By COLlive reporter
American conservative political commentator and radio talk show host Ben Shapiro gave a solid performance in support of Israel at the University of California in Los Angeles.
The meeting of the UCLA undergraduate student government discussed whether the university should go forward with a resolution to boycott and divest from businesses that allegedly “profit from the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.”
Shapiro, an UCLA alum and an editor at Breitbart.com, crashed the divestment hearing to blast both the student sponsors and those considering the anti-Semitic measure.
“I got out of bed and left my one month old baby there when I saw what was going on here tonight,” he said. “To pretend this is about occupation, to pretend this is about peace, to pretend that this anything other than vile, spiteful Jew hatred is a lie.”
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David Rosenberg, economics editor of the English edition of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, says “the boycott is nothing more than a creature of the media’s imagination.”
“The true story is that after nearly 10 years of campaigning, the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement has not had the slightest economic impact,” he wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
“Its victories have consisted of coaxing a handful of pop stars and academics to cancel appearances in Israel, and winning empty, sanctimonious declarations of support from the likes of student governments, cooperative grocery stories and leftish church groups.”
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For years I have been plagued by the rapid spread of the myth of the “palestinian people”. Any person who can read and wants to be well-informed would know this. The real, historical occupier was the Roman Empire 2000 years ago which destroyed the the Jewish State, Judea and Samarah, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Jews went into exile but a small number of scholars was permitted in the Galilee region. The Romans invented the name Palestine for the area as a punitive act to the Jews. The Arabs came later to the region. EVERYONE who lived on… Read more »
Brave individual !
Kol hakavod
Bravo, Mr. Shapiro. Every word is precious and true.
its so nice to see this generation is still willing to stand up for Israel’s Rights!!
Excellent speech. We must accuse anyone who criticizes Israel as being a Neanderthal ignoramus who is following the same foolish beliefs as Christians and Muslims did when their thought the world was flat. And by the way, our Sages always believed the world was round. Jews 1, ignorant anti-Semites 0.
99% terrific. Sorry but there is no such country as palastine or people called palestinians. It is a lie that has been repeated over and over. Just because the lie is pounded into peoples heads, does not make it true. Remember these arabs who call themselves palestinians, before 1967 were called egyptians and jordanians. What was the palestinian currency, what were their original borders, who was their leader before the terrorists arafat who was born in egypt. A lie is a lie is a lie. It’s time to stop playing into their hands.
BS”S Wow- What courage. Beautufullll
You are a hero!
Why is it that you dont here Lubavitchers talk with such passion? Nobody stood up for Israel as much as the Rebbe did and yet we all seem to be sleeping!! Wake up Lubavitch and take a stand!
We need more like you who not afraid to stand up and proclaim the truth all the time and make the time for it
what an opportunity to be an advocate for TRUTH.
Thanks for posting. I agree with #2 – get out and repeatedly vocalize this truth to “lefty Jews”, G-d willing something will sink in.
To my own “lefty” friend, I had to clarify “Judenrein” (used by Shapiro in the speech).
When I googled it, I learned also of this concept, “First Saturday People, then Sunday People”… search for it using quotation marks and spread the REALity
That was so awesome!
More Jews should get more involved like Ben Shapiro!
You are great, you are great, may Gd send you everything you need, you stood up for your people, you brave man, may Hashem always look after you
This has to be done by everyone of us—wherever and whenever we have an opportunity!!
……and then find lefty Jews there and invite them for a Shabbos meal!!
let them taste the truth as well!!
Yasher Koach Ben Stein
Thank you Mr Shapiro. We should all learn from you to take a stand to protect Israel especially in the universities where young minds are so easily swayed with misinformation.