U. Maryland SGA Passes Anti-Israel BDS Resolution on Yom Kippur
“Holding a vote that seeks to demonize the Jewish homeland on a day when Jewish students will not be able to participate is exclusionary, biased and flat-out wrong”...
“Holding a vote that seeks to demonize the Jewish homeland on a day when Jewish students will not be able to participate is exclusionary, biased and flat-out wrong”...
"SJP has urged students to attend the meeting, where the resolution calls for ending ties with organizations connected to Israel."...
"commonly referred to as the academic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, or BDS, is promoted by faculty members, departments and academic associations seeking to isolate Israeli universities and scholars from academic life"...
“The antisemitic rot that has corroded college campuses must be eradicated – enough is enough.”...
“Actions by University entities to implement boycotts of companies based on their association with a particular country would not align with these sound business practices.”...
"The bill also mandates cessation of state contracts and grants with those entities if they don’t change their ways."...
If Mamdani becomes mayor then New York City deserves its destruction....
"They're demanding that Yale divest from defense contractors, sever ties with Israel, and adopt a rigid political agenda"...
"One of the prominent driving forces behind the motion was the UofT Faculty and Librarians for UPP Divestment group."...
“We have heard your demands and do not intend to meet them.”...
“Georgetown will not implement this referendum, based on our institutional values and history and existing university resources and processes that address our investments”...
"the goal of demonstrators in the liberated liberated zone was to pressure CUNY to disclose its investments and divest from companies profiting off Israel’s war in Gaza"...
"[S]cheduling the vote on a Jewish holiday is not only insensitive from the start, but sets a troubling tone that only descends from there."...
“the people of Palestine have had their lives, livelihoods, and autonomy systematically targeted and dismantled by the settler-colonial state of Israel for over 75 years of ongoing occupation”...
So true, there has been a reign of terror on campuses for a generation against almost everyone right of center and in the last decade pro Israel. Turns out the boycotters don’t like being boycotted....
"Concurrently with their efforts to remove Mr. Stever, Unilever’s suppression of Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission has reached startling new levels of oppressiveness—and irony."...
"The Law School moved swiftly to distance itself from the referendum outcome."...
The Professional Staff Congress voted it down 113 to 62....
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