FPM: An Open letter to A-G Bill Barr: Disband Students For Justice And All BDS Movements…….

Mr. Attorney General, On May 16, 2019, The German Parliament voted, as you know, to condemn as anti-Semitic, the BDS movement in Germany. The BDS is a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that targets Israeli organizations, academic institutions and companies engaged in entrepreneurial activities in Israel to weaken the Israeli economy and politically in an attempt to force Israel to change its policies towards Palestinians living there.

BDS movements, mainly conducted by their most visible branch,  Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)  are prolific on US campuses and enact a reign of verbal terror, and physical and psychological violence against anyone who dares to be pro-Israel, critical of Palestinian terrorist or defend Israel against false charges of it being a genocidal an apartheid state. Really, it represents an assault against Western civilization and United States interests and should properly be considered a national security threat.

As a recent victim of vicious assaults by members of the SJP at DePaul University where I am full tenured professor, and, with the highest praises and respect from the Acting Provost Salma Ghanem, for the ways in which members of the DePaul community made their voices heard—I call for a disbandment of all SJP campus units by the US Justice department, and a thorough investigation into the motives and political involvements of higher level academic bodies that endorse these organizations which have ties with terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

BDS movements are immoral largely because they use slander, libel and defamation of Israel and, by association, the United States, to bring Israel to the brink of economic and political disaster. Their real , immorality, however, lies in their guiding ethos: hatred of Jews for being Jews. And hatred of the West, Including the United States for our values. Operating under the guise of a movement directed at what they claim are egregious policies of Israel, the BDS movement is an insidious body of nefarious characters funded by organizations linked to terrorist networks and largescale organizations. Their real hatred lies not in policies but in the achievements of the Jewish state; its success in transforming what was an arid and barren desert region into a thriving democratic civilization. They hate that it is the only country in the Middle East that consistently practices religious reciprocity and hosts the only pro-gay “Pride Parade” in the Middle East. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where gays can properly seek asylum from sexual oppression. They hate the fact that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where thousands of people seek asylum from the oppressive and illiberal application of Islamic Sharia law in neighboring Arab countries.