'Zionists not welcome:' Jewish Santa Barbara students face harassment at Multicultural Center in US

[Beastly Boy]

On Tuesday, Jewish students were harassed at the University of California Santa Barbara's Multicultural Center (MCC) when signs and messages targeting a Jewish student government president and other Jewish students were placed at the MCC, its social media accounts, and a student dorm room earlier that day and on Monday.

According to Santa Barbara Hillel, its staff members and a group of Jewish students entered the MCC where there were signs on the door warning "Zionists not allowed." The students were confronted by a mob of their peers, who shouted at them, said SB Hillel.

Antisemitic Signs

"Zionists not welcome," was found on Tuesday scrawled on the door of a dorm room door with an arrow pointing to a Mezuzah, a religious talisman traditionally placed on every door frame in a Jewish home.

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Most of the signs were placed outside and inside the MCC on Monday, many of them targeting Associated Student President Tessa Veksler. Veksler shared examples of the signs on her Instagram account on Tuesday.

"Attention: Tessa Veksler supports genocide! You cannot hide!" Read one sign that had the fourth-year student's name flanked by what may have been red devil horns or red triangles used in terrorist propaganda to indicate militant targeting. "You can run but you can't hide Tessa Veksler."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-789669

If anyone still left wondering whether "Zionist" is an antisemitic code word for "Jew", wonder no more.

[yagotme]

1. Well, they probably did something to deserve it...

[Happy Hoosier]

2. Hamas, with Iran and Russia's help....

... have found their weapon to destroy American democracy.

And we have people on this very site who are complicit.

[GuppyGal]

3. They're laughing at how easily we are to manipulate...how easy we are to fracture. nt

[Happy Hoosier]

4. I'd like to think they are just gullible....

... but I'm beinginning to think that at least for some, this is the outcome they actually want. I just don't know if their end-game is a hope the "glorious revolution" finally happens, or they just wanna watch the world burn.

[betsuni]

10. It's all negative, for spite.

[edisdead]

8. Yep.

The longer we allow this conflict to divide us the more likely we will become a fascist country.

And everyone here will suffer greatly for it.
I firmly believe that not only will we lose our democracy, but that without it society will fall apart. The problem is that the idiots pushing this HERE will not be able to control the fallout. Eventually the rubes supporting this will turn and will take up arms because they have been fantasizing about this for decades. The problem is those rubes are not going to be the good guys. They are going to be a gang mob with no rules or laws to back them or the ones that they come up with will not be just.


I have never been one to freak out but I do see the downfall of our civilization on the horizon.

[BannonsLiver]

9. Gleefully complicit

I have other descriptors but the TOS precludes me from sharing.

[JohnSJ]

5. If students are bullying and harassing other students, they need to be expelled from the university.

That activity is unacceptable.

[LiberalFighter]

14. I agree.

The university needs to do more than just expel those students.

Find out why they are behaving that way. Who is pushing them with the behavior? Educate them with the facts. And more.

[sarisataka]

6. It has long been used as a code word

and on some level I am getting surprised when it is used. I can easily see someone putting up a sign saying "Jews not welcome"

[Hekate]

13. Some here tried to tell others that it was code and antisemitic. Now will they believe us?

[comradebillyboy]

7. Looks like the far right and far left have found some common

ground in hating Jews. What a wonderfully uniting issue anti-Semitism is. /s

[betsuni]

11. Finding more common ground all the time!

[Hekate]

12. This is sickening. I can't even form words. "My community" is all that comes out.