It’s why I choose to label universities, ”islands of tyranny in a sea of democracy”.
When the Leftist political machine is turned against you, all kinds of human rights violations are possible because they really believe that they’re just being ”virtuous”, and to be in opposition to them, by default, makes you ”non-virtuous”, and the crown jewel of that thinking, ”might makes right”, becomes the standard operating procedure for all that they do.
B’klyn College Pro-Israel Students Deserve More than Late Apology
By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The Jewish Press
Published: March 11th, 2014
Brooklyn College held a BDS Forum, Feb. 7, 2013
It’s been more than a year since four Jewish pro-Israel students (the JPI Students) were forcibly ejected from an anti-Israel talk given by two proponents of BDS, co-sponsored by and held at Brooklyn College. Finally, this past Friday, March 7, Brooklyn College president Karen Gould issued a public apology to the JPI Students.
But that very-late apology should be only the very first step taken, according to the public interest law center representing those students. First, a very quick recap of the events that led to this belated apology.
LEAD UP TO AND FEB. 7 BROOKLYN COLLEGE BDS EVENT
In January of 2013, it was announced that the Brooklyn College Political Science Department endorsed and co-sponsored with various Students for Justice in Palestine organizations a forum about the Boycott of, Divestment from and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) movement. The title of the forum was: “A lecture by Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti on the importance of BDS in helping END Israeli apartheid and the occupation of Palestine.” The sub-title, just in case you hadn’t yet understood the point, was “BDS, a strategy
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The event went forward. Four pro-Israel Jewish students attended. They brought with them paper containing background information about BDS, which they intended to use during the Question and Answer session at the end of the talk.
Shortly after Judith Butler began speaking, an SJP official observed the papers and went over to the JPI Students, insisting they hand over the papers. The JPI Students refused. Then the SJP official brought over Brooklyn College security guards and the JPI Students were removed from the event. The Brooklyn College communications director later told the press that the JPI Students were ejected because “they created a disturbance” and “were disrespectful.”
THE AUDIOTAPE REVEALING NO WRONGDOING BY THE PRO-ISRAEL STUDENTS
