A ACTIVE CONFERENCE CALL DISCUSSING THE LATEST TRENDS OF ANTISEMITISM AND BDS

2020 has taken a dramatic turn with the global coronavirus pandemic. Most US campuses are closed and politics have focused increasingly on the health crisis. Campus shutdowns also came just as ‘Apartheid week’ was about to get underway. The respite provides an opportunity to review BDS developments and anticipate its direction in a changed global environment. SPME’s…

The Year 2020 has seen BDS firmly established as a national and international political issue. Protestors pressuring Democratic presidential candidates and the UN’s new blacklist of firms working across the ‘Green Line’ are ominous developments showing the movement of BDS downstream from higher education. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners…

The fall semester ended with BDS inspired antisemitism at the center of political debates. The Trump Administration’s Executive Order extending civil rights protections to Jewish students, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crises, and the endorsement of BDS by students and faculty, suggest ominous developments for 2020.  SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives…

The fall semester begins with BDS increasingly at the center of American political debates. Following campus trends, political parties have grown more extreme but as the antisemitic nature of BDS is more widely understood, there are signs that limits are being reached. SPME’s Live Briefing Series covers recent BDS developments and gives listeners the opportunity…

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…