Screenshot from Twitter. National Students for Justice Palestine (NSJP) unveiled their logo on Oct. 27 for their upcoming conference at UCLA: the UCLA Bruin playing with a Palestinian kite.
Below is the logo, which can be seen on NSJP’s website:
We are exactly 3 weeks away from the National SJP conference! Today, we are officially launching our LOGO!
DO NOT MISS OUT ON AND REGISTER NOW: https://t.co/vusQ2fSoa8
ALUMNI, JOIN US! https://t.co/XdK97N2K4M
PLEASE DONATE to make this happen: https://t.co/tIri3lBccU#NSJP2018 pic.twitter.com/RmRJ0bNhI3— National Students for Justice in Palestine (@NationalSJP) October 27, 2018
Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal in a phone interview that the logo is “poking their finger at the eye of the UCLA administration and the UCLA community” by “co-opting the UCLA Bruin icon.”
“What does the Palestinian kite stand for today?” Cooper said. “It’s not going out with peace kites from Japan. It’s setting aloft arson terrorist kites to burn down crops and forests as they’ve done in southern Israel.”
Cooper added that Palestinian terrorists have been using explosives disguised as children’s toys in order to lure Israeli children into touching it and having it blow up in their faces.
“If this doesn’t wake up the UCLA administration to cancel the event at UCLA, then they’re going to have to deal with the consequences that the UCLA Bruin has now been hijacked by people who want to destroy Israel and are pro-terrorist,” Cooper said.
The university and NSJP have not responded to the Journal’s request for comment.
The conference is scheduled to take place on Nov. 16-18.
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