From LEGAL INSURRECTION
When they say “direct action” what they mean is intimidation
This has been a mixed, but mostly bad, year for the BDS studen movement on campuses in the United States.
While a BDS motion did pass at Loyola Chicago because it was brought up with little or no notice, major BDS pushes were rejected at UCLA (down vote), U. Michigan (vote to table) and Arizona State (vote to table). For the most part, when pro-Israel students have time to organize, they win.
At Northeastern University, the administration suspended Students for Justice in Palestine after a long series of incidents culminating in service of mock eviction notices in dormatories, in violation of school policy. Expected mass protests did not materialize — instead Northeastern SJP and its allies could muster only 150-200 marchers, many if not most of whom were not even students.
The tension is boiling among student BDS supporters who claim that they are being denied a chance to speak. That, of course, is nonsense. They hold their defamatory “Israeli Apartheid” weeks (in which interest is waning) and otherwise can advocate their cause.
What they can’t do is things like invading personal dorm rooms to leaflet. You may have a right to speak, but not in my living room on my couch. CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING
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