Students want Ohio State, other universities to boycott Israel

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By Mary Mogan Edwards The Columbus Dispatch • Monday March 28, 2016 6:11 AM

The Israel-Palestine conflict, never absent from most U.S. college campuses, is fueling especially passionate debate in central Ohio this spring.

Much of the argument centers on the nationwide “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement, which aims to punish Israel economically as a way to pressure it to change its treatment of Palestinians. In recent years, the movement has attracted powerful pushback from pro-Israel organizations.

As student governments at Capital and Ohio State universities considered resolutions on opposite sides of the issue last week, all three central Ohio Congress members and two state representatives entered the debate at Ohio State. Republican Reps. Steve Stivers and Pat Tiberi joined with Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty in a letter urging the Undergraduate Student Government to reject a measure calling for university divestment from three companies deemed to be involved in Israeli punishment and isolation of Palestinians in the West Bank.

State Reps. Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, and Tim Brown, R-Bowling Green, also sent letters opposing the resolution, which named Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard and G4S.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/28/middle-east-at-center-of-debates-at-ohio-state-capital.html

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1. BDS is un-American; it has no place anywhere

thankfully, the American people stand with the Jewish State of Israel, now and forever thru the ages:

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2. Are you suggesting that a majority of Americans actually support Israeli human rights abuses?

G4S is involved in a legal system where Palestinians are sentenced in Kangaroo courts with a whopping 99.74% conviction rate. (http://www.haaretz.com/nearly-100-of-all-military-court-cases-in-west-bank-end-in-conviction-haaretz-learns-1.398369), (http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/bds-victory-security-company-g4s-announces-plans-to-exit-israeli-market/) HP has developed the Basel System which is used in checkpoints all over the West Bank which prevents Palestinians from moving freely in the West Bank.(http://www.eccpalestine.org/hp-responds-to-the-eccp-letter-on-involvement-in-israels-apartheid-policy/) Caterpillar equipment is used to demolish homes of Palestinians in the West Bank. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_demolition_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict#Means)

Do you think that what G4S, Caterpillar and Hewlett Packard are doing is right?

BTW, have you actually looked at the Gallup results? 23% of democrats support the Palestinians - that's not exactly what I would call standing "with the Jewish State of Israel, now and forever thru the ages"...