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A pro-Palestinian NYU group targeted Jewish classmates with threatening “eviction” notices that were slid under dorm-room doors in the dead of night, students said Thursday. “If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014 we reserve…
read moreIn a 20,000 word tour-de-force, Forbes Contributing Editor Richard Behar on Tuesday slammed the president of New York University, where he graduated from, in 1982, saying he was ashamed of his alma mater for its tepid response to the American Studies…
read moreAny political tactic is going to start delivering diminishing returns after ten or more years of not accomplishing a single one of its goals. And with the BDS “movement” about to turn thirteen, we seem to be reaching a point where…
read moreWhen the physicist Stephen Hawking cited the academic boycott as his reason for canceling a trip to a conference in Israel last spring, an op-ed in The Guardian argued that the famous scientist’s public stand “hits Israel where it hurts: science.”…
read more[emailpetition id=”9″] – Nobel Prize Laureates and University Presidents Signing This Statement Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Nobel Prize – Physics Distinguished Scientist Argonne National Laboratory, USA Loren J. Anderson President Pacific Lutheran University Kenneth Arrow Nobel Prize-Economics Stanford University Lawrence S. Bacow President…
read moreSome political forces in Israel urge annexation of all or a major part of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) as was previously done by Israel in 1981 with east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. For example, Naftali Bennett’s Jewish…
read moreWhat should we learn from the American Studies Association’s lopsided December 15 vote to endorse the anti-Israel boycott? Here are five takeaways: The Jewish Community Got Beat There is no question about it. The American Studies Association’s anti-Israel boycott resolution is a…
read moreThe American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israel has made front-page news. The New York Times described the resolution—which bars members from cooperating with Israeli universities—as momentous: “a milestone” for anti-Israel forces, a signal that the boycott against the Jewish state “has begun…
read moreProponents of an academic boycott of Israel hailed this week’s endorsement by the American Studies Association as a sign that American scholars’ attitudes have shifted significantly. In an online poll that closed Sunday night, 66 percent of the 1,252 members…
read moreThe 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…
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