“Hate Spaces” Film Exposes Campus Intolerance: Where Muslims and anti-Israel activists are more equal than others, by Noah Beck.

A new documentary, “Hate Spaces,” exposes the epidemic of campus intolerance favoring Muslims and anti-Israel activists over Jews and Israel supporters when it comes to free speech, academic freedom, and protection from abuse. …

“Any support of Israel is hate speech!” one protestor in the film proclaims. …

Critics of Islam have been silenced with accusations of “hate speech” and “Islamophobia.” …

Jewish students and organizations are targeted with impunity, as feckless college administrators hesitate to take remedial action … One of the reasons for their reluctance, the film suggests, is fear of jeopardizing funding — collectively, over $1 billion over the last six years — from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. …

Through brazen lies — like claiming that Israel “commits genocide” and “apartheid” — SJP and MSA have created campus environments that are hostile to Jews and pro-Israel students, while suppressing support for Israel as “hate speech.”

How did it get like this?

“Hate Spaces” attempts to explain how campuses became so hostile to Israel. By manipulating identity politics, SJP created an anti-Israel alliance of hard-left groups. They exploit the academically trendy concept of “intersectionality” — the idea that all injustices are interconnected — to demonize Israel and make common cause with activists from totally unrelated movements, like the campaign to address police violence.

SJP also attracts well-meaning students concerned about equality and social justice by portraying Palestinians as blameless victims of wholly unjustified Israeli attacks. “What drew me to SJP was my motivation to support equal human rights,” one student says in the film. “I joined them because I felt that the Palestinian people were being oppressed.”

hat-tip Stephen Neil