BREAKING: You saw the outrageous news last week that a coalition of @BerkeleyLaw School student groups passed bylaws prohibiting "#Zionist" (i.e.
Jewish) speakers at their events. We found that 1/2 the #antisemitic groups are FUNDED BY MAJOR LAW FIRMS, & we have the receipts. 1/7
Then there are firms that sponsor networking events for antisemitic Berkeley Law groups. Here are @lathamwatkins, @MorganLewisLaw, @omelvenymyers, & others sponsoring the BDS-supporting Middle East & North African Law Students Association. 4/7
Berkeley’s “Womxn of Color Collective” supports antisemitism, and big law firms support it: Munger, Tolles and Olson, Wachtell Lipton, @McDermottLaw, and others. sites.law.berkeley.edu/wocc/bridge-to… 5/7
StandWithUs calls on every firm that has donated to, or sponsored an event for, an #antisemitic student group at @BerkeleyLaw to terminate its financial involvement; to conduct a review to ensure that firm resources are not funding #antisemitism at other schools; 6/7
& to make a strong statement condemning the #antisemitism of the student groups that participated. 7/7
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@GEICO, by now you've heard a lot of people are upset that you gave a platform to Linda Sarsour. Here's a summary of her long track record of spreading hate:
Sarsour has close ties to the Nation of Islam (NOI), a racist, #antisemitic & homophobic hate group, according to @splcenter. Sarsour pays NOI members to act as her security detail & embraces their hateful leader Louis Farrakhan.
Multiple UN Secretaries-General have condemned the UN's "Human Rights Council" (UNHRC) for its systemic bias and discrimination against #Israel, and it's only getting worse.
According to leading historians, most of the 500-750,000 Palestinian refugees from 1948 fled to escape a war of destruction that Palestinian leaders & Arab states launched against #Israel. A small minority were expelled by Israeli forces or left because Arab forces told them to.
This refugee crisis (which Palestinians call the #Nakba) was followed by nearly 850,000 Jews fleeing or being expelled from Arab states. There is no comparison between these tragedies and the #Holocaust - an industrial-scale genocide in which the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews.
We take no position on the NYC Mayoral race, but strongly oppose efforts to intimidate leaders who take a stand against BDS, which is a campaign of hate.
The purpose of BDS is not to protest Israeli policies as some claim, but to isolate and pressure Israel until it collapses as a Jewish and democratic state. Furthermore, BDS actively harms peace efforts by opposing Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.
Many activists on Twitter have been falling all over themselves to defend Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour).
Here's a reminder of her record:
In 2011, she tweeted the grotesquely offensive statement below, which was especially disturbing because Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation.
Sarsour has close ties to the Nation of Islam (NOI), a racist, #antisemitic & homophobic hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sarsour pays NOI members to act as her security detail & embraces their hateful leader, @LouisFarrakhan.
#BREAKING: The Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Defense Ministry have announced a major breakthrough in finding an antidote for #coronavirus. The antibody attacks the virus and can neutralize it.
The Institute's researchers said in a statement that "the antibody development phase is over. A goal for international companies to produce the antibody in commercial quantities. #coronavirus
If successful, this development will change the world as we know it in the face of the #coronavirus pandemic.