Students at another Boston-area university are under fire for their “obscene” comments in support of Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel.
The Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine group (Tufts SJP) recently posted in favor of the terrorists, who slaughtered Israelis and took hostages over the weekend.
“Since Friday, Palestinians have been launching a historic attack on the colonizers,” Tufts SJP wrote in a letter. “Footage of liberation fighters from Gaza paragliding into occupied territory has especially shown the creativity necessary to take back stolen land.”
Tufts SJP’s remarks in support of Hamas come after dozens of Harvard student groups blamed Israel for Hamas’ terrorist attacks.
In response to Tufts SJP’s letter, a Tufts University spokesperson said in a statement, “Dismissing the loss of Israeli lives in the recent surprise attacks cannot be condoned. We deeply mourn those losses and vehemently disagree with the SJP statement. No student group speaks for the University.”
The Anti-Defamation League New England chapter ripped into the Tufts student group.
“Tufts SJP applauding the ‘creativity’ of Hamas in perpetrating atrocities, including murdering babies, is obscene,” ADL New England posted on social media.
Harvard’s president on Tuesday put out a statement following the student groups’ letter that blamed Israel for the terrorist attacks.
“As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” Harvard President Claudine Gay said in a statement. “Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.
“Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership,” the president added.
Harvard Hillel called the student groups’ letter an “outrageous statement that blames Israel for the violence carried out by Hamas terrorists — a group that has opposed peace and called for Israel’s destruction since it was founded.”
“Harvard Hillel is deeply pained that instead of finding solace and support among our Harvard community in the days following the bloodiest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, we encountered further hatred and anti-Semitism here in Cambridge,” Harvard Hillel wrote. “A joint statement by 36 campus organizations calling themselves the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups falsely blames Israel for Hamas’s vicious and cruel attacks on Israeli civilians and ignores the unbearable pain of the heinous murders, rapes, and kidnapping of Israeli men, women, and children.”
