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At Thursday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting, several pro-Israel organizations voiced concerns about the request by a handful of UCLA student groups that undergraduate student government officers should be barred from accepting expenses-paid trips to Israel with certain…
read moreSACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Shocked at UCLA’s recent refusal to protect Jewish students, AMCHA Initiative represented seven organizations at Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting, demanding the Regents, President Janet Napolitano and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block intervene against0000000000000000 the bullying and intimidation…
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Seven staunchly pro-Israel organizations told the California Board of Regents at a hearing on Thursday, May 15, that its failure to stand up to the thuggery and blatant racism of the UCLA Students for Justice in Palestine against pro-Israel students…
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Seven pro-Israel groups called on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administration and the University of California statewide system to bring an end to the bullying of UCLA Jewish students by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The demand…
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Professor David Menashri, a top expert on Iran, finds it hard to understand why the West, led by the U.S., has given up its assets against Iran • Menashri: An Iranian nuclear bomb would change the rules of the game…
read moreSeveral states are pushing bills to block aide to public universities that got on board with the decision to stop working with Israeli universities over the Jewish State’s human rights record.What’s the best way to beat back a boycott? By…
read moreSince the Association of American Studies’ decision last month to boycott Israeli universities, followed by the possibility of a similar action this month by the Modern Language Association, there’s been a lot of analysis and commentary, but not much written…
read moreCHICAGO—After the Modern Language Association (MLA) held the much-anticipated “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine” roundtable on Jan. 9 as part of its 2014 convention in Chicago, MLA members expressed their opposition to academic boycotts of Israel during…
read moreFor decades, the American Studies Association labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It has now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universities, accusing them of denying academic and human rights to Palestinians. Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic…
read moreWASHINGTON — Fresh off their recent success, supporters of an academic boycott against Israel are hoping to parlay their first high-profile American victory into momentum toward wider support for the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state. A…
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