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'Eviction notice' for Israel on US campuses
Peretz Lavie
Published: 22.12.14, 22:42
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1. I wouldn't worry too much
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.22.14)
Check out the average SAT scores of Jewish students. Now, check out the average SAT scores of everyone else. American university losses are Israel's gain. A Harvard degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Not even a Harvard law degree (if Obama can get one, a trained organ grinder's monkey can get one -- and will probably graduate a lot higher; Obama, keep in mind, ranked second from the bottom, and needed six shots at the bar exam before managing to pass by one point). So what transpires on American campuses will simply drive Jewish students to go elsewhere. Like Israel. Where they will get a far better education than what is currently available in the United States.
2. fair enough
steve from raleigh   (12.22.14)
Now send them all the the BDStards Nazi flags and pictures of lynchings
3. What can be done
Robert Gutman ,   Durham NC USA   (12.22.14)
I am considered a strong activist and advocate in my community, one to the hot points for the early appearance of what Sr. Lavie writes about (Eviction Notice) for Israel). I have met with nationally known advocates in both countries; all of whom say that "facts are not helping for 50 years." My own sense is that the political unrest within the Israeli Jewish Community and the stick the finger in the eye approach to building in the the so-called occupied areas is making the "job" of the anti-Isralis on American Campuses far easier.
4. Israel's status and image
Ali ,   Ramallah   (12.22.14)
Every day that goes with occupation continues the destructive damage to Israel's status and image among tomorrow's leaders, movers and shakers and voters.
5. Some years ago a professor at a norwegian university...
Beary White ,   Norway   (12.22.14)
... told the students the hebrew language was a dying language. Now, in thees days, the professor is dead and making classes in hell while the Hebrew language is blooming in the prosperous State of Israel and has survived as the only ancient language as for today.
6. boycotts and divestents of Israel are illegal
(12.22.14)
they are illegal under a number of legal theories: discrimination based on nationality and religion; violation of wto rules; violation of us laws. any acts directed against jews or israelis are illegal if they are harassment or assaults. jewish students can sue the perpetrators, their organisations and their universities for not providing security. suing for large sums of money would deter perpetrators, especially if they are personally named in a law suit.
7. Obama is responsible for increase in anti-Israel activities
(12.22.14)
obama has not once condemned antisemitic and anti-israel acts on us campuses. to the contrary, obama and his regime have condemned israel numerous times and his secretary of state had theatened israel with boycotts and intifadas, making such occurances a self fulfilling prophecy. as long as obama is president, jews in the us cannot expect any support from him. they should not be manipulated by the occasional feasts held in the white house during jewish holidays. those are just for show.
8. #4 ali - there is no "occupation"
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.23.14)
The area was conquered in approx 673 AD in the Muslim Conquest. Spain was conquered some time later. The Spanish retook their country in 1492. The Jews retook theirs in 1948. You ignore history at your own peril.
9. Israel's image on campus
Nadya ,   California, USA   (12.23.14)
If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. If Israel doesn't stop the occupation and the settlements this will continue on campus' across America and rightfully so.
10. Spoken like a true prophet
Miamiguy ,   Boynton Beach, FL   (12.23.14)
He and the Saudi's are behind it.
11. Israelis will only suffer more isolation and discrimination.
Michael ,   California, USA   (12.23.14)
This is the backlash for keeping territories with millions of residents who have no civil rights. The American academics don't know who among the Israelis to support and who to castigate, so they turn against all of the Israeli academicians. It will only get worse. Israel should look on how to solve the problems of occupation first because without it nothing will work on campuses around the world.
12. Answer(s)
Avi L.   (12.23.14)
One could be asking how to make an "indian reservation" and ask to send experts to Israel. This could start to slow them down a bit. Another could be to publish an analytic grid with (muslim) countries and Israel and human rights, women, LGBT, religion, care for human live etc and ask to EXTEND the same treatement to the other countries with same or lower points. Ask why they don't boycott places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia China etc. To play incessantly the "antisemitic" and "holocaust" tune ended up in damaging its efficacity. It could be time to put these people in front of themselves and their contradictions. It's not easy, Qatar is flooding the world with its money and the "non thought" "ready to think" movement is getting stronger every day.
13. #4
Linichka ,   Gdynia, Poland   (12.23.14)
Israelis would LOVE to dump the so-called occupation. Trouble is, you lot make it impossible. Become responsible, productive citizens and stop the terrorism, cooperate with Israel - even minimally - and all could be well.
14. practical thinking
jom ,   USA   (12.23.14)
The Arab-Israeli issue is a complicated one. And the silly and irresponsible behavior of targetting both Jewish and Israeli students for harrassment is uncalled for as well as totally without moral reasoning. Even with respect to those who express a pro Israel/Zionist viewpoint should not be a harrassed on College campuses that enbrace academic and general free speech ideals. So IMHO those students engaging in bigoted and intolerant behavior towards their fellow students should be held to account by the University administration for their behavior. And where the administrations on college campuses are negligent in this regard - Jewish leadership should call them put on this...
15. This world's infected with terminal illness of antisemitism
(12.23.14)
and it shall be its undoing. First there were dinosaurs, then Homo Judeophobus; maybe the next Creation will be more successful?
16. Jews are not all Israelis
Dan ,   Kfar Saba   (12.23.14)
And Israelis are not all Jews. Can it be that while anti-Israelis (whose education of the ME needs to be improved) see all Jews as Zionist, many of the Jews on compass see themselves as Americans who don't give a damn about Israel one way or another? The greatest cause of antisemitism is probably Israel's linkage of Jew and Israel.
17. #9 Take a survey
Dan ,   Kfar Saba   (12.23.14)
I challenge you to take a survey of all non-Jews in Israel and PAland and Hamasland and ask 2 questions. Explain that as the settlements will remain under Israel control, the Arab towns currently under Israeli control will be transferred (on both sides of the '67 line) to PA administration. 1)Are you in favour of a Palestinian state? 2)Will you be willing to live in that state?
18. funny
(12.23.14)
If someone put up posters of the Twin Towers on 9/11, or a NYPD badge in honor of officers Liu and Ramos, they would be expelled for microaggression and Holder would launch a Federal investigation. Yet when someone puts up posters calling for Jew-free zones, it becomes a well-funded campaign.
19. Brainwashing - amazing how the young are so naive
barbara ,   Haifa   (12.23.14)
and taken in by this "hypnosis" method. Why don't all of you get he story from both sides before making decisions about a group of people, like the Jews. Have you no minds of your own?
20. blindness
michel ,   Ashkelon   (12.23.14)
The American and European universities are sinking in the same old hole of autoritarian ideology of the dark ages of fascism.They are the loosers, not Israel. In few years they will be asking for help in research and technology and this will be the right moment to boicot...them.
21. education, education, education
tiki ,   belgium   (12.23.14)
The understanding/excuse of why Operation Protective Edge is "an explanation for Israel hate" is beyond me as this operation was started to stop 15 years of indiscriminite rocket attacks on civilians. Where this to happen on one of these students parental houses, than I would love to hear there explanation of who was to blame. In their confused brain it would be the parents. These brainwashed, ignorant idiots still have a lot to learn and should be confronted in an 'aggressive way with some questions. No nice talk or polite explaining = waste of time for they refuse to listen anyway. Put stink bombs and fire crackers indiscriminately under their doors, in their rooms & lockers, behind their backs, under their cars and than ask them why this doesn't seem normal to them and what should be done. They won't be so 'understanding than, I guarantee it!
22. Anti Israel hate on campus
Martin ,   New york, USA   (12.23.14)
Mainstream American Jewish groups should be in the fore front of fighting against hate on campuses but they do nothing except take donations. They're a disgrace.
23. Mr. Lavie, Sir ,...
split ,   US   (12.23.14)
"Every day that goes by without firm action continues the destructive damage to Israel's status and image among tomorrow's leaders, movers and shakers and voters" So what do you suggest to do to put Golani Brigade by every Jewish student door to prevent slipping eviction notices? ,... You can't occupy forever, you can't continue build settlements on stolen land, you can't go around killing neighbors children and pretend that you're the victim. You reap what you sow - It's not the lack of action of your ruthless regime it's your mindset and your conduct, stupid ,... Can't peddle your hasbara crap forever either it's easy to check and challenge it this days if you happen to miss it - Stop pointing your finger and learn to listen for a change ,...
24. Went all the way to the 2nd half of the articel
James USA   (12.23.14)
before playing the antisemitic card.
25. Most Palestinian, Iranian and Islamist Activists Lie
l-idea   (12.23.14)
and poison the public. Free America can not tolerate these lies any more. End the domination of the alliance of evils. End the rule of the neo-fascist liers.
26. BDS/Iaw [Israeli apartheid week] crusade/jihad
Prof. Jacob Kovalio ,   Ottawa, Canada   (12.23.14)
Yes, true, BUT what about Israeli universities ? is my reaction to President Lavie's important item. No less attention should be paid to the anti/post "Zionist" [politically antisemitic since its aim is to delegitimize Israel] "militancy" of Shlomo SAND, Daniel BARTAL [the Israeli Johann GALTUNG], Gaby ELGAZI, Yehuda SHENHAV [Shaharabani] , Amira HASS and the HA'ARETZ "progressive " team etc. Equal attention and adequate and balanced [since often diaspora anti-"Zionism" feeds on that of Israel's] response should be directed to both [European/ North American and Israeli ] areas by the proposed coordinator.
27. Antisemitism on US campuses.
Bob K ,   Orlando FL USA   (12.24.14)
Firstly, this is anti-Semitism. These Jew & Israel haters did not protest or condemn hamas' firing of 4454 rockets at Israeli cities and populations this past summer. The UN Secretary General Ban did condemn the attacks as war crimes. Nor did the haters condemn the killing of rabbis in a Beit Knesset (Synagogue) in west Jerusalem a few weeks ago. I am glad that the president of Technion has toured the US and seen this for himself. I agree that the Israeli government should have representatives abroad in Europe and the US to help organize the fight. Several groups like CAMERA and Stand with US have programs to help Jewish students fight the hate. Most importantly the hate must be denounced as hate speech and incitement to anti-Jewish terror and violence. For the haters, the Moslem terrorists and their millions of Palestinian supporters are always right and Israel is always wrong. We can and must condemn this hate and continually inform good people as to the facts when these are not obvious. Several things to keep in mind: More Americans are making Aliyah same for the UK and France. The hate actually helps Aliyah! I wish the hate was not there but it is, always has been and always will be .and it sends young foreign students to Israel. Secondly, as much as the haters attack Israel, everyone knows that it is the Moslem terrorists that the West is spending trillions of dollars & euros on trying to defend itself against and not Israel, or India.for example. That is why the U.S. has launched thousands of airstrikes in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan etc to weaken all these groups like Al Qaida, the Islamic State group etc. Thousands of Moslem terrorists have been killed.Even the haters know it is Moslem terror they have to worry about. Talk about cognitive dissonance - claiming to believe one thing but acting completely differently in reality .A generation ago we fought the Arab boycott. Today it is on campus hate. In Nazi Germany the students murdered the Jewish students. The western anti-Israel students want to inflict violence but they know the public, university authorities and governments are against that. Don't give up hope, it is as one Jew once put it -' history passing by'.
28. The first step
Scott Ewing ,   Auckland New Zealand   (12.24.14)
The first step should be to extend the right of return to all Palestinians, not Just to Jews. Revoke your racist, bigoted, discriminatory laws, rules, regulations and practices. Tear down the illegally built apartheid walls, roads, schools, cities and towns. In other words start acting like human beings instead of Monsters.
29. It's all about human rights
Stan ,   Israel   (12.23.14)
I suggest that Professor Lavie spend his energy in an effort to end the occupation of what you all call "so called occupied territory". For 99.99% of the people in the world, Israel's army is an army of occupation in Palestine. Not one member state at the UN supports Israel's claim to this land. Meanwhile the continuation of suffering of the Palestinians is causing more and more people to become "anti- Israel" Not anti-Semitic as some of you distort the facts. The White regime in South Africa was brought down by BDS (it took 30 years) because of human rights.
30. # 28 Scott
Stan ,   Israel   (12.26.14)
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