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Posted on 09/30/2022 6:04:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers who support Israel or Zionism. In America, more and more college campuses, heavily influenced by Muslim students, are trying to become “Israel-free zones,” free of the taint of what virulent anti-Semites like Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), slander as an “apartheid state.”
Jewish Journal – Kenneth L. Marcus (h/t Mary C) If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame. Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism.
And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian PacificAmerican Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.
' Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers who support Israel or Zionism. In America, more and more college campuses, heavily influenced by Muslim students, are trying to become “Israel-free zones,” free of the taint of what virulent anti-Semites like Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), slander as an “apartheid state.”
Jewish Journal – Kenneth L. Marcus (h/t Mary C) If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame. Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism.
And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian PacificAmerican Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.
It is now a century since Jewish-free zones first spread to the San Francisco Bay Area (“No Dogs. No Jews”). Nevertheless, this move seems frightening and unexpected, like a bang on the door in the night. CBN It’s part of a movement called BDS — Boycott, Divestment and Sanction — but only against one nation: Israel.
The BDS movement is taking over college campuses in Europe and America. Ronnie Fraser, a college lecturer and founding director of the Academic Friends of Israel, warns that the next generation of leaders is being brainwashed that Israel is the worst nation on earth.
The BDS anti-Israel boycott movement says it’s not anti-Semitic, but they don’t boycott any real tyrannical or totalitarian nations. Students on American college campuses are being fed a diet of ‘Israel is a racist state. Israel is a Zionist state. Israel equals the Nazis.’
In Germany, Nazi persecution of the Jews began with a boycott in April 1933. While some who are boycotting Israel now may truly believe they’re trying to help Palestinians, but the goal of the Israel boycott is the same as Nazi Germany’s – to eliminate all Jews.
Even the EU equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The EU says anti-Semitism includes, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” and by “applying double standards [to Israel].”
Berkeley law students are not the first to exclude Pro-Israel Jews: At the State University of New York at New Paltz, activists drove two sexual assault victims out of a survivor group for being Zionists.
At the University of Southern California, they drove Jewish student government vice president Rose Ritch out of office, threatening to “impeach [her] Zionist ass.” At Tufts, they tried to oust student judiciary committee member Max Price from the student government judiciary committee because of his support for Israel.
These exclusions reflect the changing face of campus antisemitism. The highest profile incidents are no longer just about toxic speech, which poisons the campus environment.
Now anti-Zionist groups target Jewish Americans directly.
Anti-Zionism is flatly antisemitic. Using “Zionist” as a euphemism for Jew is nothing more than a confidence trick. Like other forms of Judeophobia, it is an ideology of hate, treating Israel as the “collective Jew” and smearing the Jewish state with defamations similar to those used for centuries to vilify individual Jews.
This ideology establishes a conspiratorial worldview, sometimes including replacement theory, which has occasionally erupted in violence, including mass-shooting, in recent months. Moreover, Zionism is an integral aspect of the identity of many Jews. Its derogation is analogous, in this way, to other forms of hate and bigotry.
Some commentators defend these exclusions on speech grounds, arguing that “groups also have a right to be selective, to set their own rules for membership.” They are wrong about this. As Dean Chemerinsky explains, the free speech arguments run in the other direction: Berkeley’s anti-Zionist bylaws limit the free speech of Zionist students.
Discriminatory conduct, including anti-Zionist exclusions, is not protected as free speech. While hate speech is often constitutionally protected, such conduct may violate a host of civil rights laws, such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is not always the case that student groups have the right to exclude members in ways that reflect hate and bigotry. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of another Bay Area University of California law school, Hastings College of the Law, to require student groups to accept all students regardless of status or beliefs. Specifically, the Court blessed Hastings’ decision to require Christian groups to accept gay members.
Putting legal precedents aside, major universities generally require student groups to accept “all comers,” regardless of “status of beliefs.” They also adopt rules, aligned with federal and state law, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of various classifications such as race, ethnicity, heritage or religion. Those who adopt such rules may not exclude Jews from these protections.
The real issue here is discrimination, not speech. By adopting anti-Jewish bylaw provisions, these groups are restricting their successors from cooperating with pro-Israel speakers and groups. In this way, the exclusionary bylaws operate like racially restrictive covenants, precluding minority participation into perpetuity. Universities should not have to be legally compelled to do what is obviously right.
Anti-Zionist policies would still be monstrously immoral, even if they were not also unlawful. The students should be ashamed of themselves. As should grownups who stand quietly by or mutter meekly about free speech as university spaces go as the Nazis’ infamous call, judenfrei. Jewish-free.
Ping!..................
Good thing they are not Russian speaking......./s
Gosh, thats awful.
Guys like Chemerinsky helped drive the Americans out of the campuses their ancestors built so that the middle easter thugs could take them over.
All out of sympathy for him and his buddies.
I always have a hard time understanding how the woke weirdos form alliances with the radical Moslem crowd.
I just wonder what % of the hate Jews groups are Democrats and what % of the Jews who support Israel are choosing to vote Democrat?
The Moslems will take their help then discard their carcasses after the revolution...............
This is awful but the antipathy and on campus harrassment against Jews has been happening for years. Certainly by now, most big donors have to be aware of this trend. Are these donors giving implied consent?
I learned very early in life what needs to be done to Nazis like these before they take over a country.
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I always have a hard time understanding how the woke weirdos form alliances with the radical Moslem crowd.
They have the same spiritual father - they are family.
“I always have a hard time understanding how the woke weirdos form alliances with the radical Moslem crowd.”
I struggle with that concept as well. The only thing I can come up with is those most hated by the woketards are white Christians. That the muzz are neither, coupled by the knowledge they are “oppressed by the Jews” puts them up on a higher victimhood plane. I still haven’t figured out how they reconcile the gay hate shown by muzz.
Are there “minority free zones” on campus too? If not, why not? I understand in so e places tHere are “minority only” zones.
Jew haters get to practice their hatred by excluding jews, why don’t skinheads, neonazis and other shameful hate groups etc on campus get to practice their bias likewise? If the campus is gonna defend the jew hatred by claiming “freedom of speech” protection, then they are liars if they don’t allow other hate groups to practice and impose their hatred on other groups.
Exactly. Now they should ask Soros for a loan to buy off their enemies.
> The Moslems will take their [the wokesters] help then discard their carcasses after the revolution............... <
Bingo. The wokester crowd is made up of whiny dreamers. On the other hand, a Muslim slit your throat if you look at the Koran wrong. It will be no contest. Much like how Hitler got rid of the brownshirts when they were no longer useful to him.
But of course there’s another player in the US case. It’s all those armed Americans in middle America.
Ragheads, like faggots and blax, are the Ethnic Groups du jour for the loony left. It's a fad started by .. someone and the liberal is so desperate to fit in, he just goes along. Always have.
I am not Jewish, but I find it deeply disturbing that any American college campus sees it as appropriate policy toward any particular race or nationality. That’s not my America at all. To tolerate all those shouted down lectures and guest appearances sympathetic to Israel is to promote it.
Was on campus the day Hillary Clinton's guru on The Politics Of Meaning, 1960s radical and self described Rabbi Micheal Lerner ( who has no discernible rabbinical training,BTW) was on campus to give a talk.
He was accosted and shouted down by anti Semites, many of who were Islamic radicals, all of whom were shouting “death to Jews”. Lerner was completely caught off guard and stunned by the attacks. Here he was, in the bosom of the radical Anti American movements he had help nurture and that movement ad metastasize and turned against himself and the Jewish people. He was so stunned and taken aback that, to defend himself, Lerner went on a rant on he was one one of them, and anti American radical Marxist, and listed an amazing list of evil, subversive and even outright treasonous Anti American things he had organized and executed over the years as proof of radical street cred and bona fides
It was unbelievable the stuff he said to try to placate the mob and convince them he was not only one of them , he was one of their gurus and leaders.
But to no avail, he was a Jew and in their eyes, all Jews must die. I actually thought I might have to step in and help defend the POS as things were getting pretty heated.
That’s an interesting bit of history right there.
I always have a hard time understanding how the woke weirdos form alliances with the radical Moslem crowd.
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Its a marriage of convenience or as they say the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Both want to take down western civilization. the woke weirdos want to create a communist state. the radical moslems want to create a caliphate. but that only comes much later.
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