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Last week, several student groups, including the International Relations Council, the Woodbridge Society of International Students, the Society of Arab Students (SAS), and the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) attempted to revive the divestment debate, hosting a panel of pro-divestment speakers to talk about the Presbyterian Church USA’s decision to divest from firms supporting Israeli soldiers and settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Rather than welcoming an opportunity to hear the arguments of an unpopular—and underrepresented—opinion, however, many students were outraged by the panel and its one-sided presentation...
...were shocked and dismayed by the falsifications and manipulations of truth contained in the Palestinian Solidarity Committee’s (PSC) advertisement, entitled, “Palestine in Brief,” which ran in The Crimson on April 26. Such distortions signal nothing less than the beginning of a malicious propaganda war aimed at slandering Israel...
...information provided in regards to the fence—the ostensible purpose of the ad—is similarly misleading and erroneous. The primary manipulation lies in the fact that the ad’s information dates from October 2004. Since then, as the leaders of the PSC should be aware, Israel has dramatically changed the route of the fence in order to significantly reduce hardships that the previously planned route would have caused for Palestinian civilians. Citing this clearly outdated information is deceptive...
...land” will be “annexed into Israel.” The reality, as reported April 19 in the New York Times, is that the barrier’s route leaves no more than 8 percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side. The PSC also claims that 9.7 percent of Palestinians will be cut off from “cultivated lands” by the barrier, but the real number, as reported in the same article, is one half of one percent...
...students devoted to constructive dialogue on campus and peace among Israelis and Palestinians, we cannot allow such hateful propaganda to dominate the discourse and polarize the campus. We are deeply disappointed that the PSC engaged in such reprehensible conduct, and we call on their leadership to publicly disavow the misinformation they set forth...