A significant majority of Stanford University students oppose the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement – despite an anti-Semitism and BDS crises that rocked the university student board earlier this year. 69% of students oppose the anti-Israel movement – including 65% of freshmen, 72% of sophomores, and 73% of juniors, the Stanford Review poll of 288…
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In the Colonial era, support for equal protections for the Colonists under English Law was deemed opposition to the Crown. Opposition to apartheid in South Africa was held to be “terrorism”. The inability to see the difference derives from fear and hatred feeding provincial and racist views.
We can and should do better. Equating efforts to peacefully encourage better, more honorable government of Israel is very far from antisemitism, anti-Israel, etc. It seems best not to conflate these.
Failure to notice this mix-up seems associated also with failure to consider the support such conflation provides real antisemitic racists – many of whom are truly dangerous. Like support for torture at Guantanamo, such approaches provide invaluable benefits to recruitment efforts of real terrorists.
––John “Buck” Field, Puerto Varas, Chile, but permanent residence is in Aspen, Colorado