The main battleground for the Boycott Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on the University campuses of the western world especially in Britain and the United States. Dr Ronnie Fraser will discuss how the campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza relate to the BDS movement whose main aim is the destruction of the State of Israel. His talk will place particular emphasis on the British response since October 7th.
Ronnie is the Director of the Academic Friends of Israel which he founded with his wife Lola, in 2003 to campaign against the academic boycott of Israel and antisemitism on campus. Based in London, Ronnie is a retired college lecturer who in 2011 took his union, the University and College Lecturers (UCU) union, to court alleging institutional antisemitism.
Ronnie and Lola are the editors of the “Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement” 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns, which was published by Routledge in 2023.