Anti-Israel Campaigns Spread Anti-Semitism on College Campuses By _Noah Beck_ (http://www.christianpost.com/author/noah-beck/) , Op-Ed Contributor May 17, 2016|12:40 pm _christianpost.com_ (http://christianpost.com) Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. Anti-Semitic incidents seem to spring up each week on college campuses throughout the United States. According to _a study_ (http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitic-activity-schools-large-Jewish-report-2015) , "The strongest predictor of anti-Jewish hostility on campus" is the presence of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The greater the BDS activity, especially involving faculty members, the more likely anti-Semitic episodes become, said the study issued last month by the _AMCHA Initiative_ (http://www.amchainitiative.org/) , a non-profit organization _dedicated to_ (http://www.amchainitiative.org/mission-and-objectives/) investigating, documenting, and combating anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses. One recent example occurred on April 15, when the City University of New York Doctoral Students' Council _passed a resolution_ (https://cunyboycott.wordpress.com/resolution-2/) calling for an academic boycott of Israel, 42-19. Weeks earlier, a CUNY professor and BDS advocate _claimed_ (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuny-professor-accused-anti-semitism-behavior-article -1.2571251) that the killing of Palestinians in Gaza "reflects Jewish values." On CUNY campuses, the New York Observer _reports_ (http://observer.com/2016/03/silence-over-anti-semitism-at-cuny/) , Jewish students were harassed, with "Jews out of CUNY" uttered in at least one instance, and a professor who wears a yarmulke was called a "Zionist pig." On April 21, two-thirds of a union representing about 2,000 graduate students at New York University _voted to approve_ (http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/NYU-graduate-student-union-approves-BDS-resolution-452180) a motion to support a BDS resolution against Israel. The motion also urges the union and its affiliate, the United Auto Workers, to divest from Israeli companies. The resolution asks NYU to close its program at Tel Aviv University, claiming the program violates NYU's non-discrimination policy. About a month earlier, NYU's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), one of the main organizing forces behind the nationwide BDS campaign, _hosted_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_FzowRg8LU) Israeli academic Ilan Pappé, _described_ (https://newrepublic.com/article/85344/ilan-pappe-sloppy-dishonest-historian) by Benny Morris as "one of the world's sloppiest historians." _As reported by AMCHA_ (http://www.amchainitiative .org/campusmonitor/campusmonitor-nyu/) : "Pappé blamed Jews, perceived historically as evil, for antisemitism stating, 'The [Jewish] Israelis ... are responsible for bringing antisemitism back.' He denied Jews self-determination and demonized Israel stating, 'evil Zionism will come to an end – all immoral regimes do' as well as suggested rich Jews should leave Israel as a process of 'decolonization.' He further demonized Israel throughout accusing Israel of carrying out 'ethnic cleansing' multiple times. Pappé delegitimized Israel consistently referring to Israel as a 'settler colonialist project,' ... [and] promoted BDS." The Jewish Law Students Association at Harvard University and Harvard Hillel co-sponsored an event April 14 on "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the U.S." During the question and answer session, Husam el-Qoulaq, an HLS student and head of SJP at the school, insulted Israeli Knesset Member Tzipi Livni by asking, "How is it that you are so smelly? ... A question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, she's very smelly, and I was just wondering." The student's question resurrected the anti-Semitic stereotype of a "smelly/dirty Jew." Incredibly, some "progressive" HLS Jewish students later _defended el-Qoulaq_ (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211429#.VyMsRvmLnIU) . As BDS campaigns spread on campuses, anti-Semitic expression increasingly follows — from swastika-filled vandalism _at UC Davis_ (http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-fraternity-in-California-defaced-with-swastikas-389650) and _Purdue University_ (http://observer.com/2016/03/what-gives-israel-the-edge-on-marijuana/) to student "debates" at Stanford University that implicitly _dignify classical anti-Semitic tropes_ (http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/08/controversy-erupts-at-stanford-over-student-claim-that-issue-of-jews-con trolling-media-economy-is-valid-debate/) about Jews controlling the media and economy. Among other recent incidents: * April 20: At Michigan's Grand Valley State University, there have been _six anti-Semitic incidents reported_ (http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2016/04/news-anti-semitism) on campus since last December. These involved swastikas on walls or doors of residence halls, messages including "I am a Nazi" and "Hitler did nothing wrong," a faculty member making anti-Semitic gestures in a classroom, and a Star of David with an "X" scratched into it on the window of a bus. * April 19: At the University of Maryland, about two dozen _protesters_ (http://www.dbknews.com/2016/04/19/palestine-protest-at-umd-israel-fest/) arrived at a Hillel and Jewish Student Union event called, "Israel Fest" and, _for about an hour, chanted_ (http://www.dbknews.com/2016/04/19/palestine-protest-at-umd-israel-fest/) , "Fight the power; turn the tide; end Israeli apartheid" and held signs saying "Zionism kills." * April 15: At the University of Notre Dame, a _letter_ (http://ndsmcobserver.com/2016/04/dont-stand-oppressor/) published by three students in the school newspaper _accused Israel of apartheid_ (http://ndsmcobserver.com/2016/04/dont-stand-oppressor/) and directed readers to the Anti-Semitic site "IfAmericansKnew" and the site for a major BDS group, Jewish Voice for Peace. * April 10: At Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, participants at the U.S. Universities Debating Championship (USUDC) were forced to justify the motion, "This House Believes That _Violence By Palestinians Against Israeli Civilian Targets Is Justified_ (http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/199929/university-debaters-asked-to-justify-palestinian-terrorism-against -israeli-civilians) ." _According to AMCHA_ (http://www.amchainitiative.org/antisemitism-tracker/) , 2016 already has seen 171 anti-Semitic/BDS incidents as of April 21. At this rate, 2016 will see a 36 percent increase in incidents over last year. Faculty members have become increasingly active in BDS efforts and smears. During a talk at Vassar College in February, Rutgers professor Jasbir Puar _accused Israel of harvesting Palestinian organs_ (http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/vassar-faculty-sponsored-anti-israel-event-erupts-in-controversy/ ) and conducting scientific experiments in "stunting" the growth of Palestinian bodies. Last month, 40 Columbia University professors _signed a BDS petition_ (http://www.jta.org/2016/03/01/news-opinion/united-states/40-columbia-profs-sign-bds-petition) . More recently, one pro-BDS professor even _tried to link campus rape_ (http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/20/intersectionality-bds-professor-links-campus-rape-to-israel/) to Israel. As Rochester Institute of Technology lecturer A.J. Caschetta _notes_ (http://www.meforum.org/5871/syracuse-prof-exposes-bds-antisemitism) , "at a time when much of academe is jumping on the BDS bandwagon, there is little risk to academics who join the movement, whereas opposition to majority leftist positions often leads to a perilous path." -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RC] Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
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