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#GenerationCaliphate Apocalyptic Hopes, Millennial Dreams and Global Jihad May 3-4, 2015, Boston University Sponsored by the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University History Department and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Most Westerners associate the terms apocalyptic and millennial…
read more“Academic Freedom at Risk: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement Against Israel” will be presented on Monday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moot Court Room in the University of Baltimore’s John and Frances Angelos…
read morePhyllis Chesler (The New AntiSemitism) discusses the nature of anti-semitism today with Richard Landes (Prof. of History, Boston University). Presented by The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). A JBS television exclusive.
read moreAmong the most pernicious consequences of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been the wedge driven between Israel and liberal Americans, including liberal American Jews. The relentless misappropriation of human rights and anti-racist discourse, the slanderous talk…
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Back in October, Holly Bicerano, a Jewish student at Boston University, penned an article for the Times of Israel entitled “Why Hillel Should Welcome Anti-Zionists and BDS Backers.” Extolling the virtues of a group calling itself “Open Hillel” – a…
read moreThose who lie about themselves are not in a position to judge others. I used to serve as Campus Outreach Co-Coordinator for Open Hillel – an organization committed to abolishing the Hillel International’s Standards of Partnership. These standards preclude Hillel…
read more“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and,…
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Anti-Israel protesters at a Boston rally held during this summer’s Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: Elan Kawesch) BOSTON – Two national student organizations’ gatherings were held on Boston university campuses this month to expose what they call the “intersectionality” of Zionism with…
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At an anti-Israel protest in Boston on Friday, pro-Palestinian activists surrounded several Israel supporters, hurling insults and allegedly physically assaulting pro-Israel students (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel) A protest outside Israel’s consular offices in downtown Boston turned ugly…
read moreI graduated from Vassar College in May 2014. I was the President of the Vassar Conservative Libertarian Union, and the anti-Israel fervor found me. Before we go into this sordid story, it gives us perspective on the times to remember…
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