European Jewish Parliament: Ban Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions from Belgian campuses

Fake Israeli checkpoints were repeatedly installed at the entrances of the University.

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BRUSSELS (EJP)---The European Jewish Parliament expressed its profound concern on the admission of Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) as a new Student Association by the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the consequences it could have on the daily lives of Jewish students in Belgium.
Numerous cases of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have taken place on the campus of ULB recently, the 120-member Parliament noted in a statement.

Among others, Jewish students have received death threats and 'Fake Israeli Checkpoints' were repeatedly installed at the entrances of the University.

Furthermore, the Law Faculty Student Association displayed an anti-Semitic cartoon during its annual party and organized an event on the campus premises promoting notorious French anti-Semite Dieudonné and Solvay Business School Students' Association published an anti-Semitic article in its monthly magazine.

The European Jewish Parliament recalled that The European Court of Human Rights has confirmed a French Supreme Court judgment declaring the boycott of Israel illegal.

It urged the Belgian political and academic authorities “to reverse the admission of BDS as a Student Association and to condemn its discrimination towards a group of people because of their nationality, in accordance with the European Court of Human Rights and the French Supreme Court.”

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