While American academics have recently joined the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as reported by BIN, the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu organized a conference held yesterday in Tel Aviv. The Zionist Conference for Human Rights featured speakers from Israel’s minority communities who defended Israel from their own personal and first hand experiences. According to Im Tirtzu’s Facebook page, “Human rights have always been an integral part of Zionism, but in recent years, those who seek to delegitimize the State of Israel have monopolized and utilized these ideas in order to spearhead their campaign against the State of Israel.” Here is a short summary of 3 speakers from yesterday’s Zionist Conference for Human Rights: