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Solidarity with Megan Marzec - no attacks on free speech at Ohio University!

Solidarity with Megan Marzec - no attacks on free speech at Ohio University!

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Started by Tyler Barton 11 years, 11 months ago

A student activist at Ohio University, Megan Marzec, is under an intense assault for speaking out in support of the oppressed people of Palestine. After creating a pro-Palestine spin-off video of the popular ALS ice bucket challenge, Pro-Israel students and anti-free speech Zionists from around the world flooded Megan's email and social media accounts with well over 1,000 messages of hate and intimidation within the first 24 hours of the video's release.

These attacks have been incredibly derogatory. Many have included extremely sexist and racist language. Nearly all of them have attempted to intimidate her into resigning from her position in the Student Senate. One of the messages directed the "n-word" at Ohio University's black president, Dr. Roderick McDavis, who has not taken a position on the Israeli massacre in Palestine. The worst messages have included explicit death threats.

By signing this open letter, I express my solidarity with Megan Marzec's right of free speech to publicly state her political opinions on the liberation of Palestine. Furthermore, I condemn any attempt to employ threats and/or acts of interpersonal violence to intimidate Ohio University students into silence.

Updates

Reached 1,000 supporters

September 8, 2014

September 6, 2014

The campaign of intimidation against Megan continues but she is not backing down. We are watching the administration closely to see if they honor their commitment to free expression.

Reached 100 supporters

September 5, 2014

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Tom Shoemaker
11 years ago Featured

I see you used your time here to express how "appalled" you were with her "misuse" of the challenge in such an "ugly" way. No such expression of dismay over the this?>>>> "These attacks have been incredibly derogatory. Many have included extremely sexist and racist language. Nearly all of them have attempted to intimidate her into resigning from her position in the Student Senate. One of the messages directed the "n-word" at Ohio University's black president, Dr. Roderick McDavis, who has not taken a position on the Israeli massacre in Palestine. The worst messages have included explicit death threats".

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Louise Fernandes
11 years ago Featured

To be a leader, you do not have to apolitical or pretend to be. You should also stop assuming that all Jewish students identify with Israel or support its government's policies. She didn't call for violence against anyone. What does this have to do with her doing her job? She doesn't have to represent everyone's opinion on political matters, she just has to advocate for the student body at meetings and such. I don't see anything wrong with the student president promoting BDS.

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Riley Carter
11 years ago Featured

She represented whats right, I dont know how you're okay with thousands of innocent civilians being slaughtered. You need to look inside of yourself, throw away what is "politically correct" and stand up for what is right. Even if you're pro Isreal or jewish, their is no excuse for innocent people to be slaughtered. This girl megan is a Hero, She could have laid silent and kept her opinion to herself. But she choose the road less traveled and stood up for what she believed in. Thats the quality of a revolutionary, she will be on the right side of history.

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Christopher Jensen
11 years ago Featured

So would you have supported South African Apartheid in the 1990's? No, we didn't, yet we were not attacking South Africa, just the racist subjugation of a people, which is what we are trying to do with Israel. Blind allegiance to a country, presumably not your own, is dangerous at least. As an American, you need to be supporting what is in American interests, and supporting Israel at this point is not in our interests. Otherwise you are toadie at best and a traitor at worst. Better get your priorities straight Anahi.

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Christopher Jensen
11 years ago Featured

Maybe you should actually investigate what is happening in Gaza and the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians before you shoot off your thoughts in such a way as to prove you are either a tool or a raving ignoramus on the topic. As an American your allegiance to our country should make you appalled at what the Israelis, our supposed allies, have drug us into.

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Eric Viani
11 years ago Featured

I am appalled you wrote this lame comment, but I respect your right to write it. Megan made a political statement that has already been effective at drawing attention to war crimes in the MiddleEast, if you don't like her political statement, don't watch it.

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Zeyn Green-Thompson
10 years ago

Speaking truth to power always brave, always

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Susan
11 years ago

Blockades are depriving people of food. When people do not eat they die. This is genocide. Please stop playing the victim Israel and love you neighbor. Let the past go and end the suffering on both sides. Please.

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