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Not surprising, anymore. Forty Columbia University faculty have signed a petition calling for the school to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The faculty joined the various student groups associated with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and the petition comes about on the first day […]

College Fix reported on the American Anthropological Association (AAA): Choosing from a “menu” of options devised by a task force with scant experience in Palestine, association members chose a compromise option at its annual business meeting in Denver Friday: boycott Israeli academic institutions but not individual academics. The 1,040-36 vote in favor of AAA’s formal institutional […]

As the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman wrote: “Hillary Clinton promised to “fight back against” the anti-Israel boycott movement, calling it “harmful” to both Israelis and Palestinians in a letter to one of her top donors last week.” ““I am writing to express my alarm over the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or ‘BDS,’ a global […]

The BDS movement is not a constructive one, by any stretch of the imagination, but to go this far… isn’t this a violation of free speech?

Sheldon Adelson, a major GOP donor, is giving money to help organize anti-BDS (the divestment from Israel) movement on college campuses.

Petraeus’ issues aside, he may be right about how the BDS movement and how it threatens Israel’s security. The BDS movement, which pushes for boycotting Israeli assets from American universities, is very anti-Israel and possibly anti-Semitic.

As The College Fix said: “If you can’t convince Bowdoin College students, who can you convince?” “William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a good analysis of how an “unprecedented all-student referendum” on a proposed “full academic and cultural boycott of Israel” ended up backfiring on Students for Justice in Palestine at the elite liberal arts college.”

The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses has not led to full divestment from Israel by college administrations. But, up to eight student organizations have voted to divest from Israel. Guess it isn’t successful, right?

Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) just awarded the 2022 Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Though it positions itself as an organization of scholars engaged in research and teaching about the Middle East, MESA […]

For three decades, Ken Roth, until recently the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), used the high profile of his NGO to expose tyranny and human rights violations in countries around the globe. But while HRW has produced research concerning some 100 countries, under Roth’s leadership the organization has obsessively and relentlessly targeted Israel […]

In their zeal to construct an academic setting that reflects the true diversity of the nation—and simultaneously attempts to redress past discrimination and exclusion— universities have created campuses that have evolved in an opposite direction. Rather than helping students adapt to the real diversity of society outside the campus walls, the diversity ‘movement’ in the […]

Palestinian activism morphs into an attack on Jewish identity, not just on Israel The campus war against Israel, now some decades old, has been unrelenting in its vicious assault against the Jewish state, led by such radical pro-Palestinian student groups as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with some 200 chapters nationwide. The real intention […]