I have been requested by the UC Berkeley Jewish Student Union to post this petition to the student government at the University of California not to support divestment from Israel. It is time to stand up and tell the various student governments at the University of California campuses that we do not support this obnoxious and asinine measure to deligitimize the Jewish state, which is under assault from its fanatical Arab neighbors.
http://www.change.org/petitions/senators-of-the-associated-students-university-of-california-asuc-vote-no-to-divest-from-israel-3
I have signed it and I urge like-minded readers to sign it as well and pass it on.
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OK, I signed it. The middle east conflict is a classic case of two rights make a wrong. It is a plausible argument that the nations of Europe should have provided the land for a Jewish homeland after the Churban Europa, but there are strong reasons why Jews gravitated toward the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. There are good reasons why the existing occupants objected. The British were cowardly asses throughout. But, what's done is done. There is no rational way to dispense with the existence of Israel. It is kind of assinine to mindlessly copy a tactic that had some good effect in one situation, South Africa, and apply it to a very different situation. It is a moral blot on Israel that the IDF did have close cooperation with the apartheid regime (albeit for economic reasons -- a small country doesn't generate enough business to keep a modern arm's industry going), but that doesn't mean Israel IS an apartheid regime, at least not yet.
I signed it but I doubt the value of these petitions. They seem to feel they are immune from criticism and deep down they only care about their agenda. That goes from the liberal professors right up to the "see no evil" administration.
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