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[Sixties Fan]

As the fall semester approaches, signs point to an even more heightened campus environment of harassment and intimidation aimed against Israel and its supporters. Control of narratives remains key to shaping perceptions.

The idea that Israel, its supporters, and at least some Jews stand on the ‘wrong side’ was articulated in more than 100 statements condemning Israel from faculty groups and departments. One implication of growing faculty and student extremism is that it effectively gives antisemitism an “academic mandate.” And many defend their anti-Israel attacks in the name of ‘academic freedom.’

A typical example came at Vassar College, where faculty members issued a letter accusing Israel of “settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing” and declaring that they regard the “movement against racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration in the United States and the Palestinian struggle against apartheid as interconnected.”

But the most sinister developments were in teachers’ unions, where BDS resolutions continue to be debated.

UK reports also indicated a tremendous increase in antisemitic incidents, with some 628 recorded in May alone.

(full article online)

BDS Rages as the Summer Sizzles On - Algemeiner.com

As the fall semester approaches, signs point to an even more heightened campus environment of harassment and intimidation aimed against Israel and its supporters. Control of narratives remains key to shaping perceptions. The most blatant manipulations came from outside academia, with continued...

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[Sixties Fan]

Scott Richman, Anti-Defamation League Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, said that any effort to defund Hillel would be “tantamount to calling for Jews and Jewish life to be ostracized on the Rutgers campus.”

“ADL is shocked by this outrageous statement suggesting that Rutgers blacklist and halt funding for Hillel, which represents Jewish life at Rutgers,” he said on Thursday. “This is simply wrong. ADL stands by our partners at Hillel who provide an essential space for Jews and Jewish ideas, and we call on all people of good will to do so as well.”

On Friday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called it an “effort to isolate and delegitimize a Jewish institution. It is nothing less than disturbing to try and take away Jewish students’ home away from home and their space to connect with the Jewish community.”

(full article online)

Jewish Groups Slam ‘Outrageous’ Activist Statement ‘Delegitimizing’ Rutgers Hillel - Algemeiner.com

On Thursday, Rutgers University Hillel denounced a statement from Rutgers' Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter and other activist groups that described the administration's funding of the campus Jewish organization as "investments in apartheid Israel." The statement — published...

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[Sinajuavi]

MUST, MUST SEE: Boycott Israel!!! | Israel Video Network
MUST, MUST SEE: Boycott Israel!!! | Israel Video Network

Do you advocate a boycott of every nation committing human rights abuses? I can easily name a dozen countries doing far worse than Israel in this respect.

The anti-Israel fervor is simply a reflection of continuing vile antisemitism in Western civilization.

 

[Sinajuavi]

As the fall semester approaches, signs point to an even more heightened campus environment of harassment and intimidation aimed against Israel and its supporters. Control of narratives remains key to shaping perceptions.

The idea that Israel, its supporters, and at least some Jews stand on the ‘wrong side’ was articulated in more than 100 statements condemning Israel from faculty groups and departments. One implication of growing faculty and student extremism is that it effectively gives antisemitism an “academic mandate.” And many defend their anti-Israel attacks in the name of ‘academic freedom.’

A typical example came at Vassar College, where faculty members issued a letter accusing Israel of “settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing” and declaring that they regard the “movement against racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration in the United States and the Palestinian struggle against apartheid as interconnected.”

But the most sinister developments were in teachers’ unions, where BDS resolutions continue to be debated.

UK reports also indicated a tremendous increase in antisemitic incidents, with some 628 recorded in May alone.

(full article online)

BDS Rages as the Summer Sizzles On - Algemeiner.com

As the fall semester approaches, signs point to an even more heightened campus environment of harassment and intimidation aimed against Israel and its supporters. Control of narratives remains key to shaping perceptions. The most blatant manipulations came from outside academia, with continued...

www.algemeiner.com

Antisemitism is alive and well in the West, and transcends political affiliation. The far Left and far Right both are riven with antisemitism. It is disgusting.

 

[Sinajuavi]

Typical Israeli crapola.

Start @ 0:55 Then Israel brags about doing the Palestinians a favor by letting them work in Israeli greenhouses.

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Half of "Palestinian" ancestry is found among Arabs from other countries who came to the territory in the days of the Mandate, for the WORK created by Zionists.

Everyone should read all the descriptions of that territory from the 1920's. Also read about life under the Ottomans, and about the creator of the "Palestinian" people and movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. What a guy.

 

[Sinajuavi]

The Israel Boycott, Anti-Judaism, and the Giant Shrug

January 7, 2014 by Jackson Doughart

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Ive long tried to understand the contemporary Lefts obsession with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and its tunnel-visioned view of the matter, which categorizes all Israeli actions as evil and all Arab ones as an admirable fight against oppression. One should aim to find an explanation that does not rest on a fundamental hostility toward Jews; after all, the unfounded and premature attribution of bigotry to ones political opponents is normally the sign of a weak argument.

The best such explanation that I can come up with rests on the radical Lefts predilection for anti-Americanism, which resembles far more a political position than a form of bigotry. The problem, in their eyes, is not Israel per se but the fact that it is an ally of the Great Satan. There is some empirical support for this: even figures such as Noam Chomsky were not hostile to Israel in its early existence. The country was, as one recalls, founded primarily on the principles of democratic socialism and owed to Jewish Leftists for its establishment. Chomsky even lived in Israel on a kibbutz for a time. It was only when Israel aligned itself with the United States that it became complicit, in their view, with American imperialism, and hence dismissible on principle. The Lefts anti-Israelism could thus be chalked up to the decayed ideology of anti-colonialism, which has for decades been focuses squarely on American foreign policy.

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The problem with the ASAs boycott is not its means, but rather its ends. On this point there is no room for an even-handed middle ground. Those who depart from the anti-Israel world view must voice their dissent now; if they dont, the boycotts will keep rolling in.

The Israel Boycott, Anti-Judaism, and the Giant Shrug | FrontPage Magazine

Many lies you post.

I am on the "Left", being a Progressive Democrat. I also support Israel's existence. I see Israel's alliance with the USA as a good thing, and necessary for Israel. The USA is rife with problems, but only jihadis call it "the Great Satan".

Take a good look at the antisemitism on the Right before swallowing this anti-Leftist nonsense. Let's try to remember... in 2017, who was that marching Charlottesville carrying swastikas and chanting "Jews will not replace us!" Hint: it was not the Left.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Do you advocate a boycott of every nation committing human rights abuses? I can easily name a dozen countries doing far worse than Israel in this respect.

The anti-Israel fervor is simply a reflection of continuing vile antisemitism in Western civilization.

Why do the Palestinians "single out" Israel?

Israel is the only country occupying Palestine, DUH!

 

[P F Tinmore]

I am on the "Left", being a Progressive Democrat. I also support Israel's existence.

That makes you a PEP.

 

[Hollie]

Why do the Palestinians "single out" Israel?

Israel is the only country occupying Palestine, DUH!

There is no occupation of any sovereign Pally land, DUH!

 

[Sixties Fan]

She could have made her point with blacking out the name and email address - anyone who cares about the possibility that an email is meant to discredit a real person would do that. Yet she chose to highlight and publicize this email and include the allegation that a rabbi was sending this anti-Hindu hate to her.

Which, of course, stokes antisemitism - as can be seen in the responses.

As a public person, it seems farfetched she could not have figured out that no one would send this sort of email under their own name.

I am not doubting that she received abusive emails, and I am not justifying them at all. But her choice to publicize this one and include the fake name indicates that she wanted the world to know that she is being attacked by a "rabbi", someone who represents Jews, and by extension that Jews are horrible people.

Mittal claims she is not antisemitic. But if she cared at all about antisemitism, she would never have posted something that she knew quite well would increase antisemitic attitudes. And if she was as inundated with hate mail as she claims, one must wonder why she chose to highlight one from a supposed rabbi.

(full article online)

Ben and Jerry's Anuradha Mittal spreads antisemitic slander - while saying she's the victim (UPDATE)

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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[Sinajuavi]

Why do the Palestinians "single out" Israel?

Israel is the only country occupying Palestine, DUH!

Among the Arab opposition to Israel are many who advocate genocide of Jews, many who advocate and employ terrorist means, and many who are in fact Islamic imperialists who couldn't care less about the "Palestinian people".

They never protested Ottomans, British, the Arabian Hashemites or anyone but JEWS ruling any of that territory.

 

[Sinajuavi]

There is no occupation of any sovereign Pally land, DUH!

Until 1967, Gaza was EGYPT. Suddenly it became "Palestine".

Joke in Israel:
Q: Where is this "Palestine" I keep hearing about?
A: Wherever a Jew is standing

 

[Sinajuavi]

That makes you a PEP.

Who know what that stands for, but none of this makes you authorized to put labels on me.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Among the Arab opposition to Israel are many who advocate genocide of Jews, many who advocate and employ terrorist means, and many who are in fact Islamic imperialists who couldn't care less about the "Palestinian people".

They never protested Ottomans, British, the Arabian Hashemites or anyone but JEWS ruling any of that territory.

Those people did not kick out the Palestinians and replace them with colonial settlers.

 

[Hollie]

Those people did not kick out the Palestinians and replace them with colonial settlers.

There were no Pal'istanians as you would like to believe. You have some quaint notion of this wondrous Magical Kingdom of Pal'istan that you have invented but which never existed. Arabs still occupy the West Bank and Gaza so who were these people you claim were ''kicked out''?

 

[P F Tinmore]

There were no Pal'istanians as you would like to believe. You have some quaint notion of this wondrous Magical Kingdom of Pal'istan that you have invented but which never existed. Arabs still occupy the West Bank and Gaza so who were these people you claim were ''kicked out''?

so who were these people you claim were ''kicked out''?

The people who lived there.

 

[Hollie]

The people who lived there.

Occupation doesn't mean ownership. Are you angry that the Arab armies kicked out the Arab squatters?

Indeed.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Occupation doesn't mean ownership. Are you angry that the Arab armies kicked out the Arab squatters?

Indeed.

How many Israelis own land?

 

[Hollie]

How many Israelis own land?

Indeed. How many? Are you hoping to buy property?

Indeed, we do know from Ottoman land records that large tracts of land within the former Turkish Caliphate were owned by absentee landowners in Lebanon and Syria and sold to Jews and Jewish agencies.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Indeed. How many? Are you hoping to buy property?

Indeed, we do know from Ottoman land records that large tracts of land within the former Turkish Caliphate were owned by absentee landowners in Lebanon and Syria and sold to Jews and Jewish agencies.

OK, so how about answering the question?