BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“We apologize for the distress that our miscommunication has caused the Jewish community on campus, and we understand their concerns,” said the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union.
“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”
“Unilever is a widely held company with a current market capitalization of $135 billion, which places in jeopardy the manifold institutions, pension funds and endowments [that] hold its shares on behalf of its beneficiaries,” said a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A total of 68 percent voted against the motion while 32 percent voted in support of the BDS campaign.
World Squash Federation president Zena Wooldridge says measures have been put in place “to prevent this kind of situation reoccurring.”
An open letter signed by 70 writers states: “Like her, we will continue to respond to the Palestinian call for effective solidarity, just as millions supported the campaign against apartheid in South Africa.”
“If they poured all of the money they are spending on boycotts into building factories and creating jobs in the West Bank and Gaza, it would go a long way to truly helping Palestinians,” said Bassem Eid.
Professor Oded Goldreich’s attorney, Michael Sfard, pronounced the result “a wretched decision that continues the trend of criminalizing left-wing positions.”
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.
“Everyone with different beliefs, with different backgrounds, with different cultures—they all come together and ... forget about politics, about your religion,” says Mexican beauty queen Andrea Meza.
The country’s Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has been trying to convince Lalela Mswane to withdraw.
The 79 organizations also asked university president Tim Sands to affirm his commitment to ensuring that “no student will be subject to unfair discrimination or harassment because of the implementation of such a boycott on campus.”
