UC Santa Cruz student warned to abstain from BDS vote over ‘Jewish agenda’

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leftynyc (16,246 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027362628

UC Santa Cruz student warned to abstain from BDS vote over ‘Jewish agenda’


A Jewish member of the student government at University of California, Santa Cruz was warned to “abstain” from voting on a pro-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) resolution because he is the president of the school's Jewish Student Union and was “elected with a Jewish agenda.”

The incident occurred prior to a vote by the UCSC student council to annul a veto an earlier Israel divestment bill. On Nov. 17, the UCSC voted 28 in favor and five against, with seven abstaining, to reinstate a divestment resolution that was vetoed in 2014.

In a text message sent to UC Santa Cruz Jewish Student Union (JSU) President Daniel Bernstein, the sender wrote, “You will be abstaining, as the president of JSU that is the right thing.”

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/11/18/uc-santa-cruz-student-warned-to-abstain-from-bds-vote-over-jewish-agenda#.Vk4wrdKrSig=


I wonder if all the Muslim students also got a text saying they shouldn't vote. I'm guessing no. Anti-Zionism is bad enough at colleges these days. The anti-semitism is totally out of hand.

MosheFeingold (651 posts)
3. The daily stabbings of random Jewish people

Is also just anti-Zionism.

(yes, sarcasm)

I lived through this crap once on another continent. I'd really like it to not happen here, too.

That said, we are told it happens every generation. So I suppose we are due.

geek tragedy (52,474 posts)
14. So you're equating a racist text message from one person to the state-sponsored genocide of Jews, Roma, and homosexuals?

Yes. Because that's how it starts.

6chars (1,530 posts)
5. they are really trying to intimidate Jewish students now. it's not about Zionist or not. This guy is Jewish, they say he had a Jewish agenda. And if you are Jewish, there is only one opinion that the BDSers on campus will allow you to express. It is a conscious tactic of theirs to harass Jews so that Jews will stop supporting Israel. This is far different than making arguments. This is thuggery. Then when pro-Israel voices are silenced, the uninformed 90% will hear all of the anti-Israel voices etc. One reason this tactic works is that adherents of the other major religions each outnumber Jews by a factor of 100 to 1. It baffles me that progressives approve of this tactic.

ericson00 (1,154 posts)
20. this is precisely why both left and right must confront Radical Islamist ideology:

in ways like this it is influencing Americans' daily lives even when it isn't in the form of violent jihad, but rather academic jihad. Sadly, elements of the extreme-left are co-opting it because it fits an "anti-imperial colonial agenda."

And the Democratic Party needs to start taking on the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. It's small among party members but has been growing enough to be on peoples' radars. The Party cannot take the Jewish vote for granted: Obama lost 10% of his Jewish vote from 2008 to 2012. Jews have been one of the most loyal groups to the Democratic party, some of the fiercest advocates for progressive causes (civil rights in particular), and some of the most generous donors. While not a big percent of people nation wide, this country is a. one of the few with more Jews than Muslims, and b. there are a lot of Jews in swing states, and c. Americans in general support Israel over Palestinians by a gulf-sized margin. That Gaza episode from the 2012 convention can never ****ing happen again. Ever.

leftynyc (16,246 posts)
26. And frankly, and I'm sorry to have to point this out, far too many Muslims would kill you for being either Jewish or gay. So many right here continue to try and ignore that startling Pew poll about how many support sharia law. That people who call themselves liberals will ignore all these things because they support the Palestinians is....disturbing.

wow. common sense at teh DUmp.

I am sure it wont last.

[USA4ME]

6chars

It baffles me that progressives approve of this tactic.

Approve it?!? Progressives/liberals are the ones who invented it!!

ericson00

The Party cannot take the Jewish vote for granted.

Why not? They've gotten away with it so far.

ericson00

While not a big percent of people nation wide, this country is one of the few with more Jews than Muslims

Not for much longer given the very individuals you vote into office.

Until Jews, or any group for that matter, figure out that progressives/liberals/Democrats are their enemy and the enemy of freedom, justice, and liberty, then this...

ericson00
 
this is precisely why both left and right must confront Radical Islamist ideology

... would be a waste of time.

Personally, I think we conservatives are better off letting liberals reap what they've sown. Then, when they come to us to "confront Radical Islamist ideology" (and they will), we can negotiate the terms by which we'll be willing to co-operate. Otherwise, we'll just be putting a Band-Aid on a cancer.

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[txradioguy]

geek tragedy (52,474 posts)
14. So you're equating a racist text message from one person to the state-sponsored genocide of Jews, Roma, and homosexuals?

You idiots go out of your minds to equate a swastika drawn in poop with Jim Crow...the Clan and Slavery.

What's the diff?

[SVPete]

geek tragedy (52,474 posts)
14. So you're equating a racist text message from one person to the state-sponsored genocide of Jews, Roma, and homosexuals?

Did I miss something by not wandering into the DU-sewer? Or was this accusation of a fulfillment of Godwin's Law in fact the initial fulfillment thereof?

UC Santa Cruz is a UC Berserkeley wannabe. Angela Davis was a "professor" there.

However much geek tragedy may want to ignore or obfuscate it, anti-Semitism is rampant on many US university campuses, with the passive or active encouragement of many university adminicrats. San Francisco State has been a leader in this. Jewish students at SF State have been mobbed and harassed by Pali Arabs and their sympathizers for the horrible crime of ........ wearing a yarmulke.

Kristallnacht happened in 1938, not in 1934, when Hitler came to power. US anti-Semites have had to move slower, but if they aren't stopped, their goals may not be all that dissimilar (a reference to Kristallnacht, not Auschwitz).

[DumbAss Tanker]

That is just FUBAR.  You shouldn't vote on something because you already have an opinion on it?  Jeeze.