BDS in their own words

Vassar College Alums Strike Back at Anti-Israel Movement on Campus

the Algemeiner 4/6/14

Alumni of Vassar College, an elite, liberal arts school in Poughkeepsie, New York, struck back against the rising anti-Israel tide on campus, protesting in a widely-read letter to the campus newspaper against recent moves by a group of faculty and students to vilify the Jewish state and intimidate pro-Israel voices.

The open letter, initially signed by 66 alums, was printed by the Miscellany News, the campus newspaper of record since 1866, and quickly attracted dozens of comments from alums worldwide who agreed with the content of their protest.

In their letter, the alumni said that “faculty and student supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have hijacked campus discourse and imposed an anti-intellectual atmosphere in which professors are ranting activists, not scholars, and students who disagree with the prevailing ‘progressive’ ideology are intimidated into a deafening silence.” CLICK TO KEEP READING

Ballad of the BDSbyterians

from divestthis.com

NOTE: Hilarious lyrics set to Gilbert and Sullivan. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL

Anyway, in the spirit of the new BDSbyterian label I mentioned last time, I present a humble little ballad, sung to the tune (for the most part) of Modern Major General from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance.

The Ballad of the BDSbyterians

I am the very model of a BDSbyterian

I’m open to all points of view (especially if they’re Syrian)

Don’t bother me if you’re a Kurd, Tibetan or Nigerian

I am the very model of a BDSbyterian

 

Don’t talk to him if you’re a Kurd, Tibetan or Nigerian

Because he is the model of a BDSbyterian

 

I’m also well acquainted too with Judith Buter’s fond advice,

I understand facts fed to me by Hezbollah and Mondoweiss

I’ll happily toe Barghouti’s line regarding stocks the Church should ban

Because I am the model of a BDSbyterian

 

He’ll do whatever Omar says, yet claim to be a thinking man

That shows he is the model of a BDSbyterian

 

I also am the model of a terrorist apologist

My power for projecting guilt would stun a trained psychologist

How could this be? I do not know!  Go ask an anthropologist

I am the very model of a terrorist apologist

 

How could he warp his conscience so?  Go ask a trained psychologist

I guess it’s cause he’s made himself a terrorist apologist

 

I wipe my mind of what they do to Jew or homosexual

By leveraging the force of all my powers intellectual

Hamas missiles bore me so, I’ve not regard for where they land

Because I am the model of a BDSbyterian

 

Once rockets launch he has no care for whom they hit or where they land

Because he is the model of a BDSbyterian

 

One last point which proves that I’m a BDSbyterian

The Church must do my bidding or I’ll simply make them vote again

Divestment voted down five times is just a speedbump to my plan

And that’s why I’m the model of a BDSbyterian

 

He’ll make them vote a hundred times, or more because he know he can

And that’s why he’s the model of a BDSbyterian

 

My self-regard is buttressed by inflated moral vanity

My ego soaring while ignoring crimes against humanity

So IPMN writes pamphlets that are high-fived by the Ku Klux Klan

That’s not my problem cause I’m just a BDSbyterian

 

So what if David Duke is now his own committee’s biggest fan?

He doesn’t care because he is a BDSbyterian

Hypocrite Alert

Vassar And The BDS War On Campus

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Petra Marquardt Bigman the Brandeiss Center for Human Rights under Law

The anti-Zionist – and sometimes also anti-Semitic – website Mondoweiss recently published a lengthy report by the site’s founder Philip Weiss about a meeting that took place at Vassar in early March. According to Weiss, the meeting had been scheduled by the school’s Committee on Inclusion and Excellence in order to discuss guidelines for activism after persistent protests by Vassar’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) against a trip to Israel planned by Vassar’s International Studies program.

Weiss began his report by quoting Jill Schneiderman, the professor who had apparently initiated the trip and who had mentioned the meeting in a post on her blog, where she wrote that she “was knocked off-center by a belligerent academic community dedicated to vilifying anyone who dares set foot in Israel.”  Weiss confirmed that the meeting “was truly unsettling,” that “torrents of anger ripped through the gathering” and that “rage against Israel was the theme.” He contrasted this atmosphere favorably with the broad popular support for Israel in the US, asserting that it was very different at Vassar, where “the spirit of that young progressive space was that Israel is a blot on civilization, and boycott is right and necessary. If a student had gotten up and said, I love Israel, he or she would have been mocked and scorned into silence.”

But according to Weiss, Israel’s supporters should expect not just more of the same, but worse to come, because in his view, the “battles we’ve seen so far on campus are just preliminaries.” He predicted that “things are going to get much more belligerent” and asserted that “belligerence may be necessary to the resolution.”  CLICK THIS TO KEEP READING

Watch this great VIDEO about BDS #BDSfail

Whitewashing BDS and antisemitism in the New York Times

NOTE: Worth a re-read. Thanks again, Warped! From the Warped Mirror Blog 

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