Faculty at Rutgers U. to Vote on BDS Measure
“Passing this resolution will further fan those flames and signal that it is OK to be viciously anti-Israel and that is somehow acceptable.”
People on the left, who support the boycott Israel movement, have been pushing hard for this everywhere.
The Jewish Link reports:
Rutgers Faculty Set to Vote on BDS Measure
The faculty of Rutgers University is set to vote in early December on a BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) referendum that aims to have the school pull out of its collaborations with Tel Aviv University, stop investing in companies that do business with Israel and in Israel Bonds.
Spearheading the vote is the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT), the union that represents more than 5,000 employees at Rutgers. The union is led by Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers professor in the media department, who also serves as the president of the national AAUP.
The national AAJP in August reversed a longstanding policy that opposed academic boycotts, saying that such boycotts “can be considered legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.”
David Greenberg, a professor of history, and journalism and media studies at Rutgers and an executive committee member of the Jewish Faculty, Administrators and Staff (JFAS) group at Rutgers, called the vote “divisive.”
“Already you see on campus faculty who are having a hard time talking to each other. It creates an air of hostility and acrimony on campus,” he said.
“People who have a deep misunderstanding or ignorance of what Israel is or what Zionism is are riding high in the saddle and using the university to fan the flames of hatred,” Greenberg continued. “Passing this resolution will further fan those flames and signal that it is OK to be viciously anti-Israel and that is somehow acceptable.”
In its BDS resolution, the union claims that there is “scholasticide in occupied Palestine” and that Israeli universities “play a key role in supporting Israel’s system of apartheid rule.”
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Employing the psychology of the other as a tool of warfare.
Of course, the Faculty Comintern doesn’t realize they don’t control the university’s governance and they have no say over the endowment money’s investment policies. But hey, they have to make a show of it.
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