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US antisemitism strategy helps opponents target IHRA definition as UN takes aim at Israel and its supporters. Commencement speakers attacking Israel provoke controversy as US resumes exclusion of Israeli institutions in the ‘West Bank’ from research funding.
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Introduction The Biden Administration’s new US antisemitism strategy has helped a growing effort to undermine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, including from the United Nations and the US Congress. The strategy’s positive citation of the rival Nexus definition,…

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IHRA definition controversy peaks with national antisemitism strategy and dueling BDS related legislation. ‘Nakba Day’ sees the ‘Squad’ promoting BDS on Capitol Hill as BDS leader impersonates progressive Jew on Twitter.
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Introduction May saw the culmination of debate over the IHRA antisemitism definition. Left wing groups demanded its exclusion from the Biden administration’s national antisemitism policy while center and right groups demanded its inclusion. The debate, which has stretched from campuses…

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New Proposal Would Force CA School Districts to Adopt “Liberated” Curriculum if Students Want Admission to UC Schools
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Bay Area Jewish communal organizations are understandably upset by the Castro Valley school board’s recent unanimous decision to approve a high-priced contract with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition (LESMC), the educational consulting group that promotes an overtly anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist “critical” ethnic studies curriculum and…

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The Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses, 2020-2021
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Sections Executive Summary Introduction Main Campus Anti-Israel Groups Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Rhetoric on Zionism and Zionists Rhetoric on violence Graffiti, Vandalism and Targeting the Israeli Flag Events in May 2021 Funding for Anti-Israel Groups Donor Acknowledgement Endnotes EXECUTIVE…

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New study: BDS activists hostile toward Jewish students, not just Israel
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For many years we’ve been documenting anti-Israel activity on U.S. university and college campuses, typically part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and carried out by student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine. In these prior posts we’ve described many…

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On the Boycott of Israeli Settlements
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In response to: For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories from the October 13, 2016 issue To the Editors: A statement recently published in The New York Review of Books calls for…

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