At the University of Virginia (UVA), a campus-wide referendum on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has led to a tense atmosphere. Reports from IsraelWarRoom indicate Jewish students have faced harassment, including being spat upon and subjected to antisemitic slurs, compelling at least one student to move off campus. Public figures like RepTenney and HenMazzig, as well as noatishby, have criticized the referendum, arguing that BDS fosters division and supports radical agendas rather than peace. They emphasize the referendum's potential to further alienate and threaten Jewish students, urging a vote against adopting BDS at UVA.
Right now, the University of Virginia @UVA is holding a campus-wide #BDS referendum, forcing all of its students to decide where they stand on Israel. @BDSmovement is the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, a movement which doesn’t hide its desire to dismantle… https://t.co/7FKsn5cfLj
BDS votes on college campuses have no effect on Israel. All they do is threaten and alienate Jewish students. Right now, @UVA is holding a campus-wide BDS referendum vote, forcing all students to pick a side on Israel. BDS has no place on college campuses or anywhere.…
The Right To Boycott, a new five minute film produced by the Freedom2Boycott NYS Coalition, sounds the alarm on laws intended to take away Americans’ First Amendment rights to boycott the state of Israel. #RightToBoycott Watch the film here: https://t.co/y2y0tBsyNo
I urge all students at the University of Virginia to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters and REJECT the anti-Semitic BDS referendum. The BDS movement does nothing to advance peace but merely is a thinly veiled effort to support Hamas and radical Palestinian terrorism.
At @UVA, students have been spat upon, shoved, called horrible names, antisemitic slurs. There’s one kid who has been so intimidated by students in his dorm he had to move off campus and stop wearing his yarmulke. Adopting BDS will only make things worse. UVA: Vote NO today. https://t.co/KvPue938Xc