This month, New York’s loss was New Jersey s gain. For the first time ever, on Sunday June 6, Bergen County.
At another school, when a Jewish student representative tried to weigh in against a BDS resolution, his Zoom microphone was muted. And at several schools this spring, BDS votes were purposely scheduled on Shabbat and Shavuot, when observant Jewish students were unavailable to attend. At one high school, when Jewish students tried to use the Zoom chat box to voice support for Israel, the chat feature suddenly was disabled.
Likewise, there has also been a recent proliferation of anti-Israel declarations by student governments and academic departments. In past years, these biased and factually erroneous statements were commonplace from antisemitic groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Now, however, they are being issued by school bodies that are supposed to be impartial, non-political, and of service to all students and the leaders of these efforts are abusin
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