College Students in London Rebel Against BDS, Threaten Legal Action for ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’

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Students at King’s College London, KCL, rebelled against a campus event aimed at punishing Israel with boycotts, and threatened to sue those who promoted and backed it.

The event was called “Israeli Apartheid Week,” and it was promoted in a mass email among college peers.

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The KCL Students’ Union said the event was aimed at raising “awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people,” and called for support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

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Students at King’s College London (KCL) are considering taking legal action after their elected representatives promoted “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) events in a mass email to peers.

In an “Officers Update” sent to students on February 23, the KCL Students’ Union (KCLSU) described IAW as an effort to raise “awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people and [build] support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

The week-long campaign — organized by the KCL Action Palestine Society — began on Monday and includes events on “Football and Whitewashing Apartheid,” as well as “the Politics of Racist Detention: From Palestine to the UK.”

KCL’s Israel Society denounced the newsletter’s inclusion of IAW as an expression of bias and a violation of KCLSU’s mandate.

“This is the only student society event of the entire year that KCLSU has advertised and endorsed, with absolutely no right to do so,” Tamara Berens — president of KCL Israel Society — said in a statement shared by the advocacy group CAMERA on Campus UK, with which she is affiliated.

Berens indicated that promoting IAW “is not within KCLSU’s usual charitable objects, and is therefore unlawful.”

“It also contravenes the commitment of KCLSU as a charity not to run a political campaign,” she added, urging the student body to apologize for advertising a “discriminatory” series of events in a way that left Jewish and Israeli students “shocked and confused.”

On social media, Berens pointed out that KCLSU President Momin Saqib participated in the “aggressive” protest held at KCL earlier this month against former Deputy Israeli Prime Minister Dan Meridor, which was condemned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the community’s representative body.

“After ignoring our attempts to arrange a meeting with him, we feel he has acted to purposefully marginalise Israeli students on campus,” she wrote.

A fellow member of KCL Israel Society, Hadar Langerman, also criticized KCLSU’s endorsement of IAW, whose slogan “itself is antisemitic and contrary to the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism,” which was adopted by the British government in 2016 and by the National Union of Students in 2017. Aside from addressing classic antisemitism, the definition also touches on antisemitic expressions couched as anti-Zionism, including the use of double standards against Israel and the denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.

“There are procedures in place where students can ask for their events to be advertised, but this is unprecedented,” Langerman argued. “To see our union, which is supposed to be representing all students, take a deliberate jab at Jewish students and those supportive of Israel is appalling and frightening.”

KCL Israel Society said it raised its concerns with both KCLSU and KCL administrators, neither of which replied to requests for comment by press time.

Last week, an official with the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) — which represents some 8,500 students in the UK and Ireland — wrote that IAW “is weakening,” with events planned in “fewer than 10 universities across the country” in 2018.

The current “handful” of IAW events, which still serve to “intimidate Jewish students and others,” are “being dragged by tired, worn-out campaigners who can’t admit defeat,” argued UJS campaigns manager Liron Velleman.

Yet this characterization was challenged by Berens, who wrote in response that while the number of IAW events “has somewhat waned” due to “the efforts of Zionist activists on campus,” Jewish students and their representatives should remain vigilant.

“As long as events that demonise and defame Israel continue to occur with the participation of student union presidents and sabbatical officers,” she observed, “we must treat the issue as a pressing one.”

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Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

genocide, https://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/138-139 https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/101-105 ‘… The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would KILL THEM’ https://instagram.com/p/Bcrckh4nbvT

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

They were very good at killing civilians but the red Army tore the heart out of them once they met and the Wehrmacht confiscated their weapons(much better than standard) as they knew that their men would use them.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/people/professors/neumann.aspx ‘Palestina’ friend German Prof.(!!) peter neumann of ‘Kings’ College (today Antifa recruitement center) goes hand in hand with monster https://quran.com/5/38-40

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago
JGray1
JGray1
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

lol. some ignorant illiterate dumb moslem castrated creature is having her say behind her mask. and it is enabled by politicians for whom we vote. or they couldn’t do it. they do it and say it because they can.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Anti-Leftist covers all of the criticism of Western Ideals, Western Cultures, and Western Nations.

Leftism takes myriad forms and innumerable labels, but it is the poison in the West’s well. And without Leftism the West cannot be compared to another culture.

The West – seen in its Left-free attributes – IS the best ideal to which any human civilization can aspire. Left-free Westernism would come closest to the Utopian vision of the Useful Idiots and the Pod People – and actual Leftists know this.

All other criticism of ideologies, cultures, ethnicities, or political movements – such as anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and anti-everything else – that comfortably fit under the Western umbrella is little more than Leftist targeting, Leftist scapegoating, or Leftist deflecting.

And, oh btw, do we notice that ‘Western’ is also actually multicultural
and plural – since the West can handle British food, German polkas, and lox mit bagels – all without having to bat an eye.

Adam
Adam
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

The paradoxical, confusing, and disturbing part of all this, is that almost all of the Anti-American, Anti-Western Civilization, and Anti-White race propaganda, was done, and still is being done behind the scenes, primarily by Leftist JEWS.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Adam

KCLSU President Momin Saqib doesn’t sound too Jewish. That thing is a pakky scum moslem. Why is it that so many moslems, or moslem loving islamophiliacs …. pretend to be something else, other than what they are .. and blame everything on Jews? Filthy pakky moslem and banger moslem rape gangs, in the UK, rape thousands upon thousands of little girls … but .. “it’s the chew’s fault.” A moslem goes into a nightclub and murders close to fifty human beings … “it’s the chew’s fault”. Vile and filthy pally moslems disperse warhead missiles, into Israeli civilian areas … “it’s the chews fault.” Cowardly pally moslems hide behind walls of children, in civilian areas … “it’s the chew’s fault.”
What is it about moslem loving islamophliacs and moslems … for your very own actions … always ” …. it’s the chews fault …”?

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  Adam

That is the saddest part of all. Godless Jews rejecting their special place with God. Thank God we have Ms. Geller and others pushing back. She is so brave and principled!

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Those who have rejected G-d should no longer be called ‘human’

Similarly, those Jews who had betrayed G-d should no longer be identified as ‘jews’ – for they have chosen to side with the devil

They should be identified as ‘judahs’

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Adam

Yes, many Leftists are Jews, and many Jews are Leftists.

My Jewish friends always tell me it is b/c their religion is Leftism, and not Judaism (any kind).

I always take it delicately. Having met a few Holocaust survivors, and many descendants of survivors, I believe many Jews have lost their faith. They have despaired, and turned their worldview over to a Secular Sky Magic god.

As I myself suffer from severe PTSD, and I’ve had many clients with stress disorder – I may be reading in what is not there – but I speculate that what has happened is an Ethnic-Tribal Trauma Stress Disorder at work.

All too many Jews have responded by a ‘too decent’ policy. They accept whatever Leftists say relatively uncritically, and view the world through ‘rose-colored glasses’ rather than taking a harsh view. This makes sense from a Stress Disorder viewpoint – since it avoids conflict. As the Leftist view is the predominant one, few in their world can credibly challenge the Left-wing stereotype of the Red Neck Monster from Central Casting.

But to anyone outside the group – it looks like a massive case of Collective Stockholm Syndrome. A Jewish version of ‘White Guilt.’

PS: Jews are also over represented in defending the West, and in pro-American circles. I live in formerly Klan country in Texas – and we have very few Jews, but the ones we have are much farther right than any Yankees.

For every Jewish Leftist I know, I know more than one Conservative. Obviously, this sample is not representative. But we have a large pro-American, conservative Jewish community over in Dallas County, and they deserve our respect – and appreciation. All great folks. Many often ask the question of how to ‘red pill’ their relatives.

Of course, if we knew the cure for Liberalism, we would use the cure on our own relatives.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Adam

And now GUCCI has gone step further to come out with fashion designs to please jihadis/ISIS Left/liberal pro-jihadis https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9

Insane ?

guostD
guost
6 years ago

Twitter suspended Canary Mission account!!!

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
6 years ago
Reply to  guost

Can’t legally dox people. That’s why. As for this case at hand, the students have a case since they’re forced to pay for it.

guostD
guost
6 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

How this idiot get here and for what!!!

JGray1
JGray1
6 years ago
Reply to  guost

twitter and facebook both are fascist organization with their so called monitors removing those who they deem a threat to their fascist new world order. moslems, are their number one funders and conspirators which gives the Jew haters overwhelming access to the public square through that social media. in fact, these fascist organizations are not private companies. they are quasi governmental and should be treated as such and regulated for their hateful anti semitic and anti western bias. we have to take the fight to the courts and to the streets and to the marketplace. they get away with it because they can. Canary Mission is an extraordinarily brave and wonderful investigative group of students who get the real story and resumes of those at colleges and universities who are the Jew haters. Canary Mission outs these people. shows their photos. and gives their hate crimes speech verbatim for us to experience. that’s why twitter suspended Canary Mission.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Sue the bds movement for everything it has or is likely to have in the foreseeable future. It is a great thing that some intelligent college students are not running with the herd of brain dead muslims and socialists who are trying to control ever thought and action in society. The best thing to do with palestinians is have all the bds groups adopt a few, see how they like to support beggars and bums with their student loan money.

Glimmer of hope in London
Glimmer of hope in London
6 years ago

The student union should be charged, tried, and convicted of a hate crime against Israeli and against Jews. They should be fined, have some kind of punishment (jail, community service, etc), and should lose their seats as student union leaders.
This is a legitimate hate crime. In the US we have people who call people racist names or who attack minorities or protected classes charged with hate crimes. Those are not hate crimes. It is a crime to verbally assault someone, or to physically assault them, no matter who they are – so there is no “hate” crime – it is just a crime.
Perhaps there is some glimmer of hope among college students in London? Doubt our racist libtard students in the US would protest anti-Israel activities.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

Place a muslim in charge then whine about what he does? Incredible! Expecting decency from a muslim is rather like waiting for Godot. Look at the islamic sewer that London has become!

JGray1
JGray1
6 years ago

fighting back is crucial now. silence is deadly. this is a horrible filthy dirty rag of an anti semitic movement perpetrated by one worlders and lunatic billionaires such as soros, the nazi scum. what purpose anti semitism actually serves is only to stir the pot and keep the people roiled against a non existent threat, a made up fantasy demon of medieval origin, while enslaving the populace with a secret agenda to kill freedoms everywhere for everyone except themselves. these are power mongers whose only concern is for themselves and to stuff their pockets. the criminals amongst us. we have to lay them low. they must never win. never again.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago

What a pity the dimwits at Toronto’s University of Toronto and York University can’t find sufficient brain power to do similarly to the students in London.

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