Hampshire students continue to challenge their administration's attempt to backtrack on their decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. As part of this effort they have set up a web page called "Voices of Hampshire, Voices of Divestment". Notice the specific excitement in this video of young Jews who are thrilled to be in the vanguard of a progressive movement. That is the greatest threat that the lobby here faces, that cultural shift.
There are other videos posted on the site as well. From the page's introduction:
They claim that this move to divest has nothing to do with the Occupation of Palestine, and perhaps for them, it does not.
However, for the more than 800 students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents who have signed SJP’s call for divestment, it has everything to do with our collective desire to see the end of the Occupation and the restoration of justice to the Palestinian people.
For those of us at the heart and forefront of this movement, we have divested specifically because of Israel’s human rights violations and war crimes. This is our movement, this is our divestment.
Related posts:
- Hampshire students urge their cold-feet administration to ‘embrace the moment’ of divestment
- Hampshire tries to downplay divestment, but says investing in Israeli occupation is not ’socially responsible’
- First calls to students who spearheaded Hampshire divestment came from an angered Alan Dershowitz
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu endorses Hampshire divestment action
- ‘This is a part of a larger movement. This is bigger than Hampshire.’
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How exhilarating to see young people engaged in this selfless devotion to a good cause. A prophylactic against the widespread impression that even the possibility of activism was extinct; that they cared for nothing but their Ipods and future earning capacity.
And the openness, the shy smiles and natural good humour… what a contrast to their elders – either rabid Zionist ideologues, or their shamefaced lickspittle enablers. Dersh would probably accept an invitation to 'debate' them but I think that's one contest which his forensic juridical skills couldn't win. He would be Nixon to their Kennedy.
CONGRATULATIONS to those fabulous moral students.
Eventually they will grow up and be embarrassed for supporting Islamic fascism.
In their old age they will glow with pride in memory that they stood up against Goliath AIPAC and world zionism and Goliath's lickspittle
enablers (thanks, Glen), the US government–traitors and anti-humanitarians all. The will tell their grandchildren that Auschwitz meant
Never Again for all of humanity, the highest way to honor Hitler and Stalin's victims.
In their old age, they will weep when they remember how they contributed to death and hatred in the world by their misguided beliefes. Their children will abandon them and their grandchildren will change their last names to end the embarassment.
Hampshire will be a term used along with Nazi, Hate mongering, antisemitic, rascist and others. Zundel, Duke, Irving, IHR will all sing praises to Hampshire.
All the Jews hate the rest of the world.
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