UNMIA

The UNM Israel Alliance will be meeting today (Friday, March 7) at the Satellite Coffee Shop on Central near Yale at noon. Come join us!

On Tuesday, November 20, three UNMIA people went to the Peace and Justice Center to join Justice First’s discussion of Jimmy Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace or Apartheid”. The crowd was small because of the Thanksgiving holiday, and there were four members of Justice First and an anti-Israel Jewish student from Arizona. Still, it was a hot discussion, as you might well imagine, and probably hotter because it was a small group. Justice First made an audio recording of the discussion, and you can probably contact them for a copy, if you are interested.

The Justice First co-leaders, Vicki Johnson and Mike, opened with a video presentation that Vicki had made for the discussion, and a handout featuring the main points and maps of Carter’s book, and a listing of the major factual errors in his book.

Rather than going into the debate and arguments of the evening, which were the sort that you would expect, this discussion brought up other issues that might be worth mentioning here…

The obvious question is, why go debate these things? Why go to discussions where the only attendees are devotees on one side or the other, and neither will change the other’s mind?

We constantly present factual …

The new school year has started, and UNMIA is coming back too.

If you are interested in Israel Advocacy on campus, email info@unmia.com and get started today!
Several of our founding members have graduated, so there is plenty of opportunity for new people to have a voice in UNMIA.

UNMIA’s first semester and first month as an organization is past, and it was a very active month. We formed and were incorporated in early April, worked on becoming known and gaining funding, attended three events, put up the website and weathered a small controversy.

We would like to thank all our officers for taking this on and doing a good job at the busy end of a semester.

To the UNMIA officers and members and to all the UNM students, have a good summer and success in whatever is coming up next for you!