Its a familiar tactic- a panel discussion where all the panelists agree "Its all Israel's fault"
From the
Mike report, not surprisingly by Mike
I received the call in the late afternoon, “do you want to go to BDS 101 at The University of Washington tonight?”
BDS stands for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction
of Israel and represents a radical movement bent on the destruction of
the Jewish State. The D in BDS should stand for demographic destruction
as the core demand of the BDS movement is the flooding of Israel with
over five million hostile Arabs. Such an influx would mark the end of a
Jewish majority in Israel and thus the end of Israel as a Jewish state.
The Anti Defamation League, the American Jewish community’s central
human rights and advocacy organization has identified BDS as an
anti-Semitic movement .
The BDS 101 program was held in a lecture hall
filled with a mix of Muslim and Progressive students and a small handful
of pro-Israel students and community members. The program featured a
four member panel anchored by Stefanie Fox of the anti-Israel group,
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and included Cindy Corrie, mother of the
infamous Rachel Corrie. Two co-ed hosts from the sponsoring group
(SUPER-UW) opened the event by declaring their solidarity with all of
the other righteous struggles on the planet “we condemn all injustice”
they said.
Right.
Mike notes that after the talk:
...a few pro-Israel members in the
audience found themselves in an impromptu conversation with three
anti-Israel college students. The most engaging of these was a young man
who had a kaffiyeh draped over his shoulders.
The young man told of being in Lebanon during the
2006 Lebanon-Hezbollah war against Israel. He shared of the horrible
things he witnessed, things that no child should ever see.
When a pro-Israel woman sympathized but explained
that Hezbollah was to blame for what he had suffered, he responded
coolly with “I am Hezbollah”. As the discussion continued, the young man
defended the bombing of pizza restaurants and buses “what do you expect
them to do?” he said with a righteous dose of indignation.
As the woman, seemingly unfazed, firmly challenged
the young man point for point, he began to back away from her and said
“I feel threatened by you”. “You feel threatened by me?” responded the
surprised mother of four to the young man a head taller than her. At
that moment I recalled the scene from a comedy film of a few years back
where the grossly anti-Semitic Borat was petrified in fear of a pleasant
elderly Jewish couple with whom he was staying. But thus is the victim
mentality.
The Hezbollah Husky politely listened as I tried to
plant a few seeds of truth in his college addled brain. I reminded him
that there are 22 Arab states, 49 Muslim states, 126 Christian majority
states and one Jewish state. I shared with him the 2000 year old lesson
of Jewish history, we die when our fate is left to others. I told him
that this is why we will never give up our land and that his efforts in
this regard are futile.
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And thanks to the few, the brave and the intellectually stalwart that challenged the lies and demonization presented at this panel. When we fight back, we win.
