#Not to mention that in practice it would mean blockinf a bunch of researchers or students who are (by American standards) people of color

[rotzaprachim]

im shaking every single student organizer and screaming that they need to separate a demand to divest from arms funding from the demand for a university to cut off all contact with Israeli and Israeli-American scholars and students, a demand which no university will agree to because implementing it would in many cases be very illegal

#We’re not talking about personal ethics or whatever or strategy #We’re talking about the fact that discriminating against people based on ethnic origin nationality or passport is in fact a complete #Violation of almost any especially state universities legal code of conduct #And if they did that they could get sued. BY those same lefty legal aid organizations #Not to mention that in practice it would mean blockinf a bunch of researchers or students who are (by American standards) people of color #Pleaaaaase separate your radical demands from this!