The 10 Campuses With The Worst Anti-Semitic Activity
A Vanderbilt law professor is facing backlash from the pro-Israel community after launching a campaign to shut down a rally supporting the Jewish state and opposing global terrorism, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
In a stunning development, on Thursday morning, the student Court issued its decision that the divestment resolution violated the UC-Davis student government’s Constitution, since was primarily a policital document, and did not involve student welfare.
The Associated Student Government Senate (ASG) at Northwestern University narrowly passed a resolution Thursday morning urging the University to divest from six corporations that do business with Israel. The resolution, sponsored by a group calling itself Northwestern Divest, received 24 yea votes and 22 nay votes in a secret ballot. NU Divest wants the university to stop doing business with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Hewlett-Packard, G4S, Caterpillar and Elbit Systems.
Associated Student Government Senate passed a Northwestern Divest-sponsored resolution early Thursday morning asking the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s sponsors say violate Palestinians’ human rights.
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On Monday, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law fired off a letter condemning the anti-Semitism within the University of California at Los Angeles’ Undergraduate Student Assembly Council (USAC). The Brandeis Center pointed to the videotape of the USAC’s debate over whether a student involved in the Jewish community could properly be appointed to the Judicial Board.
The Stanford Student Senate voted just last week to reject divestment, but just last night, in a closed-door meeting to Senators changed their votes and the anti-Israel measure passed.
In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israelis and their government’s policies, not with Jews themselves. But that specious defense has fallen away of late, revealing some caustic and base anti-Semitism, representing a seismic shift in the way that Jews now are being indicted not just for supporting Israel, but merely for being Jewish.
Prompted by recent anti-Semitic incidents at the University of California at Davis, 23 human rights organizations, with a support base in the hundreds of thousands, have demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi conduct a formal investigation into Students for Justice in Palestine and a student senator for their involvement in acts of “hatred and bigotry on campus.”
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While expulsion of Jews will not happen here, the BDS movement is moving towards a de factobar on Jews who are not anti-Israel by alleging that taking subsidized trips to Israel or attending conferences and training through major pro-Israel Jewish organizations constitutes a conflict of interest.
This video describes the crimes of convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh who was convicted for her involvement in a fatal terrorist attack in Israel in 1970 and was found guilty of immigration fraud by a U.S. federal jury last year for lying about her crimes on her citizenship application. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters across the nation have been raising funds for Rasmea's defense.
The vote was close — the boycotters needed a 2/3 majority, but fell just short.
I am discouraged to know that I am not the only student who has felt silenced and marginalized by SJP; as a result, many students are afraid to speak up about similar personal interactions. The stories that I have heard and continue to hear concerning the divisiveness of SJP and SOOP events hosted in the wake of the ASSU divestment bill vote illustrate the strident climate and vitriol on campus that it breeds. Sadly, this has been the experience of students on other college campuses as well.
In the wake of UC Davis Student Senator Azka Fayyaz's comments after a student government vote to divest from Israel that "Hamas & Shariah law have taken over UC Davis," even the typically hard-left campus paper, The Daily Aggie, takes issue with her sentiments.
An analysis of the Stanford endowment’s quarterly SEC filings from the past decade shows no evidence that Stanford’s endowment is currently invested in any of the companies cited in the divestment materials. The filings also show no evidence that Stanford has been invested in any of these companies over the last ten years, with the exception of Raytheon for just one filing period. Moreover, in light of the significant proof that SOOP associates with the radical Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and disseminates materials calling Israel a “Jewish supremacist state”, it is clear SOOP is using this empty divestment proposal to delegitimize Israel and to implement BDS on campus.