Alexander Joffe
ARTICLES BY: Alexander Joffe
Biden’s Foreign Policy: A Preliminary Assessment
JNS.org - It is customary to give new US administrations a grace period before assessing their policies, but no administration in modern history has changed...
The Fights Against BDS and for IHRA Converge
January was marked by unprecedented political unrest in the US, following the presidential election and rioting in Washington. The incoming Biden administration has not yet...
The Fight Against BDS Enters 2021
The year 2020 saw the BDS movement pushed back to academia and progressive politics. The normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco,...
BDS Faces Setbacks Amid New Political Landscape
The November election produced a mixed result for the BDS movement. The pro-BDS faction in the House of Representatives was enlarged, but large gains for...
Normalization Throws a Wrench Into BDS
The most important BDS development in September was the signing of normalization agreements by Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Intense "outside in"...
The Fall Semester Begins — and So Does BDS
The fall semester begins this year with higher education in limbo. Colleges and universities are split between virtual and in-person semesters, with the latter balanced...
Annexation Proposal Leads to More Support for BDS
In contrast to June, when BDS was focused on alleged Israeli culpability for police violence in the US, in July anger was generated over reports...
BDS and Palestinian Propagandists Seize the Moment to Attack Israel
In a sudden shift from blaming Israel and Jews for the coronavirus pandemic, BDS news in June was dominated by the killing of George Floyd...
Despite Coronavirus, BDS Debate Continues on Campus and Elsewhere
The academic year ended with colleges and universities locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The impact on BDS activities, especially Israeli Apartheid Week and...
Global Antisemitism Rises as Pandemic Spreads
The leading BDS news for April was the movement’s attack on Israel’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic. Following the approach of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, leading...
Coronavirus: A Sputnik Moment for Science Education
On October 4, 1957 a 58cm-diameter sphere became the first object launched into space. The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 satellite transmitted signals to earth for...
Coronavirus Temporarily Slows Campus BDS Efforts
The coronavirus pandemic that began in China has now engulfed the entire world. Among the casualties was higher education in North America. Campuses have shut...
Fighting BDS at the UN, ICC, and on Campus
The leading BDS event of February was the long awaited publication by the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of a...
Bernie Sanders, AIPAC, and Israel
Leading US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has announced that he will not attend the 2020 AIPAC policy conference, saying, “The Israeli people have the...
Report: Security Officials Expect More Iranian Attacks on Israeli Ships, Believe IRGC Wants to Avenge Soleimani
Jewish Groups Call for Action Against State Department Official After Racist and Antisemitic ‘Blood and Faith’ Blog Is Revealed
Canadian Jews Outraged After Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist Creates T-Shirt Comparing Inoculation Drive to the Holocaust
Jewish Twitter Users Mock ‘Serious Eats’ Ham on Bagel Combination
Israeli Strike Reported on Iranian Targets Near Damascus