Anti-Israel Bias
The cities referred to include Jerusalem, Nazareth and Tiberias.
Christians and Jews are still called “infidels,” and Jews and Israelis are eternally treacherous, murdering prophets who commit irreparable evil and determined to harm Muslim holy places.
It has managed to get a vague commitment from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to skip the conference, though it hasn’t seemed to affect other presidential candidates.
“The resolution proposed by Students for Justice in Palestine is a clear attempt to emotionally blackmail student senators and create a hostile environment for Jewish students on our campus,” said University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hillel executive director Erez Cohen.
Chancellor Carol Christ of the University of California, Berkeley, said the chaos in the meeting reflected the “tension between free speech and our commitment to creating a campus environment where everyone must feel safe, respected and welcome.”
Community Security Trust identified 224 incidents as “Labour Party-related” and 126 as far-right.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive Democrat running to unseat incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 16th Congressional District, said he was “grateful to be endorsed by” and “incredibly proud to work with the Jewish Vote to take on anti-Semitism.”
“The goal of this conference was to bring international herbal research to Israel,” said Sara Chana Silverstein, an Orthodox Jewish master herbalist from New York. “For BDS to attack this conference limits knowledge for the world.”
“Jewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled and threatened with physical threats of violence. … Jewish students should never feel threatened and should NEVER fear for their safety while on campus,” posted campus group Tikvah: Students for Israel, on Facebook.
A new NGO Monitor report identifies eight European-funded NGOs with ties to the PFLP, designated a terrorist group by the United States, European Union, Canada, Israel and others.
The Zionist Organization of America said it was “horrified” by the MLB’s involvement in selling tickets for Waters’ tour, “especially in an era when attacks against American Jews have become an epidemic.”
“Anti-Semitism is a virus that responsible leaders work to contain,” said CAMERA media analyst Dexter Van Zile. “By granting TruNews insider status at the World Economic Forum, U.S. officials have helped mainstream this virus.”
