BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“You are supporting Nazis,” student Shelby Shoup said in the video posted online. “Do you understand that?”
“It seems the problem is only getting worse as a result of this campaign of hate that has been launched by JVP and SJP on campus,” said Rena Nasar, tri-state campus director of the organization StandWithUs.
“If an Israeli team can perform in Abu Dhabi with the Israeli flag and anthem, we should also be able to play” in Spain, said Israeli Water Polo Association president Revital Cohen Gluska.
“As a resident of Sderot, which has been suffering from incessant rocket fire and incendiary bombs, it is a disgrace that the university is hosting a band that encourages Gaza ‘freedom fighters,’ said Dov Trachtman, a master’s student at Ben-Gurion University.
Some 48 hours after the deadliest attack on Jews in American history, the school’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies held a town-hall program featuring anti-Israel advocates.
The Zionist Organization of America has called for Marc Lamont Hill to be fired from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he teaches, and CNN, where he is a contributor, for his support of Louis Farrakhan.
Her father, Rafiq Alqasem, staunchly supports BDS and has posted anti-Semitic content on social media, such as conspiracy theories related to Jewish influence and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
“Why do we have to be afraid to publicly expose those who are rabidly anti-Semitic? Have we learned nothing from our tragic past? When we remain silent, we are trampled on,” says Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Lawfare Project.
Dozens of anti-BDS anti-terror posters directed at Lara Alqasem were hung and distributed at Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus ahead of Lara Alqasem’s arrival.
American Jewish leaders and Israel-related groups express mixed reactions over the Israeli Supreme Court’s controversial decision to allow the entry of BDS activist Lara Alqasem, with some accusing the court of overstepping its boundaries.
“Criticizing a nation-state and promoting human rights is not in any way anti-Semitic,” said Rose Asaf. “I am in solidarity with Palestinians not in spite of my Judaism, but because of it.”
“We will continue to fight for the principle that whoever acts to harm the State of Israel and its citizens should be refused entry,” said Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Security Gilad Erdan.
