„The killings this week of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police have sparked soul-searching and protests across the nation. Thousands have rallied against police violence and racism towards blacks. (…) Meanwhile, the New York University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine was busy trying to pin the police shootings on the world’s only Jewish state. On Thursday, the group – which advocates the total boycott of Israel – posted the following on its Facebook page:
The irony of critiquing racism in American society through the bigoted displacement of responsibility for it to Jews in the Middle East was apparently lost on SJP. (…) This is not the first time NYU’s SJP chapter has awkwardly attempted to blame American problems on Israel. Last November, the group was a signatory to a statement that attributed high city college tuition costs in New York to CUNY’s purportedly ‚Zionist administration.‘“
(Yair Rosenberg: „New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine Blames Police Shootings of Blacks on Israel“)