HATE HOAX: Contractor Connected to Pro-Israel Student Group Put Up ‘I Love Hamas’ Stickers Around UBC Campus
The pro-Israel Jewish student group Hillel allegedly used a contractor to distribute “I Love Hamas” stickers around the University of British Columbia in order to frame their local opposing pro-Palestine student group as extremists.
They pointed to the stickers to cry about how “unsafe” they felt on campus and paint pro-Palestine students as supporters of terrorism.
“I love Hamas” stickers plastered all over @UBC by @SJC_UBC.
How can Jewish students ever feel safe on campus when they see student groups expressing love toward a genocidal terrorist organization dedicated to the slaughter of Jews worldwide?!
This has got to stop. pic.twitter.com/6lQcZerqyX
— Eli Kowaz (@elikowaz) November 18, 2023
lol the pro-Israel student group Hillel were behind putting ‘I love Hamas’ stickers around the University of British Columbia and falsely attributed it to a Palestine student group, then cried crocodile tears about how unsafe they feel on campus https://t.co/ZKzcqMm81w
— Jennine (@jennineak) November 22, 2023
Hillel claims it has since terminated its relationship with the contractor – but who was it? https://t.co/x3tEkswWoX
— Michael Bueckert (@mbueckert) November 22, 2023
@SJC_UBC is demanding an investigation into the connection between Hillel and the ‘contractor,’ given the severity of the incident and the damage that it caused https://t.co/0Jb5Lz8Olh
— Michael Bueckert (@mbueckert) November 22, 2023
From The Ubyssey, “Hillel BC says independent contractor distributed ‘offensive’ stickers on campus”:
An independent contractor previously associated with Hillel BC distributed “offensive” stickers on campus, according to a social media post on Instagram by the organization.
The organization wrote that it has since terminated its relationship with the contractor.
Hillel’s post did not specify who this independent contractor was, nor what the content of the stickers were. Hillel declined to comment further.
But, in a statement to The Ubyssey, UBC wrote the university was made aware an independent contractor “that has worked with Hillel BC” distributed the stickers and that “the stickers have exposed UBC Social Justice Centre members to vitriol and malice, which is unacceptable.”
Similar lies were told about the pro-Palestine protest at Cooper Union in New York City last month.
