BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
A spokesperson for the U.K. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, said “we are committed to ensuring public bodies take a consistent approach to investments and stop local boycotts.”
Plaintiffs alleged that the anti-BDS law violated the First Amendment.
Jewish Voice for Peace tweeted a quote that compared Israel to a virus, saying, “The social solidarity we witness nowadays due to the corona pandemic reminds me of the First Intifada when Palestinians were united to resist the other heavy virus.”
The vote has been pushed to the fall semester “or whenever campus returns to its normal operation,” said CEC and CCSC.
“A sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation has been waged against Jewish students and their allies on UCI’s campus with impunity,” read a March 12 resolution.
“This latest incident fits a pattern of offensive and inflammatory social-media posts that do nothing to advance peace and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, but rather fuels more hate and divisiveness,” said Evan Bernstein, vice president of the ADL’s northeast division.
However, adds the co-founder of the BDS movement, “under the excuse of fighting the virus, we must not have a ‘honeymoon’ with Israel.”
They signed an open letter organized by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) to applaud Lee Bollinger’s “forceful and unequivocal declaration against bigotry and prejudice, which are intolerable, as he said, when directed against any group, especially within a university.”
In the Democratic race, Marie Newman won against Rep. Dan Lipinski, 47.1 percent to 44.8 percent, while Arthur Jones came in last in the three-way Republican contest with only 10 percent of the vote.
“The fact remains that the folks at ViacomCBS thought that a woman who lauded an anti-Semite like Louis Farrakhan is a symbol of ‘inclusion,’ ” said Dexter Van Zile, a researcher at CAMERA.
The vote occurred just months after students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum calling on the school to separate itself from companies that conduct business with the State of Israel.
Phillip Agnew (now Umi Selah) has participated in trips to the disputed territories led by Ahmad Abuznaid, a supporter of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to “build real relationships with those on the ground leading the fight for liberation.”
