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This past December, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emeritus English Professor Cary Nelson gave a talk in Israel called “Why the Boycott Movement Threatens Israeli Security,” as part of a panel promoting his co-edited volume The Case Against Academic Boycotts…
read moreAmong the most pernicious consequences of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been the wedge driven between Israel and liberal Americans, including liberal American Jews. The relentless misappropriation of human rights and anti-racist discourse, the slanderous talk…
read moreIt wasn’t even close. At Sunday’s business meeting of the American Historical Association’s annual conference, AHA members present voted overwhelmingly against considering two resolutions sponsored by Historians Against the War, both attempting to draw AHA into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The…
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On Monday evening, Barnard President Debora Spar delivered the opening remarks at an event, titled “Race, Violence, Resistance: From Gaza to Ferguson,” hosted by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine. Curiously, Spar mentioned neither Gaza nor Ferguson in her remarks.…
read moreEconomy Minister Naftali Bennett / Photo by Eyal Toueg NEW YORK –A nascent group of well-known academics is calling on the U.S. government and European Union to impose personal sanctions on four prominent Israelis “who lead efforts to insure permanent…
read moreAnthropologists are the most recent group of Israel bashers to publicly link their academic identity with their hatred of Israel. Earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the organization’s members rejected by an overwhelming…
read moreNEW YORK –A nascent group of well-known academics is calling on the U.S. government and European Union to impose personal sanctions on four prominent Israelis “who lead efforts to insure permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and to annex all or…
read moreThe BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement targeting Israel has had more success in the Kafkaesque confines of the modern American university than in the real world. Yet even in the academy, where both the rule of law and basic constitutional…
read moreSupporters of the movement to boycott Israel won a victory when the American Anthropological Association voted down a proposed resolution opposing an academic boycott of Israel, an education website reported Monday. Friday’s vote sets the stage for a possible pro-boycott…
read more“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and,…
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