PRICE TO PAY: Cost of Zionism Exposed Amid Netanyahu's Student Attacks

PRICE TO PAY: Cost of Zionism Exposed Amid Netanyahu's Student Attacks
KernowDamo
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4,320 views Apr 25, 2024 UNITED KINGDOM
While Netanyahu encourages the student crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters, the cost of Zionism is exposed in the UK.
Right, so at the risk of distracting from where focus should be, which is the ongoing plight of Palestinians, it’s still important to challenge the ongoing pro-Israeli narratives and we’re seeing that in no small part in the US, on college campuses, students saying enough is enough and being referred to as antisemitic mobs taking over in the words of Israel’s genocidal maniac of a Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, because they wish their colleges to divest themselves of financial interests in Israel, to disassociate themselves from the Zionist regime, very much a not in our names moment and because college administrations have kicked back over this, the movement has spread across multiple colleges and Universities. Young people in America are not backing down.
So where will that end? Well for as much as what is happening in the US is gaining a lot of traction, where this ends is demonstrated in an appalling underreported story that has actually been rumbling along for years now in this country, the sacking of a democratically elected union body president for holding anti-Zionist beliefs and the cost of which to her former administration for siding with Israel, which has now passed the £1m mark.
Right, so let’s start with what has been going on in the US here, on US campuses, which began at Columbia University in New York, but because of what has happened there, the reaction they’ve got, it has spread, such has been the horrified and appalled reactions by other students in the US and across the world actually as is beginning to take hold also. It began at Columbia, where the students have been protesting the administration there, the New York Times have put an article out reading: ‘College Protesters Make Divestment From Israel a Rallying Cry’, using the chant ‘Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,’ demanding the school administrators do just that, the D form BDS, possibly the least understood word amongst Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, to divest is simply the opposite of invest, so pull all financial interests they might have in the state of Israel out and this has spread from Columbia, to Yale, Harvard, University of Southern California, Cornell and more. It’s a growing movement, though the divestment demands might vary slightly as this excerpt from the NYT shows:
‘What it actually means has varied in scope, and level of detail. At Yale and Cornell, students have called on the universities to stop investing in weapons manufacturers. Columbia students are demanding the sale of holdings in funds and businesses that activists say are profiting from Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and the longer-term occupation of Palestinian lands — including Google, which has a large contract with the Israeli government, and Airbnb, which allows listings in Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank.’
Now the counter argument being presented is that the effect of divestment from schools, colleges and universities would be negligible, but that isn’t the point.

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