Anti-Israel Bias
The motion, which deemed the ruling as unfair and discriminatory towards Israel, passed by a tally of 82-68.
Enraged students at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology pen a letter to the faculty dean after an NGO known for its critical stance on Israel is invited to present a series of guest lectures.
“On this campus, we do not tolerate anti-Semitism, hate speech or discrimination of any kind,” said university president Elizabeth Bradley.
“It is deplorable that the United Nations should be so often used by member states to treat one state in particular, Israel, unequally,” said Cherith Norman Chalet, Acting U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations.
The resolution agreement came after an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conference in March hosted by the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies that reportedly used $5,000 of taxpayer funds from the U.S. Education Department.
“Circumstances surrounding the labeling requirement in the specific facts presented to the court are suggestive of anti-Israel bias,” said U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus.
“We selected the image because we thought it depicted both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, their uncritical support for the State of Israel, as well as their shared antagonism towards the BDS movement,” said Palestine Solidarity Committee president Bryce Greene.
“Putting oneself in the shoes of another person, or another group, can be difficult. But we believe it is important—and urgent—that you do that,” the paper said, citing a recent poll that found 87 percent of British Jews consider Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to be an anti-Semite.
Boston University’s sociology department has rejected the candidacy of Sarah Ihmoud, though the women’s studies department is apparently still considering whether or not to hire her.
Sarah Ihmoud’s paper, “Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism,” alleges that the “rape and killing of Palestinian women was a central aspect of Israeli troops’ systematic massacres and evictions during the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.”
The paper also refused to publish a letter to the editor on the basis that pro-Israel students are not entitled to be part of a “dialogue that gives a platform to ideas which dehumanize a group of people.”
In a troubling documentary, eight former Labour Party officials told the BBC that Corbyn’s team “interfered in the complaints process for incidents of alleged anti-Semitism, on some occasions processing them from his Westminster office.”
