UC Santa Cruz student warned to abstain from BDS vote over ‘Jewish agenda’ (xpost from GD)

[KamaAina]

A Jewish member of the student government at University of California, Santa Cruz was warned to “abstain” from voting on a pro-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) resolution because he is the president of the school's Jewish Student Union and was “elected with a Jewish agenda.”

The incident occurred prior to a vote by the UCSC student council to annul a veto an earlier Israel divestment bill. On Nov. 17, the UCSC voted 28 in favor and five against, with seven abstaining, to reinstate a divestment resolution that was vetoed in 2014.

In a text message sent to UC Santa Cruz Jewish Student Union (JSU) President Daniel Bernstein, the sender wrote, “You will be abstaining, as the president of JSU that is the right thing.”

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/11/18/uc-santa-cruz-student-warned-to-abstain-from-bds-vote-over-jewish-agenda#.Vk4wrdKrSig=

h/t leftynyc

I wonder if all the Muslim students also got a text saying they shouldn't vote. I'm guessing no. Anti-Zionism is bad enough at colleges these days. The anti-semitism is totally out of hand.

[guillaumeb]

1. Equally bad is the constant equating of criticism of Israeli state violence

as being anti-Semitism. Both are attempts to shut down debate.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Accused of a "Jewish Agenda?" That is anti-semitism

At it's ugliest.

[KamaAina]

3. You're both right.

If this were a Facebook status, it'd be "It's complicated".