From breitbart.com
Nikolay Remizov and Alessandro Mattina, students at Saint Louis University, are facing disciplinary action from their school for displaying a 9/11 memorial on campus that happened to mention Israel.
Remizov, a senior originally from Russia, set up the display with permission from the administration. It involved an array of American flags, and a banner showing the 9/11 Memorial in New York, as well as the 9/11 Memorial in Israel.
“Everything was approved,” Remizov told Breitbart News.
“We got 3,000 flags to demonstrate respect to each lost life … We had a banner, and this banner had an American flag and it had an Israeli flag, and it showed the 9/11 Memorial in New York, and the only 9/11 memorial outside the United States is in Israel, so we showed it.”
The 9/11 Memorial in Israel, the only such memorial outside the United States. (US Embassy Jerusalem)
There was no other political intent, he said.
“There was nothing about Israel and the Palestinians. It was just about the 9/11 Memorial, and an American and Israeli flag. … Nothing about Palestine, and Gaza, et cetera.”
Nonetheless, anti-Israel students apparently reported the 9/11 memorial to the administration. The student newspaper also published an anti-Israel op-ed that put the word “Israel” in quotes, as if to deny the legitimacy of the state, and used profanity in the course of accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.
The op-ed author objected to a phrase on the 9/11 banner: “Tolerance over Terrorism.”
Remizov and Mattina decided to remove the banner, but started receiving warnings from the Saint Louis University administration.
An email landed in Remizov’s inbox accusing him of having violated the university’s rules, without explanation.
On calling the author of the email, Remizov was told that the display violated a rule against touching the physical infrastructure of the university. He approached a lawyer, who found there was no such rule.
As discussions with the administration continued, the explanation about what rules the display had violated kept changing.
He and Mattina ended up receiving a warning that will, he says, be reflected in their permanent academic records.
“You want to cry, but at the same moment, you want to laugh,” he says.
“People are starting to forget what terrorism is, that our nation was under attack and that 3,000 people died that day.”
“Everybody is shocked that the university decided to punish us for a 9/11 Memorial.
“It’s just crazy.”
The U.S.A. seems to be like Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich all rolled into one, the way things go on over there; and it is showing all the signs of growing more and more like it over here too. Thank God for the blessed hope of the rapture and the return of Jesus Christ! 🙂
You are right Tiffy. The America we knew for so long is gone. The U.S. was the country that people would flee to to escape oppression – NO MORE. Where is a person to go now??? But we must take heart because the God of the Universe – our Father – is in control and knows exactly what is happening. I believe we are so close to being Raptured!!
I hope they fight this. Get a good lawyer and sue them.
Me too!
It was approved, why should they get warnings on their permanent records? They could not even come up with any rules broken. US is supposed to be an ally to Israel. The student paper editor and author should be brought to task for stirring up hate and for profanity. But i know…the US is not truly American anymore.
This is a blatant attack on the First Amendment and our whole Constitution!!
Instagram wouldn’t post my photo taken years before of the Twin Towers with Never Forget. It’s called banning free speech.
I came down to LA this week to visit my brother who lives in West Hollywood. Down the street on the wall of a dry cleaners is a mural representing the Nova Music Exhibition Oct.7 6:29 am. So far nobody has defaced it but there are no Israeli flags in the mural. Also, close by at Beveraly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills on Santa Monica Blvd. is a memorial with thousands of flags representing individuals who died from more than 30 countries. At night a chain link fence is placed around the perimeter and security is provided. This I was very pleased to see. I am also proud to find out that I am .6 Ashkenazi Jew! I did not take the test but my brother had. It may only be a small drop but Am Yisrael Chai!