Democracy Now!
"New York politicians are threatening to cut funding to Brooklyn College if the
school hosts a forum Thursday night about the Palestinian-led campaign to
boycott and divest from Israel. The Brooklyn College Political Science
Department is among the event’s co-sponsors. In response, a group of New York
City Council members has raised the possibility of Brooklyn College losing
taxpayer support. The council members’ threat is just one of several efforts by
local lawmakers, from Congress on down, to pressure Brooklyn College to remove
its sponsorship or even cancel the event. As the school vows to proceed with the
event, we’re joined by one of its featured speakers, author and activist Omar
Barghouti, a founding member of the BDS movement and
author of "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian
Rights." On BDS, Barghouti says, "It follows in the
steps of the civil rights movement in this country, in the anti-apartheid
movement in South Africa. … It’s just when we talk about Palestinian rights,
that some people are trying to criminalize and make it completely unacceptable
speech to address Palestinian rights under international law." We’re also joined
by Glenn Greenwald, columnist for The Guardian and author of "With Liberty and
Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the
Powerful." ...."
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