The recent condemnation by Pomona College administrators of a student government vote in favor of BDS is nothing more than an abuse of institutional power to bully students who took a principled stand for social justice.
To male Jewish leaders …
I also have four concrete suggestions for men in leadership who want to make things better:
1. The next time a woman complains about harassment, even obliquely, listen to her. Take a deep breath, and listen some more. Do not immediately shut down the story or defend the other person. Take her seriously.
2. When you are invited to speak on a panel, ask: Are there women on that panel as well? If not, hold out for a woman to be included before you agree to participate.
3. Make a list of outstanding women in your field and recommend them for speaking engagements and panels.
StandWithUs-IAC Letter to Pomona College President Concerning Legal Implications of Illegal Boycott
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Dr. G. Gabrielle Starr
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Dear President Starr,
We write to you on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, and the Israeli American Council for Action, nonprofit organizations committed to Israel education, fighting antisemitism, and strengthening the pro-Israel and Jewish identity of the next generation. We are deeply concerned with the discriminatory and potentially illegal proposed boycott provisions found in a recent student resolution, “Banning the Use of ASPC Funding to Support the Occupation of Palestine” (“resolution”), which passed the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate on April 22, 2021.
Yet another vile tactic in the cognitive war against Israel. Mon May 10, 2021
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews . As more evidence that maligning and seeking to weaken and destroy Israel is still common behavior on American college campuses, the student government of Pomona College successfully pushed through a resolution that would compel student clubs to participate in a boycott of targeted companies doing business with Israel. Claremont Colleges Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Claremont Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) sponsored the odious bill and the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) passed the resolution aimed at “divesting all ASPC funds from companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine, and banning future use of funds towards such comp
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