A group of students at California State University in Long Beach faced a backlash over a “disgusting” pro-Palestinian rally poster featuring a paraglider after Hamas terrorists used the aircraft to launch their deadly invasion of Israel.
La Fuerza Student Association shared a poster for the “Day of Resistance: Protest for Palestine” event featuring a drawing of a protester carrying a Palestinian flag, with a paraglider in the corner.
“Join us and CSU Students United Against Apartheid tomorrow in the Central Quad from 1:30 – 4:30,” La Fuerza wrote in the caption of Tuesday’s event.
“We will gather and march in support of the liberation of Palestine and against the Zionist occupation of Palestine,” the group said.
“FROM PALESTINE TO THE PHILIPPINES, STOP THE US WAR MACHINE,” it concluded.
The event drew backlash online, with critics slamming the poster as “disgusting.”
La Fuerza Student Association made a poster for the event “Resistance Day: Protest for Palestine” featuring a drawing of a protester carrying a Palestinian flag, with a paraglider in the corner. La FUERZA Student Association
“This is sickening because no one teaches them better,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter.
Another added, “how can a university student not touch the reality of Saturday’s slaughter?”
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It is the latest in several student organizations across the country to express their support for the terrorists who attacked Israel on Saturday and kidnapped and killed civilians.
The group, along with CSU Students United Against Apartheid, will hold a protest on the quad Tuesday.Brad Nixon – stock.adobe.com
Students for Justice in Palestine is also planning a National Day of Resistance for its campus chapter to be held on Thursday, and at least six SJP chapters have announced that they will hold campus events on that date: Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Butler University, University of Louisville, Binghamton University and University of Virginia.
At least two other chapters, at Michigan State University and the University of Mary Washington, hold events at off-campus locations, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The national group previously described Hamas’ massacre of Israelis as “a historic victory for the Palestinian resistance,” and called for “not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors,” the ADL reported.
Students for Justice in Palestine is also planning a National Day of Resistance for its campus section to be held on Thursday. AFP via Getty Images
Its National Day of Resistance Toolkit now promises to bring that “spirit of resistance” to US college campuses — chapters encourage to use tactics like protests and demonstrations, or use “sit-ins, disruptions or education.”
Several chapters have also issued their own statements in support of Hamas, including SJP at the University of California, San Diego, which reposted a message from the Palestinian Youth Movement following the invasion, saying, “The fight is alive.”
SJP at California State University Sacramento also shared a post that read, “As Muslims, we have a religious duty set by Allah SWT to support the liberation of Palestine by any and all means necessary.”
And at Harvard, 31 student groups said they hold Israel “solely responsible for” the actions of Hamas.
A student group at Harvard claimed the Hamas attack “did not happen in a vacuum.” AFP via Getty Images
The group claims Hamas attacks “do not happen in a vacuum,” and that the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in “open prisons for more than two decades,” according to the letter obtained by The Post.
“We, the undersigned student organization, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all the violence that has occurred,” they wrote in a letter.
“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame,” the group claimed.
Harvard group blames Israeli policy for Hamas actions.AP
The letter was condemned by former Harvard University president Larry Summers.
“In nearly 50 years of @Harvard incorporation, I have never been so frustrated and alienated as I am today,” Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton who later advised President Barack Obama in the White House, write on his X social media account.
“Silence from Harvard’s leadership, thus far, coupled with vocal and widely reported statements by student groups that blame Israel alone, has allowed Harvard to appear neutral toward acts of terrorism against the Jewish state of Israel.”
“Instead, Harvard is defined by immoral statements that seem to come from two dozen student groups that blame all violence on Israel,” he wrote, adding: “I’m sick of it.”
The Post has reached out to Harvard administrators for comment.
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