ARUTZ SHEVA
Professor (Emer.) Abraham H. Miller
May 31, 2014
After months of campaigning, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at Chicago’s DePaul University held a referendum on the issue. Only a small fraction of DePaul students actually voted and the resolution passed by a small margin, saying less about sentiment on campus than the passion of the small groups of students involved.
On American campuses there are no demonstrations against Boko Haram, but there are calls for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
…..Few of the students militating against Israel seem to know that the reason that Boko Haram can sell Christian girls into slavery is that Muslim-controlled black slavery still flourishes in parts of Africa.
Despite the best efforts of the British to outlaw slavery in Nigeria, black slavery was legal there as late as 1936. Today, ten to twenty per cent of the black people in neighboring Mauritania are slaves, and that atrocious business is still dominated by Muslims.
By creating an asymmetric focus on Israel, as if peace between Arabs and Jews was totally a result of Jewish intransigence, attention is diverted from the real problems of the Middle East: the rise of religious intolerance, the promulgation of slavery, the rejection of modernity, and the ethnic cleansing of the Christian community.
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