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Pro-Israel Penn State Students Assaulted for Putting up ‘Palestinian Wall of Lies’

Pro Israel Penn State Students Assaulted for Putting up Palestinian Wall of Lies

The Collegian of Penn State reports:

A 10-by-10-foot sign drew conflict and crowds of more than 50 people outside the HUB-Robeson Center Thursday afternoon.

The sign, part of a demonstration by the Penn State chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, was titled “The Palestinian Wall of Lies.” It featured two large silhouettes of men with guns and outlined 10 “lies” the group believes Palestinians propagate.

YAF President Samuel Settle led the demonstration, handing out pamphlets and attempting to strike up conversation with passersby.

“Many people have hatred for Israel and that’s why this is important,” Settle (junior-political science and history) said. “People need to look at the facts.”

But the demonstration didn’t go without opposition.

One student — who fled the scene before providing comment — yelled obscenities at Settle and the rest of the group, calling it “terrible” and proceeding to kick the group’s box of handouts across the sidewalk.

Other students simply shook their heads. Some even laughed.

One student’s opposition to the sign took an aggressive turn. In the video below, a pro-Palestinian student gets into an argument with the YAF demonstrators about the sign. Near the end, the pro-Palestinian student’s frustration and anger reaches a bit of a boiling point, causing him to reach for the camera and then kick a box belonging to the YAF demonstrators across the quad-like area.

The YAF president, Samuel Settle, describes the incident in his own words:

Today, members of the Penn State Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) set up a Palestinian Wall of Lies outside of the HUB Student Center at the University Park campus. The demonstration began shortly before 1:00, and received an almost immediate hostile reaction from two nearby Arab students. The students described the Wall as “bullshit” and “a f***ing lie,” but were initially nonviolent.

Shortly afterwards, the Wall began attracting significant attention, including from a reporter and photographer with the Daily Collegian student newspaper. Most of the reception was positive; in particular, a group of Israeli students came around to express their support. At this point, one of the two Arab students came back around and began arguing with the YAFfers and Israelis, using abusive language and saying, “I have a problem with Israelis.”

The argument lasted for about 3 minutes, during which the aggressor became increasingly aggravated, ultimately demanding that the YAFfers stop filming him. His request was refused, at which point he lunged for, but missed, the camera I was holding. He then kicked over a crate full of YAF pamphlets and stormed off. A photographer from the Collegian was present at the time.

Although this display was disappointing, it was not surprising. This was the only student to actually become violent, but many other students from the MSA came by at various points to verbally denounce the Wall, and often to personally insult those present. None of these people were able to point out a single error on the Wall, and they dispersed once it became clear that they were being filmed.

On whole, the event was a great success. As mentioned, with the exception of some MSA members, the Wall seemed to get a mostly positive reception. Several of the students indicated that they were extremely pleased to see a counter-balance to the anti-Israel narrative frequently promoted on campus.

Comments (242)

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  • My Sacred Honor
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:58pm

    THEBMT, THANK YOU! I was mad and frustrated when I posted, and yours was the point I was trying to make. Of COURSE it was the ‘disagree-er’s” choice to engage in conversation, but the ambush was laid for him with all cameras rolling, and he did what any in his position would do, at least any with a sck. If it had been ME, like you said, going solo against a bunch of young commies all talking over me and being…well, “them”, then I would have done the same.
    Except, at the end, there would have been a video of me sending these baiting turds to the hospital.
    It is a BAD idea to ambush a Marine, kiddies.
    …For future reference.

    My Sacred Honor  
  • davuf
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:56pm

    If I remember correctly the jews took that land after being attacked by 6 arab countries. Sucks to be them. When you lose an offensive war don’t be suprised to lose territory. How do you think 90% of the worlds borders were established? Cry me a river.

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  • davuf
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54pm

    Sometimes the truth hurts. This pro-palestinian kid doesn’t seem that bad. He is passionate but willing to have the conversation. He admited that jews should have a place of their own and that he didn’t want to have all the jews killed. He got frusterated and over rereacted. Bottom line, he is a guy that disagrees and doesn’t know his facts well enough to have a real debate. He knows the talking points from his side but doesn’t have any of the facts to back up his point of view. These are the kinds of debates could change people’s minds. Maybe this guy will go back and wikipedia some of the things that were said and come to a better understanding of the other side.

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    • delhoghe
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:35am

      DAV..in some places on earth you have to agree with the Israeli side no matter what the facts are. The Bible says that will change, it’s about to change.

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    • Paul -Indiana
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:06pm

      “delhoghe Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:35am
      DAV..in some places on earth you have to agree with the Israeli side no matter what the facts are. The Bible says that will change, it’s about to change.”
      ===
      Do you have any actual names of such places? Also, please include Bible verse you refer to.

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  • HappyStretchedThin
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54pm

    TIMM. Great quote. But make it an MLT. ;-)

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  • North_Star
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByMufgpcdnI&feature=player_embedded#at=617

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  • HappyStretchedThin
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:51pm

    Wait. YAF thriving on the grounds of academia? There may just be hope yet for the rising generation…

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  • TheBMT
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:51pm

    Not to be confused with the Young Americans for Liberty. I can guarantee their approach would have been different.

    At least he was drinking some good Seattle’s best Coffee, I miss the HUB.

    Unfortunately the debate was framed as “The Wall of Lies”, rather then as a discussion of what Israel and Palenstine are(both created this century) it was more of a provocation to those that disagreed. Then you can see when you have 5-6 people talking to one person arguing a point, one side can get frustrated. Unfortunately it ended in a bit of aggressiveness, but would any of us in his shoes do it different if we were discussing a bunch of progressives about our big govt, solo? From the way the camera guy talked it seemed like they were anticipating this and were “hoping” this would happen.

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Violence is all they know. They get it from their holy book. The tide is turning.

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  • My Sacred Honor
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    And now I read the 8 other posts on here, and you all drink the kool-ade. Makes me think sometimes that blazers really ARE bait-taking idiots waiting for something to call “liberal idiocy”.
    Probably NONE of you actually watched the video and just wanted to post “first’ without getting the context of what actually happened.
    Shame on all of you also.
    “Tis best to keep silent and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
    -Samuel Clemens

    My Sacred Honor  
    • SSG Tal
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:07am

      “Tis best to keep silent and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
      -Samuel Clemens

      Sounds a lot like Proverbs 17:28

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  • Thatsitivehadenough
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:49pm

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf1.html
    http://www.terroristplanet.com/israel.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:49pm

    Palestinians’ true colors….filled with hate…

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  • ARealCharliesAngel
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:46pm

    I am jazzed to see college students looking into facts and standing up in primarily pro-progressive environments! These students are awesome for engaging others with facts about anti-Isreal propoganda.

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    • KPEdwards
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:13pm

      My problem with these guys is that there arguments are inconsistent and technical word-smithing. Particularly the whole occupation part.

      Leaving out the whole origin history, Israel currently occupies Palestinian territories – the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. It seems that their counter argument is that Palestine is not a recognized state (in what I assume they mean the UN – as there are states that recognize Palestine as a state). They ask two questions to try and prove their point which, I would contend, are entirely rhetorical. The first being, ‘when was Palestine founded?’ My retort would be to ask when was England founded? Was it when the nation was acknowledged by an international community? Was it when there was declared a King – and if so, what was he declared King of if there was no England before that? The question obfuscates the fact that there were communities living in the region that was referred as Palestine for some 2,000 years.
      The second question is, ‘When was the constitution written?’ For this, it is enough to point out that there is no written constitution for Israel.
      The whole argument seems to sum up to, ‘well technically, they weren’t a country recognized by the rest of the world.’ Which is an incredibly weak argument that completely ignores the presence of the communities that were in that area. There are legitimate and well thought out arguments for Israel, but these people are not making them.

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  • My Sacred Honor
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:46pm

    Actually, i see this as a provacation and baiting effort by those who posted the sign. They are not trying to “engage in conversation”, they are trying to tape an outburst and succeeded. If you know me and my posts, you know I am pro Israel, but I also believe the Palestinians also have a beef.
    You can tell at the end when they all cheered and celebrated when they poked and pushed that guy to a rage and applauded when “one for youtube!” was announced.
    SHAME on these idiots who only wanted their 15 minutes of fame, when they could have actually done some good.
    Makes me sick to my stomach.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:46pm

    Whenever someone uses a phrase like, : “We all know” or “Everyone agrees”, you can rest assured he is a liberal without a shred of evidence to support his claim.

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  • MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Seems everything I post gets deleted.
    No matter how upbeat, positive or encouraging it is.
    Glenn provides a great service to all who care to listen.
    Too bad those that control the blaze don’t believe in free speech.
    Well I’m sure this will be gone soon as well.
    Visiting the blaze less and less, it has become a censored site.
    Anyway, keep up the fight Beck! We got your back.

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  • JJCon
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:45pm

    The wall has a website for those who want to read it.

    http://walloflies.org/

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    • davuf
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:07am

      Its a good read. I will need to double check thier facts but it seems like what I have read before.

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    • Stopit
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:04am

      That was great work by these students. Concise, accurate presentation of the facts of Arab & Islamic studied, and openly professed, goal of genocide against the Jewish nation, and their resultant intentional perpetual enslavement of the so-called refugees by their ideology of hatred against the Jews. It is nothing more than their asserted war of conquest by Islamists. (It‘s somewhat similar to the left’s use of the poor and downtrodden here as political power pawns, only as long as they are kept in that state. Current policies are only growing their numbers.)
      The fact that the mainstream media and current administration here continually sides with the palestinians only shows how void of truth and fact they are, and how driven by polical power and conquest over the western way of life they are. Glenn was right on there, but this has also been a known fact for a long time to anyone with eyes to see.

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  • timm84
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:44pm

    We are men of action, lies do not become us. Do me a favor and enjoy a BLT, the world will be better for it

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  • marine249
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:43pm

    if you don’t like what I have to say,– this is a free country walk away.

    But with most lib you have to make an ass of yourself.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:43pm

    LONG Live Israel !
    The “palestinian” problem was created and is maintained by the Arab muslims. The rejected gang of desert nomads are used as a battering ram at the gates of Israel.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Long live Israel! Israel will outlive all her enemies one way or another. Anyone who disbelieves this has no clue about history or anything else.

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    • ghost-of-elvis
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:23pm

      I stand with Israel and will continue to keep them in my prayers as well as supporters like these brave students

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  • bikermama
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:41pm

    They can’t handle the truth. Kuddos to the group that did this. We need more young people brave enough to start speaking out on campuses.

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  • delhoghe
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:38pm

    An issue that can’t be settled by man is best left to the One who can.

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    • Susan09
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 6:08pm

      GOD SAID; “Those that bless Israel will be blessed those that curse Israel will be Cursed. ” He named them He has Protected them before Would any have any doubt HE will not Protect them From THEIR ENEMY. ALL standing with THE JEWISH PEOPLE of ISRAEL Has NOTHING TO FEAR. THEY HAVE been Called Hebrew, Jew, Israel, By THE LORD, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. HIS Word having already been is and will be. HIS Book all 62.

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  • tarbush
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:37pm

    This is what democracy looks like.

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  • thomas242007
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:35pm

    heres an interesting video i found bouncing around on here its a video called qruan burnt in iran
    not by us troops or terry jones no no, this one was burnt by 2 brave iranian men please watch

    Quran Burned In Iran!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDs8huXpf4

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  • unsalvageable.org
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:35pm

    ^^click^^

    Why do these stories continue to get over looked by the MSM? What happened to being non-biased?

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  • Sam Brown
    Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:33pm

    They couldn’t fit all the socialist progressives lies on both sides of the great wall of China. Guess what happens when the Muslims and the Socialist get together?

    Sammy

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    • aLinedog
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:55am

      They form a caliphate?
      Sadly enough that was meant as a joke. Upon typing it I realized how accurate the answer was. The anti-Christ will utilize social economic dependence as well as draw on his credibility as some form of moral compass.
      -line

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 4:31pm

      Sorry, but I don’t care if you are an older, hard core radical, or just an ignorant, dope smoking college student, if you want to support radicals and filthy Muslims, your citizenship should be revoked and you should be given a one-way plane ticket to the Middle East.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on April 12, 2011 at 6:02pm

      Are you effing serious? EVERYTHING I posted last night and resposnses etc has been removed??
      SHAME on you Blaze.
      Shame.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 13, 2011 at 4:17am

      Yeah. How on earth did that happen? There was nothing in there that deserved pulling – as one of the contributors, I am certain of that.

      Explanation, please!

       
    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:47am

      I remember asking my dad what side I should take between Israel and muslims and my dad said

      “Israelis don’t strap bombs to their bodies and blow up little kids on school buses or people sitting in a small cafe”

      That was enough logic for me. We need to stand by Israel and quarantine primitive savage muslims in their desert sandboxes.

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