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With summer behind us, students are returning to campuses across North America, and a new wave of student activism is taking up positions on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The two camps may look similar in terms of funding…
read moreIt is probably unsurprising that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s decision to withdraw a job offer to a controversial American studies scholar active in the Israel boycott movement would sparked heated debate. More surprising, perhaps, was how the debate…
read moreIf you followed our coverage of the Boycott Divest and Sanction movement on campuses this past academic year, you would know that the BDS movement on campus was on the verge of violence. From confrontations with professors, to dorm storming, to vandalism, to publication of…
read moreAmid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S.…
read moreAfter months of campaigning, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at Chicago’s DePaul University held a referendum on the issue. Only a small fraction of DePaul students actually voted and the resolution passed by a small margin, saying less…
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They’ve become the bullies of the quad at college campuses around the nation, shouting down speakers, terrorizing Jewish students and intimidating those who disagree with them on the vexing issue of peace in the Middle East, according to watchdog groups.…
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Members of a pro-Palestine student organization are trying to stifle pro-Israel views and terrorize Jewish students across the nation. A slew of anti-Semitic online postings by Vassar College’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine have brought the group under…
read moreIt was an exceptionally busy academic year for pro-Palestinian student activism on campus. The American Studies Association’s December resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israel got an extraordinary amount of ink, but arguably it was the students, not their professors, who…
read moreFrederick Lawrence usually wears a tie, but is proud that he has shed it to conform with Israel’s casual standards. The erudite president of Brandeis University sits for coffee in front of giant glass windows overlooking the pool of the…
read moreThey’ve become the bullies of the quad at college campuses around the nation, shouting down speakers, terrorizing Jewish students and intimidating those who disagree with them on the vexing issue of peace in the Middle East, according to watchdog groups.…
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