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TuslaUltra

(75 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 08:41 PM Dec 2016

Angry Activists at Columbia U Protest Indigenous Peoples Event Highlighting Historical Jewish Ties

this needs to end already:
Activists at Columbia University staged a walkout at an event Tuesday evening — at which The Algemeiner was present — as a Jew addressed the room to describe his connection to the land of Israel.

The protesters, part of a coalition of 26 campus groups — including Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the Black Students Organization, the Muslim Students Association and the Columbia Queer Alliance — had arrived to disrupt the event, called “Indigenous People Unite,” sponsored by the Columbia chapter of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) and featuring Assyrian, Yazidi, Israelite, Native Canadian and Tibetan speakers.

As Rudy Rochman, the president of Columbia’s SSI chapter, told The Algemeiner reported on Sunday, the event was organized for the purpose of “reclaiming the narrative” on campus about the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel — a historical fact that has been denied by enemies of the Zionist enterprise.
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Angry Activists at Columbia U Protest Indigenous Peoples Event Highlighting Historical Jewish Ties (Original Post) TuslaUltra Dec 2016 OP
Pure hatefulness. n/t aranthus Dec 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Dec 2016 #2
Did you not read the article? oberliner Dec 2016 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Dec 2016 #5
It's the odious BDS movement, all crybullies & bigoted ass hats. n/t shira Dec 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Dec 2016 #7
But that's not the subject, is it? It's the BDS movement that you've supported for years. shira Dec 2016 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Dec 2016 #9
So desperate to change the subject. It's so obvious... shira Dec 2016 #10
The BDS movement doesn't believe Jews are indigenous to Israel. shira Dec 2016 #4

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shira

(30,109 posts)
8. But that's not the subject, is it? It's the BDS movement that you've supported for years.
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 05:10 AM
Dec 2016

You can't do stand-alone criticism of BDS, or Hamas...

If the subject is Israel or its supporters, you have no problem criticizing them alone without bringing in Israel's enemies to muddy the waters. Something for you to think about.

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shira

(30,109 posts)
10. So desperate to change the subject. It's so obvious...
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 10:09 AM
Dec 2016

I've also answered that question many times already. If you want to continue in an earlier thread on that, go for it.

Edit:
I bumped a thread with the indigenous topic in it. The one on BDS being a colonial settler movement.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
4. The BDS movement doesn't believe Jews are indigenous to Israel.
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 08:38 AM
Dec 2016

Last edited Sat Dec 10, 2016, 09:14 AM - Edit history (1)

You know that, right? This is after all the odious BDS movement you claimed to have a low opinion of.

These racist clowns claim Jews are white Khazars from Europe.

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