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The weekend before Thanksgiving the American Studies Association, at its annual meeting, considered an academic boycott of Israel. As of Thanksgiving, the ASA’s National Council had not taken action, though the proposed resolution had wide support at the meeting. I have written…
read moreBrooklyn, New York, was once famous for its Dodgers. Now it is infamous for the Political Science Department of Brooklyn College that has sponsored or cosponsored symposiums, in February 2013 and in November 2013, confined to speakers who support boycott,…
read moreThe responses to my column on the call by some academics to boycott Israeli universities in the name of academic freedom were impassioned and polarized. I was pleased to find more readers than usual on my side, but one argument favored by…
read moreWhen activist Ben White spoke at Brooklyn College last week on the topic of “Israel: Apartheid, not Democracy,” there were no evictions, no disruptions, no names mysteriously left off the list of RSVPs. Unlike a similarly controversial event there last year, there…
read moreDoes Brooklyn College have a Jewish problem? For the second time this year, the university’s political science department has outraged the Jewish community by agreeing to co-sponsor events hosted by Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization whose…
read moreOn February 7, 2013 the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) Movement held a forum at Brooklyn College which featured its founder, Omar Barghouti and academician Judith Butler. Organized by a campus Palestinian club and co-sponsored by the Political Science Department…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is concerned that on November 14th The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Brooklyn College , spearheaded by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is hosting yet another well-known anti-Israel speaker—Ben White, whose…
read moreBrooklyn College is again provoking passions, playing host this week to an anti-Israel activist who many, citing his published writings, believe to be anti-Semitic. Ben White, who describes himself as a writer, freelance journalist and researcher on his Twitter page,…
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A controversial author who has likened Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi Holocaust is bringing his act to Brooklyn College — and two departments at the city university are “supporting” it. Journalist and author Ben White is scheduled to speak…
read moreClick here to read this report as a PDF Contents Introduction Overview Financials Foundations donating to JVP Strategy Create a “wedge” in the Jewish community to weaken U.S. support for Israel “Go & Learn” Initiative: Mainstream BDS in the Jewish…
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