A student group at California State University has been slammed for its ‘sick’ and distasteful pro-Palestine protest poster depicting a paraglider.
On Monday, the La Fuerza Student Association shared the poster for their ‘Day of Resistance: Protest for Palestine’ event organized for Tuesday for students ‘united against apartheid’.
The poster sparked outrage online – with many calling it insensitive after Hamas terrorists used paragliders to swoop down on Israel and slaughter civilians during its brutal attack on Saturday.
‘I can’t believe you actually used a paraglider in your poster. You are sick,” one user said.
‘Disgusting, I can’t believe the blatant support of the rape and murder of women and children by a bunch of modern day Nazis is allowed and condoned on the @csulongbeach campus,’ said another.
California State University’s La Fuerza Student Association has been slammed for its ‘sickening’ and distasteful pro-Palestine protest poster (pictured) depicting a paraglider
The poster sparked outrage on campus (inset) and online — with many calling it insensitive after Hamas terrorists used paragliders to invade Israel
They added: ‘Literally four of the worst attacks against Jews since the Holocaust on the kite. Cowards.’
One user said that the ‘attacks are not even about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.’
“The reality is that a terrorist organization committed a violent act of antisemitism by killing hundreds of Jews on a holiday,” they said.
“It’s really inappropriate that the conversation is being shifted to how to liberate Palestine, when the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to prevent these hate groups like Hamas from rising out of it.
“Come together against terrorism and the need for Palestine to have the tools to prevent attacks like this in the first place, or else you’re just celebrating anti-Semitic violence.”
In a caption for the Tuesday event, La Fuerza wrote: ‘Join us and CSU Students United Against Apartheid tomorrow at the Central Quad from 1:30 – 4:30.’
‘We will rally and march in support of Palestinian liberation and against Zionist occupation in Palestine.
“FROM PALESTINE TO THE PHILIPPINES, STOP THE US WAR MACHINE.”
In a video posted to the group’s Instagram story, faculty appeared to be taking down the group’s previous banners, but it remained unclear about their stance on the protest poster.
DailyMail.com contacted California State University at Long Beach for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
La Fuerza was also contacted for comment after the backlash as well as the California State University, Long Beach Hillel chapter.
Hillel is dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming and inclusive environment for Jewish college students.
About 1.3 percent of the 33,666 undergraduate students enrolled at CSU Long Beach are of the Jewish faith, while 0.9 percent of the 5,399 graduate enrollments are.
The “insensitive” display is the latest in a number of student organizations across the country that have expressed support for Hamas since Saturday’s kidnappings and killings.
The Students for Justice in Palestine is also planning a National Day of Resistance for its campus chapters to be held on Thursday, and at least six SJP chapters have announced they will hold campus events on that date, including: Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Butler University, University of Louisville, Binghamton University and the University of Virginia.
CSU faculty were seen taking down the group’s previous banners, but it was unclear about their stance on the protest poster
La Fuerza organized a ‘Day of Resistance: Protest for Palestine’ event for Tuesday afternoon
Meanwhile, two other chapters at Michigan State University and the University of Mary Washington have similar events at off-campus locations, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The group previously described Hamas’ attack as a ‘historic victory for Palestinian resistance.’
They called for ‘not only slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.’
At Stanford University, students hung bedclothes with slogans defending Hamas.
It comes after students at several Ivy League institutions, including Harvard and Columbia, condemned Israel.
A group of 31 Harvard organizations, including its branch of Amnesty International, placed the blame on Israel for Hamas’ brutal, surprise attack that killed at least 700 Israelis.
The organizations released a letter to the public on Sunday as a ‘Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine’ to condemn Israel in the wake of the violence.
They said Hamas’ attacks, which are still ongoing, ‘did not happen in a vacuum’ and the Israeli government forced Palestinians to live in an open-air prison for more than two decades.’
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence,” the groups wrote.
Harvard President Emeritus Larry Summers condemned the letter, saying he was “sickened” by it.
Summers, who is Jewish and led Harvard University from 2001-2006, addressed the school, tweeting: ‘In nearly 50 years of affiliation I have never been more disillusioned and alienated than I am today.
“The silence of Harvard’s leadership thus far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported statement by student groups that blamed Israel exclusively, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral toward acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel.”
It was another moment of contention for the school after a professor was forced to apologize for suggesting the Hamas attack on Israel was an attempt to distract from Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘own corruption’ to lead.
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine also said that Hamas’ actions were a “counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor.”
Fierce protests over the conflict erupted in the Big Apple and beyond.
Israel’s military said Monday it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and imposed a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, in a sign it may be planning a ground offensive in response to the devastating weekend attacks by Hamas gunmen.
Israel’s airstrikes – the worst in the 75-year history of its conflict with the Palestinians – also hit “premises of the UN aid and works agency, UNRWA (UN Palestine Refugee Agency),” a statement said. of the UN rights office said, adding that civilians were among the dead and injured.
Stanford University students hung bed sheets with slogans defending Hamas
Israeli media said 900 people were killed in the attacks and most were civilians, while nearly 700 Gazans were killed in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza officials, with whole districts flattened (pictured)
Netanyahu vowed to take ‘mighty revenge’ after the Hamas attack left his streets littered with bodies.
Israeli media said 900 people were killed in the attacks and most were civilians, while nearly 700 Gazans were killed in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza officials, with entire districts leveled.
The United Nations said more than 180,000 Gazans had been made homeless, many huddled on streets or in schools.
At the mortuary in Gaza’s Khan Younis Hospital, bodies were laid on stretchers on the ground with names written on their bellies. Medics asked relatives to pick up bodies quickly because there was no more room for the deceased.
Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva criticized Turk’s statement. “He cannot bring himself to condemn those who carried out the (Hamas) attacks as terrorists,” it said.