t’s been an unjust start to 2025 for members of University of Missouri’s Students for Justice in Palestine (MSJP).

On New Year’s Day, another group on campus, the Mizzou College Republicans, spread a fabricated image, purported to be from MSJP, in a social media post online. The image falsely claimed to be a screenshot of a statement from MSJP celebrating Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the attacker who drove his car into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, killing 14 people before police eventually killed him. In addition to the fabricated image, the social media post from the College Republicans included commentary from the group’s president, Brenden Poteet: “I demand that Mizzou’s administration take action in condemning Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine and disciplines the students who published this hateful, racist post,” he wrote. Poteet, a freshman, claimed he found the fake image on YikYak, a campus social media network where posters are anonymous. He published it on multiple platforms within hours of the killings in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

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