Education Dept. : BDS activity against Israel will be defined as anti-Semitism

[rylah]

New study: BDS activists hostile toward Jewish students, not just Israel

For many years we’ve been documenting anti-Israel activity on U.S. university and college campuses, typically part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and carried out by student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.

In these prior posts we’ve described many instances when this Israel-related activism has crossed over the line into blatant anti-Jewish animus, including at schools as diverse as Vassar, Oberlin, and University of Illinois.

It’s important to “unmask” the SJP student chapters, including how many of them launch attacksagainst Jewish and Zionist students, try to shut down programming about Israel and even Jewish-themed events and guest speaker events involving non-Jews that are hosted by Hillel and other Jewish campus groups, and deliberately work to ostracize and exclude pro-Israel students from various campus activities.

Now a new AMCHA Initiative study (pdf.) released last week provides further empirical confirmation of how this Israel-related harassment and intimidation is contributing to an increasingly hostile campus environment for Jewish students—even more so than do incidents involving ‘classic’ antisemitism (i.e., instances of Nazi swastika graffiti).

This new AMCHA study is important because it highlights how BDS isn't only directed against Israeli academic institutions but also targets individuals for harm. As the report shows, an increasingly prominent feature of BDS on American campuses is not only the promotion of the boycott of Israel, but also the boycotting of actual Jewish students and student groups

Researchers differentiated between incidents that deliberately and directly intended to cause harm to Jewish students—like bullying, speech suppression, physical attacks and threats, destruction of property—and incidents where bigoted and prejudicial opinions about Jews and/or Israel were expressed, but without any evidence of an intention to harm.

In addition, AMCHA also coded for whether an incident was carried out by a person acting on his or her own or by more than one person—and whether perpetrators were affiliated with particular campus or off-campus groups.

"Annual report on anti-Semitic activity on U.S. campuses: Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents were considerably more likely to contribute to a hostile environment for Jewish students than incidents involving classic anti-Semitism Campus Antisemitism Report 2017 – AMCHA Initiative"

— Shmuel Rosner (@rosnersdomain) August 8, 2018

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Researchers differentiated between incidents that deliberately and directly intended to cause harm to Jewish students—like bullying, speech suppression, physical attacks and threats, destruction of property—and incidents where bigoted and prejudicial opinions about Jews and/or Israel were expressed, but without any evidence of an intention to harm.

In addition, AMCHA also coded for whether an incident was carried out by a person acting on his or her own or by more than one person—and whether perpetrators were affiliated with particular campus or off-campus groups.

Key Findings of AMCHA’s New Report​

Three key findings emerge from the data:​

1. Israel-related antisemitic incidents are considerably more likely to contribute to a hostile campus atmosphere for Jewish students than are incidents which involve ‘classic’ types of antisemitic expression.

One of the main findings revealed from the AMCHA analysis is that while classic antisemitic incidents outnumbered Israel-related incidents three to one, less than 25% of these classic antisemitic incidents—even those where genocidal expression was a common feature—demonstrated an intent to harm Jewish students and groups on campus, while a whopping 94% of the Israel-related incidents did exhibit an intent to cause harm (pp. 6, 9).

2.Israel-related incidents are becoming “significantly more flagrant” and are increasingly characterized by a shift from a focus on anti-Israel boycotts and
divestment campaigns to actual boycotts of Jewish students and student groups.​

• 44% of Israel-related incidents involved behavior designed to silence Jewish and Zionist students, including disrupting or defacing Israel-related events, displays, and trips;
• 76% of Israel-related incidents involved behavior that personally targeted Jewish and Zionist students or groups, denigrating and demonizing them so as to exclude them from campus activities.

In addition, these Israel-related incidents (with intent to harm) were 6.5 times more likely to have multiple perpetrators and these offenders were 7 times more likely to be affiliated with specific groups than in the case of the classic antisemitic incidents, where perpetrators typically acted alone.

 

[rylah]

In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student,

Echoes on Campus of Old Biases​

The council, in a meeting that took place on Feb. 10, voted first to reject Ms. Beyda’s nomination, with four members against her. Then, at the prodding of a faculty adviser there who pointed out that belonging to Jewish organizations was not a conflict of interest, the students revisited the question and unanimously put her on the board.

But in the weeks since, that uncomfortable debate has upended this campus of 29,600 students that has long been central to the identity of Los Angeles. It has set off an anguished discussion of how Jews are treated, particularly in comparison with other groups that are more typically viewed as victims of discrimination, such as African-Americans and gays and lesbians.

The session — a complete recording of which has been removed from YouTube — has served to spotlight what appears to be a surge of hostile sentiment directed against Jews at many campuses in the country, often a byproduct of animosity toward the policies of Israel. This is one of many campuses where the student council passed, on a second try and after fierce debate, a resolution supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at pressuring Israel.

Reports of anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish sentiment have been on the rise across the country in recent years, especially directed at younger Jews, researchers said. Barry A. Kosmin, a Trinity College researcher and a co-author of a study issued last month that found extensive examples of anti-Semitism directed at college students, said he had not come across anything as striking as what happened at U.C.L.A.

“It’s egregious and startling,” Mr. Kosmin said. “If they had used this with any other group — sexual, racial, any kind of identity group — they would have realized it was illegal.”

Yet some Jewish leaders here questioned whether Mr. Block or the students appreciated the meaning of the event. John L. Rosove, the senior rabbi at Temple Israel of Hollywood, said the incident “reflects something deeper, more troubling, insidious, and pervasive not just at U.C.L.A. but on college campuses nationwide.”

“I am not one who sees anti-Semites lurking under every bed,” he wrote in his blog. “I am not a fear-monger. I do not believe that all criticism of Jews or the state of Israel is necessarily anti-Semitic.”

“Yet,” he said, “our inability to use the term anti-Semitism when it concerns Jews, when we don’t have a problem calling other forms of ethnic and religious bigotry what it is, raises disturbing questions about prevalent attitudes towards Jews, Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel.”

 

[rylah]

BDS = Hamas on US Campus



Hamas covenant states

• Article Eight:

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution:
Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.​

• Article Eleven:

This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law)
and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.​

• Article Thirteen:

"But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah." (The Cow - verse 120).

"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad."
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These people ^^^^ should be BANNED from US soil, not just the universities.
If You wake up now, only after reaching a point where these anti-Jewish attacks cannot swept under the carpet anymore because of their epidemic proportions - You are already in a big doodoo as a society.

 

[Ecocertifmrl]

I generally don't see anything wrong with verbally attacking a jew if they don't admit that what israel is doing is wrong.

So call it anti semitism. It's your problem when that word becomes different through manipulation. It will turn against you but that is okay with me.

 

[fncceo]

I generally don't see anything wrong with verbally attacking a jew

Be aware. These days, we attack back.

 

[Ecocertifmrl]

I generally don't see anything wrong with verbally attacking a jew

Be aware. These days, we attack back.

These days?

The israelis made Krav Maga - they are dangerous people.

 

[Kondor3]

Opposing the actions of Israel’s government is not anti-semitism.

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

 

[Kondor3]

...Oppression by religion is condemned across the 1st world except for 1 country.

Perhaps the objects of the exercise should have come to the table and negotiated with the Israelis in good faith, long ago.

Too late now.

 

[member]

I generally don't see anything wrong with verbally attacking a jew if they don't admit that what israel is doing is wrong.

So call it anti semitism. It's your problem when that word becomes different through manipulation. It will turn against you but that is okay with me.

joanscaloppina? che cosa ? non capisco ....

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Opposing the actions of Israel’s government is not anti-semitism.

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

 

[rylah]

Opposing the actions of Israel’s government is not anti-semitism.

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The way they've come into possession of those lands is exactly the way they've lost them.

 

[rylah]

I generally don't see anything wrong with verbally attacking a jew if they don't admit that what israel is doing is wrong.

So call it anti semitism. It's your problem when that word becomes different through manipulation. It will turn against you but that is okay with me.

Why should a Jew be attacked for not submitting to Your narrative?
Most Jewish people just want to study in their schools without getting Swastikas on their doors, without getting attacked by violent mobs, and without having to be targeted for merely being a Jew.

 

[Shusha]

Opposing the actions of Israel’s government is not anti-semitism.

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

 

[Kondor3]

...So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

Who gives a rat's ass?

That was then.

This is now.

Time to drive that scum onto the East Bank of the Jordan.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Opposing the actions of Israel’s government is not anti-semitism.

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

 

[Kondor3]

...All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

None of that matters anymore.

That was then.

This is now.

Deed title has changed hands.

Here are a few photos of the title-guarantee company...

 

[rylah]

This is not the issue, no one said it was,
it becomes hate speech when one denies the Jewish people right to self determination, and uses double standards to attack Israeli policies otherwise not used against other countries.

But at the least it has to start with the basic acknowledgment of the boldest antisemitic rhetoric and imagery used in the BDS ranks. Is it going to be denial?

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

Automatic exclusion of Jews from collective rights - is the definition of Antisemitism.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Everybody has a right to self determination. Well, except for non-Jewish people in Israel now.

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

Automatic exclusion of Jews from collective rights - is the definition of Antisemitism.

Not true. Palestinian Jews had the same rights as everybody else.

 

[Hollie]

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

Automatic exclusion of Jews from collective rights - is the definition of Antisemitism.

Not true. Palestinian Jews had the same rights as everybody else.

Yes they do. Just ask Yahya Sinwar.

 

[rylah]

Muslim-Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can have all the rights they want... on the east bank of the Jordan River... where they belong now.

The so-called State of Palestine is a stillborn fetus... a thing that never was... and never will be.

Time for Muslim-Arab Palestinians to come to grips with reality, pack up, and leave for other lands where they'll be more welcome.

So, how come the data says that Arabs were the majority of Palestine / Israel in the 1940's, and that Arabs owned more land than Jews in the 1940's?

The "data" assigns all land not owned by Jews as being owned by Arabs. Even if it wasn't owned by Arabs. In other words, it deliberately equated all sovereign land as being privately owned Arab land. It's a false equivalency.

All land that is not privately owned is communal land. It is owned collectively by the citizens.

Automatic exclusion of Jews from collective rights - is the definition of Antisemitism.

Not true. Palestinian Jews had the same rights as everybody else.

Same rights - is when You automatically exclude Jews from collective ownership??
This is a vivid example of classic antisemitism in its' oldest form promoted by the BDS.