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The highlight of BDS activities in July was passage of a resolution in the House of Representatives opposing BDS. In a major rebuke to vocal BDS supporters and the BDS movement as a whole, the House demonstrated that the vast…
read moreMainstreaming antisemitism through BDS and antizionism progressed in June as academics defended attacking Israel. Pushing back against anti-Israel bias has serious costs but the impunity of higher education has been breached by legal counteractions. The defenses of BDS and racialized…
read moreThe academic year ended with BDS-led policing of student and faculty connections to Israel, including overseas study, events, and clubs. At the same time the normalization of antisemitism by BDS connected politicians and academics expanded. Ludicrous claims regarding Jews, Israel…
read moreAs the spring semester closes BDS resolutions were debated on a number of campuses, often in the context of ‘apartheid week’ agitation. While results were mixed the propaganda value of inflammatory allegations against Jews and supporters of Israel has been…
read moreAs the spring semester progresses BDS campus BDS activities have ramped up sharply, albeit with mixed results, with faculty now taking leading roles against university administrations. The continuing antisemitism crisis in Congress, however, shows how the BDS movement has contributed…
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 moreJanuary saw the BDS induced antisemitism crisis within the Women’s March reach its peak and a newly elected BDS supporter appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In both cases, Jewish concerns were pushed aside, fringe Jewish support was manufactured,…
read moreThe calendar year closed with the BDS movement intensifying splits on campus, between faculty and administration and within student bodies. With support for BDS becoming equated with ‘free speech’ the contradictions within higher education have become apparent. In 2018 these…
read moreThe mid-term election saw several BDS supporters elected to the House of Representatives. While there have been other anti-Israel and antisemitic Members of Congress in the past, the progressive BDS caucus presents a serious challenge to the aging Democratic Party…
read moreIntroduction The ‘free speech’ crisis created by the BDS movement expanded in October, with additional university instructors refusing to write student recommendations for study in Israel. This, along with the controversial refusal of Israel to admit a student BDS activist,…
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