OC Jewish Students Will Not Be Intimidated by BDS
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Coronavirus is a new pandemic, but anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitism represent an age-old illness with modern mutations. One of those mutations is when anti-Semitism is disguised as anti-Zionism, and it was on full display in Orange County this month.
On February 9, the student government at University of California, Irvine (UCI) passed a resolution to divest from companies that work with Israel. The text of the measure claimed that it was in “no way related to Judaism.” Yet the primary goal of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campus is to intimidate Jewish students from taking pride in their religious identity and from being deeply connected to Israel.