uc davis has divested from israel, voting to prevent the ASUCD’s $20 million budget from being spent "on companies complicit in the occupation and genocide" !!!!!!! protest, boycott, and pressure works! vive la palestine!
edit: article from the middle east eye (thank you @ink-stained-clouds)
A Berkeley Law professor assaulted a law student as she was speaking up about UC Berkeley’s ties to Israel’s genocide in Gaza at a dinner on the final night of Ramadan. The institution has over $2 million invested in weapons companies that supply Israel.
UC Berkeley students and faculty reject university condemnation of protest of anti-Palestinian speaker
The UC Berkeley chapters of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine, and Faculty and Staff for Justice In Palestine respond to the university's condemnation of a protest of an event featuring Israeli genocide apologist Ran Bar-Yoshafat.
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students rallying for the freedom and liberation of palestinians have been demonstrating every day of this past week and i want to celebrate and commend their efforts. uc davis as has officially divested from zionist institutions & berkeley should be next
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To understand what is happening at Berkeley we need to grasp two things. First, this is no mere criticism of Israel. It is the newest iteration of an ancient ideology that places the Jew at the center of all evil. Jew-hatred has always been more the criticism of Jews. It is a worldview that explains all of the world’s pain as byproduct of Jewish criminality. This central fact, and only this central fact, can explain the behavior of these law students.
These groups have taken action, not merely expressed viewpoints. Constitutions and bylaws are not opinion pieces, not policy papers, not public fora. They are concise governance documents that establish fundamental rules, such as membership classifications, officers, and voting procedures.
And now, at Berkeley Law, they also bar Israel’s supporters from speaking to these organizations, not only about the Middle East, but about any topic. This includes the great majority of Jews. Chemerinsky concedes that he would be banned, as would 90% of Berkeley’s Jewish law students. No other group is banned in this way. Not rapists. Not axe murderers. Only Zionists are banned.
Second, these law students are pioneers, but not in a good way. They are pioneering a new form of Judeophobia which silences and excludes any Jew who does not adequately condemn the Jewish state.
Just as anti-Semites long excluded Jews from polite society, Berkeley’s future lawyers – many of whom will one day be our legislators, mayors, and judges – are now expelling Jews from progressive spaces.
Just as German Jews during the 19th century had to convert to Christianity to be allowed to participate in civil society and government office, American Jews in the 21st century are being forced to convert to anti-Zionism in order to participate in Berkeley’s civil society organizations, an ignominious process, which if not stopped, will only spread further.
This is an effort to strip all Jews of something basic: the trappings of normality that have secured Jewish safety and security in America.