“I don’t want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.” – Remi Kanazi Last Friday, Cornell’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter sponsored a poetry performance by Palestinian-American poet, Remi Kanazi. The performance was Kanazi’s third stop on his university tour in...
Today is Israeli Independence Day, but to Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), today is actually Israeli “Genocide” Day. At Cornell’s annual Israel Day, a celebration of Israel on its independence day, a group of about 30 SJP students gathered to protest the event for about half an hour. According to those present at...
Cornell’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) recently condemned a Detroit court’s 18-month prison sentence of Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted on terrorism charges in Israel in 1970. “Throughout the trial, the judge’s rulings made it very clear that the court wasn’t interested in a fair trial for Rasmea, but was simply interested...
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Major Nadav Minkovsky, Military Advocate General’s Corps, spoke at the Cornell Law School last week on the topic of “Legal Complexities in Contemporary Asymmetrical Conflicts.” Cornell’s chapter of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law hosted the event, which drew in about 50 attendees, most of whom were...
In 2010, it was reported 70% of incoming college students used Macs. At a college like Cornell, one can surmise the percentage of anti-Israeli students supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) is about the same. Chances are, there is a lot of overlap between the two groups. It may or may not be shocking to you, but...
Update 5/16: Legal Insurrection reports that the BDS push failed. Huge BDS loss – GreenStar Food Coop rejects Israel boycott In the progressive paradise that is Ithaca, the ugly head of the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement rears itself often. Just this past Sunday afternoon, Ithaca’s own GreenStar Natural Foods Market, an organic food store, was...
This description of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made its rounds across the Internet today after the publication of Jeffery Goldberg’s latest article in The Atlantic, The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations is Officially Here. Here’s the excerpt: The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who...