Chicago’s Black Lives Matter chapter came under fire for seeming to celebrate Hamas attacks on Israelis in a “disgusting and shameful” social media post on Tuesday.
The post on X, formerly Twitter, included an image of someone paragliding with a Palestinian flag attached to his parachute with the words “I stand with Palestine” underneath.
“That all!” it adds.
The text clearly refers to Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli communities with parachutes and gliders over the weekend, killing hundreds and taking civilians hostage in brutal surprise attacks.
BLM Chicago also posted several cartoons depicting someone expressing outrage at attacks on Israel, while another calmly listed what was being said blaming Israel for the situation.
“This is not about Hamas – this is about the right of the Palestinian people to resist 75 years of Israeli settlers occupying their original land,” one of the cartoons read.
BLM Chicago attacked for this pro-Palestinian post.X / @BLMChi
The paraglider post was blasted by social media users.
“Stand unapologetically with butchers and rapists,” author and former speechwriter Aviva Klompas tweeted.
“Chicago’s BLM, like many on the left, comes out in support of the slaughter of innocent people they don’t like,” GOP commentator and former congressional candidate Robby Starbuck tweeted.
Palestinian Americans and their supporters protest as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas continues, outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago October 8, 2023. REUTERS Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside the Israeli consulate in Chicago.REUTERS
One more user tweets: “This is absolutely disgusting and disgraceful on so many levels.”
Chicago’s BLM is far from the only left-leaning US organization to speak out against Israel after its civilians are killed in the streets.
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The La Fuerza Student Association at California State University at Long Beach distributed posters advertising a “Day of Resistance” for “students united against apartheid.”
California State University plans to hold a “Day of Resistance: Protest for Palestine.” La FUERZA Student Association
Like BLM Chicago’s post, the poster featured an image of someone flying down from the sky in a paraglider.
“We will gather and march in support of the liberation of Palestine and against the Zionist occupation of Palestine,” the group said.
Elsewhere, Students for Justice in Palestine is planning a National Day of Resistance on Thursday for its chapters at schools across the country, including at Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Butler University, University of Virginia, University of Louisville, and Binghamton.
A group of 31 Harvard organizations, including the institution’s Ivy League affiliate, Amnesty International, has blamed Israel for the brutal and surprise attack by Hamas that has killed at least 700 Israelis. Harvard College PSC The organization released a letter to the public as a “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine” on Sunday. Harvard College PSC
The group has previously described Hamas’ massacre of Israelis as “a historic victory for the Palestinian resistance.”
At Harvard University, 31 student groups signed a letter accusing Israel of “full responsibility” for the attack.
“We, the undersigned student organization, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all the violence that has occurred,” the letter reads.
“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame,” it continued.
They claim that Hamas attacks, which are still ongoing, “do not happen in a vacuum” and that the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in “open prisons for more than two decades.” Harvard College PSC
Former Harvard University president Larry Summers, who served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, spoke out against the letter and the school administration’s continued silence.
“The silence from Harvard’s leadership, thus far, coupled with the vocal and widely reported statements of student groups that blame Israel alone, has allowed Harvard to appear completely neutral toward acts of terrorism against the Jewish state of Israel,” he wrote in a post. on X.
“Instead, Harvard is defined by immoral statements that seem to come from two dozen student groups that blame all violence on Israel,” he continued.
“I hurt.”
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