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Tel Aviv University campus Last week I was privileged to speak to two very different audiences about the Middle East and Israel. Though the talks had the same title, “Understanding the Middle East: Iran, the Sunni-Shi’ite War, the Israeli- Palestinian…
read more[Rebecca Sebo, Ohio University)(photo credit: Kaitlin Owens video] You may recall our extensive coverage of the Ohio University incident in which the student Senate President Meghan Marzec conducted an anti-Israel “blood bucket challenge” hijacking the Ice Bucket Challenge designed to…
read moreA student at the University of Ohio recalls the heated moments when she and three of her classmates were arrested last September while protesting the fiercely anti-Israel rhetoric of a fellow student, the president of the Student Senate. A young…
read moreJ Street U will no longer make do with “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” activities on U.S. campuses and is setting its sights on the American Jewish community as a whole. The student body of the left-wing J Street lobby group intends to…
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Local politicians are asking Brooklyn College to cancel a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event scheduled for Thursday evening, while civil rights and Arab-American groups believe the event should be allowed to go forward. SJP, a grassroots network of…
read moreIntroduction With the first semester of the academic year approaching its end, BDS has shifted into high gear. In November the movement registered successes in several venues, particularly on campuses and in academic organizations. But there are growing indications that…
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Anti-Israel protesters at a Boston rally held during this summer’s Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: Elan Kawesch) BOSTON – Two national student organizations’ gatherings were held on Boston university campuses this month to expose what they call the “intersectionality” of Zionism with…
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We have posted many times about how the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, through faculty and Students for Justice in Palestine branches, has turned campuses and classrooms into political battlefields in the worst way. When Northeastern University SJP marches…
read moreToday a coalition of national organizations, including Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) , issued the following statement concerning the issue of biased and highly politicized Middle East Studies programs funded under HEA Title VI. The statement addresses…
read moreLast week, activists at CUNY’s Doctoral Students’ Council, a group representing more than 4,700 graduate students at the university, embarked on an effort to pass a resolution supporting the boycott of Israeli academic institutions and calling for divestment from Israeli…
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