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The shape of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and antisemitism was changed again in June by deadly attacks on Jews by “free Palestine” terrorists, by the Israeli and American attack on Iranian nuclear and regime facilities, and by…
read moreEditor’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…
read moreIntroduction The Spring semester has ended with higher education in upheaval. The political and economic relationships with the Federal government which prevailed since World War II are now rapidly changing with billions of taxpayer funding frozen or and foreign student…
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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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Attacks against Jews in the US continued in April, including the arson attack against the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on the first night of Passover. The suspect, Cody Balmer, was apparently motivated by Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s “plans for what he wants to do…
read moreIntroduction 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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Protests and attacks aimed at Jews and broader society in support of “Palestine” and Gaza continued in March, despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and protests in Gaza against Hamas. Examples included: The home of a University of Michigan provost…
read moreIntroduction The Trump Administration has begun to take action against universities and pro-Hamas students. Following on Executive Orders in February, the administration appears set on making an example of Columbia University by suspending research grants. Detention of foreign students have…
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Ben & Jerry’s says its parent Unilever has decided to oust the ice cream maker’s chief executive, Dave Stever, escalating a battle over the subsidiary’s independence on social policy issues, including sales in the West Bank. In a Tuesday night…
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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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