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.…

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…