The Yale College Council, the undergraduate student body at the school, has voted to endorse a statement condemning ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The statement was originally authored last month by the campus group Yalies 4 Palestine.
“As Yale students, we condemn the injustice, genocide, and ethnic cleansing occurring in Palestine,” reads the statement. “We emphasize – this is not a political issue. Israeli forces are acting in clear violation of international law and are conducting egregious human rights violations against the Palestinian people. As students at one of the most privileged academic institutions in the world, we must call out injustice wherever it may occur. We stand against the discriminatory application of the law that strips Palestinians of basic rights. We stand against the violent expulsions of those living under occupation in Sheikh Jarrah. We stand against the apartheid and the persecution of Palestinians, and stand for peace and the freedom of the Palestinian people from violent military occupation.”
The statement also calls on Yale students to “recognize the connections between the US’s domestic racial oppression and its imperial oppression against people of color worldwide.”
The resolution was opposed by campus pro-Israel groups, including Yale Hillel who claimed the statement had “antisemitic overtones.” However, the final vote was eight for the statement and three against it. Four members abstained.
“This is historic for me and all Palestinian students at Yale and in the US,” tweeted a Yalies 4 Palestine member Salma Shaheen from Hebron. “Today we stood with all of our allies-especially Yale Jews for Palestine- to show that enough is enough.”
The vote coincides with a statement put out by Yale Jews for Palestine and signed by over one hundred Jewish students and alumni. That statement calls for Yale to divest from Israel and affirms the group’s support for the BDS movement.
“We envision a Judaism that is inherently anti-racist and anti-Zionist, and we reject the conflation of Zionism with Judaism that labels anti-Zionism as anti-Semitic,” it reads. “We will not allow our Jewishness and our history of struggle to be weaponized in order to commit pogroms, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.”
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israeli-apartheid-look-no-further-than-this-racist-law-1.9921372
“Israeli Apartheid? Look No Further Than This Racist Law”
Gideon Levy. Haaretz. June 20, 2021
EXCERPT:
“Some laws are a blot on Israel’s lawbooks, and until they are removed Israel cannot be considered a democracy. One of the more despicable ones is the law that prevents its Arab citizens from unifying their families.
“When a discussion of whether Israel is an apartheid state arises, and its propagandists claim that it isn’t, they cite as proof the absence of any racist laws in the country’s lawbooks. The law that will most likely be reaffirmed this week, for the 18th consecutive time, is definitive proof of the fact that not only are there apartheid practices in this country, there are apartheid laws here as well. ‘It’s best not to avoid the truth: Its existence in the lawbooks makes Israel an apartheid state,’ wrote Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken in 2008. Thirteen years have passed, and this statement is truer than ever.
“This law tells the whole story: It epitomizes the essence of Zionism and the concept of a ‘Jewish state;’ it reflects the dubious security-related pretexts that sanitize any abomination in this country; it exemplifies the astounding similarity between the ultra-nationalist right and the Zionist left, and the devious use Israel makes of emergency and temporary measures. A law that was passed as a temporary measure in 2003, which was considered in 2006 by Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy as a law about to expire within two months, is celebrating 18 years of existence.
“The law has now become the subject of a duel between the government and the opposition, where it’s clear that the right-wing opposition will support the extension of this law – racism trumps anything else – with no one dealing with the law’s substance and its impact on Israel’s image.
“To put it briefly: After the Law of Return, this is the law that exemplifies more than any other the domination of Jewish supremacism in this country. A Jew can share his life with whomever he or she chooses, and an Arab can’t. Just like that, despairingly and painfully simple. Any country that treated its Jewish citizens like that would be reviled.”
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“No avoiding of the real issues”
“Before the government
Was formed, uniting
Right-wing and Left-wing,
It was declared that
This government would
Avoid dealing with
Controversial ideological issues.
“After just a week,
The new government
Seeks to enact
A law forbidding
Arab citizens of Israel
From marrying
West Bank Palestinians.
“Can a law be
More ideological than that
And more controversial?”
21/06/21
When students from any of the elite US Universaties are attacked by Pro Apartheid Israel apologists and their right to free speech is threatened , they will not forget and will up their game.
These students are the future leaders in business and Government and making them your enemy is not the smartest move the Zionists can make.But then , no surprise as we all know as do the Zionists –the jig is up.Just a matter of time.
Tic Toc, Tic Toc.