NUS adopts EU's definition of Antisemitism, including recognising New Antisemitism, that is manifestations of antisemitism in relation to Israel.
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MOTION: 801b
Heading: Anti – Racism: Religious Dress: Not a Political Football (Amendment ADDS to the motion)
Submitted by: Heriot-Watt University, University College London and Cambridge University
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Speech For: University College London (1 min)
Speech Against: Free (1 min)
Speech For: Heriot-Watt University (1 min)
Summation: Heriot-Watt University (0.5 min)
1. A Muslim woman had her Hijab (head veil) torn off by a white man in Liverpool after Jack Straw made his comments. 2. That objectification and sexualisation of women, their bodies and their faces, is a worldwide trend and women from different cultures, countries and religions address this situation differently. 3. That Conservative Party Leader, David Cameron, recently made a high profile speech in which he claimed that Muslim extremists are the ‘mirror image’ of the fascist BNP; among the groups singled out for the criticism were the MCB and FOSIS.
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Disagreeing with the policies of the Israeli government is in and of itself neither Antisemitic nor Anti-Zionist.
Even outside of this Anti-Zionism is not always Antisemitism, but many of those who claim to be anti-Zionist are in fact in fact peddling re-badged Antisemitism.
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