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For many years we’ve been documenting anti-Israel activity on U.S. university and college campuses, typically part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and carried out by student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine. In these prior posts we’ve described many…
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Supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement claim that BDS is about a two-state solution — and bettering the lives of the Palestinian people. At least that’s what leftist college students, progressive activist groups,and most media outlets…
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The European Union is pushing back after an Israeli minister accused Brussels of funding boycotts and even terrorism against Israel. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini recently complained to Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, saying a report from his ministry…
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Sometimes the clearest examples of the anti-Israel tilt of The New York Times come not in the news columns but in the arts section. The latest example is a review by the chief Times dance critic, Alastair Macaulay, of a performance in New York. The review…
read moreLegitimate criticism of Israel or anti-Semitism? Oregon Hillel vandalized From the Eugene Oregon Hillel Foundation: We apologize for the graphic content, but today we were shocked and saddened to return to our building in Eugene to find one of our…
read moreLast week one Israeli publisher had an unusual experience. It started off perfectly ordinarily: The publisher wanted to acquire the rights to publish the last two books by British author Kamila Shamsie, a prize-winning and highly praised British author of Pakistani…
read moreDavid Nesta “Ziggy” Marley, Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, who is reggae icon Bob Marley’s first-born son, is coming to Tel Aviv for two concerts, July 31 and August 1. Ziggy, who…
read moreIt began as yet another frustrating example of a university refusing to take swift action in a case of aggressive disruption of a pro-Israel event. The belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel discussion occurred at UCLA on May…
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The Episcopal Church rejected a measure to divest from Israel at its General Convention this week. The measure, titled “Ending Church Complicity in the Occupation,” was initially approved by the House of Deputies in the church, one of the legislative…
read moreFor over a decade, the NGO camouflaged behind the misnomer Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was just a fringe anti-Israel agitprop group that barely registered beyond the University of California, Berkeley, where it was hatched in 1996. But in recent…
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