UC Santa Cruz Jewish Student Leader Told to Abstain from BDS Vote

truth revolt ^ | 11/19/15 | Mark Tapson

[Nachum]

The president of the UC Santa Cruz Jewish Student Union (JSU) was warned to abstain”from voting earlier this week on a pro-BDS resolution because he was “elected with a Jewish agenda.”

JNS.org reports that the incident occurred prior to a vote by the council on an earlier Israel divestment bill. On Tuesday, the UCSC student council voted 28 for and five against, with seven abstaining, to reinstate a divestment resolution that had been vetoed in 2014.

In a text message sent to President Daniel Bernstein prior to that vote, the sender wrote,

“You will be abstaining, as the president of JSU that is the right thing... There was also a comment tonight that you were elected by a..hmm [I don't know] if these are the right words but let’s say…a Jewish agenda."

Bernstein responded on Facebook:

“The implication that I, as a Jewish student and leader in the Jewish community, should not be allowed to vote on an issue that so deeply impacts the Jewish community, and that I should abstain because I cannot be trusted due to an alleged, ‘Jewish agenda,’ echoes the racism Jews have faced all over the world throughout our history.”

“I am calling on the leadership at UC Santa Cruz, from the student level on up to start taking concrete action to get the anti-Semitism at this campus under control."

JNS reports that this is just the latest incident of anti-Semitism involving a student at a California school: "In February, UCLA student Rachel Beyda was asked if her Jewishness could be a 'conflict of interest' when she applied to be a member of the student judicial board. A similar incident also took place at Stanford University this year, when student senate candidate Molly Horwitz’s Jewish background was called into question."

[Steely Tom]

What happened to [BDS] == [Bush Derangement Syndrome] ?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Sounds typical for a campus whose mascot is the Banana Slug!

[roadcat]

Like that is really going to happen on a 100% liberal-leftist campus.

Not so. My youngest daughter graduated from UC Santa Cruz. She was active in Hillel, a Jewish students group. Lots of Jewish kids there. Also lots of libs, but not 100 percent. She survived 4 years of some nonsense by some teachers and students. She studied there because it was tops in her field of study, and she did very well. So did her friends, for the most part conservative.

[Robert DeLong]

BDP = Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (I had to look it up) - but I think yours reflects more accuracy.

[editor-surveyor]

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UC Santa Cruz is the $hithole of all Universities.

(the banana slug is their school mascot)
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[editor-surveyor]

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Santa Cruz is an embarrassment to the UC system.
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[ViLaLuz]

I always thought it stood for Bondage Domination Sadomasochism.

[publana]

That’s BDSM I think.

I thought BDS was going to be some derangement syndrome such as black derangement syndrome. LOL

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Nod. Get up. Vote.

No hysterics necessary.

[uglybiker]

BDS = Big D***k S**kers

[Read Write Repeat]

These children shouldn’t be trusted to handle university finances.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Surprised they allowed a Jew to be elected.

[SaraJohnson]

It’s time to sue for big bucks. These racist pigs need to pay.

[SunkenCiv]

"Death to America!"

[terycarl]

I always thought it stood for Bondage Domination Sadomasochism

Now, that could, indeed, increase enrollment tenfold!!!