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It also changed a resolution to fund all recognized, qualifying student groups to remove the phrase, “without exceptions for particular political beliefs held by the student groups, the views expressed by participants or organizers of such events, or the political views of co-sponsors of the events.”

And a third passage — struck in its entirely — had resolved to “defend the principles of academic freedom” by ensuring that UTSC community members can attend events about Israel/Palestine, participate in research with Israelis, and travel to Israel with pr0-Israel groups.

Fine, an SCSU director who is active in Jewish student organizations on campus, charged that the edits had been made “behind closed doors” by an SCSU committee — and argued they “showed the executive’s intention to strike specific protections and freedoms that Jewish student groups enjoy.”

“I support peace, and human rights for the Palestinian people,” said Fine, who also sharply criticized the BDS resolution. “The motion blacklists organizations that fight for peace, but don’t share the SCSU executives preferred tactic (BDS). The idea that Canadian Jewish and Jewish student organizations like Hillel, UJA, or an American anti-racism advocacy group like Dimensions need to answer for the actions of a foreign power is asinine.”

(full article online )

 
The Palestinian Community in Germany declined to answer a Post query. The organization supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, which the German parliament labeled as an antisemitic campaign in 2019.

According to a 2020 intelligence report from Berlin’s domestic spy agency, the “Palestinian Community in Germany is an umbrella association for Palestinian organizations in Germany whose members overwhelmingly belong to Hamas or sympathize” with the terrorist group.

(full article online)

 
(They bark and bark and bark )

In November, BDS in academia was marked by efforts to cancel speakers perceived as pro-Israel, such as Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely’s talk at the London School of Economic. While the talk proceeded with high security, Hotovely was threatened by a large mob afterwards and had to leave the school under security escort. The incident was widely condemned by British politicians — but defended by BDS activists.

Also blatant was the vandalizing of a fraternity house and a miniature paper Torah scroll at George Washington University. This also produced widespread condemnation from the university community, as well as national and local officials. A public march was held to protest the incident, but an investigation has yet to solve the case.

In the aftermath, however, Palestinian students staged a march to protest the removal of a “virtual processing space” that had been set up for them by the university’s “Office of Advocacy and Support” (which has directly supported BDS) in the “aftermath of Gaza.” The university president then announced support for the Palestinian students and an investigation of their allegations.

At Barnard College, the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter attempted to prevent a talk by a leading scholar of antisemitism and an author of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, Kenneth Stern — on the grounds that his presence was “legitimizing apartheid.

(full article online)

 
Plastira, who was Miss World Greece in 2019, has been falsely claiming to be Miss Universe Greece 2021 since June. It appears that she felt that if she claimed the title, the Miss Universe Greece organization would go along with it, rather than publicly denounce her as a fraud.

Big mistake.

Now, a week after the news of Plastira's fraud, the equally fraudulent "foreign ministry of the State of Palestine" has publicly thanked her for pretending to boycott Israel, calling the liar a "cosmic icon" for Palestinians.

(full article online)

 

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