As some of you may have heard, the Student Senate at Berkeley University pass a divest-from-Israel resolution a couple of days ago. As you might expect, I have a few words to say on the subject. Normally, I'd cross-post the entire thing here, but I've added my first poll to Divest This which I hope the good people here at Solomonia might respond to after reading about what all this California BDS activity adds up to here.
Divestment isn't a "grassroots movement"- its been carefully orchestrated and planned for years:
From the Al Awda Conference:
Next up for SJP at SDSU came Lina Othman, head of the group’s outreach department. Othman, wearing a hijab, explained how the UC Divestment program had developed a campus-wide network in California tailored for each campus community. For example, she explained, the climate at UC Berkeley might be different than the one at San Diego State when it came to divesting from the Jewish state.
Othman epitomized the use of deception by the divestment movement just as Al Awda uses in giving such conferences. Othman told us how SDSU had already three SJP members on the Student Council and they were gunning for ten including the Student Body Presidency. Once they had control of the campus, she explained, they would then institute a campus-wide policy. It was bemoaned during this session that an earlier resolution by her campus against the genocide in Darfur had made a point of saying that it did not include Israel. To get around this, Othman explained that future boycott and divestment actions at SDSU would single out “human rights violations” as the cause of pointing out certain companies and individuals to boycott. It was to be specifically about boycotting and divesting from Israel—the Jews—but they wouldn’t say that so as to deceive people.
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Divestment isn't a "grassroots movement"- its been carefully orchestrated and planned for years:
From the Al Awda Conference:
Next up for SJP at SDSU came Lina Othman, head of the group’s outreach department. Othman, wearing a hijab, explained how the UC Divestment program had developed a campus-wide network in California tailored for each campus community. For example, she explained, the climate at UC Berkeley might be different than the one at San Diego State when it came to divesting from the Jewish state.
Othman epitomized the use of deception by the divestment movement just as Al Awda uses in giving such conferences. Othman told us how SDSU had already three SJP members on the Student Council and they were gunning for ten including the Student Body Presidency. Once they had control of the campus, she explained, they would then institute a campus-wide policy. It was bemoaned during this session that an earlier resolution by her campus against the genocide in Darfur had made a point of saying that it did not include Israel. To get around this, Othman explained that future boycott and divestment actions at SDSU would single out “human rights violations” as the cause of pointing out certain companies and individuals to boycott. It was to be specifically about boycotting and divesting from Israel—the Jews—but they wouldn’t say that so as to deceive people.