BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
Enraged students at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology pen a letter to the faculty dean after an NGO known for its critical stance on Israel is invited to present a series of guest lectures.
“We’re tired of sitting back and letting a few vocal outliers hijack the Democratic Party’s Israel policy,” said Democratic Majority for Israel president and CEO Mark Mellman. “Instead, the platform continues the party’s proud history of supporting both Israel and the peace process.”
The graduate student union said it has reached out to Hillel and the student who received the response “to request a meeting to discuss how to remedy harm and how to mitigate future harm towards Jewish students on campus.”
“It’s very positive and encouraging because the issues that are raised are very serious; they’re pervasive and widespread,” said attorney Neal Sher, who filed the complaint on behalf of a former NYU student.
A book by Noura Erakat book claims that the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be understood through a settler-colonial framework; the international community has failed Palestinians by bending the laws in favor of the Jews; and attempts should be made to prosecute Israeli veterans for war crimes,” wrote CAMERA campus adviser Yoni Michanie.
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.
“Circumstances surrounding the labeling requirement in the specific facts presented to the court are suggestive of anti-Israel bias,” said U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus.
“The weaponization of E.U. consumer protection law will complicate finding an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, which can only succeed in the diplomatic—not the judicial—arena,” said Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic Institute.
“The winery is proud of its contribution to combating this decision and intends to continue the struggle,” CEO of Psagot Winery Yaakov Berg tells JNS.
In a Nov. 4 letter posted on Facebook by the Western Massachusetts chapter of the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace, more than 40 faculty members compare BDS to fighting against apartheid South Africa in the late 20th century.
“We selected the image because we thought it depicted both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, their uncritical support for the State of Israel, as well as their shared antagonism towards the BDS movement,” said Palestine Solidarity Committee president Bryce Greene.
The paper also refused to publish a letter to the editor on the basis that pro-Israel students are not entitled to be part of a “dialogue that gives a platform to ideas which dehumanize a group of people.”
