As previously reported, the UC Irvine student government is solidly in the hands of the pro-Palestinian crowd, which means they do earth-shaking things like pass a resolution of Boycott, Divestment and Sanction against companies that do business with Israel and condemn UC Santa Cruz professor of Hebrew Tammi Rossman-Benjamin because she has the courage to speak out against anti-Semitism on UC campuses.
Student resolutions are symbolic, however. Immediately after they passed the BDS resolution, the UCI administration announced it had no intention of complying.
Furthermore, I have heard through the grapevine this week that UCI chancellor Michael Drake will be visiting Israel (again) in the coming months.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, all you BDS-ers.
Gary Fouse praising the administration of UCI? I don't believe it!
ReplyDeleteWe are still watining to hear from Janet on this issue of BDS at the California Universities. From the experience of seeing her exponging all language of Jihad and Islamist behavior from FBI and other training manuals, it will be interesting how she will conduct herself in this arena.
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@Squid,
ReplyDeleteNo doubt she was enthusiastically following orders from you know who on the expunging certain words from ALL government documents project.
Personally, given that mind-set, I think she will find a way to enable BDS when she is head of the university.
I don't know Squid, but she's going to be heading a publicly-funded university, so I expect she'll adhere to the First Amendment and neither infringe free exercise nor promote Establishment of Religion. Seems a pretty sensible approach.
ReplyDeleteI think its a bit silly for universities to go for political stars, instead of seeking sober experience academics, but that doesn't mean she'll do really badly.
Washington University in Virginia asked Robert E. Lee to serve as its president, and he did a reasonable good job.
It's not a blow. Just a temporary suspension of BDS. Given enough time it will be enforced along with the barring of all Jews from campus.
ReplyDelete"Temporary suspension"??? Findalis, no university system in the U.S. has EVER adopted BDS, and it would be legally and politically untenable for a publicly funded university to do so.
ReplyDeleteYou appear to be suffering from Post Holocaust Stress Disorder Syndrome by Proxy, every time the sound of a loud mouthed band of idiots produces flash backs of events you never experienced personally.
Hampshire college in Massachusetts, if I recall, adopted it.
ReplyDeleteNo Siarlys I am watching history repeat itself. There isn't a nation that hasn't kicked their Jews out of their nation, and that includes the United States. I'm just practical. It is a matter of time that Jews will be barred from Universities, professions and government offices to appease the left and Muslims.
ReplyDeleteFindalis, your delusions kulturkampf (pun intentional) would be amusing if not for the fact that you take it seriously. Didn't you ever read in your younger days that history repeats itself first time as tragedy, second time as farce? When is Israel going to kick out its Jews?
ReplyDeleteReally Gary, Hampshire College? Hardly a "university system," and not a pimple on the rear end of the endowment scene.
@Findalis
ReplyDeleteWe know our own history very well. Country after country over the years either expelled or prosecuted its Jewish citizens. Every Jewish family has its own vivid memory of what happened to one or more of the members of their families. Six million lost in just the last such episode was preceded by Spain and in many other countries in Europe over the years.
The refusal of the US to allow the entry of the ship St Louis with its hundreds of Jewish refugees only to be returned to Europe to be slaughtered in the Holocaust is the example how it happened even in the US. The country that prides itself for taking in refugees of all kinds did not extend to Jewish refugees fleeing from certain extermination, as actually happened to them.
With the increasing Islamization of our country and our schools in particular our schools, as Gary documents practically every day, is particularly troubling.
History, as someone wrote, doesn't exactly repeat but rather it rhymes.
Miggie, you might make sense if you could credibly point out that after the St. Louis was turned away, all the Jews resident in the United States were rounded up and shipped to Hamburg. Sure, Republicans and conservatives hated Jews in those days, but the St. Louis was turned away because of American immigration policy, which since the early 1920s denied admission to almost everyone, just like you and Gary advocate we should now. What nobody wanted to do was make an exception for a boatload of Jews, while the U.S. government was promising never to get involved in another European war, and before the movie "Exodus" became a big hit.
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ReplyDeleteJews were kicked out of Israel (and Judea) 2000 years ago by the Romans.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteGiven the situation in Nazi Germany, I would have admitted the people on the St Louis, and I would also admit Christian refugees from the Middle East.