In placid Ohio, Jews bracing for pro-Palestinian conferene

[Herschel]

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The conference, which hopes to get universities to divest their holdings in companies that do business with Israel, was moved from Rutgers University to Ohio State due to internal squabbles.

That split could represent discord in a pro-Palestinian movement that is floundering, according to Wayne Firestone, director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, an umbrella organization for 26 Jewish groups.

Those groups largely are downplaying the Ohio State conference and the pro-Palestinian movement in general.

“The division is one indication that not only is there dissent, but following last year, when you look at what they have to show for their efforts, there frankly is very little,” Firestone said.

Firestone said pro-Palestinian activists are mounting “small, fairly unsophisticated grass-roots” efforts to portray Israel’s security fence as a racially-motivated separation wall and to compare the American occupation in Iraq to Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

“By moving to the wall and the occupation as being their major arguments, they still have no answer to the resounding American abhorrence of terrorism as a strategy,” Firestone said.

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http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13403&intcategoryid=4

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Fortunately the pro-Palestinian threat on campuses is withering.

[Darranar]

1. How exactly is it a "threat"?

And Jews can be pro-Palestinian, too...

[Herschel]

3. They seek

to undermine support for Israel. They are faltering. Be glad.

[Darranar]

4. Good!

Support for Israel's right-wing government should be undermined!

And you didn't answer my other question: Can't Jews be pro-Palestinian?

[Herschel]

6. I suppose Jews may favor

anything they wish, no matter how misguided.

[Darranar]

8. So why are pro-Palestinian Jews in Ohio bracing for...

the entry of pro-Palestinians into their state? I knowa pro-Palestinian Jew who lives in Ohio, so there can't be none...

And how is support for an oppressed people "misguided"?

[Herschel]

10. It seems you have a quarrel

with the headline. I did not write it. These people are misguided in undercutting Israel as she defends herself.

[Darranar]

11. "Defends herself"?

If Israel limited itself to that, I would criticize it less...

[Scurrilous]

2. Supporters of Palestine..

..exercising their right of free speech! In placid Ohio! Oh, my!

[Darranar]

5. How dare they excersise that right in defense of the Palestinians!

How dare they criticize Israel and the IDF, the most moral army in the world! They are clearly anti-Israel anti-semitic jihadofascist leftist retards and terrorist sympathizers! They must be liquidated at once.

[Herschel]

7. Well said

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[Darranar]

9. You agree with the literal interpretation of my tongue-in-cheek post?

[Herschel]

12. Perhaps

We were both jesting a bit.

[Darranar]

13. Thank you for your clarification.

[Saudade]

14. Fascinating

What an absolutely fascinating, compelling meaningless article.

Oh my!

[Forkboy]

15. They make it sound like Neo-Nazis are gathering

:silly: