Jewish nationalism, resist all exclusionary nationalisms. Resist Zionism. Resist the wickedness of moderate demands for justice.”
On March 29, 2019, Segal tweeted: “When I was a kid my relatives would say the worst thing that could happen to Israel is that it would cease to exist; but 2day the worst that could happen is that Israel commits a new genocide…”
Opposing IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism
On February 22, 2021, Segal co-authored a letter on behalf of CS4AF opposing the IHRA definition of contemporary anti-Semitism, which includes equating Israel with Nazi Germany.The letter accused Israel of practicing “Jewish supremacy” and of “colonial rule.” The authors said “we strongly disagree with the silencing of critical views of Israel that the adoption of the IHRA definition entails.”
Another aspect of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The definition also includes “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” and “Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
On November 29, 2021, Segal tweeted in support of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) for its vote to oppose the adoption of the IHRA definition. Segal described the vote as a “principled, pro-active & *gutsy* championing of academic freedom, w/out being compromised by support for Zionism. In the US, we need the same.”
Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)
On February 12, 2024, Segal tweeted: “#SuspendPitzerHaifa motion, suspending Pitzer study abroad w complicit Israeli universities, passes @pitzercollege Student Senate 34-1. Students tell president, College must end its complicity in genocide…”
Segal was reportedly “a strong proponent for the Suspend Pitzer Haifa campaign and was previously involved in leading the initial faculty vote in 2018 that catalyzed the College Council motion the following year.”
On August 11, 2021, Segal wrote a blog post titled: “One Land Acknowledgment Present, One Missing: Fatuous Virtue Signaling at McMaster University.”
In the blog, Segal wrote: “Put simply: academic boycotts of Israeli universities are an important strategy in the struggle for academic freedom for Palestinians, as well as the struggle against Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing.”
On June 5, 2021,Segal tweeted: “An opportunity to vote for social justice and a just peace! @mes_aaa, pls lead the @AmericanAnthro to a principled stance in regard to Palestine and Israel, grounded in our discipline's commitment to recognize & respect all humanity. #PalestinianFreedom #BDS.”
Segal’s tweet urged the Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to pass a resolution “To Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions.” The resolution claimed Israel practices “ethnic cleansing, colonization, apartheid” and that “Israel has consistently stood with other white supremacist and settler colonial regimes worldwide …”
On May 22, 2021, Segal tweeted a photo from an anti-Israel rally immediately after Israel entered into a ceasefire ending Operation Guardian of the Walls(OGW) against Hamas. One rally speaker cast [00:00:20] Israel as a “white supremacist” state and Segal wrote: “McArthur Park in LA now: Palestinian freedom is in the park & on the streets. #BDS #FreePalestine #EndApartheid.”
In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.
On January 13, 2019, Segal tweeted in opposition to a statement in support of Israel by a Jewish journalist.
Segal wrote: “... The facts on the ground are Zionism has been and is project that violates human rights and causes great social suffering. As a Jew, I think you have an ethical obligation to denounce Zionism. And support #BDS.”
Leading a BDS Campaign at Pitzer 2018-2019
On November 8, 2018, Pitzer College faculty voted for a motion to suspend Pitzer’s Haifa program, which Pitzer had run since 2007. Segal reportedly led the boycott campaign.The faculty motion was a non-binding recommendation to Pitzer President Melvin L. Oliver. The motion called for the “suspension of the College’s exchange with Haifa University, until (a) the Israeli state ends its restrictions on entry to Israel based on ancestry and/or political speech and (b) the Israeli state adopts policies granting visas for exchanges to Palestinian universities on a fully equal basis as it does to Israeli universities.”
After the faculty vote, the motion calling for the Haifa program boycott was sent to the Pitzer College Council (PCC), Pitzer’s “primary legislative body,” which “votes on policy recommendations forwarded by the faculty as well as committees.” The PCC includes faculty and student senators who issue recommendations to the Pitzer president. The president is then free to approve or disapprove the recommendations.
On November 18, 2018, Claremont SJP issued a statement supporting the pro-BDS faculty vote, saying that it was “imperative” to end the “deeply problematic” Haifa program. Claremont SJP also circulated a petition to the public titled, “No Academic Freedom Under Occupation,” which accused Israel of having “increasingly draconian policies” and employing a “systemic practice of racial discrimination.”
On November 29, 2018, President Oliver responded to the faculty recommendation, opposing it and calling it a “repudiation of our educational mission… an anathema to Pitzer’s core values.” Oliver also critiqued the faculty’s singling out of Israel for special scrutiny, while ignoring Pitzer’s study abroad programs in countries with repressive regimes like China and Nepal.
On December 24, 2018, Segal tweeted: “What Birthright does is promote myopia about the Israeli state's apartheid & other violations of humanan [sic] rights of Pal sisters & brothers. #SuspendPitzerHaifa #BDS.”
Birthright Israel is a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.
On February 21, 2019, Segal tweeted: “Time for @jstreetdotorg to realize the gravest threat is not that Israel will cease to exist as Jewish state, but that an even more extreme Israeli government will commit genocide. Jstreet, time to support #BDS & #SuspendPitzerHaifa !”
On March 14, 2019, the PCC passed an amended motion to end Pitzer’s Haifa program. Segal co-sponsored the motion along with Pitzer Professor Claudia Strauss, who served as the Chair of the Pitzer Faculty Executive Committee (FEC). Their motion was a non-binding recommendation for Oliver and it passed with 68 voting in favor, 25 against and eight abstentions.
The amended motion outlined a “uniform policy” ending study abroad programs in countries that “restrict entry on the basis of either (a) legally protected political speech or (b) race or ancestry (as distinct from citizenship).” The only country specifically named in the amended motion was Israel. The motion claimed that the Haifa program violated the “uniform policy” and would be suspended immediately.
On the same day, Pitzer’s student newspaper, The Student Life, reported: “In advance of the Haifa vote, the organization [Claremont SJP] has focused on outreach to Pitzer faculty and student senators, and on building a coalition of other campus groups.”
Also on March 14, 2019, Oliver released a statement declining to implement the PCC motion, noting: “By singling out Israel, the recommendation itself is prejudiced.”
In the statement, Oliver also said: “Although some claim that this is not an academic boycott of Israel, I disagree. The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission.”
On March 15, 2019, Claremont SJP posted on Facebook that they would “continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.” Claremont SJP also posted an online petition demanding Oliver rescind his veto of the PCC motion and included the hashtag “#ProApartheidOliver.”
On March 24, 2019, Segal also tweeted a link to the petition, which he signed, and encouraged others to sign on: “To demand veto be overturned.”
On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP posted a Facebook event page for its “Palestine Freedom Week,” scheduled for March 25 to April 7, 2019. The event page advertised the BDS campaign against the Haifa program and used the hashtags “#SuspendPitzerHaifa” and “#MelvinWontListen.”
Also on March 25, 2019, Segal published an article on the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss promoting the BDS campaign.
On March 31, 2019, the Pitzer College Student Senate, introduced two resolutions at an “Emergency Meeting” called to address the Haifa program boycott campaign.
The first resolution said: “The Pitzer College Student Senate votes no confidence in President Melvin Oliver and, if President Oliver does not retract his anti-democratic decision by the end of the day on April 11, 2019, call for his immediate resignation or removal from office.”
Pitzer Senate president Shivani Kavuluru and vice presidents Kamyab Mashian and Dawson Reckers were among the co-sponsors for the second resolution. Their resolution censured Oliver’s veto and demanded that he retract his veto.
On April 7, 2019, the Pitzer Senate reportedly voted down the resolution of no confidence with 12 for and 20 against. The resolution censuring Oliver’s veto passed 29-0.
On March 17, 2022, Segal wrote a blog post where he suggested an equivalence between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “the Russian state’s assault on Ukraine” and called for Oliver to rescind his veto of the motion to suspend the Haifa program.
As of May 2022, Pitzer continued to offer its semester abroad program at the University of Haifa.
Supporting a 2021 Pomona BDS Resolution
In April 2021, Segal expressed support for a BDS resolution that was drafted by Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP and was introduced in the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC). Pomona is an undergraduate college at Claremont.On April 23, 2021, Segal tweeted: “Kudos to Claremont Colleges SJP & JVP on a #BDS victory @pomonacollege of the Claremont Colleges. Pomona @aspcsenate voted 13-0 to boycott & divest frm corporations complicit in Israeli occupation of Palestine. @PACBI @NationalSJP @AdalahJustice @USCPR_ @AAIUSA @jvplive @theIMEU”
On June 4, 2021, Segal published an article on the Mondoweiss site titled: “An open letter to nine college administrators united in opposition to BDS.” In the Open Letter, Segal called Pomona President Gabrielle Starr’s rebuke of the ASPC resolution an “abuse of institutional power to bully undergraduates” and an act “of fealty to a settler colonial state, an apartheid state, an ethnic cleansing state.” On April 15, 2021, Claremont SJP and 5C JVP introduced their resolution to the ASPC Senate that mandated ASPC compliance with BDS.
The resolution was titled [p.1], “Banning the Use of ASPC Funding to Support the Occupation of Palestine” and it required [p.2] that ASPC “internal spending” could not be used on products or services from companies that “knowingly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The Claremont SJP and 5C JVP resolution cited [p.2] a list of mostly Israeli companies compiled by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a guide for which companies to boycott. ASPC internal spending includes multiple items such as funding 5C student clubs and student-run events.
The resolution created [p.2] an oversight role for Claremont SJP over the ASPC-run Coop Store and the Coop Fountain restaurant. ASPC would “work in tandem with members of SJP, and other pertinent parties, to perform an annual check on the ASPC’s businesses to ensure all goods sold adhere to the guidelines outlined in this resolution.”
The resolution also said [p.2]: “Clubs that fail to divest and/or refrain from such uses of funding would face the loss of all Claremont Colleges Student Government Association funds.” This clause effectively mandated BDS compliance even for pro-Israel and Jewish student organizations like Claremont Hillel and Claremont Chabad.
Claremont Colleges pool mandatory student activity fees and distribute the money to the 5C student governments. ASPC provides almost 47% of the funding for all 5C clubs, although each 5C student government can fund 5C clubs.
In spring 2021, ASPC gave more than $10,000 to 5C clubs. It also gave $30,000 for student-run events at Pomona that were coordinated through the ASPC’s Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The full ASPC spring 2021 budget was $216,700.
The Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP resolution also said [p.2] that ASPC’s “end goal” would be to lead other 5C student governments to pass similar BDS resolutions.
On April 22, 2021, the ASPC Senate passed the resolution with a vote of 10-0-0. Five senators were not present, representing one third of ASPC Senate’s 15 seats.
On the same day, Claremont SJP issued a press release calling the resolution’s passage “an important first step in reducing our complicity with a country that maintains an illegal military occupation and regularly commits crimes against humanity against the indigenous Palestinian population.”
On April 23, 2021, following criticism of the resolution reportedly among campus and national Jewish groups, Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body opposing the resolution. Starr said that requiring student clubs to boycott Israel was “deeply concerning.” He said that since the vote “was held without representation from any student opposition,” the ASPC Senate should “reverse course and allow for full discussion.”
On April 29, 2021, the ASPC Senate held a Zoom meeting that included a “comment period” for student senators and student guest speakers to express their feedback on the resolution.
On April 30, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly decided to “table the resolution” for further discussion on the resolution’s call to deny funding to student clubs that failed to adhere to BDS.
On May 6, 2021, the ASPC Senate reportedly passed a modified resolution that omitted the original clause forcing student clubs funded by ASPC to comply with BDS.
The final resolution mandated BDS compliance for internal ASPC spending, PEC-coordinated events and the two ASPC-managed businesses. Claremont SJP also received its new oversight role regarding the compliance of ASPC businesses with the resolution.
Claremont SJP - Overview
Claremont SJP has expressed support for terrorists, called for Israel’s destruction and rejected dialogue. The group has also demonized Israel, promoted anti-Israel agitators and campaigned for the BDS movement.Claremont SJP created its Facebook page on June 2, 2011.
Claremont SJP - Supporting Terrorists 2020-2021
As of July 2021, Claremont SJP had signed a petition called the “Palestinian Students Solidarity Campaign” that was launched by the anti-Israel NGO Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun).The petition supported Palestinian students detained or incarcerated by Israel for participating in terror-related activities and direct terror activity. Among them was Mays Abu Ghosh, Bir Zeit University student who was arrested by Israel for activism in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group.
Samidoun advocates for the release of all Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are members of Hamas or other terror groups like the PFLP. Multiple Samidoun activists have been identified as PFLP members, including Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun’s European Coordinator.
On March 26, 2021, Claremont SJP posted to Facebook an event page for an online panel titled “Free Them All!” that featured Samidoun’s Mohammed Khatib. The event page said speakers would give discuss “the importance of supporting and organizing for the freedom of political prisoners as part of the Palestinian national liberation struggle.”
Claremont SJP - Demonizing Israel 2018-2019
On April 2, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled “The Washings: Pinkwashing, Greenwashing, and Faithwashing,” as part of PFW 2019. The Facebook event page accused Israel of “settler colonialism” and also said: “The Washing Campaign has been fundamental in sustaining Israeli apartheid by way of presenting Israel as a progressive entity in an effort to deflect from state-sanctioned crimes against Palestine.”“Pinkwashing” is an accusation anti-Israel activists use to demean Israel’s engagement with the LGBTQ community as a publicity ruse. “Greenwashing” is an accusation that Israel advocates manipulate the environmental community in order to gain support for Israel. “Faithwashing” is an accusation that supporters of Israel engage in interfaith dialogue to promote a pro-Zionist agenda.
On March 27, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled “Open Air & Cages: Prison Abolition from Attica to Gaza,” as part of PFW 2019, held on campus from March 25 - April 7, 2019. The event’s Facebook page called the United States and Israel “white supremacist and settler colonial projects.”
The same event page also said: “This event will work through the solidarity pacts of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Black Panther party who attempted to draw ‘comparisons between racial capitalism in the United States and Israel ...’”
Yasser Arafat, known as the “father of modern terrorism,” was the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). During the second intifada, Arafat encouraged children to carry out “martyrdom” operations against Israel.
Arafat reportedly told Arab diplomats in a secret meeting in 1996: "We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews."
The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a revolutionary Marxist political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966. BPP advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government. BPP members were involved in many fatal firefights with police; in 1967, Newton allegedly killed police officer John Frey.
On March 25, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted an event titled, “Visit the Mock Apartheid Wall,” where they built a wall on campus meant to simulate Israel’s security barrier.
Israel’s security barrier, built as a deterrent to Palestinian terror attacks, is 97% low chain-link barrier. The concrete portions of the fence were built in response to Palestinian sniper attacks.
The event’s Facebook page read: “The Wall is an extension of Israel’s policies of land theft and ethnic cleansing.” The page also said: “We especially want to bring attention between the connections between the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Palestine and other similar racist, oppressive projects of border militarization around the world.”
Claremont SJP - Demonizing Israel 2017-2018
On April 9, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted PFW 2018, held on campus from April 9 - 21, 2018. The event’s Facebook description read: “2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba — the planned mass expulsion of more than 750,000 indigenous Palestinians to establish an exclusionary Jewish-majority state in Palestine.”Claremont SJP - Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators 2019-2020
On November 14, 2019, Claremont SJP hosted a film screening event featuring anti-Israel activists Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, where Martin reportedly “defended Hamas and placed sole blame on Israel for the lack of peace between both states.”Hamas has been designated aterrorist organizationby the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.
Martin was a former anchor for Russian state news agency RT and Venezuelan state news agency Telasur. She has compared [00:00:13] Israel to Nazi Germany and spread anti-Israel propaganda. Martin’s husband, Michael Prysner has defended terrorism and has referred to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the “Apartheid Defense Forces.”At the Claremont SJP event, Martin reportedly accused a Jewish student journalist of being “associated with ‘white nationalists.’” Prysner also called Israel an “attack dog” of the United States.
At the same event, Claremont SJP screened the film “Gaza Fights for Freedom,” which Prysner and Martin directed and produced. The film’s website said: “Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
March participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.” Participants also attempted to breach the border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.
Rioters threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires. Participants also sent scores of kites bearing incendiary devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes.
The violent riots continued until the end of 2018, accompanied by military-style attacks carried out by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other terrorist organizations. The attacks included gunfire, armed rioters penetrating Israeli territory, throwing IEDs and hand grenades and the continued launching of incendiary kites into Israel.
Claremont SJP - Promoting Anti-Israel Agitators 2017-2018
On April 15, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted a “Solidarity Vigil with Gaza” on campus in support of the March of Return riots. The event’s Facebook description alleged Israeli snipers “opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least 35 people, including photojournalist Yaser Murtaja while he was wearing a press jacket, and injuring at least 3,000.”Photojournalist, Yasser Murtaja was reportedly a Hamas spy who useddrones to film Israeli positions and was shot as he filmed the 2018 “March of Return” protest in Gaza, on April 6, 2018.
On April 14, 2018, Claremont SJP hosted an event on campus, titled “Voices of Palestine Resistance” to promote the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded in 2001 with the goal of “resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.” ISM has been accused of supporting terrorism and has encouraged volunteers to act “as human shields in cities, towns and refugee camps.”
The event’s Facebook description said: “The presentation includes an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film by three ISM volunteers serving in Nabi Salih and featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.”
Ahed Tamimi, who has a long history of physically attacking Israeli soldiers, was detained after she was filmed punching and kicking Israeli soldiers. Ayyad, also known as “Janna Jihad,” is a relative of Palestinian propagandist Bassem Tamimi and an anti-Israel youth activist and amateur journalist.
A Tamimi family stronghold, the village of Nabi Saleh is notorious for weekly gatherings where photographers document scenes of Palestinian residents and international activists clashing with Israeli soldiers. Much of this is instigated by the Nabi Saleh Tamimi clan.
Claremont SJP - Campaigning for BDS 2018-2019
On November 18, 2018, Claremont SJP issued a statement supporting a pro-BDS faculty vote to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel, which Pitzer had run since 2007. Professor Daniel Segal, the Claremont SJP and Claremont JVP faculty advisor, led the boycott campaign.In March 2019, the Pitzer College Council (PCC) also voted to suspend the program, but Pitzer President Melvin Oliver said he would veto the PCC recommendation. The PCC is a body of student and faculty members who vote on recommendations to the Pitzer president.
On March 15, 2019, Claremont SJP wrote on Facebook “#ProApartheidOliver” and said that they would “continue to organize to suspend Haifa and demand that President Oliver reverse his decision.” Claremont SJP also posted an online petition demanding Oliver rescind his veto of the PCC motion.
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
SJP
SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.
The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
JVP
JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.”
JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish values.”
The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”
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