{"id":60233,"date":"2018-03-23T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60233"},"modified":"2018-03-17T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T10:07:51","slug":"23-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60233","title":{"rendered":"Where is the right to free speech for Israel advocates.."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Where is the right to free speech for Israel advocates on campus, academics ask<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

CATHRYN J. PRINCE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Former University of California and current University of Haifa presidents note that while BDS activists regularly use anti-Semitic tropes, Jewish voices aren’t given a fair shake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images\/JTA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Eight years ago a group of Muslim students shouted down Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, as he delivered a speech on US-Israel relations at University of California. Flash forward to last Friday night at the University of Virginia. Pro-Palestinian students disrupted a number of Israel Defense Force reservists participating on a panel \u201cBuilding Bridges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s eight years or eight days ago, when pro-Israel speakers come to campus it\u2019s almost a sure bet those aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) will show up to boo, hiss and intimidate, said Mark Yudof, former president of the University of California. He was speaking last Monday night during a conversation hosted by The American Society of the University of Haifa.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of the game is shouting down Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israeli speakers. [After the event] I was told, \u2018Mr. President, free speech is for marginalized people, not for privileged people.\u2019 And that is the problem,\u201d Yudof said during the panel discussion with Ron Robin, president of the University of Haifa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Started in 2005, the BDS movement has grown into a global campaign determined to promote various forms of boycott against Israel. While trying to emulate the 1980s campaigns against South African apartheid, the movement uses anti-Semitic rhetoric, and frequently targets Jewish students, Israeli guest speakers, or pro-Israel speakers on college campuses in North America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yudof and Robin sat inside the richly paneled library of Manhattan\u2019s Lotos Club, one of the oldest literary clubs in the nation \u2014 an appropriate setting for a discussion about BDS and free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Yudof, former President of the University of California (right), Ron Robin, President of University of Haifa (center), and Marc Berley (left) at a special briefing hosted by the American Society of the University of Haifa in New York, February 2018. (Cathryn Prince\/Times of Israel)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Healthy campuses ought to be places of debate, even heated debate, Yudof said. Yet, at a time when phrases such as \u201csafe spaces,\u201d \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d and \u201cintersectionality\u201d have entered the lexicon, there are some university students who believe the freedom to speak only applies to a few, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s demoralizing, particularly for Jewish students. They hear how Jews control the media, Jews control Congress. So it\u2019s anti-Semitic. It would be how Nazis in the 1930s talked, or the mayor of Vienna at the time,\u201d Yudof said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a clear double standard. They [BDS] don\u2019t worry about how gay people are treated, how Turkey treats its minorities, how the Chinese act in Tibet,\u201d he said. He added that there is a consensus among some university presidents and chancellors that \u201cJewish students are too white, too privileged and not needy,\u201d and therefore don\u2019t need protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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