Trump Administration Executive Orders change landscape for BDS and anti-Israel politics as BDS led attacks on Israel continue. Jews are blamed for LA fires as Israelis are investigated for ‘war crimes’ while visiting foreign countries.

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Introduction

The advent of the Trump Administration promises to shift the landscape for BDS and anti-Israel politics. A new Executive Order orders action to combat antisemitism including deporting student Hamas supporters, while dismantling the Federal DEI enterprise removes a key support for anti-Israel and antisemitic policies in universities receiving government funds.

The effectiveness of these and other measures remains unclear but the new and supportive rhetoric must be contrasted with the new administration’s established pattern of pressuring Israel to make concessions. At the same time the BDS and Hamas support movement’s claim of victory in Gaza demonstrate that their efforts to eradicate Israel will continue. A manifestation of this is lawfare against Israelis visiting different countries who are investigated or even indicted on ‘war crimes’ charges.

Protests/Attacks

A major Islamic terrorist attack occurred in January in New Orleans, when an American individual who had pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda drove a vehicle through a crowd killing fifteen people. Immediately after the attack anti-Israel protestors in New York City organized by organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People’s Forum gathered in Times Square and chanted “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “We will honor all our martyrs.”

Less violent attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions also continued in January, including:

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In a bizarre but predictable turn, anti-Israel activists blamed Israel for the destructive fires in Los Angeles. Code Pink and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ both claimed that US military aid to Israel and ‘Gaza genocide’ diverted funds that would otherwise have gone to fighting wildfires. Islamist media personality Mehdi Hassan also stated that US military aid to Israel resulted in inadequate Los Angeles firefighting budgets. This complemented local and overseas Islamist celebrations of the fires as divine justice or retribution.

Former CUNY Law student and anti-Israel activist Fatima Mousa Mohammed attempted to hijack the fires and stated that “Dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on Gaza, turning it into a blazing inferno, has consequences that extend beyond our moral condemnation — there are climate consequences that will find us all.” Both claims were quickly condemned by political leaders including Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Jewish leaders. Observers also note that the manner in which the disaster was blamed on the Jews was reminiscent of medieval scapegoating.

Overall a report from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency indicated that antisemitic incidents had increased some 340% in 2024 over the previous year. New figures also showed that in New York City hate crimes against Jews comprised 54% of the total in 2024. A poll conducted by the ADL indicated that some 46% of adults worldwide hold antisemitic views, with the figure rising above 90% in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Politics

The end of the Biden Administration and the advent of the Trump Administration represents a clear dividing line with regard to BDS and antisemitism. The installation of many highly vocal pro-Israel cabinet members portends a dramatic upscaling of support for Israel and for American Jews. This must be contrasted, however, against the already demonstrated pattern of pressuring Israel to make concessions in negotiations regarding the Gaza War as well as troubling lower level appointments. But featuring families of Israeli hostages, and former hostage Noa Argamani, on stage at the inauguration and a removing pro-Hezbollah imam who had been scheduled to speak are early reflections of the overall pro-Israel orientation of the new administration.

More concretely, an Executive Order mandates the Justice Department take “immediate action” to “protect law and order, quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation, and investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.” Significantly, the order states “The Attorney General is encouraged to employ appropriate civil-rights enforcement authorities, such as 18 U.S.C. 241, to combat anti-Semitism.” The Education Department is also charged with inventorying Title VI cases at the K-12 level.

The order also calls for “familiarizing institutions of higher education with the grounds for inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) so that such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens.” Universities will thus be responsible for overseeing foreign students and faculty who, under the terms of other Executive Orders, may face deportation.

Another Executive Order signed requires the government to ensure that foreign nationals entering the US “not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”

In a related development, the group Betar US reportedly provided Federal officials with a list of more than 100 students and 20 faculty with foreign visas who had participated in pro-Hamas campus protests.

An additional Executive Order dismantling DEI activities within the Federal government also directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Education to “provide guidance” to all education entities that receive Federal funding or participate in Federal loan programs. This effectively targets all DEI activities at all levels of education, as does a directive contained in an Executive Order ending Federal affirmative action programs which directs the Attorney General to undertake compliance audits of up to nine universities with endowments over $1 billion.

A freeze on Federal funding by the Office of Management and Budget to permit a comprehensive review of all grant programs sent shock waves through the higher education industry before it was blocked by a Federal court and suddenly rescinded pending revision. Executive Orders sanctioning the ‘International Criminal Court’ and removing sanctions on Israelis were also signed. Legislation to sanction the ‘court’ failed in the Senate after Democrats rallied to oppose the bill which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) deemed “poorly drafted and deeply problematic.”

Independently, the bipartisan US Commission on Civil Rights voted unanimously to launch an investigation of campus antisemitism.

In its waning days the Biden Department of Education negotiated a series of weak settlements with American universities, resolving complaints regarding campus antisemitism and, inevitably, ‘Islamophobia.’ How future cases will be handled by the Department of Education, which the incoming administration has promised to close, remains unclear.

Complaints filed directly against universities continue to show more promising settlements. Harvard University has agreed to settle a case filed in Federal court by the Brandeis Center. Remedial measures include adoption of the IHRA definition and formal listing of Jewish and Israeli identities as part of its ‘non-bullying’ policy. A staff member will be hired and tasked with overseeing complaints of antisemitism, and relationships with Israeli universities will be expanded. Predictably, objections to the settlement included claims that it will repress ‘academic freedom’ as part of a broader effort to ‘crush the academic left.’

In response to the IHRA adoption academics and Hamas supporters complained that the move was “shameful” and “cowardly” which “just makes a mockery of academic freedom.” The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee also complained that “Harvard will protect Zionism — a racist, genocidal political ideology — over its students’ right to demand an end to occupation.” The ‘New York Civil Liberties Union’ had previously warned local universities against adopting IHRA as well as campus mask bans.

Harvard also announced it had resolved a complaint that it had “failed to protect students from anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian harassment and intimidation.” The resolution “does not mandate that Harvard introduce new language specifically protecting Arab, Muslim, or Palestinian students.”

Anti-Israel politics continued at the local level in January:

  • In a unique admission, the treasurer of Alameda (CA) Country stated that his “Jewish values” rather than fiduciary responsibility propelled the decision to divest from Israeli companies.
  • Virginia Senate Democrats blocked the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to the board of George Mason University. Marcus, a leading lawyer addressing BDS and campus antisemitism, heads the Brandeis Center and was formerly Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights;
  • Legislation was introduced in the Pittsburgh City Council to thwart the impact of a referendum that accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ and mandating divestment that will be voted on in May. The legislation bars discrimination on the basis of religion and national origin and prohibits the city from modifying the “Home Rule Charter Amendment process to add duties or obligations beyond the lawful scope of the city’s authority. The anti-Israel legislation also contravenes Pennsylvania and possibly Federal statues.

The broader implications of the Gaza war are still reverberating through American politics. Despite polls demonstrating that most Americans have a favorable opinion of Israel, including 18-24 year olds, left wing commentators continue to assert that Biden’s defeat was a result of his foreign policy in general and support for Israel specifically.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) comparison of the Gaza war to the effects of Vietnam with respect to the radicalization of American youth indicates that the left wing of the Democratic Party sees Israel as a convenient rallying point and target. A similar warning was issued by outgoing ambassador to Israel Jack Lew regarding future American policymakers. The more diffused opposition to Israel manifest by elected representatives from the far right of the Republican Party remains marginalized by party leadership.

But irrespective of the degree to which the Trump Administration policies formally change legal and political conditions on and off campus, a culture of left wing repression that has stifled speech appears to be broken. Shibboleths regarding race, gender, and other topics which have dominated academia and downstream politics, generated by individual agents, the falsification of self-preferences, and sometimes enforced by threats of ‘cancelation’ or even violence from ideological fanatics and fellow travelers, no longer hold sway to the same degree.

In the international sphere the Trump presidency and Gaza ceasefire appear to have shifted the tone of foreign powers and institutions regarding Israel. In an unexpected move, given its virulent antisemitism and anti-Israel politics, the Republic of Ireland announced it was adopted the IHRA definition. The announcement emphasized the move was “legally non-binding.” The Irish government also announced that it was revising a trade bill that would have banned trade with Israeli firms with interests in the West Bank.

In another move likely aimed at staving off Trump Administration repercussions, the United Nations announced an “Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism.” The role of the United Nations in encouraging and exonerating antisemitism and anti-Israel bias makes the move ironic if not absurd.

With American sanctions on the ‘International Criminal Court’ supporters have warned the institution is on the verge of collapse. The arrest warrant issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represented a breaking point, with Western states forced to declare whether they would arrest him during official visits. The absurdity of the situation reached a climax when Poland declare it would arrest Netanyahu if he attended commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The Polish legislature then adopted a resolution stating the opposite. Netanyahu did not attend the event but Palestinians filed a complaint with Polish authorities asking for the arrest of Israel Education Minister and former pilot Yoav Kisch who represented Israel at the event, alleging he was guilty of ‘war crimes.’

A significant new development in anti-Israel lawfare are international efforts by pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah elements to have former Israeli soldiers arrested in foreign countries on ‘war crimes’ charges under the doctrine of ‘universal jurisdiction.’ While legal efforts aimed at Israeli political and military leaders have gone on for years, the new initiatives target individual soldiers.

The ‘Hind Rajab Foundation’ in Brussels, run by two former Hezbollah sympathizers active in local Islamist and antisemitic politics, has been at the center of the effort, organized around harvesting social media postings. The group has allegedly sent the names of more that 1000 soldiers to the ‘International Criminal Court.’ Locally, former Israeli soldiers have allegedly faced investigations or arrest warrants in Brazil, Argentina, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, and elsewhere. New Zealand and Australia have institutionalized the investigations and now ask Israelis requesting visas for their dates and places of military service and whether they have committed ‘war crimes.’ Coupled with the ICC indictments the increasing effect is to criminalize travel while Israeli.

Administrations

The cancelation of DEI enterprises at the Federal level is having a follow on effect throughout higher education. This follows the elimination of DEI enterprises by many state legislatures and individual universities. The overall costs of DEI mandates have recently been estimated to be some $1.8 billion in state higher education and $1 billion in Federal funding for the K-12 level. Some 30 states and 67% of American institutions of higher education require some kind of DEI related courses for graduation. Many such courses are disguised with uncontroversial or anodyne titles. Higher education has also publicly mobilized to oppose rollbacks of DEI.

Responding to increasing scrutiny, higher education professionals have rebranded DEI courses and offices, such as Rowan University in New Jersey renaming its DEI office the “Division Of Inclusive Excellence, Community And Belonging.” There have also been farfetched warnings that dismantling the enterprise will prohibit teaching about racism and arguments that DEI must protect Jewish students in order to survive. These join continued warnings that the Trump Administration’s promise to tax endowments would ‘devastate’ university finances, and that budget cuts will ‘devastate’ biomedical research, scientific innovation, and individual states.

Similarly, more evidence has accumulated that university administrations are working to dilute or replace the focus on campus antisemitism. At Northwestern University critics have noted that a required training program on discrimination and harassment omitted Israel and Zionism as targeted categories but included “anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian biases.” The University of Toronto also launched a working group on Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian discrimination.

The concept of ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ explicitly states that Palestinian narratives regarding the ‘nakba’ are inviolable and cannot be challenged or questioned. Their institutionalization at Canadian universities is now being followed by Canadian and US K-12 institutions.

Universities and localities continue, however, to act against students who have violated regulations and laws:

Divestment now appears nearly dead on American campuses. In January Johns Hopkins University rejected divesting from Israel as inappropriately political and impractical, as did the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Maine system. At the University of Georgia, however, students disrupted a board of regents meeting to demand divestment.

At the local level some university administrations continue to push back against faculty members and anti-Israel elements pushing Israel boycott measures. At the University of Maryland Medical School a talk by the former surgeon general of the Israeli military was canceled after a pressure campaign orchestrated by CAIR. The organization took credit for the cancelation which according to other sources included unspecified security threats. The medical school, however, announced that the talk would be rescheduled.

The Maryland incident follows a spate of protests by medical professionals, including a letter of support from the American Academy of Pediatrics to then Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in support of Hamas doctor Hussam Abu Safiya who was arrested in Gaza. “Call out sick for Gaza” protests occurred at Boston area hospitals including Harvard Medical School. Physicians associated with Columbia University also complained administrators had engaged in “the erasure of Palestinian morbidity and mortality and “systematic repression and censorship of health-oriented discussions of the genocide.” The support for Hamas demonstrated by physicians at their medical school graduations is an ominous foreshadowing of future mistreatment of patients on the basis of religion or national identity that has already been documented in the US, Canada, and Europe.

United Nations ‘special rapporteur’ and noted antisemite Francesca Albanese has also called on global medical professionals to boycott Israel. Albanese’s incitement adds to the growing evidence of pervasive antisemitism being built into medical education. Medical students in particular continue to express pro-Palestinian sentiments, as was shown recently in an event at University of California Irvine medical school where attendees posed for photos wearing keffiyehs.

Faculty

In the faculty sphere one of the most notable developments in January was a resolution approved by the American Historical Association (AHA) members at its annual meeting to condemn “scholasticide” in Gaza. The resolution alleged that Israel had intentionally and systematically destroyed Gaza’s educational infrastructure using US weapons. Once approved the resolution moved to the executive committee before being sent to the full membership. The executive committee, however, vetoed the resolution, stating that “it lies outside the scope of the association’s mission and purpose.”

The AHA’s executive committee’s decision follows a similar one by the Modern Language Association to prevent a BDS resolution from being put to the full membership. The moves suggest that academic leaders – with the notable exception of the umbrella American Association of University Professors, which has endorsed ‘individual’ Israel boycotts and whose leadership is strongly hostile to Israel – are perceiving BDS as a losing issue from the perspective of disciplinary reputation and perhaps legal and public relations liability. The schism between younger academics inculcated with the ideology of ‘scholar-activism’ and an older generation

Despite or perhaps as a result of small signs of resistance to BDS by leaders of academic organizations, faculty unions have emerged as centers of Israel hatred. Resolutions condemning “scholasticide” are introduced by ‘scholar-activists’ as union business and as deliberate means to shame, split and ostracize those who either support Israel or who believe that such issues lie outside the purview of unions.

In a recent example at Brock University in Canada, the faculty member who introduced such as resolution asked his colleagues “When you’re voting on the motion, you will be asking yourselves, like I do, do I want my workplace and my pension monies to be tied with other people’s blood or not?” No decision was reached and another meeting was scheduled, thereby making the Israel Question a permanent feature of faculty life.

Resolutions demanding divestment area are also means to split the faculty and more importantly, leverage affiliated union support. In one example the City University of New York Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY) union voted to divest from Israel. A Jewish faculty group then filed a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights. The recommendation included demands that the system’s retirement fund divest the $100 million invested in Israeli companies. In 2024 the union worked with a New York City public workers local and the United Federation of Teachers to pass a similar resolution.

The union vote was condemned by the university and New York State governor Kathy Hochul. The refusal of the Supreme Court to hear an earlier case regarding the union leaves in limbo the question of whether Jewish and other faculty can be fairly represented by a politicized union.

In an example of the mendacity and mediocrity that characterizes so many anti-Israel faculty members, Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke claimed that she had been forced to retire as a result of her ‘pro-Palestinian’ activities. Her claim that the move was “termination dressed up in more palatable terms” was belied by report from an outside law firm which documented her persistent harassment and defamation of Israeli and Jewish students and “prohibited racial stereotyping.”

Franke has now filed a grievance against the school’s Office of Institutional Equity accusing it of “a pattern and anti-Palestinian racism.” In a related development, the Islamist group CAIR declared that Columbia was a hostile campus for pro-Palestinian students.

Reports continue to accumulate regarding the routine incorporation of anti-Israel materials into coursework in disciplines as varied as English and music. At the University of Pittsburgh faculty also offered extra credit for attending anti-Israel protests and berated students for their support of Israel and ‘Jewish privilege.’ A video taken at the Barnard College English department shows that every faculty member’s door is decorated with anti-Israel flyers.

Other examples of campus propagandizing include a panel entitled “Feminist and Queer Solidarities with Palestine” to be held at the University of California Berkeley in February. A description of the panel promises to “look at how Zionism has weaponized feminism, so as to serve Israel’s genocidal intent, by upholding debunked accusations of systematic Hamas mass assault.” After the event was publicized the university removed the description from its website.

Another event at Toronto Metropolitan University entitled “Can editorial standards be applied fairly in highly polarized situations? The case of Israel and Gaza” saw panelists comparing the Israeli offensive in Gaza to the London blitz and bombing of Hiroshima and deemed the beeper attack on Hezbollah ‘terrorism.’ A planned event at the Middle East Studies department at Brown University will also discuss “Non-Zionist Jewish Traditions and “contemporary conflations of Judaism and Zionism.”

Students

With the semester underway campus protests against Israel have resumed but at lower level:

Pushback to university disciplinary efforts is also continuing. At the University of Chicago a lawsuit has been filed by Palestine Legal, the lawfare arm of the BDS movement, on behalf of a student who had been disciplined and removed from student housing.

But in a sign that the anti-Israel movement and ‘Palestine’ as an organizing principle continue to alienate fellow students, the black feminist group at George Washington University “Black Defiance” announced it had left the Student Coalition for Palestine “after repeatedly experiencing anti-Blackness and racism.”

In the new semester student governments quickly regained their place as centers for anti-Israel activity:

  1. Several student governments at the University of California at San Diego have divested their holdings from Israeli companies;
  2. The Concordia University Student Union passed a BDS resolution. Only 858 students out of 49,898 enrolled voted;
  3. The Rutgers University student government rejected use of the IHRA definition.
  4. The student government at the University of Toronto held a fundraiser for Gaza during a meeting.

Continued efforts to promote divestment are consistent with statements by pro-BDS groups on campus that they would “fight on,” Gaza ceasefire notwithstanding.

Continued anti-Israel movement’s control over campus student organizations has also been challenged by a ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Jewish students had accused the MIT Graduate Student Union of forcing them to pay dues and supporting anti-Israel activities as the cost of retaining the union’s representation. The EEOC ruled that the union had to provide a religious accommodation under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ordered it to refund dues which will be donated to several Israeli charities.

The larger impact of the ruling on graduate student unions, many affiliated with and thus subsidized by the United Auto Workers or American Federation of Teachers, is unclear. A new lawsuit filed by an Israeli graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley against the UAW affiliated union alleging it had discriminated against her and other Jewish student and created a hostile work environment may also clarify the question of anti-Israel unions.

K-12

Evidence continues to accumulate regarding deep and pervasive bias against Israel and Jews at all levels of K-12 education. Efforts to coverup and downplay incidents also continue locally. In a settlement reached with the Howard County Public Schools (MD) the Department of Education noted that authorities had failed to report incidents where Jewish students were abused, including “posting of swastikas; mimicking Nazi salutes; threats to kill and stating preference for death of Jewish people; using the term ‘Jew’ as a slur; calling a Jewish middle school student a ‘dirty Jew,’ telling her to ‘go back to the gas chamber.’”

Teachers and their unions continue to push ‘liberated ethnic studies’ and ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ in curriculums:

More positively, Palo Alto schools have abandoned state-mandated ‘ethnic studies’ after complaints from parents regarding the curriculum’s emphasis on “Oppression, revolution, and martyrdom.”

Arts/Culture

Social media and web platforms continue to be key battlegrounds regarding Israel and antisemitism. Wikipedia’s highest adjudicating body, the Arbitration Committee, has barred a number of editors who had systematically distorted the platform’s coverage of Israel, Palestine, and related topics. The move came after months of revelations regarding the manner in which the group had conspired via back channel communications to edit pieces in order to blame Israel for the current conflict and accuse it among others things of ‘settler-colonialism’ and ‘genocide.’ Six pro-Hamas editors were barred in addition to two pro-Israel editors. A recent report also uncovered a group of pro-Hamas editors conspiring to manipulate French Wikipedia.

The move against pro-Hamas editors came after the Heritage Foundation announced a project to identify anonymous Wikipedia editors responsible for anti-Israel bias. An investigation also revealed that Wikipedia’s controlling entity, the Wikimedia Foundation, has been staffed by many former employees of the Open Society Foundation and Clinton Foundation, apparently as part of a long term strategy to take control. The motivating ‘Movement Strategy’ restructured Wikipedia as a social advocacy platform rather than an impartial encyclopedia. This aligned it with other Soros funded entities including the Tides Foundation, which funds numerous anti-Israel movements.

Wikipedia’s hidden transformation into a top down propaganda platform has compromised its reputation and utility but not its reach. Similarly, continued revelations regarding TikTok’s role as a Chinese Community Party controlled surveillance and propaganda platform have not impacted its popularity. Nor have demonstrations that TikTok’s algorithm is fundamentally designed to spread anti-Israel and antisemitism propaganda. The issue was demonstrated further when TikTok was briefly banned by the incoming Trump Administration prompting users to download another Chinese app, Rednote, which immediately flooded users with anti-Israel and antisemitic content.

Economics

In the economic sphere Israel continues to be targeted by the BDS movement even as its overall economic outlook improves. Technology investment and foreign demand for Israeli products remain high, as well as for mergers and acquisitions. Ratings agencies which had downgraded Israel expressed caution regarding the overall outlook pointing to uncertainty regarding the implementation of the ceasefire and the continuing political unrest within Israel itself.

A number of airlines, however, announced they are resuming flights to Israel, including Air France, Lufthansa, and British Air. Major American carriers have also announced they will resume flights in the spring. The announcement came after the appointment of airline critic Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee.

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund sold its small holdings in the Bezeq telecommunications company on the grounds that it operates in the West Bank. The company argued unsuccessfully that it does so under the terms of the Oslo Accords. Reports indicate that the fund is reconsidering all its Israeli holdings.

Trump Administration Executive Orders change landscape for BDS and anti-Israel politics as BDS led attacks on Israel continue. Jews are blamed for LA fires as Israelis are investigated for ‘war crimes’ while visiting foreign countries.

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AUTHOR

Alex Joffe

Editor SPME / BDS Monitor

Alexander H. Joffe is an archaeologist and historian specializing in the Middle East and contemporary international affairs. He received a B.A. in History from Cornell University in 1981 and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona in 1991. From 1980 to 2003 he participated in and directed archaeological research in Israel, Jordan, Greece and the United States. Joffe taught at the Pennsylvania State University and Purchase College, and has been Director of Research for Global Policy Exchange, Ltd., and The David Project, Center for Jewish Leadership.

Joffe's work is uniquely broad. Since 1991 he has published dozens of studies on the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and is a leading figure in contentious debates over the relationship between archaeology and politics in the Middle East. He has also authored numerous works on contemporary issues, including Middle Eastern environmental security threats from pollution and weapons of mass destruction. His work on the problem of dismantling intelligence agencies is widely cited by experts and democratic reformers alike.

In the past decade Joffe has written and spoken on topics as varied as the future of American Jews, the Palestinian refugee problem, and nationalism. During that time as well he has been deeply involved with combating the problems of campus antisemitism, the ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions' movement against Israel, and in educating Jews and others about threats to Israel and the West. His current projects include a biography of a British World War II general and several novels. He and his family reside near New York City.


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