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Founder Of Anti-Israel BDS Group Calls Out Critics At Brooklyn College Event; Takes Swipe At Mayor BloombergBY REUVEN BLAU AND DANIEL BEEKMAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013, 9:44 PM
Brooklyn College pulled off a forum with anti-Israel speakers Thursday night after a week of heated controversy over the event.
Im really happy it happened, student Rustan Ganiev, 20, said afterward, calling the talk a victory for the First Amendment.
One forum speaker, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activist Omar Barghouti, said politicians who slammed the colleges political science department for sponsoring the event were trying to suppress free speech.
Were witnessing the rise of a new McCarthyism in this country led by Israel, its lobby groups and defenders of the denial of basic Palestinian rights, Barghouti said before the forum, referring to 1950s Communist-hunting U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/founder-anti-israel-group-calls-critics-brooklyn-college-event-article-1.1258500#ixzz2KKztjyEz
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Founder Of Anti-Israel BDS Group Calls Out Critics At Brooklyn College Event; Takes Swipe At... (Original Post)
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. Founder of Anti-Israel BDS Group attends school in Tel Aviv
"My studies at Tel Aviv University are a personal matter and I have no interest in commenting."
Omar's no hypocrite, that's for sure!
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. There has never been a foriegn student that has been critical of
his/her host country?
King_David
(14,851 posts)5. He is proposing a boycott of Israel though,
Too funny...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)6. We are talking about a Boycott movement though
You don't think there is any hypocrisy in telling others to boycott any interactions with Israeli institutions while you yourself (a non-Israeli) attend an Israeli university?
King_David
(14,851 posts)4. Ha Ha thats funny,
Boycotting Israel is for other people to do ?
shira
(30,109 posts)2. Founder of BDS hate group accuses Jews of McCarthyism, running USA. n/t