UNM just defeated a divestment resolution 12 to 7 despite its being
diluted with anti-Israel content essentially excised.
Loyola University's student union did not come up with the 2/3 majority
necessary to overturn the president's veto of a divestment resolution passed
last week.
The student union of King's College London overturned a BDS resolution
passed last week.
“These results show that when student senators are informed, they see
through the undemocratic tactics and false reasoning and facts of the
anti-Israel BDS movement. We will continue to work with pro-Israel
students, helping develop the facts and arguments needed to fight the bigotry
of BDS,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs.
Nonie Darwish harrased at the University of New Mexico
The thought police are widening their nets. Nonie Darwish spoke at the University of New Mexico on Thursday about “Why the Arab Spring is Failing and how Israel is Involved”:
Halfway through the talk, Arab and Leftist anti-Israel students, mostly from the SJP group, stood up and began screaming and chanting in order to shut down the talk and make a disturbance that their wide network could use against us. They were surprised that people in the audience were angry and went to clear them out of the room. This was a first for UNM. Normally both sides have enough respect not to disrupt each other's events. Consequently UNM police didn't see the need to have officers at the event. However, there is a new wind blowing in the US, and the people who disrupted our talk showed us that what Nonie Darwish was saying is true.
One Conservative Temple withdrew its support from the event "after they learned about her past statements, judged to be religiously intolerant and hate-speech." Please.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Sunlight).
Here's a report from a local television station. Let's go to the videotape.
I haven't watched these yet, but here's Darwish's full talk:
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