Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

‘Palestine’ movement shifts support to Iran and migrants, as ‘democratic socialist’ candidate wins mayoral primary in New York City. UK music festival features antisemitic performers and chants of “Death to the IDF.”

Editor’s Note The enormous growth of BDS-related antisemitism since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack has required the BDS Monitor to be greatly expanded as a tool for historical documentation. Readers are reminded that a shortened version appears in The…

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BDS Monitor Live – May 13, 2025

The first academic semester of the Trump Administration has brought momentous changes to American higher education. New Federal regulations regarding DEI and antisemitism, and calls for curriculum reform, have been backed by funding cuts. The higher education industry and its…

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Campus antisemitism simmers as Trump Administration upends university funding. Left wing support for detained students grows as warnings increase about the ‘weaponization of antisemitism’ and that Jews will blamed for the ‘destruction of universities

Introduction The clash between the Trump Administration and the higher education industry, particularly Ivy League universities, over failures to address antisemitism and expunge DEI practices and pedagogy escalated to new proportions in April. As the administration froze Federal funds to…

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The Diversity-Industrial Complex

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with diversity as a social or organizational goal — bringing together different outlooks prevents groupthink and facilitates creativity — but our modern fixation on celebrating different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds is a shift from the conception of diversity that’s part…

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