Posts by Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Dalhousie University
The danger of false anti-Semitism accusations
This article is in response to previous pieces written by Leah Aubrecht and Mary MacDonald, particularly their article “Reply to Haiven and Zayid.” The claims of Aubrecht and MacDonald that the BDS movement is a campaign of half-truths and propaganda, which were very weirdly followed by comments about Iran and ISIS, are awfully ironic, particularly…
Read MoreRe: On Etiquette and the BDS Campaign on Campus
This article is in response to previous pieces written by Leah Aubrecht and Mary MacDonald, particularly their article “On Etiquette and the BDS Campaign on Campus.” As we made clear in our last piece, the aim of our response was to challenge the smear attempt that Aubrecht and MacDonald launched against a brave and well-respected…
Read MoreOn the Neglect of Etiquette
On March 11th 2016, The Dalhousie Gazette published a piece by Mary Macdonald and Leah Aubrecht titled “Re: on the Neglect of the Palestinian Suffering.” The piece starts with an attack on Dr. Amal Ghazal’s lecture “The Origins of Zionism and the Age of Colonialism,” and transitions rather oddly to a general attack on the…
Read MoreOn the neglect of Palestinian suffering
We at Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) get some emails every now and then telling us that what we talk about and what we advocate, despite it being true and ethical, is ‘divisive,’ and that it makes some uncomfortable. The same people sending us those emails would immediately imply that, by criticizing Israel’s abuse of…
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