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shira

(30,109 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:49 AM Apr 2016

‘Shock’ as opposition to Holocaust Memorial Day amendment applauded at NUS

This is what BDS is and always has been about. It's no coincidence Jew hatred is on the rise within the western world and it's due in large part to BDS and its advocates.

The Jewish community was “in shock” this week after the National Union of Students applauded arguments why NOT to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and voted a woman who rails against “Zionist-led media” to be its next president.

Before a vote was finally passed to commemorate HMD, there was bewildered reaction on social media to the debate during the NUS Conference. Izzy Lenga, a theology student at Birmingham, tweeted: “I’m not quite sure what just happened. Delegates at conference legitimately spoke against NUS commemoration HMD. Vile.” Vonnie Sandlan, the president of NUS in Scotland, tweeted: “Honestly disgusted that we had to listen to speeches against commemorating HMD.”

........Meanwhile “armed struggle” advocate Malia Bouattia, who called Birmingham University a “Zionist outpost,” won the election to be the next NUS president in the first round of voting, beating outgoing president Megan Dunn by 371 votes to 328.


http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/shock-as-opposition-to-holocaust-memorial-day-amendment-applauded-at-nus/
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‘Shock’ as opposition to Holocaust Memorial Day amendment applauded at NUS (Original Post) shira Apr 2016 OP
This is the future oberliner Apr 2016 #1
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. nt branford Apr 2016 #2
And the (recent) past LeftishBrit Apr 2016 #5
Pretty sad that it's coming from the left now ... King_David Apr 2016 #9
Comes from left, right and indeed centre; but fortunately there is also increased opposition to it LeftishBrit Apr 2016 #10
Waiting for DU poster to tell us all why this is not Antisemitism King_David Apr 2016 #6
Note that the motion was defeated... LeftishBrit Apr 2016 #3
The NUS is alienating many students, and a number of universities are considering disaffiliation LeftishBrit Apr 2016 #4
The NUS is a disgrace. King_David Apr 2016 #8
Disgraceful King_David Apr 2016 #7

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
5. And the (recent) past
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 05:56 PM
Apr 2016

I was a student in the 80s; you should have seen some of the Federation of Conservative Students types. They were far-right in all kinds of ways (basically, an early form of teabaggers who could spell!). Though I remember them most for their misogyny and all-round racism, there was certainly a fair amount of the good ol' anti-Semitism going on. Among other things, there was an incident when the FCS at Aberystwyth had a celebration of Hitler's birthday. Neil Hamilton, later a Tory MP and after leaving in disgrace for some rather petty corruption, a TV celebrity, finally admitted an accusation that he had made a Hitler salute outside the Reichstag while on a parliamentary visit to Berlin in August 1983. On the left, there were still groups originally influenced by the old Soviet Union who did not much care for 'Zionists' aka jooos.

In 2011, some students in the Oxford University Conservative Association got in trouble for getting drunk at one of their 'port and policy' meetings, and singing a song to the tune of 'Jingle Bells' about dashing through the Reich killing lots of K-words.

It's not new, but it's nasty. The Internet means that such things become much more publicized than in the case, which increases the risk of copycatting, but also increases accountability. At least students in general seem to be taking the problem much more seriously now than they did in my day.







King_David

(14,851 posts)
6. Waiting for DU poster to tell us all why this is not Antisemitism
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 06:19 PM
Apr 2016

Because he knows better than all the Jews what is and what isn't Antisemitism.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
3. Note that the motion was defeated...
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 05:26 PM
Apr 2016

Unfortunately, national student politicians are often an unrepresentative group, either careerist or nutty. Which, among other things, is why the government have got away with their fee hikes and general exploitation of students.

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