BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“At the end of the day, it is imperative for pro-Israel students to combat this extreme left, which disguises itself in rhetoric such as ‘human rights’ and ‘progressive.’ We believe that if we stand beside them, we can combat this threat and expose it together,” said Amit Deri, CEO of Reservists on Duty.
“A company that boycotts part of the state must not be allowed to compete in government tenders,” wrote Dagan in a letter to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Transport Minister Israel Katz and Airports Authority director-general Yaakov Ganot.
“We value our many relationships with a variety of universities and research centers in Israel,” stated Northwestern president Morton Schapiro and university provost Jonathan Holloway.
It reveals the intentions behind political warfare against Israel, which have nothing to do with human rights, illustrated by the movement’s links to terror groups.
Two academic institutions—Pitzer College and the University of Haifa—have been at the center of a highly publicized BDS debate in recent months.
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry links protest organizers to terrorist groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP.
“We are sorry that the audience had to experience these inappropriate remarks,” said New York University president Andrew Hamilton. “A graduation should be a shared, inclusive event; the speaker’s words—one-sided and tendentious—indefensibly made some in the audience feel unwelcome and excluded.”
The tally of the motion to recommit was 200 in favor and 222 against with 12 Democrats and two Republicans breaking ranks.
Ellen Schanzer, whose great-grandfather, Martin Bernstein, founded NYU’s music department in 1925 and was a decades-long professor there, said she “will certainly not attend an institution where my core beliefs and very existence is being threatened.”
The contest lured expected calls for boycotts by Israel-haters, but the show went on—almost without a hitch—at the Expo Tel Aviv convention center. During the vote tally, representatives from other countries praised Israel’s top-notch production.
“You are a student whose presence in class is very disturbing to the whole group, and your remarks are very unpleasant. I am sorry I had to read your unpleasant and not intelligent papers,” wrote senior professor Daphna Golan, co-founder of the far-left NGO B’Tselem.
It follows the rejection of a university professor, John Cheney-Lippold, to write a recommendation for a Jewish student to study in Israel, labeling it an “apartheid” nation and making the matter political.
