University of California execs say they’ll only divest from occupation if US gov’t finds genocide
By Jeff Blankfort and Phil Weiss on May 11, 2010
Yesterday Phil Weiss wrote that Elena Kagan’s nomination calls on American Jews to recognize our prominence in the elite of American society. Here’s some more evidence. According to wikipedia, Marc Yudof, an educator who is president of the University of California, is Jewish and has sterling Zionist credentials:
In 1993, he and his wife, Judy, were the co-recipients of the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award. Judy Yudof became the first female international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in 2002
The Jewish National Fund was the chief means of taking former Palestinian lands and making them Jewish in Israel and Palestine.
Sherry Lansing is vice chair of the University of California Board of Regents. The big movie executive, she is also Jewish. We don’t know if she is a Zionist.
But yesterday, responding to Blankfort’s email, Yudof sent back a statement signed by himself, Lansing and Russell Gould, who is chair of the board of regents, slamming the divestment-from-the-occupation campaign by students at two schools in the system:
…In 2005, the Regents stated that a policy of divestment from a foreign government shall be adopted by the University only when the United States government declares that a foreign regime is committing acts of genocide. It was also noted at the time that divestment is a serious decision that should be rarely pursued.
We share The Regents’ belief that divestment needs to be undertaken with caution. We firmly believe that if there is to be any discussion of divestment from a business or country, it must be robust and fair-minded. We must take great care that no one organization or country is held to a different standard than any other. In the current resolutions voted on by the UC student organizations, the State of Israel and companies doing business with Israel have been the sole focus. This isolation of Israel among all countries of the world greatly disturbs us and is of grave concern to members of the Jewish community.
We fully support the Board of Regents in its policy to divest from a foreign government or companies doing business with a foreign government only when the United States government declares that a foreign regime is committing acts of genocide. The U.S. has not made any declaration regarding the State of Israel and, therefore, we will not bring a recommendation before the Board to divest from companies doing business with the State of Israel.
Note the concern for the Jewish community. Note the deference to the US government (we thought college was supposed to teach you to think for yourself!). Note that if such a line had been held in the ’80s, no one would have divested from Apartheid South Africa.
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The army, or a part of it at the war college, has perked up and noticed some of the lessons of the Ukraine war, and that it’s a war that the US military could not fight. They’ve missed a lot of things, or felt they couldn’t/shouldn’t write about them, but they’ve figured some stuff out and written about them in a new report, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force” by Lieutenant Colonel Katie Crombe, and Professor John A. Nagle.
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This is height of hypocrisy. Who is calling for boycott of ‘Jewish Community’? And why are some Zionists resorting to pressure, intimidation and outright bribery of our leaders (elected and otherwise) to keep blindly favoring Israel. Have your read the statements of responsivble leaders of Israel who have been repeatedly calling for ‘transfer” (read expulsion) of not just the ‘Palestinians’ but even ‘Israeli Arabs’ who are citizens of Israel. And how about the new law that calls for deportation of Gazans who have relocated to the West Bank? Will the US government wait till the genocide is complete before caliing it genocide?
Anyone who equates Jewishness with Zionism is suspect and should recuse himself or herself for any decision concerning Divestment.
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Prominent… Dominant…
These are the two positions in the USA that these Zionist
fear losing.
Somewhat like the bogus phrase:
“Death before dishonor.”
The only card the zealots have to play is:” hysterical brinkmanship”.
They best get over it yesterday.
No one has an opinion in the “afterlife”.
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So, the infection surfaces.
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