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Dr. Alex Joffe is editor of SPME’s monthly BDS Monitor. He an archaeologist and historian specializing in the Middle East and contemporary international affairs.
Educated at Cornell University and the University of Arizona, he is also a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow of the Middle East Forum.
Among other topics he has written extensively on the BDS movement and contemporary antisemitism.
As the spring semester closes BDS resolutions were debated on a number of campuses and were regular features of political debates. While campus results were mixed, the damage has been done, and continues to spread throughout the political system. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners the opportunity to ask questions to SPME staff.
As the spring semester closes BDS resolutions were debated on a number of campuses and were regular features of political debates. While campus results were mixed, the damage has been done, and continues to spread throughout the political system. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners the opportunity to ask questions…
Description Donna Robinson Divine, PhD, Miriam F. Elman, PhD, and Asaf Romirowsky, PhD Background Of all the changes that can be documented in the seventy years since the founding of Israel, none is as dramatic and surprising as the country’s status as a topic of intellectual inquiry. Once a trope for self-sacrifice and solidarity, a…
As the fall semester ends the election of BDS supporters to Congress and the growing public conflicts between university faculties and administrations have made a BDS national political issue. With near uniform progressive support for BDS as free speech, rather than hate speech, the contradictions inherent in these and other concepts has also been exposed.…
Recap http://spme.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/11/Benjamin-Weinthal-Nov-20-2018.mp3 BDS Monitor Live Speaker: Benjamin Weinthal Benjamin Weinthal is a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A widely published journalist based in Berlin, he serves as Foundation for Defense of Democracies eyes and ears in Europe. Benjamin’s investigative reporting has uncovered valuable information on Iran’s energy links to European firms, as well as…
As the fall progresses the ‘intersectional’ reach of the BDS movement has been expanded from campuses to broader culture and politics with its embrace by rising ‘democratic socialists.’ BDS has also been exposed in routine areas of faculty activity, namely student recommendations, prompting ‘free speech’ claims. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners the…
A new study released by AMCHA Initiative reveals how academic boycotts of Israel pose a serious threat to Jewish students and significantly increase the likelihood of anti-Semitism on campus. Much has been written in recent years detailing how academic boycotts, and particularly an academic boycott of Israel, are an assault on academic free expression and intellectual…
With the spring semester underway BDS tactics on campus have become more deceptive and its hijackings of other movements and causes continue. And as the second year of the Trump Administration begins, the larger political context for BDS has also changed, heightening challenges for American Jews and supporters of Israel. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers…
As the school year ends the BDS situation remain in flux. ‘Intersectional’ alliances between BDS advocates and other movements have produced few successes beyond pushing BDS and antisemitism into new areas of campus and political life. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners the opportunity to ask questions to SPME staff.…
BDS Monitor Live Speaker: Andrew Pessin Andrew Pessin is Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor of The Algemeiner. In addition to his academic work he has authored several philosophy books for the general reader and two novels, including most recently an historical murder mystery based on the life (and mysterious death)…
As the calendar year ends the US and campus environments for BDS are in flux. The results of the US presidential election, state legislation, and campus setbacks are subjecting the BDS movement, which in turn are changing the situation for Jews and supporters of Israel. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives…