UC Davis Student Government Votes to Divest from Israel: The cycle continues . . . Here’s how to stop it.

By Lee Kaplan on February 9, 2015

When I was a student in college, student government was pretty much considered a nerd’s game. The majority of the student body was occupied with studies, with work, even chasing girls. It wasn’t very hard to get involved in student government if you wanted that on your resume. Colleges across America all set up mini-student governments on campuses designed after the U.S. constitution’s political structure. This is considered de rigueur today in education to teach students how our government runs. That is, usually a student president is elected, a legislature or senate is created to generate bills, and a judiciary is created to be sure everything is legal.

UC Students Pass Resolutions to Divest from Israel, America

By Bradford Thomas on February 9, 2015

Despite protests from students chanting “Stop the hate against the only Jewish state,” the University of California Student Association board, representing 233,000 UC students, passed a resolution Sunday to divest from Israel. The 9-1-6 vote was accompanied by another divestment vote, passed overwhelmingly (11-1-3), to divest from several countries—most notably the United States—for “human rights violations.”

Student Leader: 'Hamas & Shariah Law Have Taken Over UC Davis'

By Daniel Mael on February 2, 2015

A resolution calling for the University of California at Davis to divest from “corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories, violating both international humanitarian law and international human rights” passed on Thursday evening by a vote of 8-2-2. 

DePaul University Site of Fundraiser for Convicted Terrorist

By Paul Miller on February 2, 2015

On February 21, 1969 a bomb exploded in a crowded Jerusalem supermarket filled with “mostly women and children” doing their pre-Sabbath shopping, killing Hebrew University students Leon Kaner (21) and Edward Jaffe (22).  This was followed four days later by a foiled attempt to blow up the British Consulate. Both incidents were perpetrated by the same terror organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Anti-Semitism, Old and New

By Irwin Cotler on February 2, 2015

This past week, I had the privilege of participating in the first-ever UN General Assembly forum on global anti-Semitism, which, as it happened, took place at a critical historical moment: the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most brutal extermination camp of the 20th century, and site of horrors too terrible to be believed, but not too terrible to have happened.

Harvard Capitulates to Anti-Semitism

By Mitch Wolfe on February 2, 2015

 As a Harvard graduate, class of 1974, I am thoroughly disgusted by the Harvard Administration’s cowardly capitulation to the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divestment, sanction) movement on campus.