The Jewish Academic Alliance of BC is one of three groups profiled in this piece in the National Post. Speaking on behalf of JAABC, Sauder and Department of Medicine professor, Dr. David Silver, noted that the anti-Israel encampment in MacInnes Field on UBC’s Vancouver Campus does not uphold the long tradition of peaceful protests in Canada. The current encampments, he said, “are eliminationist regarding the State of Israel. They are not pro-peace. They are calling for the violent destruction of the State of Israel and all the human suffering that would entail. That’s very different than the history of protest, which has been, for example, pro-peace, pro-social justice.