U. of Wisconsin student resolution blames Israel for police violence against African-Americans

[Rustyeye77]

The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison included an amendment specifically targeting Israel in a resolution calling for divestment from companies operating in many countries.

The resolution was passed Wednesday by the Associated Students of Madison by a 24-0 vote, with two abstentions. It calls on the university and its foundation to divest from companies involved in private prisons, arms manufacture, fossil fuels and border walls, and banks that “oppress marginalized communities.”

It also blames Israel for training U.S. police in tactics it says harm African-Americans.

The vote comes a month after a divestment resolution specifically targeting Israel failed to pass the student government and two weeks after the student government passed a proposal to create a new financial transparency and ethics subcommittee. The meeting was held April 12, the second day of Passover, when several Jewish representatives were absent.


http://www.jta.org/2017/04/27/news-opinion/united-states/university-of-wisconsin-student-government-passes-divestment-resolution



" private prisons, arms manufacture, fossil fuels and border walls, and banks that “oppress marginalized communities.”

If that doesn't work they can always go around and break the glass of jewish businesses.

[KWR65]

1. Goodwin's Law strikes in the first post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage which asserts that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"[2][3]?—?that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or his deeds.

[grossproffit]

7. Their comments were fitting.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. True.

Some, though, love to accuse us of "playing the Holocaust card", they just do it in a more 'clever' way. While some accusations really do fall under "Godwin's Law", there are times when the accusation fits the scenario and given the information from this article, it does seem as if the real target is blaming Jews vis-à-vis Israel. Most criticism of Israel isn't even remotely anti-Semitic, but some certainly is, and then there is the anti-Semitic dog whistles which bring dogs howling from all "yards".

[Rustyeye77]

11. + 1

[still_one]

2. Looking for any excuse to blame the Jews. Perhaps if they focused on what was happening in

Wisconsin, Russ Feingold would be Senator now. Of course maybe they have a problem with that, because Russ is Jewish.

Gee, I guess all of Wisconsin's problems are because of Israel, ignoring the fact that Walker, Ryan, and Johnson have been running the state.

What a bunch of idiots

[Rustyeye77]

5. Next up.... the Nuremberg Laws .

[treestar]

3. Were their police actually

Trained by an Israeli company? I don't get it

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

6. From the linked article . . .

"Jewish students said an amendment added to the one-page resolution brought the resolution more in line with the proposal that failed a month ago. The amendment blames Israel for police violence against African-Americans, citing an exchange program in which senior American police officers travel to Israel to learn about counterterrorism, the pro-Israel organization StandWithUS said in a statement."

A pretty slender reed, at best . . . .

[treestar]

12. quite slender

good grief they make it sound like they had Israeli trainers for the whole police department there.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Total pieces of shit

Minorities are going to have to stick together - even when a few jerks in college try to separate us.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. +1

Sadly, the goal of division isn't always coming from the right.

[Rustyeye77]

8. Very smart

" The meeting was held April 12, the second day of Passover, when several Jewish representatives were absent."

wouldn't want any of THOSE people to interfere with their bullshit.