Hat tip Americans for Peace and Tolerance.org
This is a welcome video coming out of New Orleans. It is produced by the Boston-based Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an organization that for years has been sounding the warnings about radical Islam being spread out of the Islamic Society Cultural Center of Boston in Roxbury, linked to convicted terrorists Tarek Mehanna, Abdurrahman Alamoudi, Aafia Siddiqi, as well as Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al Qaradari, and its sister mosque in Cambridge, from which sprout the brothers Tsarnaev.
The video addresses the rising anti-Semitism and focuses on the efforts to boycott Israel. It is especially welcome because the focal point of the boycott drive and resultant anti-Semitism is on our university campuses. In this video, there are at least two shots of UC Irvine, where I teach part-time. That is no accident. Over the past decade, UCI has experienced some pretty ugly scenes and heard some vile rhetoric coming out of the mouths of many pro-Palestinian speakers.
It is time for a new breed of speakers to start appearing on university campuses, speakers like the young lady in the video to come and educate college students about the rising problem of anti-Semitism, which is mostly fostered by pro-Palestinain advocates.
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How can it possibly be that this wide scale BDS and general hostility toward the single Jewish country in the world be anything but Anti-Semitism? This is especially so when what sins Israel is alleged to have committed are minuscule in comparison to the actual atrocities that occur in the Islamic countries around the world every day.
Miggie's comment is exactly why the BDS movement is a failure. When the leaders of the movement demands call for Israel to no longer be a Jewish state, people see the BDS movement as a calling all of Israel being illegitimate.
I don't see how those who support the two state solution can accept bds as it is advocated today.
It is counter productive. Even Abbas recognizes this and said he is only for a boycott of Israeli goods produced on the West Bank.
@Anonymous (there are so many of you)
Still, when you boycott Israel with or without goods that are produced on the West Bank (personally I don't know that many and if so, they are insignificant) you are going along with a boycott of Israel proper!
You may not know, and this is just one small example, that the Palestinian Authority started paying back a small portion of its debt to the Israeli Electric Company (I think several tens of millions out of a $1.5B debt) – did you know that Israel is still providing the Arabs electricity (including in Gaza!) and they just don't pay for it. Some"Occupation"…
Don't assert that the West Bank is "Arab or Palestinian" land. It is generous to even say it is disputed land. It was won in a war, a war that the Arabs started! It was a functioning Jewish state a could of thousand years before. There has NEVER been a Palestinian State or language, or any indicia of sovereignty there before. So how can something you never owned before be "occupied" by the previous rightful owner?
Almost every country in the world (including the US) has had other people living there before them. So to treat the Jewish state as somehow not entitled to the rights and prerogatives all other nations have smacks of something else to me.
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Miggie, conquered land in war or not, it is in Israel's best interest for there to be a Palestinian state to be created (with security concerns taken into account) that would peacefully co-exist with Israel as its neighbor.
What do you propose to do with the millions of Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza?
You can either have:
A. a democratic state that serves as the homeland for the Jewish people
or B you can love the land more than democratic values and have Greater Israel that is a Jewish state but not democratic.
Demographics dictate that you cannot have both. I would much prefer Israel remain a democratic state that serves as the homeland for the Jewish people.
@anonymous
Personally, I leave it to the Israelis to determine what" is in Israel's best interest."
We were discussing rising antisemitism and the BDS movement, and not what Israel SHOULD do. (Whatever they do will not effect the murderous intentions of the ROP)
I believe that Israel has unimpeachable sovereignty over the West Bank of the Jordan river (the only river in the world than seems to have only one bank). That is only if sovereignty is acknowledged by other countries who gained their own sovereignty in the exact same way.
Insofar as the legal status of this area, I refer you to this recent article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/jewish_rights_in_the_land_of_israel.html
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