Israel Trying to Kill Iran Deal
Secretary of State Tony Blinken says that the Biden administration “wants to extend and strengthen” the Iran Deal. The
New York Times says Biden is trying to “salvage” the deal that Trump “repudiated.”
This technically isn’t true. “Repudiated” means that you refuse to accept something. Iran had an agreement with the United States and the United States violated that agreement, thus killing the deal. Biden’s not trying to salvage the agreement, he’s trying to reboot it. Despite this fact, the U.S. has consistently acted as if Iran are the ones who need to be making concessions.
The advertisement, paid for by an anonymous organization called BDS Report, was released as the CUNY student government prepared to consider dueling resolutions addressing antisemitism at a meeting last weekend. It was only the most striking of what students on both sides said was a flurry of outside advocacy that poisoned an already deeply divisive debate.
Both of the resolutions, the latest in a spate of similar initiatives at campuses across the country, dealt with the very definition of antisemitism a seemingly esoteric issue that has increasingly become a proxy for larger questions concerning the polarizing politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, identity and free speech. And, after the intervention of national pro-Israel groups, both resolutions failed to pass at a contentious, hours-long Zoom meeting of CUNY’s Student Senate on Sunday.
The B. Altman & Company Building housing the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City. Photo: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia.
The City University of New York’s student senate voted down a resolution to adopt the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism on Sunday, in a process described as “devastating to Jewish students” by a campus Jewish community leader.
The University Student Senate (USS) of CUNY voted on two separate resolutions: one calling for the adoption of the IHRA definition, and the other offering a separate definition put forward by the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA), which would exclude anti-Zionist speech or activity from being considered antisemitic.
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is notorious for their hatred of Israel. Now, at the City University of New York (CUNY), the group has put forward a resolution to the systemwide University Student Senate (USS) that not only rejects the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, but proposes a new definition, on their own terms. The alternate definition excludes anti-Zionism and disregards victims of modern antisemitism. This is an outrageous act of hubris and discrimination and deserves to be condemned to the highest degree.