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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…
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As the fall semester ends the election of BDS supporters to Congress and the growing public conflicts between university faculties and administrations have made a BDS national political issue. With near uniform progressive support for BDS as free speech, rather…
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http://spme.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/11/Benjamin-Weinthal-Nov-20-2018.mp3 BDS Monitor Live Speaker: Benjamin Weinthal Benjamin Weinthal is a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A widely published journalist based in Berlin, he serves as Foundation for Defense of Democracies eyes and ears in Europe. Benjamin’s investigative reporting…
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As the fall progresses the ‘intersectional’ reach of the BDS movement has been expanded from campuses to broader culture and politics with its embrace by rising ‘democratic socialists.’ BDS has also been exposed in routine areas of faculty activity, namely student recommendations,…
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Speaker Melissa Landa was an award-winning faculty member in the College of Education at the University of Maryland for ten years. Her teaching and research interests include preparing teachers to be culturally competent, successful literacy instruction for children in low-income immigrant…
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A new study released by AMCHA Initiative reveals how academic boycotts of Israel pose a serious threat to Jewish students and significantly increase the likelihood of anti-Semitism on campus. Much has been written in recent years detailing how academic boycotts, and…
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With the spring semester underway BDS tactics on campus have become more deceptive and its hijackings of other movements and causes continue. And as the second year of the Trump Administration begins, the larger political context for BDS has also…
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As the school year ends the BDS situation remain in flux. ‘Intersectional’ alliances between BDS advocates and other movements have produced few successes beyond pushing BDS and antisemitism into new areas of campus and political life. SPME’s Live Briefing Series…
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BDS Monitor Live Speaker: Andrew Pessin Andrew Pessin is Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor of The Algemeiner. In addition to his academic work he has authored several philosophy books for the general reader and two…
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As the calendar year ends the US and campus environments for BDS are in flux. The results of the US presidential election, state legislation, and campus setbacks are subjecting the BDS movement, which in turn are changing the situation for…
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