Posts Tagged: academic boycott israel
Will an Anthropology Faculty Group Become a Political Tool to Boycott and Attack Israel?
At a time of rising antisemitism on campus, why is a professional academic association, headquartered in Virginia, poised to embark on a course of action...
California Curriculum Shows the Price of Complacency About BDS
JNS.org - While many in the Jewish world have been sounding the alarm about the threat from the BDS movement, others have said the concern...
University of Michigan and Pitzer College Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
JNS.org - Opponents of an academic boycott of Israel owe John Cheney-Lippold and Daniel Segal a debt of gratitude. Cheney-Lippold is the University of Michigan professor...
BDS Movement Suffers Setbacks in Israel and Around the World
JNS.org - Last week, Israel's Knesset passed landmark legislation attacking the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The new law represents just one of several recent setbacks...
The Intellectual Hypocrisy of Anti-Israel Academic Boycotts
Among the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts. And these boycotts, in their present form,...
Who’s Really Behind the Academic Boycott Against Israel?
One of the main challenges to hopes for peace in the Middle East is the campaign to boycott and isolate Israel, the only true democracy...
SPME BDS Monitor: Fighting Boycott Movement Begins to Show Results
The year 2015 ended with BDS supporters co-opting more campus governments and causes to discriminate against Jewish students. At the same time, more BDS resolutions...
Anti-Israel BDS Movement is Fashionable in Academia, But Far From Invincible
JNS.org - While the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has officially hit America's scholarly associations over the last two years, even considering...
American Historical Association Rejects Vote on Anti-Israel Resolutions
Inside Higher Ed - At their annual meeting in New York, members of the American Historical Association rejected -- by a vote of 144 to...
Hating Jews at Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley's graduate student labor union (UAW 2865) is voting on whether the State of Israel should continue to exist. No one is...
Dismantling the Case for Academic Boycotts of Israel (REVIEW)
In my favorite essay in the superb Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, Emily Budick speaks to the failure of many academics caught up in...
Academic Boycott Against Israel Not Affecting Country’s Research Endeavors, Government Study Says
A new Israeli government study proved various worldwide initiatives to boycott the Jewish state have had "no noticeable impact on academic research in Israel," Israeli...
What Harriet Sherwood Forgot to Mention About the ASA ‘Boycott’
Though Guardian Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood consistently either ignores or plays down Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens, she rarely misses an opportunity to provide free PR...
Why Academic Boycotts Undermine Peace and Freedom
There is a growing, worldwide effort to ostracize Israel and to make it into a pariah state. (This despite the fact that Israel is still...
