Posted on 02/09/2015 10:14:23 PM PST by Nachum
On Sunday, the University of California Students Association voted on divesting from companies that do business with Israel.
In the time slot dedicated for UCSA representatives comments, UC Berkeley graduate rep. Imam Sylvain accused the pro-Israel Jewish student body of being too rich and too white:
This might sound really harsh, but I really want us in the audience to check our privilege because I feel like what I saw this morning really reflects economic inequities. Just the ability to mobilize so many students with T-shirts and banners. I wish there was equal representation, and I wonder how much that reflects across these oceans. Isnt this what we are really talking about?
Apparently, calling the UC Jewish population spoiled wasnt enough for Sylvain. She continued, Also, I just want to reflect on the diversity of voices that we heard today. I feel like one side represented so many identities, so many ideologies, and the other was pretty one-sided, and so I would urge some of the supporters against to reach out to other constituencies and figure out what people are really talking about, and how they really feel.
Sylvain only said this after admitting that her pro-divestment stance would remain firm regardless of what the students at the hearing had to say. She asserted, Coming in to this space the decision was kind of already made where my association stood. We voted, passed a straw poll vote, 80% of the UC Berkeley graduate students support this bill.
Sylvain then had the audacity to conclude with a lecture on anti-Semitism: "This charge, that supporting divestment, or really student activism calling for divestment which is a distinction there, is anti- Semitic or anti-Jewish; you dont know our personal lives. You dont know who we love, who weve been raised by, so
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Aren’t a goo deal of Jewish People olive Skinned????
Just asking....
“Jewish Students Too Rich And Too White” and should therefore be killed.
Not all, but many of the “rich” kids don’t choose - and certainly don’t have to choose - a filthy city all-too- full of islamonazis and commies and just plain ah@les like Bezerkly for their schooling. And while Judaism permits all peoples of all races to convert into the faith, it naturally had as its historical core a federation of tribes from a particular place and time. So that most, albeit not all, Jewish people share a common “racial type,” just like most Japanese or most Italians, for all of their “diversity” still look somewhat similar to each other. So what? As martin Luther King prayed, we hope all people may be judged by the quality of their characters and not the color of their skins. Or has MLK gone out of favor in Berkeley these days? ——Finally, Jews will be amused to learn that the UC Nazis are now attacking the and wish people for suddenly mutating en masse to be “ too white” — after centuries of being put down, and sometimes hunted down, for not being white enough. Strange and cruel are the viccisitudes of human society
Jews can look like...anyone. There are Ethiopian Jews...and Indian Jews...& hispanic crypto-Jews who have hidden their ancestry in the SW US for 14 generations...
Great Point, Even Chinese Jews Exist!!!!!
It always starts with “the Jews” and moves on to the next level.
I thought South America was pretty much entirely Catholic.
I was wrong.
I thought maybe they were Jewish. They weren't.
I looked it up, and it turns out that NOBODY knows why the Dodge brothers used the symbol.
I guess it never occurred to anyone to ask them.
Too rich and too white? Isn't this kind of racist against white people? I guess it is ok with a lot of people.
Iman Sylvain
Graduate Student | Taylor Lab
321 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-3102
Phone 510.642.2761
Lab Phone 510.642.8441
isylvain@berkeley.edu
Webpage: http://taylorlab.berkeley.edu/
The Staples in my small Indiana town shut down...couldn’t stay open. There are others in the same thongs all due to Hope & Change Socialism and the healthcare that was allowed to go unchecked by the citizens of the US...
The left can only play the “Race Card” and the “Jew/Christian Card” these daze as they continue to see the failure of their leftwing religion.
#EndWhiteShaming
Damned commicrat muslims keep chewing at the roots.
The only “problem with jews”...is a lot of them aren’t Jews. (atheists)
And yet the Jewish population still votes (D)......Why?????
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