Posted 8/07/2002 09:45:00 AM by Ocean Guy
Here's a Law Student at Cal Berkeley on the move for divestment writing in the Palestine Chronicle:

The involvement of such prominent players in combating a campus movement indicates its potential potency. Here is a campaign with a clear, logical precedence: universities divested from South Africa because it as an Apartheid state. Thus, all pro-Palestinian activists need to do is prove that Israel is an Apartheid state, and the same path should, in the logical sense, follow. One has an easy argument to make, and simplicity is what strong movements need.

The divestment strategy is based in universal ideals, such as equality under the law, and other principles of secular democracy. There is no religious or nationalist basis for this claim, so it attracts a diverse array of people, and relies on the legal-moral tenor of American institutions in a way that most pro-Palestinian language does not. The result: it is taking off and Zionists are scurrying to combat it.

Thus, all pro-Palestinian activists need to do is prove that Israel is an Apartheid state
Israel accepts Jews from all over the world of different races and Arabs as citizens. The Arabs want the Jews out so that they may have a purely Arab Muslim State..... Which side is racist?

The divestment strategy is based in universal ideals, such as equality under the law, and other principles of secular democracy. There is no religious or nationalist basis for this claim, so it attracts a diverse array of people, and relies on the legal-moral tenor of American institutions in a way that most pro-Palestinian language does not
The PA a secular democracy? I will agree that they have invented a strategy that has no basis in the pro-Palestinian language. I will also agree that they have been effective in imputing American ideals upon the PA. The trouble is, it's an absolute fantasy.