<p>ShalomLife</a> - Jewish Students Respond to Israel Apartheid Week</p>
<p>The 6th Israel Apartheid Week started on Monday in campuses across Canada and around the world. Once again Jewish students will have to face anti-Israel propaganda as they walk to and from classes on campuses.</p>
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<p>What are your opinions on such an event? Should this be allowed--let alone encouraged by schools?</p>
<p>Of course it should be allowed - at least in this country. I can’t stand how colleges claim to be a “market place of ideas” or “centers for intellectual discourse” and then put more stringent restrictions on people’s speech than even the federal government allows. It is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I am a Jewish person who think the IAW organizers are fools and I still support their right to organize such an event. If the Jewish populations of these schools don’t like it, they can start their own education campaign.</p>
<p>Free speech. And like Manhattan said, the Jewish students can make their own campaign.</p>
<p>Fellow Jewish student, and I totally agree about the free speech claim. Colleges can’t be very good “liberal bastions” if they suppress their students’ First Amendment rights.</p>
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It would be fair–but probably unwise–if they called it “Palestinian Terror Week.”</p>
<p>Wait never mind I don’t think I understood it.</p>
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<p>I think the would find a more tasteful title if they decided a campaign on the subject. IAW isn’t called “Slaughter the Blasphemous Peoples of the Book Week” either.</p>
<p>Well, people handout Communist newspapers at my school. I don’t see how this is worse.</p>
<p>At think at this point in history Jews have lost their “You can’t criticize us because it’s not politically correct” status.</p>
<p>There’s a guy that spends half his life at a table on campus with a sign that says “Religion is for the weak.” Every now and then someone sets up a table with a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache. Sometimes there are people passing out communist flyers; sometimes they yell at the top of their lungs about the impending fall of capitalism. As long as they don’t touch me, I don’t really care.</p>
<p>You don’t have to support Israel simply because you’re Jewish. The concerned students should listen to what the protesters have to say and come to their own conclusion instead of forming their opinion based on their ethnicity.</p>
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<li><p>Palestinians are under Military Law and face the constant threat of arrest and detention without charge and can be held indefinitely. They have no right to representation or trial. Israelis living in illegal settlements on Palestinian land have all the privileges of Israeli Civil Law. As citizens of Israel, they can vote, seek redress in court, and have freedom of speech and assembly.</p></li>
<li><p>Palestinian villages and towns face collective punishment in the form of bulldozing of family houses, extended 24 hour curfews, closures, military raids, violence and harassment. Israeli settlers face no such collective
punishment.</p></li>
<li><p>Palestinian land ownership (agricultural and residential) is subject to military and economic confiscation. The purpose is to establish Jewish only settlements, take water resources and confine the Palestinian population into smaller and smaller cantons. Israelis face no land confiscation.</p></li>
<li><p>Over 17,000 Palestinian houses have been demolished, creating 100,000 of thousands homeless. Over a million Palestinian olive and fruit trees have been uprooted. A few Israeli outposts have been dismantled, but there has been no
widespread destruction of Israeli homes and trees.</p></li>
<li><p>Palestinians are prohibited from using the extensive network of settler only highways that connect the settlements to Israel.</p></li>
<li><p>Palestinian workers employed in settlement industrial zones receive only the sweatshop-like minimum wage mandated by Jordanian law in 1967. In the settlements,
Israeli workers receive all the rights and benefits of Israeli employment law including a much larger minimum-wage.</p></li>
<li><p>The Israeli military authority controls virtually all the water in the West Bank. 73% of West Bank water is piped back to Israel. Illegal Jewish settlers use 10% of West Bank water. Palestinians have access to only 17% of their own water and must buy it from Israel at 4 times the price Israelis pay.</p></li>
<li><p>The wall fragments Palestinian communities; it separates families from their land, their livelihood, health care and schools. The wall also divides communities and families from each other. The wall does not fragment Israeli settlements; it is built in such a way to as to annex them to Israel proper.</p></li>
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<p>LogicWarrior is right. The Israel Apartheid week people aren’t saying “Death to Israel!” or anything like that. They want equal rights for Palestinians in Israel which, as human beings, they unequivocally deserve.</p>
<p>I’m Jewish and I am disgusted by Israel’s behaviour.</p>
<p>It turns out that the Jewish students did end up making their own event at York U, and claim the school prevented them from running it.</p>
<p>[ShalomLife</a> - Pro-Israel Event at York Cancelled](<a href=“shalomlife.com”>shalomlife.com)</p>
<p>Shame on Israel for defending its right to exist.</p>
<p>Congrats to the Palestinians for choosing to have a terrorist group run their government.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s a very controversial matter. There are innocents on each side of the argument. Israel has done some shady actions, but Israel isn’t attempting to hurt the innocent Palestinians, it’s the Hamas they’re after.</p>
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<p>Nice flame-bait. </p>
<p>What moral gymnastics must you go through to support suppressing Palestinians who don’t support Hamas? The ones who were living peacefully in their home, then one day some people came and said “you gotta go.” So they leave their home and move to a new one, but the Israeli military decides they want that one, so they get uprooted again. They aren’t allowed to travel on the main highways, their houses could be torn down if anybody in their village goes and does something stupid, and they could be forced to move again at any time, with no notice.</p>
<p>How is that acceptable?</p>
<p>yea let’s have israel leave all the palestianians be. </p>
<p>hey remember when israel uprooted the thousands of jewish homes in gaza and handed the entire area over to the palestinians. what did they get in return? oh yea a breeding ground for terrorists and daily rocket launchings.</p>
<p>and its nice how everyone sympathisizes with the palestinian refugees who were kicked out of their home but no one ever mentions the thousands of jews who were kicked out of iran, yemen, iraq, jordan, and a dozen other arab countries. what about these refugees? why does no one take up their cause? where is the UN? where are all the bleeding heart liberals?</p>
<p>in 1987 jordan killed more palestinians than israel has in it’s lifetime (black september), and kicked all of them out. why does no one talk of their return to jordan? these palestinians far outnumberthe numbers israel has kicked out. but no one seems to mention this. </p>
<p>people who watch 30 min of cnn and think they understand the middle east conflict need to go do some reading.</p>
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<p>Both sides are wrong. Israel is just less wrong.</p>
<p>Let me ask you this-If the tables were reversed, and Hamas had the powerful air force, army, predator drones, etc while the Israelis had rocks and rifles-do you think Israel would still exist?</p>