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Introduction BDS activity in March was divided between academia and the political sphere. In the former, in addition to a variety of student government resolutions, backlash against the treatment of a Jewish student by the student government at UCLA has…
read moreAs the volume of students walking through the halls of universities increases, so does the role of academia in policy making. Essentially, what’s easily the most energetic and effortlessly mobilized demographic in the world — young, educated, passionate, compassionate, ambitious,…
read moreThe question stung Rachel Beyda, who, like her inquisitors, was hoping to make her campus – and world – a better place. “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community,” one member of the…
read moreBOSTON — As more student governments take up votes to divest from Israel, the BDS movement’s roots in American academia are probed in a newly published essay compilation, “The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel.” The 32-essay collection takes particular aim…
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Local politicians are asking Brooklyn College to cancel a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event scheduled for Thursday evening, while civil rights and Arab-American groups believe the event should be allowed to go forward. SJP, a grassroots network of…
read morePolice at Northeastern University have launched an investigation after swastikas were drawn on two fliers posted on campus to publicize a lecture this week by an Israeli military official.Northeastern president Joseph E. Aoun condemned the incident in an e-mail to…
read moreThe global demonization of Israel and the Jewish people is gathering terrifying pace and ferocity, not least on university campuses. During last summer’s war in Gaza, the Western media uncritically promulgated as truth the inflammatory Hamas lie that Israel was…
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With summer behind us, students are returning to campuses across North America, and a new wave of student activism is taking up positions on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The two camps may look similar in terms of funding…
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We have posted many times about how the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, through faculty and Students for Justice in Palestine branches, has turned campuses and classrooms into political battlefields in the worst way. When Northeastern University SJP marches…
read moreTemple University has become the latest focal point for groups concerned about the spreading wave of campus antisemitism and academic-based Holocaust minimizing. Temple student Daniel Vessal, a fellow with CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), was…
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