Ted Cruz: No Federal Money For Schools That Boycott Israel

[William Tell]

[h=1]Cruz: No Federal Money For Schools That Boycott Israel[/h]

Presidential candidate Republican Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday called for federal money to be withdrawn from any college that boycotts Israel.


“In 2017, we need a president who will stand up directly and confront the [Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions] movement,” Cruz said in a speech, according to The Washington Post. “BDS is premised on a lie and it is anti-Semitism plain and simple. And we need a president of the United States who will stand up and say if a university in this country boycotts the nation of Israel than that university will forfeit federal taxpayer dollars.”


Cruz was speaking at the Champion of Jewish Values International Awards Gala, where he was receiving the Defender of Israel Award. Among the event’s attendees was Republican billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the most important potential backers that Republican presidential candidates are courting.


Cruz has always expressed strong support for Israel, but Thursday’s statement was a particularly strong piece of red meat to throw in front of Adelson, whose deep pockets will be a major asset for the Republican who can win his support. Adelson, who is Jewish, is a major opponent of the BDS movement and has begun funding efforts to combat it on college campuses.


The speech appeared successful, at least on the surface. Cruz received a standing ovation, including Adelson, who struggles to stand in his old age.


The BDS movement seeks to force Israel to change its policies in Palestine through economic and cultural isolation from the rest of the world. Proponents on university campuses have sought to have their schools withdraw investments in Israeli companies and cease inviting Israel-affiliated academics to conferences. Thus far, the movement has had limited success, and no university has committed itself to the BDS agenda. However, some academic organizations have signed on, such as the American Studies Association, which approved an academic boycott of Israel in 2014.


Cruz didn’t provide specifics on how his promise to cut off federal funds would work, but it’s a significant threat. With the federal government controlling the vast majority of student loans and research grants, cutting off the flow of dollars would be a death blow to most major schools and would make BDS participation a total non-starter.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/29/cruz-no-federal-money-for-schools-that-boycott-israel/

 

[euphemia]

This is political pandering, but I think he raises an interesting question. Should taxpayers fund schools at all, especially ones that do not allow free speech and diversity of opinion? I think taxpayer funding is very close to the line on "government shall make no law." In other words, if Congress has to appropriate funding, and that's kind of their job, then they are codifying what the school allows and does not allow, who is hired, etc.

 

[69360]

So we have to coddle the jews today in 2015 living in a made up country, because the nazis put them in concentration camps 70 years ago. But now the jews run the largest concentration camp in the world and we can't fund anyone who questions it. Yeah that makes lots of sense Cruz.

 

[Origanalist]

Cruz didn’t provide specifics on how his promise to cut off federal funds would work, but it’s a significant threat. With the federal government controlling the vast majority of student loans and research grants, cutting off the flow of dollars would be a death blow to most major schools and would make BDS participation a total non-starter.

That right there is a great illustration of just how corrupt the whole land of the free has become. Government funding it's own indoctrination centers with money taken by force from it's citizens.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

The capitulating Canadian strikes again, this time ready to sell-out Americans to Israeli interests.

 

[erowe1]

How do you prove that a school is boycotting Israel? Do you make them prove they're not by positively investing in things in Israel?

 

[euphemia]

How do you prove that a school is boycotting Israel? Do you make them prove they're not by positively investing in things in Israel?

I don't think you can, but I think you can definitely prove they are taking taxpayer money to limit free speech, and free thought. Taxpayers should not foot the bill for that, especially when graduates can't get jobs after the big price tag.

 

[acptulsa]

A conservative: Taking money from taxpayers when you have neither the means nor the intention of directly providing them with a service for that money is immoral.

Cruz: I'm more moral than anyone so I'm going to take all the money and only give some back to those who jump through my moral hoops.

Thus we come to see the difference between a conservative and a Cruz.

 

[euphemia]

Maybe if Cruz would listen to the voters he would see that perhaps he cannot claim the moral high ground on any kind of funding for education.

 

[specsaregood]

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[enhanced_deficit]

Only one of below articles is satire laced though it may not be easy to tell which one:




Schweich suicide: Missouri GOP chairman denies spreading rumors about Schweich’s religion

"This week, Schweich seemed to be getting anxious about some comments he alleged Hancock made about his faith. He told the AP that he had heard rumors that Hancock made some comments last year that Schweich was Jewish and he thought Hancock should step down from his position as party chairman, to which he was just elected. Messenger, from the Post-Dispatch, said in his statement that Schweich told him he thought Hancock meant to “harm him politically in a gubernatorial primary in which many Republican voters are evangelical Christians.”






Ted Cruz’s Dry-Drunk Daddy Will Save The Jews From Obama, For Jesus
by Kaili Joy Gray
Apr 15 3:45 pm 2015
Ted Cruz’s ex-drunk ex-deadbeat dad, Rafael, is a swell guy who loves to spread The Good Word about how God hand-selected his boy Ted to be the next president of the United States of Jesus. And also, of course, the Penultimate Good Word about how Obama sucks, as he did yet again while testifying to a group of Georgia teabaggers.
“It was so shameful,” Cruz said, “how this president has treated Prime Minister Netanyahu.”
OK, let us pause to note the irony of Pastor Cruz shaming his own president (sorry, Rafael, but yes, Obama is your president, even if you do not like it) for not being respectful enough, according to the latest Republican Party talking points, to the prime minister of Israel, which is actually this whole other country. Now let us hit ourselves in the face a few times. And now let us continue:

This current administration has cursed the Jewish people, has cursed the nation of Israel more than any other administration in history. I believe the only reason judgment has not fallen upon America is because of the faithful remnant that is standing in the gap. But it is about time that we stand for righteousness.
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Hmm, has President Obama cursed the Jewish people more than any other administration in history? Let’s think. No, let’s not bother, let’s just remember how we fact-checked that whopper when Michele Bachmann said the same goddamned thing the other day.



Michele Bachmann: God Is Punishing Us For Obama, Just Like It Says In The Bible

We will not even get into the not-Obama administration that refused to accept a boatload of European Jews trying to escape the Nazis — the actual Nazis, not the conservative fan-fic ones who tried to force everyone to gay-marry socialized health care, with free birth control. You can Google that stuff on your own time. Start with “Voyage of the Damned,” and you’ll be on your way.
Is this a good time to point out just how much Rafael Cruz stands with Jews? Sure it is! In 2013, just to pick a random representative example, when Pastor Cruz was giving another of his hate-filled sermons about how Obama sucks, he explained that America is indeed “a Christian nation”:

Insisting that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution “were signed on the knees of the framers” and were a “divine revelation from God,” he went on to say, “yet our president has the gall to tell us that this is not a Christian nation … The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.”

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You know what is a GREAT way to let The Jews know how much you stand with them and their being Jews, like it says in the Bible? Insisting that this here country of America ain’t for them, God made it extra-special just for Christians, and if you don’t accept that as The Truth, you have some gall, mister.




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[h=2]The Republican road to the White House runs through Israel[/h]http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/26/the-republican-road-to-the-white-house-runs-through-israel/

 

[puppetmaster]

If there are any supporters of Cruz here this should open your eyes to who he is.

 

[twomp]

Ted Cruz ..... lol....

 

[RonPaulMall]

If there are any supporters of Cruz here this should open your eyes to who he is.

From a purely political standpoint you could argue that it is smart and even subversive. The disinvestment movement is not being spearheaded by us, despite the fact many on this board would support it in principle. It is led by young, mostly minority Democrats. A bill like this pits the "demographic destiny" of the Democratic Party against the people that actually run the Democratic Party.

A Bill like this has 0% chance of passing for obvious reasons, but it puts Democratic politicians in a position they don't want to be in and if it got to the floor forces them in to making a vote they don't want on the record. In principle, it is no different than Paul's repeated calls to cut off foreign aid to Egypt or Pakistan.

 

[presence]

How about no federal money for schools and Israel?

 

[Danke]

There are still institutions that don't understand who runs America?

 

[cajuncocoa]

51st state

 

[specsaregood]

How about no federal money for schools and Israel?

How about no foreign aid for countries that subsidize abortion. I'd like to see Rafael's vote on that suggestion.

 

[William Tell]

51st state

More like another DC.

 

[William Tell]

How about no foreign aid for countries that subsidize abortion. I'd like to see Rafael's vote on that suggestion.

AMEN! Nothing pisses me off more than supposed Christians wanting to use tax money to help fund a government that kills little Jewish babies before birth.