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Sean Savage

“For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social-justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence,” says Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntiSemitism.org.
In 2011, South Carolina State. Rep. Alan Clemmons introduced a landmark “Standing With Israel” resolution that laid out the factual and legal rejection of the accusation that Israel is an occupier in Judea and Samaria. The bill went on to pass in over a dozen other states and be adopted into the Republican Party platform.
It aims to hold the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, also known as Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East, liable for conspiring to provide financial aid and other assistance to Palestinian terror groups that make up the Boycott National Committee, which leads the BDS movement.
After its initial foray into six campuses in 2016, the organization has rapidly expanded each school year, with a presence today on 80 campuses across North America.
The National Students for Justice in Palestine will hold its conference on the first three days of November. Canary Mission found that last year’s attendees “endorsed violence, showed support for terror and spread anti-Semitism at both the conference and on social media.”
Despite concerns over the policies of nationalist leader Viktor Orbán, the country enjoys low levels of anti-Semitism, warm relations with Israel and a thriving Jewish community. Hungary’s Ambassador to the United States László Szabó says not to believe the “fake news that is going around on Hungary.”
“The Prime Minister’s announcement is fully in line with Israel’s international legal rights. Because these territories were part of the British Mandate, Israel has as much legal right to them as to Tel Aviv,” said Eugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum.
“Our Israel activists are more emboldened and outspoken than ever. People understand they are on the right side of history and the truth. They will not be intimidated,” said Aviva Rosenschein, international campus director for CAMERA, which recently hosted students from over 80 universities to respond to the upsurge in campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism.
Publications put out by the group Miftah use highly politicized language, accusing Israel of “massacres,” “apartheid,” “summary executions” of Palestinian youth and “Judaizing” Jerusalem, according to NGO Monitor.
“[It] is deeply troubling—not only for its shocking omission of any mention of Jewish Americans or anti-Semitism or its blatant anti-Israel bias and praise of BDS, but for its clear attempt to politically indoctrinate students to adopt the view that Israel and its Jewish supporters are part of ‘interlocking systems of oppression and privilege’ that must be fought with ‘direct action’ and ‘resistance,’ ” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, head of the AMCHA Initiative.
Experts say that despite the lobbying blitz, big purchases and warm exchanges, it’s unlikely that Qatar’s relationship will significantly deepen with the United States. Nevertheless, Qatar’s emir could wind up with an important seat at the table.
Sam Westrop, director of Islamist Watch for the Middle East Forum, told JNS that CAIR targeted author and columnist Raymond Ibrahim due his outspoken criticism of radical Islamist groups.