The latest
report issued by a covert campus watchdog group revealed a string of highly
offensive social media statements made by students at six Cleveland schools
over the past few years.
The dossier, released on Thursday, highlighted dozens of
antisemitic, homophobic and racist comments, including, “I’m gonna finish
what Hitler started,” and “I’m bringing rocks to school…that Jew better run.”
According to the report, compiled
by Canary Mission – which anonymously monitors anti-American, anti-Israel
and antisemitic activity on US college campuses, the remarks were made by
current and former students affiliated with branches of Students for Justice in
Palestine (SJP), the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and the Arab Student
Union (ASU) at the Cleveland schools.
Bahaa Falweh,
the former president of the
Cleveland State University (CSU) ASU, who is currently pursuing an MBA in health administration, tweeted in
2012, “Goodnight everyone, tonight ill be keeping gaza in my thoughts and prayers,
inshallah Jews die.”
Earlier that year, he had
commented: “If those dirty Jews invade [Gaza] tonight then I will personally
hop on a plane, fly there and start killing them my self #realtalk.”
Walaa Mohammad,
the current treasurer of the CSU SJP who is also affiliated
with the campus MSA branch, tweeted in July
2016, “allah yin3an al yahood [May Allah curse the Jews].” Mashhour Shehadeh, in his last year at CSU, wrote in March
2016: “When life hands you rocks, throw them at yahood [jews].”
Some of the comments were directed at David Blatt, the
Israeli-American coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, with Deanna Silm, a former student activist with CSU’s SJP and current employee at
an Ohio gym, tweeting in
June 2015 for Blatt to “go to Hell this win was for Palestine you Zionist.”
Other
schools represented in the report include Tri-C and Lorain County
Community College. Moe Hamdan, affiliated with Tri-C’s recently organized MSA, wrote in 2012,
“Whats the difference between a pizza & a jew? A pizza doesn’t scream in
the oven…best joke I’ve heard in a while.” He has also expressed Holocaust
denial on a number of occasions.
