Europe: "Je Suis Charlie"? Maybe. "Je Suis Juif"? Not Really. by Abigail R. Esman  •  January 18, 2015 at 5:00 am To call for an end to Israel, or to its sovereignty, is now more glaringly than ever, to call for an end to the Jews. The debate on an academic boycott of Israel, staged by Studenten for Rechtvaardig Palestina in Amsterdam, on January 13. (Image source: Studenten for Rechtvaardig Palestina Facebook page) The four people gunned down in Paris on January 9 had not even been buried yet -- three men and a woman murdered by a Muslim terrorist just for being Jews -- when Amsterdam's pro-Palestinian student group demanded an academic boycott against Israel. Not that they are anti-Semitic -- not a bit, insists Studenten for Rechtvaardig Palestina [SRP], which models itself on the American Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization that merely accuses Israel of genocide. A leader of the group, Sarah (who would not give her last name to reporters, she said, for fear of reprisals), declared, rather, "I find anti-Semitism terrible. We are against it, and we said so from our first informational meeting. I find Israel as bad as IS," she continued, "and I am Muslim myself." Continue Reading Article

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