A witch hunt is underway at UCLA. Milan Chatterjee, president of the Graduate Students Association, is its victim. Chatterjee asserted GSA neutrality on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement – a policy adopted by a unanimous vote of the GSA Cabinet – and would not endorse the BDS movement against Israel. Now Chatterjee […]
Author Archives: Josh Saidoff
Submission: GSA president not deserving of slander from funding controversy
Bullying should have no sanction. Not on our campus and not in our paper. Nonetheless, over the past month, Graduate Students Association President Milan Chatterjee has been unjustly attacked, bullied and slandered in the pages of the Daily Bruin and on UCLA Listservs. Chatterjee’s actions in providing funding for the Diversity Caucus’ town hall have […]
Submission: UAW Local 2865 should vote ‘no’ against BDS movement
“Bringing down Israel really will benefit everyone in the world, everyone in society,” Lara Kiswani told UC Berkeley graduate students. To those who did not share her belief, she later went on to add, “As long as you continue to be on that side, I’m going to continue to hate you.” Hate. What a painful, […]