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No, anti-Israel critics, Israel is not like apartheid South Africa, contends English professor Cary Nelson.

A new report said that at the 113 U.S. schools that Jews were most likely to attend, anti-Semitic incidents went up 40% from 2015 to 2016.

The American Studies Association, an academic association, is facing a lawsuit from current and former members on its stance to push the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement on its members.

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of contemporary anti-Jewish conduct and will assist the Department of Education in determining whether an investigation of anti-Semitism under title VI […]

Editor’s Note: The following post was published by the Louis B. Brandeis Center in their email newsletter. This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the one hand, Jewish students face a worsening climate. This year, an AMCHA Initiative […]

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published at the Times of Israel. When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “…you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are the sole authorized custodians of Truth and that whoever differs from them is ipso facto wrong,” he may well have […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of California Regents entitled, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California.” In that […]

Former top communist, college professor and “Black Power” advocate Angela Davis has picked a new cause on the road to liberation—animal rights. In a major speech in black-ruled South Africa, at the 17th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, she said animals were “sentient beings who endure pain and torture as they are transformed into food for […]

We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in the state of Israel. As well, we’ve shown the anti-Semitism in this campaign. Now, a former intern of ours has connected the dots and shows that you are paying for the BDS campaign in federal taxes. […]

Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group, Hasbara Fellowships Canada, was barred from participating in a “Social Justice Week” event organized by the Student Association of Durham […]

#ATLisReady, “a collective of student activists, community organizers, and leaders working to amplify Black and other marginalized voices in Atlanta,” published several demands including a call for the city’s police department to exit the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). The GILEE program creates the opportunity for Israeli and Georgian police to learn from each […]

The anti-Semitism evident in e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which WikLeaks obtained,  might not surprise so many if they knew how prevalent that attitude is on American college campuses. The AMCHA Initiative housed at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has, for the second year in a row, tallied up the actions […]