Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Do Not Criticize Or Even Insult Israel - Part Infinity

A George Washington University student was ordered by university police to remove a Palestinian flag from his dorm window and, even though he complied, was threatened by university administrators with future disciplinary action.

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To this day, more than a month after the flag-removal order, Abounaja has still not been informed of the exact violation, despite inquiries to multiple offices.

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Citing the countless other national flags that have long freely hung from dorm rooms at GW, Abounaja and others are convinced that he was subject to viewpoint-based punishment and selective and discriminatory application of the housing code.

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This suppression campaign has intensified in response to growing support on the nation’s campuses for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel, designed to end the country’s decades-long, illegal occupation of the West Bank territories.

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Campus free speech and so-called “political correctness censorship” have been vigorously debated over the last two decades. That topic received particularly intense attention from journalists and pundits this year in response to controversies at the University of Missouri, Yale and other campuses.

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In September, the University of California Board of Regents, with prominent political backing, debated a resolution that would label students supportive of BDS or critical of Israel as “anti-Semitic” and subject them to possible suspension or even expulsion.

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But notably, many of the loudest “anti-PC” voices are silent about threats to pro-Palestinian speech, even though that is the speech that is arguably the greatest and most common target for official campus suppression. Palestine Legal, a U.S. civil rights advocacy organization, reports 140 instances of suppression of Palestine advocacy in the first six months of 2015, 80 percent of which on college campuses.

  The Intercept
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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