Israel Again Attacked at NYU
On the last Thursday in March, as Jewish students were busy getting ready for Passover the very next day, a coalition of anti-Israel activists at New York University shepherded a resolution through the Student Government Assembly and the Student Senators Council, demanding that the university call on the Jewish State to undo a recent law barring BDS activists from entering the country.
NYU currently has a program in Tel Aviv that allows students to spend a semester studying anything from Hebrew and Arabic to politics and biology by the Mediterranean. In January, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs published a list of organizations that promote boycotting the country, and stated that members of those organizations will be barred from entry. The list includes National Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace, the two groups behind the recent resolution at NYU. The Israeli ban, the resolution argued, infringes on the principles of academic freedom and should therefore be strongly opposed by the university’s administration.