At the latest annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) we got a firsthand account of how Jewish pro-Israel groups are perceived on campus from MESA members. MESA has already dropped its original designation as a “non-political learned…
read moreDear Colleagues: The recent events in Charlottesville have clearly raised the ever growing anti-Semitism bar even higher. Charlottesville was an example of how neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan were able to use the statue of Robert E. Lee to…
read moreDear Colleagues: A few positive developments have occurred over the past few weeks that are worth noting. For starters, due to the hard work of many of our colleagues at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the association voted by a…
read moreDear Colleagues: The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) just released a new report entitled, Campus Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the BDS Movement. The report underscores that indeed much of the anti-Israel rhetoric we are witnessing today bleeds…
read moreDear Colleagues: Happy New Year! Over the past few weeks we have witnessed some positive movements and wins regarding BDS. First and most noticeable, was the defeat of the BDS vote at the Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting in Philadelphia ,79 in…
read moreDear Colleagues: Shana Tova! Our friend and colleague Leonard Saxe recently released a new study on the Hotspots of Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Hostility on US Campuses. Among the key findings Saxe and company underscored the following: CUNY-Brooklyn, Northwestern, and many…
read moreDear Colleagues: A week after the attempted coup in Turkey, we are now witnessing Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attempt to consolidate power by launching a massive purge of Turkish institutions and now the government has “issued a blanket travel ban on…
read moreDear Colleagues: As 2015 has come to a close and we enter 2016 we are witnessing a significant rise in BDS proposals among many academic associations and on-campuses in general as we see for example, in the Oberlin alumni letter…
read moreDear Colleagues: As the new academic year gets on its way we are witnessing an increase in BDS related activity as well as more debates regarding anti-Semitism on campus. Positively, the University of California’s regents voted to turn down the…
read moreDear Colleagues: It has been four decades since Congress passed a law pushing back against boycotts of Israel globally however, at the end of June, we witnessed a change. We now have two states who passed anti-BDS legislation and others…
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