Posts Tagged: BDS on campus
‘There Need to be Consequences’: Rep. Mike Lawler Introduces Bill Cutting Funding for Colleges that Host Antisemitic Events
Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday introduced legislation to cut off federal loans and grants for colleges that host antisemitic events after a City University...
Ahead of BDS Vote on Campus, Columbia Student Paper Apologizes for Running ‘Deeply Inappropriate’ Pro-Israel Ad
The editors of the Columbia Daily Spectator -- the student newspaper at the New York Ivy League school -- apologized on Sunday for running what...
Pushing Aside Jewish Concerns About BDS
January saw the BDS-induced antisemitism crisis within the Women’s March reach its peak and a newly elected BDS supporter appointed to the House Foreign Affairs...
McGill Launches Investigation After Student Leader Says He Was Targeted for Being Jewish
McGill University in Montreal, Canada has launched an investigation into a recent vote by the school’s student union, which Jewish human rights and pro-Israel groups...
New Study Exposes How Faculty Support of Israel Boycotts Intensifies Antisemitism on Campuses
Effort by faculty members to promote academic boycotts of Israel in American universities pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of Jewish students, and raise...
Fighting BDS by Striking the First Blow
By the end of 2016, the United Nations will have adopted 20 resolutions against the state of Israel and four resolutions against all other countries combined. Since 2012,...
Jewish Pundit Hounded by Black Lives Matter, White Supremacists Says He’s Received More Antisemitic Tweets Than Any Media Peer
Calling himself “more conservative than [President-elect Donald] Trump on every issue,” yet the bane of the alt-right, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire -- who has...
New Initiative Enlists Lone IDF Soldiers to Combat BDS on Campuses in North America, Europe
JNS.org - A new initiative is enlisting Israel Defense Forces lone soldiers (those without immediate family members in the country) as volunteers to combat the anti-Israel Boycott,...
Student Israel Advocates Leading Anti-BDS Effort at Columbia: ‘It’s Considered Cool to Oppose Zionism’ (INTERVIEW)
A student group at Columbia University is gearing up to counter an anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign being launched on campus this Thursday,...
Is J-Street Really Against BDS? Their Opposition to Anti-BDS Legislation Shows the Answer
The Times of Israel reports: After weeks of legislative drama, a trade bill containing provisions opposing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel cleared...
Non-Jewish New Orleans University Sophomore Creates “Allies for Israel” (VIDEO)
Below is a video of a speech given by Chloé Simone Valdary, a University of New Orleans sophomore - who also happens to be ...
