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Introduction October was characterized by a series of campus BDS and antisemitism incidents that showed how deeply anti-Israel bias is embedded in organized student life. The determination of Berkeley Law School students and the Wellesley student newspaper to push anti-Israel…
read moreIntroduction The fall semester has begun with university administrations displaying mixed responses to BDS inspired antisemitism. At CUNY the administration appointed a former CAIR lawyer to investigate antisemitic incidents while other university presidents condemned vandalism but defended antisemitic expressions as…
read moreThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) earlier this year courageously took a stand against “threats to academic freedom.” The AAUP statement identifies the most serious threats to academic freedom today. No, the threat to academic freedom, according to the AAUP, is not…
read moreIntroduction The end of the academic year shows BDS on campus having made further gains in colonizing student media and student government. The significance of BDS resolutions and editorials remains not in forcing universities to boycott or divest from Israel…
read moreIntroduction The spring semester approaches its end with a variety of BDS activities on campus. In the US several student governments have passed BDS resolutions and protested pro-Israel and pro-IHRA speakers. In the UK, the National Union of Students has…
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Sections Executive Summary Introduction Main Campus Anti-Israel Groups Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Rhetoric on Zionism and Zionists Rhetoric on violence Graffiti, Vandalism and Targeting the Israeli Flag Events in May 2021 Funding for Anti-Israel Groups Donor Acknowledgement Endnotes EXECUTIVE…
read moreIntroduction The fall semester began with attacks by Progressive Democrats on US aid to Israel. At the same time, attacks on free speech by BDS-related groups were made in the context of 9/11 commemorations. These complemented continuing efforts to reframe…
read moreQUAKERS AND REFORM JEWS Quakerism has long had a certain appeal to Jews; its pacifist nature and liberal values harmonise well with the universalism of most Jews on the religious and political left. But its influence on American Judaism in…
read moreDuring my fifty years teaching anthropology at McGill University, my impression of undergraduate students was of reasonable young people, many of whom were seriously engaged in learning about the world and its peoples. Graduate students were fiercely focused on gaining…
read moreCovering the campus wars over Israel, the “paper of record” once again misses the point. In a New York Times piece devoted to how pro and anti-Israel activism affects campus free speech and students’ lives, writer John Leland avoids any reference to…
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