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On Thursday, a day on which rockets were fired at Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip, the College Council of Pitzer College voted overwhelmingly to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa. The council, a board that includes faculty, students, and…
read moreMembers of Students for Justice for Palestine and their supporters demonstrate at Swarthmore College on Dec. 12, 2018. Photo: Screenshot. Student leaders in Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania voted to endorse a controversial boycott campaign targeting Israel on Sunday, after initially rejecting…
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To many observers, Israel’s military strength, thriving First World economy, and democratic institutions seem to mark it as a conventional Western power—albeit one located in the Middle East. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Zionism that gave birth…
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The academic Left, influenced by the Boycott, Divestment and Sections (BDS) movement, is abandoning core academic standards when it comes to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. In September 2018, the respected journal Critical and Radical Social Work(Policy Press, University of Bristol) published a…
read moreA recent article in the Canadian Jewish News regarding the decision by Jewish organizations in Winnipeg to reject Lex Rofeberg, a speaker with close ties to IfNotNow (“Winnipeg speaker disinvited over ties to IfNotNow” March 7, 2019), soft peddles the real story.…
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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…
read moreIn February an Israeli government report demonstrated that current and former members of terrorist groups including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine direct several Palestinian BDS organizations. The muted reception of the report suggests the BDS movement is…
read moreThe US and Israeli flags. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen. One in five Americans back boycotting Israel, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. “Support by several prominent new Democratic members of the House has raised the profile of the effort…
read moreJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawmakers want Mississippi to join some other states in refusing to do business with companies boycotting Israel. The Mississippi House on Thursday voted 88-10 for House Bill 761 , which calls for the state to develop a list…
read moreThe State Department is facing accusations that it failed to mobilize to stop the Irish government from pushing through with a major new effort to boycott and isolate Israel, according to sources familiar with the matter who told the Washington Free Beacon…
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