Join the worldwide effort to divest from Israel...

[drexpert]

You have got to view this site!

What can we do?

Jeffrey

[Elisheba]

That is a horrible website, but there are many like it.

Please note it looks to be the usual academic crowd that is pushing it.

I have emailed a couple of really great fighters at Stanford as well as a few other activists about the specific site.

What can we do?

Never give in, never give up, never again. I have faith that my buddies and/or buddies of theirs will help out here.

[Elisheba]

Here is a cut-and-paste of the first response I received to my emails; this one comes from a post-doc student @ Stanford University:

"The divestment campaign is very dangerous in that it is always used as the touchstone and focal point of any serious anti-Israel movement at any campus. much has been written about it, and many people have spoken about it including Larry Summers (the President of Harvard), truth-wise, and others.

That said, the campaigns on the website you sent are mostly in the past. The petitions are still up, but they are no longer a hot issue at the moment. It is important to keep one's ear to the ground for current campaigns, not because they are likely to succeed in their stated objective, but because they are simply a pretext for coordinating campus anti-Israel activity.

I was at Harvard when the Harvard-MIT campaign was in full swing, and I remember that as soon as a few faculty signed the petition, a counter-petition was launched that drew thousands of signatures. The divestment petition subsequently died down (though the web-page is still up, evidently). Several faculty took their names off the list.

These things pop up at campuses from time to time, and it's definitely important to pay attention to them and deal with them in a very aggressive manner when they happen. It is even better to foresee such a petition on campus by being very attentive to what's going on, and pre-empt it with a strong attack on the people who sponsor them and their motives for attacking Israel of all the countries in the world.

the petitions are also useful lists of names - if I see someone's name on one of them, I know with whom I dealing. As a scientist, I would not work or collaborate with someone whose name appeared on such a petition."

[drexpert]

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"The divestment campaign is very dangerous in that it is always used as the touchstone and focal point of any serious anti-Israel movement at any campus. much has been written about it, and many people have spoken about it including Larry Summers (the President of Harvard), truth-wise, and others.

That said, the campaigns on the website you sent are mostly in the past. The petitions are still up, but they are no longer a hot issue at the moment.
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Although the college participation in this endeavour is winding down, the latest news is the effort of the Presbyterian church to divest!

Seems to me like the 'Jewish blindness' has become a true Christian problem (for the Presbyters, at least).

Jeffrey

[Elisheba]

Please don't misunderstand. I don't think the campus effort is winding down ... it's more of an ebb and flow deal.

As to the Presbyterians: now, THAT is truly scary. They are trying to get other denominations to follow suit. Hopefully, they will shoot themselves in their little feet (literally! ); but we have our eyes on that deal, too.

Emails and actions and attempts at discussions are all taking place as we speak. Shoot, I even had something published on IsraPundit about it!

[Mediocrates]

School is out until next month. Just wait and see what happens in September.

[Semsem]

What an UGLY crass website. Just from looking at the design one can tell the members are primitive.