Boycott Israel

(When you live to boycott only one country, and only a Jewish one, one is nothing but a worthless tool to those who love their useful idiots. 2000 years of useful idiocy ...and counting)

Passed on Dec. 2, the Law Student Government Association resolution said that CUNY Law School’s collaborations with Israeli researchers and institutions made it “complicit” in alleged war crimes committed by Israel, and condemned Hillel, Bulldogs for Israel, and other student organizations at CUNY for their support for the Jewish state.

The CUNY Alliance for Inclusion (CAFI) on Wednesday said the measure “launches a wholesale offensive maligning and attacking Jewish student groups and programs as well as faculty research and collaborations with a host of universities and corporations, attempting to shame such groups by name.”

The group of over 2,700 Jewish CUNY community members first organized to to protest the CUNY faculty union’s passage of its own anti-Israel resolution in June. At least 261 faculty have since resigned from the Professional Staff Congress CUNY union, according to the website of the “Resign PSC” campaign.

The latest law school resolution, CAFI charged, “appropriates for itself the right to separate good from bad Jews and to quash Jewish self-expression it disfavors as it trashes academic freedom by seeking to bar opinions contrary to its own from CUNY and its groups.”

“A great university must champion diversity and cultivate a tradition of inclusive civil discourse and engagement on complex issues and conflicts and stand against historic hatreds and limitations upon speech and association.”

Sponsored by the CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine and CUNY Law Jewish Law Student Association, the Dec. 2 measure was endorsed by over 20 other student organizations, including the National Lawyers Guild chapter and the CUNY Law Review.

It was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, which called for the administration to take “swift action.”

“Combined with the call to end all CUNY Israeli exchange programs, this BDS resolution has the effect of ostracizing and alienating a large majority of Jewish students on campus,” Scott Richman, NY/NJ Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League, said at the time.

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“If I had not come to Israel to compete in the Miss Universe pageant, I think I would have regretted it for the rest of my life,” said Lalela Mswane, who won the Miss South Africa pageant and then defied the South African government, which pressured her to boycott the contest, because it is being held in Israel. She spoke in an interview on Thursday night, in between rehearsals for the pageant’s musical numbers, breaking her silence about the pressure she has faced.
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She was enthusiastic about the friendliness of Israelis she had met: “I always thought South Africa has the friendliest people on earth but it might be rivaled by Israel.”

She is certain that she made the correct choice to use the platform given by the pageant’s publicity “to shed a light on the issue of women’s rights.” She is also concerned that young South Africans lack opportunities and she runs a foundation that aims to empower youth.

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to a university’s core mission to expose students personally and academically to a world that can be vastly different to their own, particularly through international exchange programs,” he continued.

How many exchange programs do they have with Palestinian universities?

If zero, this guy is full of crap.
 

How many exchange programs do they have with Palestinian universities?

If zero, this guy is full of crap.
Lazy bones cannot bother to do the research to answer his own question.

 


Lazy bones cannot bother to do the research to answer his own question.

So, how many exchange programs does CUNY have with Palestinian universities?
 

Whereas, on September 9, 2016 CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken released a report7 based on an independent investigation of alleged instances of anti-Semitism on CUNY campuses; the report concluded that the “tendency to blame SJP for any act of anti- Semitism on any CUNY campus,” is a mistake. The report found that SJP was not responsible for any of the most controversial instances of alleged anti-Semitism at the CUNY campuses, and concluded that while the situation is “hardly perfect”, the charge of “unchecked anti-Semitism” at CUNY is baseless; and

Whereas the courts have affirmed that advocating or opposing a boycott is protected speech,8 and

Whereas, the right of members of a university community to form associations for the pursuit of particular political or policy objectives is guaranteed by the Constitution, which explicitly protects both the freedom of speech and the right of the people peaceably to assemble; and
 

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