Anti-Israel campus bullies demand Freedom from Criticism

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Legal Insurrection:

Release highly-polished coordinated whine.

William A. Jacobson

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

 

 

This is really rich.

 

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is extremely aggressive on campus, something we have documented hundreds of times.

 

That aggressiveness is carried out on the streets and campus areas by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), whose aggressive actions are meant to and do intimidate other students.

 

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Here is how SJP acted at Cornell when pro-Israel students silently held pro-Israel signs:

 

 

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Seriously, JVP is accusing people of making false accusations? That is what JVP does all day long, as we demonstrated exhaustively – Jewish Voice for Peace “Jew Washing” the anti-Israel movement.

 

I think this all is a good sign.

 

The American people overwhelmingly support Israel.

 

SJP, Palestine Legal and JVP live in campus bubbles of anti-Israel sentiment. The bubbles are bursting. And the sound you hear is whining.

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The Progressive Left and Israel's Right to Exist

Charles Lipson

October 1, 2015

 

A small incident during Bernie Sanders’ recent talk at the University of Chicago reveals how the progressive left has turned against Israel. The venue was the largest on campus, and it was packed with enthusiastic supporters. During a Q&A, one student said that he and his friends liked Bernie’s progressive politics but didn't much like his views on the Middle East. Bernie’s response, and the crowd’s, are worth pondering.

 

First of all, Bernie said, Israel has a right to exist. It was supposed to be an applause line, but it fell flat. There was only a smattering. That changed when he said he strongly favored a Palestinian state. For that, the applause was loud and sustained.

 

It’s only a small incident, but it captures a movement that has been developing for years at elite universities and is now spreading to cultural and media institutions. Their views are surely encouraged by President Obama’s diffidence toward the Jewish state. But he is less a leader than an accurate weather gauge. The left loves Israel about as much as it loves fracking, the Keystone pipeline, Goldman Sachs, voter IDs, Clarence Thomas, and deer hunting.

 

What has happened on campus, aside from the well-documented suppression of pro-Israel views, is the formation of a durable coalition opposed not only to Benjamin Netanyahu and specific Israeli policies but to Israel itself. The coalition is composed of the two fundamental groups on all elite campuses: the self-professed “victims” and the self-flagellating “guilty.” One of the main purposes of orientation week is to sort students into one of these two groups and to educate them in their assigned roles.

 

The guilty are all students from comfortable backgrounds, except those from approved minorities. These middle-class students are, by definition, "oppressors." They can expiate their sins by pleading guilty and showing they want to remedy the mess their families have made of America and the world..........................(Snip)