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Canada: Anti-Israel BDS resolutions seize campuses in Ontario

Apr 30, 2014 8:22 am By Robert Spencer

Berlin, NS-Boykott gegen jüdische GeschäfteUniversities in Canada and the United States as well are no longer institutions of higher learning. They’re propaganda factories for the Left, at which only one point of view is ever aired or accepted — and that point of view is authoritarian, anti-Western, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian, all the while parading under the banner of “multiculturalism” and “tolerance.”

“Anti-Israel BDS Resolutions Seize Campuses in Ontario, Canada,” by Christine Williams, Gatestone Institute, April 22, 2014:

Under the guise of promoting peace and human rights, resolutions to join Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] drives are being foisted on Canadian university campuses to push the agenda of the Muslim terrorist group, Hamas, to destroy Israel.

It is Hamas—an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood—that has fueled and directed the BDS and Israel Apartheid Week campaigns on university campuses across North America through chapters of the Muslim Student Association and the Palestine Solidarity Network.

Despite drawing a negligible fraction of the student population, the votes are gaining traction. According to the website of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, BDS is a global campaign designed to pressure Israel to end its so-called “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands.” Hidden is the real BDS agenda: to delegitimize and ultimately obliterate Israel by destroying its economy.

Also concealed in these drives are Israel’s reason for so-called “occupation,” and the fact that Palestinians are treated better in Israel than by their own vicious leadership who sometimes even use their own people as human shields.

Toronto’s Ryerson University students reportedly became the 11th student union to vote in support of the anti-Israel BDS campaign, giving “student politicians” the mandate to pressure the university administration to cut ties with all companies that support what the BDS campaign asserts is “Israeli apartheid.” Not only do they invariably fail to provide any evidence to support that allegation, they fail to mention the very real apartheid that still exists against Palestinians in Lebanon and Kuwait, where they are forbidden to hold a whole array of jobs and privileges enjoyed by other residents. They also fail to mention the very real apartheid against non-Muslims that exists in countries such as Saudi Arabia — where there are roads they may not travel on, cities they may not enter and books they may not bring in; or Pakistan, where non-Muslims effectively receive no protection from the law-enforcement agencies.

Anti-Israel students at Ryerson University in Toronto jeer Jewish students who spoke out against a student council motion to support BDS.

In addition to York University students voting for BDS a year ago, the McMaster University student union in Hamilton voted in favor of a BDS resolution this past March.

After the vote, Raphael Szajnfarber, McMaster Hillel’s Director of Jewish Student Life, commented, “I can tell you it was a toxic environment in the room tonight. … “I know that some students did indeed feel targeted.”

Students at the University of Windsor have also supported BDS by a narrow vote. Apparent “discrepancies”, however, prompted an investigation by the university administration, and may yet see the vote thrown out.

The Ontario Public Interest Research Group [OPIRG], through its website “The ShakeUp,” accused Windsor University president Alan Wildeman of being undemocratic by threatening to have the referendum “quashed.” Before the referendum, Wildeman expressed in a letter the “well documented and detailed complaints” about the student referendum, and stated that “the University cannot allow student organizations to compromise the University’s commitment to provide a welcoming learning and living environment for each and every student on our campus.”

The ShakeUp report, however, blamed Wildeman for “a heavy-handed attack leveled directly at the Palestinian Solidarity Group,” and also launched a tirade not only against Wildeman, but also “the ignorant colonial mentality that tore apart First Nations in what is now Canada.”

All the while, however, the “The ShakeUp” report concealed the real goals of the Muslim Student Association and Palestinian Solidarity Group.

After the Windsor referendum, Member of Parliament Jeff Watson called the BDS movement “hateful and deceitful” and denounced “this new anti-Semitism poisoning our Canadian campuses.”

Howard English, the Toronto-area President of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs [CIJA], stated that such campus resolutions and boycotts are not really intended to promote peace and human rights but are “ultimately opposed to Israel’s existence as a state.”

Meanwhile, a Muslim woman, Mais Ali-Saleh, who grew up in an Arab village outside of Nazareth, Israel, was lauded in, “Guess Who’s Valedictorian at Israel’s Top Medical School?” On trips to Europe, Ali-Selah said that people are surprised to learn that in Israel, Israeli Arabs can study medicine and engineering. Ali-Saleh opposes BDS and the notion of Israel as an “apartheid state.” She said that movements such as BDS deny a fundamental truth: “Arabs,” she said, “and in particular Arab women, have more freedom, liberties and academic opportunities in Israel than in any Arab country.”

One well-known company targeted by BDS is SodaStream, where Israelis and Palestinians have been working together, embodying real “peace and human rights” for decades. It is also where, as referenced in the not particularly pro-Israel publication, Haaretz, “truth be told, the SodaStream workers and local Palestinians were downright peeved when asked about the efforts of solidarity activists and their own government to boycott SodaStream.”

The propaganda and lies of the BDS movement on our campuses, combined with Western naivety, is a potent brew that needs to be challenged by university administrations and at every level of society. Far too many are unaware that the Muslim Student Association’s pledge of allegiance is: “Allah is my Lord. Islam is my life. The Koran is my guide. The Sunna is my practice. Jihad is my Spirit. Righteousness is my character and paradise is my goal. I enjoin what is right. I forbid what is wrong. I will fight against oppression and I will die to establish Islam.” The MSA pledge of allegiance is virtually one and the same as the Muslim Brotherhood’s motto, which states: “Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 9:28 am

    Should students seek approval from professors who have caved-in to political opportunism or reject and mock their instructors as the poor roll-models that they have become?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 9:33 am

    If Muslims truly wish to stop Islamophobia they should protest Muhammad sanctioned violence.
    The old “playing the victim” trick while shamelessly proselytizing Islam’s filthy dogma is wearing at the seams.

    YOU CANNOT HALF_STEP WITH LUNATICS
    They see this as weakness.

    Mock them till they stop
    They may not fear death but, as soon as local Muslims start trying to impose sharia law values immediately”
    Unleash a total blitzkrieg of leaflets posters and film mocking their prophet
    until they act like decent human beings. Saturate the airwaves with a 24 hour
    around the clock Muhammad Mock-fest to reveal all of Islam’s dirty secrets
    to public ridicule.
    begin A WORLDWIDE MOCK MUHAMMAD EXTRAGANZA
    VANITY is Islam’s greatest weakness
    Begin with Islam’s concept of Allah, then on to the Quran and if they don’t compromise
    let loose on Muhammad’s eccentricities until Ha Ha Ha! Ho Ho Ho!
    is heard in every nation at the mere mention of Muhammad’s name.
    No more PBUH and SAW after MO’s name. (SS) for Satan’s slave
    Suicide attackers are not afraid of death; It is an escape from Islam.
    Threaten to mock the hell out of Muhammad non-stop and the will reform.
    GAURANTEED.
    Either they behave or else we Reveal Muhammad

    • Wellington says

      Apr 30, 2014 at 1:10 pm

      Agreed, Jay Boo. Mocking evil is the next best thing to crushing it outright and may actually be enough in and of itself if done unremittingly.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Apr 30, 2014 at 5:51 pm

      I hear you are than reporter who in not worked in mainstream media due to your total hated of Islam and muslim. Well your idear of attacking is Islam isnot going to work as you have no control over all media at all.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 30, 2014 at 6:17 pm

        More illiterate stupidity from old “DefenderofIslam”. Of course Islam hates being mocked—every savvy Infidel knows how grotesquely ridiculous it is.

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 30, 2014 at 6:21 pm

        ”I hear you are than reporter who in not worked in mainstream media due to your total hated of Islam and muslim”

        Where did you hear it, and who are you referring to ?

        Your posts just get more incoherent and risible.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 9:41 am

    82% of those self-identifying as ‘Palestinian’ are descended from Jews who converted to Islam during the Ottoman occupation.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 2, 2014 at 4:19 am

      Evidence?

      I understand that in fact the records show that an awful lot of the so-called “Palestinians” – most notably the Arab Muslims among them – only entered Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s or even during the war years. Which is why the definition of a “Palestinian” “refugee” is worded in such a peculiar fashion: to be classified as such, a person needed only to have resided in mandatory Palestine for *two years* prior to leaving. That is: they could have come from their ancestral village in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, North Africa or anywhere else in 1946, and gone to work in Jaffa or wherever, then – having left in 1948 – they could claim to be a “Palestinian” “refugee” and live off the UNRWA dole for life …and their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren after them.

      http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/51684
      Monday, 20 January 2014
      UNRWA’s Role in Middle East Peace

      “…Only the Palestinian refugees have their own body, UNRWA, created by UN General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) in December 1949.
      It was to be responsible for direct relief and works programs for 700,000 Palestinian refugees.
      Its definition of “refugees,” is broader than that of UNHCR: it embraces those who were physically displaced between June 1946 — well before Israel was established — and May 1948, and who lost home and livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. The definition now also includes descendants of the original refugees, thus establishing a designation seemingly in perpetuity…”.

      More, on where a lot of the so-called “Palestinians” came from.

      http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/51934

      Thursday, 13 February 2014
      The Fabricated Palestinian History

      “…ground up anthropological research shows that Palestinian clans and their oral history point out that they originated outside of the Holy Land and emigrated to Israel within living historical memory..”.

      “…A short, brief perusal of historical documents, expert testimonials, and new and old publications as well as quotes found on the Internet from Israeli Arab and Palestinian sources is all one needs to know that the roots of present-day Palestinian [sic: – ARAB MUSLIM] families lie far from here and that the Palestinian narrative, the cause of which Erekat has taken up, is an imaginary one.
      ‘Take, for example, the case of Salma Fayumi, a resident of Kafr Qasim who demonstrated her cooking prowess on the hit show “Master Chef.”
      ‘Fayumi certainly did not intend to stick her head into the tumultuous debate of where Palestinians originated, but she may have unwittingly done so by proudly showing off her Kushari dish that she prepared, “Egyptian cuisine made of rice and lentil.”

      “My family came from Egypt, from Faiyum, and I am Salma Fayumi from Faiyum,” the cook from Kafr Qasim said.”

      And the same article cites Fathi Hamad of Hamas, in Gaza:

      “Praise God, we all have Arab roots and every Palestinian in Gaza and all over Palestine can prove their Arab roots, whether they be in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or anywhere else. We have blood ties.”

      “Speaking personally, half of my family is Egyptian,” he said. “Where is your mercy? There are over 30 families in the Gaza Strip with the surname Al-Masri, ‘Egyptian.’ Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptian, and the other half are Saudi. Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri whose roots are Egyptian! They come from Alexandria, Cairo, and Aswan. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims.”

  4. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 9:58 am

    In addition to political and moral reasons, here are 3 reasons I will not be boycotting Israel (from trivial to dead serious):

    1. I really like their couscous, olives, and other foods.

    2. Internet and cellular technologies are loaded with Israeli innovations. No way am I giving those up.

    3. Palestinians continue to look to Israeli medicine and hospitals to put off Allah’s will that they die and go to “paradise.” So if **THEY** don’t see fit to boycott Israel, damned if I will……

  5. mariam rove says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    even the PC NY Times is acknowledging that this BDS is a bunch of B……M

  6. Mirren10 says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    I posted this on their facebook page, and asked them if they were planning to boycott this as well. I also thanked them for the information that Sodastream was Israeli, because I didn’t know, but would now make a point of buying one. Cheers ! 🙂

    http://nocamels.com/2014/04/eyemusic-new-app-enables-the-blind-to-hear-images/

  7. Mirren10 says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    I think we should all make a point of leaving messages on their facebook page, rubbing their noses in all the Israeli innovations and inventions, and asking them if they’re going to boycott them.

    Also sincerely thank them for the list of Israeli goods they provide, as it makes it so much easier to buy Israeli !

    They will delete the posts of course, (they’ve already deleted mine) but it will keep them busy, and piss them off no end ! 🙂

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Divestment-and-Sanctions-BDS-Movement/115083011869901

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 30, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    The Ontario Public Interest Research Group [OPIRG], through its website “The ShakeUp,” accused Windsor University president Alan Wildeman of being undemocratic by threatening to have the referendum “quashed.”
    ………………………

    How *utterly grotesque*. This bunch of Mohammedan barbarians has no interest in being democratic—if they were, they would not be so threatening, and they would not be pushing the boycott of a democratic nation.

    But they know how to push the buttons of cowardly Western Infidels. *Ugh*.

    I’m going to make a point of visiting the international section of my upscale supermarket tomorrow to pick up some high-quality Israeli products.

  9. JohnyAngel Advocacy Group says

    May 1, 2014 at 5:07 am

    Canada is generally a more liberal country still being semi-attached to the Queen. Understandably what follows is the same British policy that is destroying Britain from the inside out. Should the US ever fall, Canada is mincemeat anyway, so the leadership of this country should exert more influence over Canadien policies, in an indirect way of course. One problem, Leftists here are just as bad or worse, than leftists there ! Time to UP THE REVOLUTION !!! As Ayers and Hayden used to like to say !!

  10. ActiveListener says

    May 1, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    It isn’t just Colleges and Universities in Canada, it starts way before that in Elementary school. The progressives control the definition of the curriculums, and political correctness reigns supreme. That being said, my kids often go to school armed with questions that are intended to at least introduce to their peers the possibility that there is another perspective. That’s about the most that can be achieved. Don’t give up on Canada though, while there are definitely large pockets of very left-leaning people, there are also lots of traditional and classically liberal (conservative) people as well. Canadians take strong exception to direct American intervention in our political process – other than through the exchange of ideas and dialogue.

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