RE: Boycott Israel
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
This means nothing really. In fact, it places the presenters and speakers in greater jeopardy then you might think.
Victory – Judge supports UMass panel on Palestinian human rights
“There simply cannot be a First Amendment exception when it comes to Palestine.”
(Boston, MA) May 2, 2019:
A Massachusetts district court ruled in favor of allowing a panel discussion at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to go ahead earlier today. The May 4 panel discussion “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, and the Battle for Palestinian Human Rights” will be held as planned, despite the legal request for an injunction to halt the panel, premised on a false accusation of antisemitism against the panelists, event sponsors, and attendees.
Victory – Judge supports UMass panel on Palestine
(COMMENT)
The ruling is a case on the merits of "free speech." But "free speach" does not override "hate speech" or "incitement to violence." They will have to be very careful about how they make the presentation.
If the panelists, event sponsors, or attendees present an antisemitic or support for any element considered a terrorist organization, they could be in big trouble from a civil suit standpoint, as well as walking the line on criminality.
"Criticism" is one thing! Providing a platform for anti-Israeli organizations to promote acts that are contrary to the purposes and principles of "free speech" are something entirely different. It is my opinion,
(absent all the legal wrangling by pro-Hostile Palestinian terrorists) that the platform is nothing more than to attempt to justify rhetoric designed or likely to provoke or further encourage the agitation to environments as a threat to the peace, or breach of the peace.
They are a platform that knowingly incites such acts as a service to the pro-Hostile Palestinian terrorists, with the intention of - or calculated to - cause further violence. To somehow justify offenses which are solely intended to harm the Israeli attempts to bring the territory under Article 43 (HR) public order and safety.
These free speech platforms attempt to justify attacks on the life or limb of members of the Article 43 (HR) forces and administration, as well as, grave collective danger, serious damage the property of the Article 43 (HR) forces and the installations used by them.
The platform is further, as justification for the
Hostile Palestinian terrorists to operate in contravention to the Customary and International Humanitarian Law pertaining to (just to name a few used in the last few weeks):
◈ Rule 21: Target Seletion.
◈ Rule 23: DenslyPopulated Areas.
◈ Rule 24: Civilians in the Vicinity of Military Operations.
◈ Rule 97: Human Shields.
Finally, it would be very interesting to know how the "private foundation" was that rented the space on campus for this presentation. Who is this pro-anti Israeli → pro-Arab Palestinian "private foundation?" What is their motivation?
It is time for the Jewish People, investors of the University, to withdraw their support and the Jewish resources migrate to another Educational Institution. I'm sure it will not have any significant impact on the University operations; being merely symbolic.
(REMINDER)
It was these very Hostile Arab Palestinians that killed Gail Rubin
(another New Englander), the niece of U.S. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn. "Dalal al-Mugrabi” → was a leader of the Fatah (PLO) squad and former advisor to Mahmoud Abbas. After the murder of Gail Rubin -- the action was immediately followed by the abduction of a civilian bus
(Coastal Road Massacre) and the machinegun execution of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. The Fatah
[faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)] terrorist raid was lead by Dalal al-Maghribi
(BTW: a former senior adviser to the man who would become the Palestinian Authority Chairman → Mahmoud Abbas); she is celebrated as a martyr -- in which Arab Palestinians commemorated by naming a public square, a couple of schools, a computer center, a soccer tournament, and a summer camp.
They are terrorists...
Most Respectfully,
R