Anti-Israel Bias
“Providing the imprimatur of three academic departments to such a politically motivated and directed event violates the core academic mission of the university, suppresses student expression and impedes the free exchange of ideas so essential for any university,” said a letter to UMass chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
Can the promotion of unchallenged lies and distortions ever be part of “a legitimate debate”?
Iraqi TV report: “Jews are behind Iraqi NGOs; they promote homosexuality and encourage men to style their beards like Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism.”
Benjamin Pogrund has responded to the false notion that the State of Israel practices apartheid as South Africa once did.
“Here at Cornell, the voices supporting BDS are getting more extreme,” said Cornell University senior Shir Kidron. “This campaign is making Jewish students here on campus feel unsafe and unwelcome.”
The resolution was announced at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.
Beyond the usual pro-BDS and anti-Israel rhetoric, several campuses drew even more attention for their activities, events and choice of speakers.
Kern Medical in California released a statement that as of March 15, they had notified Dr. Lara Kollab “that her position as a Post-Graduate-Year 1 resident in the Internal Medicine Residency Program has been withdrawn effective immediately.”
Students Supporting Israel members sent an official complaint to Columbia officials against the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for displaying “blatantly distasteful and anti-Semitic imagery.”
“Free speech is appropriate, but calls for violent intifada aren’t OK, and they can’t be the only voices heard,” said Aliyah Jacobson, who heads the CAMERA on Campus-supported group Bulldogs for Israel at Brooklyn College.
“One meaning is, obviously, to remind staff that Hamas is violent—violent against both Israel and its own people,” explains executive director of CAMERA Andrea Levin.
“One of the speakers slated to come, Omar Barghouti, has said that he supports the euthanasia of Zionism,” said sophomore Gabriel Dardik. “It makes me feel unsafe that this kind of person could come here.”
