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And of course it would be. No student group would dare consider a boycott of any Muslim-owned businesses or organizations, even ones with demonstrable ties to terror, for any reason, no matter how high the jihad body count grew. And if such a boycott ever were actually considered, which it would not be, scheduling the vote during a time when most Muslim students would be off campus and otherwise occupied would be inconceivable. It is taken for granted today in academia and nearly everywhere else that Muslims must be paid special deference, while antisemitic attacks and Jew-hatred are at record levels.
“University of Maryland Student Government to Hold BDS Vote During Passover,” by Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal, April 18, 2019:
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University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) will be holding a vote on a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution on April 24, in the middle of Passover.
As first reported by Algemeiner, Maryland Hillel capital campaign director Elan Burman informed Hillel community members about the upcoming vote in an April 17 email, stating, “The timing of this resolution is particularly insensitive given that many Jewish students will be away from campus this weekend for Passover, and will be celebrating the intermediary days of the holiday when the vote takes place.”
Divest UMD announced the upcoming vote in an April 18 Facebook post:
Leah Barteldes, the communications director for the university’s SGA, confirmed to the Journal in an email that the vote on the resolution will take place on April 24 and that “moving the bill to another date would not be possible as the current date it will be heard on is a result of our robust scheduling system we have in place and our permanent weekly meeting time.”
“We are doing our best to ensure as many perspectives on the bill are heard as possible,” Barteldes wrote. “Today, we opened up an online student concern form where any and all current undergraduate members can reach out to their respective legislators with their thoughts on the bill up until next Wednesday. While this is in no ways a perfect solution, we hope it will help us hear more perspectives for those who cannot attend on Wednesday.”
American Jewish Committee Director of Campus Affairs Zev Hurwitz said in a statement to the Journal, “BDS resolutions are incredibly divisive in general, and the timing of the University of Maryland vote further isolates the Jewish community on that campus.”
“Introducing an anti-Israel bill during a time when many Jewish students are off campus, celebrating a Jewish festival with their families, demonstrates a shocking disregard for Jewish student voices,” Hurwitz said. “Hopefully, the Student Government Association will recognize the inequity of the timing, not to mention the misguided content of a BDS resolution, and vote this divisive measure down.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, similarly said in a statement to the Journal, “Since the anti-Semitic BDS campaigns always impact on Jewish students, government leaders should have scheduled their vote a week later.”…
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16 Comments
5 years ago
The Dems are the new Arians.
5 years ago
Why do colleges and universities need student governments?
These student-government people use colleges and universities to force other students to give them their money and then they spend the money in ways opposed by many of the students.
Student governments seem to be a way for people to practice being leftist politicians … at the expense of others.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Of all things first ask what is their nature.
Here we have pigs being pigs* – it’s as simple as that.
*No offense to the animal itself, who has more natural dignity than do these pampered ignoramuses.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
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5 years ago
Reply to
ConnectingDots
All these “colleges” that are participating in Anti-American and Anti-Jewish activities MUST LOOSE ALL funds from American TAX PAYERS.
5 years ago
Don’t let these imbeciles affect you during this week.
The Jewish people are very special to God.
http://www.zingerbug.com/holidays/glitter_graphics/passover_sunrise.gif
5 years ago
This is a deliberate stunt to exclude Jewish students from arguing a counter-point. How do I know this? Because similar cretins pulled the exact same session at UW Madison, Wisconsin. They caught hell for doing this.
5 years ago
Better check and see if your state has “red flag” laws. That is their latest way to expedite gun confiscation. It works like this, if someone thinks you are unstable or a threat, they can get you before a judge and take away your guns. Lindsey Graham wants this as a federal law. to circumvent states rights and disarm us. He’s so pleased to do “bipartisan” legislation. How come he’s not concerned about the battalions of illegals, fake asylum seekers and migrants literally invading our country from at least 50 other countries and I am not exaggerating. Nope – it’s more important to disarm us.
“A red flag law is a gun violence prevention law that permits police or family members to petition a state court to order the temporary removal of firearms from a person who may present a danger to others or themselves.”
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I wonder if the “temporary removal” is ever anything except permanent?
5 years ago
For all will be rewarded
5 years ago
Unless the Jewish student communities truly unite, this issue will never really go away.
5 years ago
Let’s start the ‘Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions of All Political Islamist businesses in North America Movement..
We’ll call it the BDS-APIBINA-Movement.. Let’s start with…Chobani Inc. (Yogurt Company) and founder, Hamdi Ulukaya
Please forward all complaints to CAIR-Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood-MAS-ISNA locations…
5 years ago
As if a muslum pederast like you gives a hot damn about Christians. You’ve never bleated a beat about the ongoing extermination of Christians in Nigeria by your fellow muslum swine Fatima.
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Why don’t pi$$ants like you use condoms?
Little boys can’t get pregnant.
5 years ago
I can agree with the BOYCOTTING of mohamMADans on ‘ramadan’. ‘cair’ along with its MANY off-shoot organizations MUST be labeled TERRORIST organizations and BANNED from ALL FUNCTIONS on EVERY INCH of American controlled land. CONFISCATE EVERY CENT they have and use it to transport/deport, remove their “citizenship”, those muslems who do not want to ASSIMILATE into America’s FREEDOMS and Constitutional SUPREME LAW of the LAND.
