BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
It will now likely be heard again by the student government, where the resolution will need a two-thirds majority to override the veto.
“I am passionate about empowering women to take part in the conversation and have a seat at the table, and I think that the world would be a better place if more women did that,” said Inna Vernikov, chairwoman of Women’s Committee for Americans Against Antisemitism.
“Clearly, Berkeley is not united against hate,” said student Nathan Bentolila, a senior. “I honestly have very little to say, the Jewish community is beyond disappointed.”
Israel Allies Caucuses in the European Union and the United Kingdom have already spoken out against the labeling laws, and the Netherlands passed a resolution against them
“The UNHRC, which consists of tyrannical states and despot regimes, proves once again that it is a rotten institution that makes delusional decisions which have no connection to actual human rights,” said Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan.
Illini Hillel and the Jewish United Fund in Chicago said jointly, “Jewish students and allies worked hard to defeat the bill, with more than 30 students speaking out. Unfortunately, the climate was deeply hostile not only to Israel, but also to Jewish communal concerns.”
In a statement released by the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)—the committee’s ranking member—Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) called this move by the United Nations “abrupt and inappropriate” and “another anti-Israel stunt that will not further peace in the region.”
In a statement posted on Facebook, the “Harvard Jewish Coalition for Peace” called itself “a new organization founded in the idea that Jewish liberation is inextricably bound up with the liberation of all people.”
“The world body’s endless hypocrisy and double standards towards Israel are staggering,” said American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris in a statement. “Of all the situations in the world in which territory is disputed, the U.N. chooses only to focus on Israel. Why?”
One ad had a collage featuring Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), saying, “The radicals in the Democratic Party are pushing their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel policies down the throats of the American people.”
“We strongly reject this contemptible effort,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Israel reaches out to governors in U.S. states hosting firms on the U.N list, asking them to condemn the initiative.
Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community.
