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An Israel divestment resolution was defeated Tuesday at the University of California, Santa Cruz with 19 votes against, 17 votes in favor, and three abstentions. The defeat followed a 45-minute student senate debate. “We are pleased that a divestment resolution…
read moreThe University of California, Riverside student government recently rescinded its student senate resolution that urged the University of California (UC) system to divest from Israel. After having passed similar resolutions in other UC campuses (UC Irvine and recently in UC…
read moreThe return of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) makes it necessary to review some of the better and less well-known features of this annual, global event. By doing so, it will become possible better to understand the nature and scope of…
read moreTo shed light on the passions generated by the Brooklyn College program that promoted the so-called BDS movement, the Daily News opens its Op-Ed page to one of the evening’s speakers. BDS proponent Omar Barghouti writes of the movement’s motivations…
read moreA panel on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS) was hosted at Brooklyn College on February 7, 2013. The BDS movement views Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state as illegitimate. Activists call for undermining Israel —…
read moreDebates about academic freedom almost always begin in confusion and end in confusion, but the recent controversy at Brooklyn College is a welcome exception to that rule. When the dust settled, the right thing had happened, the right things had…
read moreThe decision by the Brooklyn College political science department to endorse the BDS movement—which includes the boycotting of Jewish-Israeli academics—has been “justified” on freedom of speech and academic freedom grounds by the Chairman of the department. Brooklyn College’s President has…
read moreThe international campaign to delegitimize Israel by subjecting the Jewish state—and the Jewish State alone—to boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has now come to the most unlikely of places: Brooklyn College. The political science department of that college has voted…
read moreWhy is Brooklyn College’s political science department officially sponsoring a one-sided event that calls for divestment, boycotts and sanctions against Israel? On Feb. 7, the college will be hosting a “forum” at which speakers will call for Israel to be…
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New analysis by campus watchdog group Student Rights has revealed that Islamic extremists appeared almost 150 times on British university campuses in 2012. The infographic (below) shows that of 214 events logged by the group, 69 percent of them took…
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