BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
A Catholic NGO is to award anti-Israel activist Brigitte Herremans its “ambassador for peace” prize at the site of a transit camp from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
A resolution stated that ASU students “have expressed concerns over their own safety on campus to the administration and police force in light of recent events, specifically Nazi [propaganda].”
Jordyn Wright, a second-year science student, labeled the motion as anti-Semitic and discriminatory. It was also criticized by the McGill administration, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the Anti-Defamation League and hundreds of McGill students.
“It is unacceptable that federal funds could be used to implement an academic boycott that directly contravenes the purposes for which these funds have been granted. Area studies programs whose directors or affiliated faculty engage in such behavior should be ineligible to receive or renew Title VI funding.”
The vote occurred months after students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum, calling on the school to separate itself from companies that conduct business with Israel.
She called the push to oust her from the Student Society of McGill University’s legislative council and board of directors as “anti-Semitic.”
Following the vote, supporters were recorded chanting the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which calls for the destruction of Israel between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.
The agreement with the U.S. Education Department was signed after an investigation following a conference hosted by the Middle East Studies program that featured an anti-Semitic Palestinian rapper and anti-Semitic posters in the university library.
An American citizen, he was ordered to leave the country after Israel’s Supreme Court upheld an expulsion order under a 2017 law that allows Israel to deport foreigners who support the boycott movement, which has been accused of anti-Semitism and ties with terrorism.
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.
A fight broke outside of the event between Jewish and pro-Palestinian students, who chanted “Free, free, Palestine” and “Viva, Viva Intifada!”
The Anti-Defamation League survey of 9,000 adults in 18 countries shows a sharp rise in anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe. Anti-Semitic stereotypes were more widely accepted among Muslims.
