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Bob Blumenfield, a pro-Israel Los Angeles City Councilman, is leading an effort to have the city go on the record to denounce the [UCLA student] ethics pledge for “intimidating” and “bullying” students. Blumenfield’s resolution, introduced in late May, is supported by at least five other council members...
Bob Blumenfield, the author of the City Council resolution denouncing the ethics pledge, is no stranger to getting state and city representatives to denounce SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] activism. Last year, when Blumenfield was a state assemblyman, he helped organize a letter denouncing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement on UC campuses. Blumenfield also sponsored a 2012 California house resolution that denounced BDS and stated that calling Israel an “apartheid state” is anti-Semitic...
Full article at http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/denounce-activists-critiquing.html
*See also our earlier post at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2014/05/weltschmerz.html
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