Comments on: Why do YOU support divestment?

By: dance

dance — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

It should be humanitarian commonsense to sign the petition. I shouldn't have to say that they are brave, but they are brave. Good on them. I hope this gathers in strength.

By: Glenn Condell

Glenn Condell — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I can't tell you how invigorating these vids of the Hampshire kids are – jeez, who knew all this was there hiding under the surface, so rigorously patrolled by the usual suspects. It's breaking out, partly because of the internet's potential to talk around and over the media and the politicians, and partly because the Israelis went miles too far in Gaza, cutting their own nose off to spite their face. Talk about an own goal.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

definitely a nice start, yes.

By: Mark Elf

Mark Elf — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Sorry if I'm duplicating info here but I got this from J.Otto Pohl's blog:

Hampshire College in Amherst has now become the first US institution of higher education to divest from Israel. The school is famous for a couple of reasons, but one of them is that it hosts the National Yiddish Book Center. The conflict between certain elements of the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism is not new. But, the presence of such a symbolic institution of the cultural history of the Jewish Diaspora at Hampshire certainly highlights this conflict. In the larger scheme of things it looks like the movement for Palestinian human rights is finally starting to get some support in the US.

Otto links to this blog but I can't see any mention of the Yiddish Book Center here.

So much for the "diaspora", see this youtube video from Israeli TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9SMwVgCSzk

By: chris berel

chris berel — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

So many campus's, luckily there are so few idiots like these kids. But they're young and foolish.

By: marc b.'s four-year old

marc b.'s four-year old — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

It's "campuses", the noun, not "campus's", the possessive pronoun. Ignoramus.

By: Sir les

Sir les — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Glenn! We all know you're Sandy Stone's sockpuppet

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Both stirring and depressing that so many of these kids are Jewish. Stirring because it seems that when an American Jew goes for a semester in Israel, he's reasonably likely to come back offended –having applied American values to the situation there. Depressing because our current Israel policy has terrible consequences for all Americans, not just Jews, leading us into one stupid war already with more to come. But few of the students here seem to realize that. . . they are all about morality, feeling good about themselves. That's useful too, but it's not enough.

By: nwu student

nwu student — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

@chris berel

And you are old and foolish. Moron.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I strongly oppose divestment efforts.

It is the oppossite of what the world and Israel needs to change. It NEEDS engagement, research, discussion, NOT separation.