Ynet News and Chabad.org
More than 200 Jewish students attending Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, were surprised to find “eviction notices” posted to their dorm room doors on Friday.
The students later found out that the fake notices were placed by the Students for Justice in Palestine.
According to the Sun Sentinel, the group’s stunt was aimed to draw attention to their claim that “about 25,000 homes have been demolished since the occupation of Palestine by Israeli troops began in 1967.”
Rayna Exelbierd, a 20-year-old sophomore from Memphis, Tennessee, said “We’re taking it very seriously. We’re considering it a hate crime. The flier promotes hate; it doesn’t promote peace. People were scared by it. People felt threatened by it.”
Mrs. Rivka Rochel Liberow, co-director of the local Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center, says she’s spent six years in the area and pegs recent developments, including rallies and demonstrations, as a new phenomenon.
Leaders from the Chabad House and the local Hillel met with students and community members to discuss the incident, which was flagged by the Anti-Defamation League as having “left several FAU students feeling threatened and intimidated.” The ADL on its website notes that Yale University and the University of Chicago saw similar SJP activity last year.
As for advice, Liberow tells students to go about their daily business like nothing happened.
“We don’t let these things bother us,” she said in the midst of preparations for the final days of Passover this week. “We can’t. We just have to keep on doing and doing even more and show that we’re proud and not afraid.”
Chabad House co-director Rabbi Boruch Shmuel Liberow encouraged students to stay informed and alert, adding that the university was looking into what happened.
The israeli goverment does the same thing to Jews, no big news here
BS”D
Coming out of Pesach, this holds a powerful and important message, and we should take it with open eyes. What they want to do is not what they will do, just increase in achdus. Love for every yid, unbounded, and this will turn into a light so great, that the world would cleave to that love, love to the world, all for Hashem.