A growing trend among U.S. campuses has reached Louisiana: Students taking the initiative and provoking divestment debates in favor of Israel. As with University of Georgia students earlier this month, pro-Israel students at the University of New Orleans are calling for divestment from he Palestinian Authority for its human rights abuses, particularly abuses perpetrated against women, gays and religious minorities.
Breitbart quotes campaign organizer and student activist Chloe Valdary:
In order to give expression to the Jewish struggle for freedom, my organization Allies of Israel has launched a campaign to symbolically divest from the Palestinian Authority. Because we understand many Palestinians are employed by the P.A., we do not wish to literally pull off the shelves products which are produced by the PA. However, we do seek to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters who are imprisoned and persecuted by the P.A. This includes Palestinian women, gays, religious minorities and political dissidents. In addition, we stand in solidarity with Jews in Israel and around the world and call upon the P.A. to cease sponsoring, financing, and/or encouraging the lynching of Jews and the segregation of Jews from areas that are currently off limits to Jews in Israel.
