{"id":1148073,"date":"2021-12-23T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1148073"},"modified":"2021-12-23T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:04:29","slug":"exclusive-william-jacobson-bds-boycotting-israeli-universities-is-basically-the-old-anti-jewish-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-william-jacobson-bds-boycotting-israeli-universities-is-basically-the-old-anti-jewish-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 William Jacobson: BDS Boycotting Israeli Universities &#039;Is Basically the Old Anti-Jewish Boycott&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-william-jacobson-bds-boycotting-israeli-universities-is-basically-the-old-anti-jewish-boycott%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1148073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/flags.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">William Jacobson, a professor of law at Cornell University and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/about\/\">Legal Insurrection<\/a>, said the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) campaign\u2019s call for boycotts against Israeli universities \u2014 the home of many left-wing academic BDS allies \u2014 demonstrates the bad faith of the BDS operation\u2019s architects.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East Studies Association (MESA), a leftist 501(c)(3) organization describing itself as an academic society committed to pursuing high pedagogic standards for scholarships of the Middle East, will <a href=\"https:\/\/mesana.org\/news\/2021\/12\/02\/mesa-members-vote-to-advance-bds-resolution-to-full-membership-vote-in-early-2022\">vote<\/a> in January on a \u201cBDS resolution\u201d proposing an \u201cacademic boycott\u201d of Israeli institutions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs many countries in the Middle East \u2014 including Muslim Arab countries \u2014 are opening relations [and] exchanges with Israel, academics in the U.S. are moving in the opposite direction,\u201d Jacobson said on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Sunday<\/em> with host Joel Pollak.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201c[MESA is] fighting this dead-ender war. \u2026 These are people living in a really different world than current Middle East academics. Our U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pollak noted that BDS\u2019s push for an academic boycott of Israeli universities amounts to the organization cutting off its own ideological partners given the dominance of left-wing ideology across Israeli academia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He remarked, \u201cIt\u2019s not like Israeli universities are bastions of conservatism. If you want to find left-wing people in Israel, you go to the universities. \u2026 You\u2019re talking about American academics, punishing their ideological allies in Israel for the policies. \u2026&nbsp;How does this make sense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson replied, \u201cBecause it\u2019s not about the boycott. They actually don\u2019t care if somebody goes to study in an Israeli university, just like they don\u2019t care if&nbsp;a school dining hall or university serves Sabra hummus. They boycott that, too. The boycott is just a tactic. It\u2019s a tactic that they used to try to delegitimize Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a generational project to demonize Israel, to ostracize Israel,\u201d he continued, \u201cin the hope that when 30 or 40 years of students have moved through academia \u2014 being told over and over again how evil Israel is \u2014 that those people will then be in power, and some of them are in power now in the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boycott \u201cmakes no sense,\u201d Jacobson remarked. \u201cThey\u2019re actually boycotting people who politically are, in many ways, aligned with them, but it\u2019s a chance to demonize Israel. That\u2019s the whole point of it. \u2026&nbsp;This is also an outgrowth of the anti-Jewish boycotts in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, and then the Arab League boycott of Jews. It wasn\u2019t originally Israel. The Arab League boycott started before there was an Israel. It was a boycott of Jews, and then it was repackaged in social justice garb, and now they call it \u2018Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson concluded that BDS is committed to undermining U.S.-Israel relations as part of its anti-Zionist strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson emphasized, \u201cIt is an attempt to eliminate Israel and to delegitimize Israel in the United States because they recognize that that U.S. is Israel\u2019s greatest ally,&nbsp;and frankly, it would be hard for Israel to survive if the U.S. were to abandon Israel, which is their project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legal Insurrection <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2021\/12\/desantis-office-florida-opposes-middle-east-studies-association-conducting-bds-anti-israel-academic-boycott-through-fsu-or-any-other-institution-that-receives-state-funding\/\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday that Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s office responded to MESA\u2019s proposed BDS resolution in the context of colleges and universities in Florida receiving state funding.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Pushaw, DeSantis\u2019s press secretary, wrote, \u201cIt is our expectation that Florida State University will&nbsp;not&nbsp;permit MESA to operate a boycott of Israel through a public institution, will not accept the academic boycott of Israel, and will not allow university funds to be paid indirectly or directly to any organization that endorses BDS. The same goes for any other institution that receives state funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Jacobson, a professor of law at Cornell University and founder of Legal Insurrection, said the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) campaign\u2019s call for boycotts against Israeli universities \u2014 the home &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}