Back to School — With River of Cash To Fight BDS

[Little Tich]

Source: The Jewish Daily Forward

Students returning to college in the coming days can expect to find the same campus tensions over Israel that they left behind in June. But they will notice a new reality: much more pro-Israel activity, fueled by a large new flow of cash.

The Campus Maccabees, backed by up to $50 million from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and others, are gearing up to campaign against perceived efforts to delegitimize Israel. With a declared aim to reshape the face of Israel advocacy in colleges nationwide, the new group is a wildcard. Not only will it confront anti-Israel activists, it is already sending jitters throughout the established Jewish communal organizations.

David Brog, the group’s director, played it close to the chest when asked what he has planned. “Stay tuned,” he told the Forward. “They’ll be some important announcements made in the coming weeks.”

Brog, working from temporary offices at Adelson’s Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, is scrambling to assemble a team and launch programs for the first semester, which in many places has already begun.

Read more: http://forward.com/news/320466/back-to-school-with-fresh-cash-to-fight-bds/

[grossproffit]

1. Good. Turnaabout is fair play.

[Scootaloo]

2. 'Cause anti-Palestinian bigots have always been lacking for cash n/t

[Mosby]

3. you think the anti-Israel activists on american campuses are liberals?

That's funny.

Just because foreign students speak "liberalese" doesn't make them liberals.

[oberliner]

4. Anti-Israel bigots are pretty flush with cash themselves

There is probably much better use for those funds in both cases.