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People walk past the Alma Mater statue on the campus of Columbia University, New York City, on 1 July 2013 (AFP) Following news that Columbia University will be starting a dual degree programme with Tel Aviv University in 2020, student activists have…
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Photo: ilovebutter / Flickr / CC BY 2.0. The student body president at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invoked a controversial antisemitism resolution that has been rejected by the campus Jewish community…
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Protesters Monday demanded that Boston police withdraw from a counterterrorism leadership program in Israel. (Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe) NIC ANTAYA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE A group of activists Monday called on Boston police officials to withdraw from a…
read moreThe US Capitol Building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Some members of the National Education Association (NEA) — the largest labor union in the country — want to turn America’s public school teachers against Israel. If you haven’t heard about this, it’s…
read moreLouis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Credit: Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed the Zionist Organization of America this month that the University of North…
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The climactic face-off of the 2019 Israeli Apartheid Week at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg took place on a wide, sunny plaza, between a statue dedicated to the millions of anonymous miners who had toiled under inhuman conditions…
read moreIntroduction The Facebook groups examined in this report are focused on promoting the Palestinian cause and Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. In this report we present posts that appeared in eight BDS groups between January 2016 and July…
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The Ministry of Strategic Affairs on Wednesday confirmed a report by the TPS news agency that the head of the terror squad that murdered Rina Shnerb, Sammer Arabid, worked as a clerk for the Palestinian Authority BDS organization Al-Dameer, which supports and promotes boycotts…
read moreThere have been more than 100 incidents that have contributed to a hostile climate at Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College, since the 2016-2017 academic year, according to a new report by Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF). The organization – an…
read moreEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On September 24, the Israeli High Court is scheduled to hear the appeal filed by Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding the Ministry of the Interior’s rejection of his request to renew his work visa. HRW – which…
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