Stanford BDS Prof. David Palumbo-Liu Starts Campus Antifa Network

David Palumbo-Liu

Legal Insurrection (LI) reports that in the wake of Charlottesville, radical pro-BDS Stanford University prof. David Palumbo-Liu is co-organizing a Campus Antifascist Network (Antifa) “to drive racists off campuses and to protect the most vulnerable from fascist attack.” Given the violent suppression of free speech for which Antifa is notorious, not to mention that most universities aren’t exactly teeming with Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, the concern is that faculty and students who dissent from anti-Israel and pro-Islamist campus politicization will be targeted. As LI’s William Jacobson puts it, “The teaming of the BDS and Antifa movements is the single most dangerous development I have witnessed in the many years I have been covering campus BDS. Antifa will give BDS even more muscle to intimidate and threaten those who oppose the BDS agenda.”

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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