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NYU student senate plans Israel BDS vote...in private
Campus Reform ^ | October 26, 2018 | Andrew Logan Lawrence

Posted on 10/29/2018 6:42:07 AM PDT by C19fan

NYU student Senator-at-Large Rose Asaf tweeted that student senators would propose a Boycott, Divest, and Sanction resolution (BDS) against the state of Israel at the university senate meeting on Nov. 1.

This proposal comes on the heels of a resolution, passed last semester, which urged the university to “review its nondiscrimination policies for Palestinian, Middle Eastern, and other affected students traveling to the State of Israel and attending NYU Tel Aviv,” according to NYU Local.

The final vote on the resolution is scheduled for Dec. 6 and votes will be cast anonymously, with only NYU students permitted to attend. During this time, those opposing the resolution will only be given two minutes to speak.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antisemitism; bds; berniebro; college; dajooz; democraticsocialist; dsa; islamicimperialism; israel; nyu; roseasaf; university

1 posted on 10/29/2018 6:42:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Antisemitism on the left? Who’d have thunk?


2 posted on 10/29/2018 6:45:27 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: C19fan

Outside of Yeshiva U. and Brandeis, NYU has one of the highest proportion of Jewish students of any university in America.


3 posted on 10/29/2018 6:51:16 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: C19fan

https://nyunews.com/2017/12/07/rose-asaf/

Her weekly schedule includes a full set of classes, an on-campus job and seven to nine club meetings; she’s a student senator-at-large, a member of the NYU Democratic Socialists of America, the co-founder of Jewish Voice for Peace, a member of SLAM and of Students for Justice in Palestine, editorial co-director for the NYU Politics Society and an occasional reporter for WNYU — not to mention an attendee of the various protests that come together sporadically during the semester.

...Although the Bronfman Center — NYU’s primary Jewish institution — did not allow JVP a place to exist due to differing political beliefs, Asaf was not discouraged from activism in this field. She cites religion as one of the most important reasons why she does what she does, exemplified by the Star of David that she wears around her neck every day.

“Judaism has such a beautiful history of being radical and justice-oriented,” she said.

Asaf said it’s that very notion that motivates her to stand against the dominating ideology within the Jewish community of being pro-Israel...


4 posted on 10/29/2018 6:53:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: jjotto

It appears even schools with a sizeable Jewish population are trying joining the BDS movement. The student gov’t at my alma mater where there is significant Jewish enrollment pulled off this stunt. The antisemities scheduled the vote to be held during Passover when many of the Jewish students would be off campus with the families. That was too much for the administration who vetoed the students.


5 posted on 10/29/2018 6:54:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Daveinyork

So ‘nyu’ is to blame for the synagogue shooting and not Trump? This is getting weird huh? Will the entire ‘bds’ movement be finally classified as anti-semitic? Will those “entertainers” that refuse to perform in Israel be classified as anti-semitic? Nah, they’re simply pro palestinian. F them.


6 posted on 10/29/2018 6:56:57 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: jjotto

Rose ASAF sounds like an Arab name, so no surprise. NYU is a hotbed of leftwing radicalism, so despite the high proportion of Jewish students, it’s also no surprise that the unfortunately brainwashed indoctrinated students, many of which probably went through the leftist-dominated NYC public school system, would rely on leftist media smears of Israel to vote for this. After all, how many states have a governor so slimy as to publicly aver, “America was never that great”?


7 posted on 10/29/2018 7:09:16 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: C19fan

Bad optics and timing. This is not the time for being anti-semantic. I’m surprised the university even allowed this ..... oh wait it’s in New York.


8 posted on 10/29/2018 7:10:31 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: C19fan

The anti-Semite liberals are at it again. it’s only a short step from hate Israel to shoot up a synagogue.


9 posted on 10/29/2018 7:12:41 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Oh, how thoughtful of them. Keeping it private in light of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.Seriously why are the Jew hating BDS-holes and their fellow travelers in anQUEEFa and BLM such mortal enemies with the neonazis? They got more in common than they themselves realize.


10 posted on 10/29/2018 7:13:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: EinNYC

Pretty sure Rose Asaf is Jewish.


11 posted on 10/29/2018 7:13:54 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: DownInFlames
This is not the time for being anti-semantic.

That's right! They should say what they mean!

12 posted on 10/29/2018 7:14:38 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: jjotto
Pretty sure Rose Asaf is Jewish.

Then "Asaf" must be a Sephardic name. Certainly it's not Ashkenazi. And this girl might still not be a Jew if her mother wasn't. One thing we can all be sure of, however, is that she is very messed up.

13 posted on 10/29/2018 7:38:39 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

She’s Israeli.


14 posted on 10/29/2018 7:44:46 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: EinNYC

From what I’v read, Asaf says she’s Jewish.


15 posted on 11/02/2018 9:24:45 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (Robert Mueller is the Kenneth Starr of the 21st Century-only with not as much integrity.)
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To: EinNYC

She’s a leftist useful idiot-with emphasis on the latter.


16 posted on 11/02/2018 9:40:56 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (Robert Mueller is the Kenneth Starr of the 21st Century-only with not as much integrity.)
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