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https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/65704/professors-at-embattled-rutgers-center-call-for

Palestinian Arabs “have sought a future of liberation from the river to the sea for all peoples,” claimed Noura Erakat, a Rutgers University associate professor of Africana studies during a late February webinar. Although she tried to whitewash this

Palestinian Arabs “have sought a future of liberation from the river to the sea for all peoples,” claimed Noura Erakat, a Rutgers University associate professor of Africana studies during a late February webinar. Although she tried to whitewash this well-known call for the genocide of all Israeli Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, her comments to Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR) remained objectively horrifying.Erakat addressed the webinar on the topic of “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine,” the title of her 2019 book. Israel’s ongoing campaign to destroy the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas following its brutal Oct. 7 massacre was the background for her discussion.

Sahar Aziz, the factually challenged director of CSRR and its jihadist apologetics, moderated the webinar. CSRR recently drew the scrutiny of Washington lawmakers in the wake of revelations that Adeel Mangi, nominated by President Joe Biden to the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, formerly served on the Center’s advisory board.

Moreover, recent research revealed that Aziz received $143,000 from anti-Israel billionaire George Soros’s network and that Erakat “participated in an online workshop along with senior Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad.”

Their comments on law and “Palestine” confirmed lawmakers’ concerns about the Center.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-union-dues-are-being-used-against-israel-mit-grad-school-d106b26a?mod=opinion_lead_pos10

Cambridge, Mass.

“Your objection to paying dues or fees is based on your political views and not your religious belief.” That is what my union told me when I objected to paying dues to a union that seeks the destruction of Israel.

I came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021 to get a doctorate in computer science. I consider myself a student, but the National Labor Relations Board in 2016 brushed aside decades of precedent and ruled that graduate students are employees subject to unionization. A plurality of MIT graduate students (46.7%) voted to install the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, known as UE, as our exclusive bargaining agent, and the university capitulated to its demand for a contract with mandatory dues.

UE endorses the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and “urges the union at all levels to become engaged in BDS.” Minutes of a meeting in 2020 of the MIT Graduate Student Union confirm that the UE local is engaged in BDS. The GSU website uses Squarespace , according to a member of the union organizing committee, because “Wix is an Israli-owned [sic] company, which conflicts with BDS.”

Since Oct. 7, Jewish students at MIT have been terrorized by anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate on campus. When the university warned unruly protesters who were occupying a building that they risked suspension, the GSU backed the protesters and condemned “MIT’s threats against students exercising their basic First Amendment rights.”