Nolan Pack
Overview
Nolan Pack co-sponsored an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2013.Pack was acting in his capacity as a student senator of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), where he was reportedly a “strong” ally of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of July 2018, Pack’s LinkedIn page said that he graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric. He also received an associate’s degree in Speech Communication from Pasadena City College (Pasadena).
Also as of July 2018, Pack was listed as the “Director of Development” at the Ella Baker Center of Human Rights on the organization’s website.
Anti-Israel Activity
In 2013, Pack co-sponsored SB-160, a BDS resolution calling on UC Berkeley to divest from “companies that have an active role in materially aiding Israel’s illegal occupation and the resulting human rights abuses.”The resolution passed on April 18, 2013, by an 11-9 vote.
On May 26, 2013, the ASUC Judicial Council ruled that SB-160’s clauses requiring the ASUC to divest from companies affiliated with the Israeli military were unconstitutional, since the ASUC had no had no constitutional power to craft specific investment policies.
Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014, to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/NolanMatthewPack
- Status:
- Professional
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- Organizations:
- BDS
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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