Posts Tagged: BDS Colleges
How Colleges and K-12 Schools Are Marching Forward with an Anti-Israel Agenda
Universities continue to protest the Trump administration’s efforts to expunge DEI and rein in costs, while receiving help from Congress, which has restored funding to...
Planning for Antisemitism in Planned Giving to Universities
A few years ago, a woman contacted the pro-Israel organization where I work, StandWithUs, worried about her late husband’s legacy. He had spent his career...
How Low Can Universities Go?
Michelle Obama famously said, “When they go low, we go high.” When it comes to Israel on campus, universities seem to believe “if they go...
Anti-Israel Groups Promote Discrimination and Bigotry
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. In early April, BDS leader Omar Barghouti expressed support for allowing the use of potential Israeli-developed vaccines...
Is There a Campus Antisemitism Pandemic?
It is difficult to find many bright spots in our current situation beyond the heroic efforts of first responders and health care professionals; however, I...
We Must Fight BDS Lies and Manipulation on Campus
Over the last few years, thousands of Americans Jewish adolescents who were raised in Zionist households have been taught that Israel is unworthy of their...
Fall 2018: BDS Returns to Campus and Politics
As the academic year begins, controversy over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism -- which includes demonization of Israel -- has now spread to...
Anti-Israel Incidents ‘Far More Likely’ to Contribute to Hostile Campus Environments
JNS.org - With the summer winding down and students preparing to head back to campus this fall, a new study highlights the evolving threats that...
Mindless Antisemitism at Syracuse University
Last month, I was passing through the lobby of my dorm when a jarring poster, prominently placed on the wall, stopped me in my tracks. Emblazoned...
SPME BDS Monitor: Outrage on Jerusalem
In December, the most important BDS-related developments came in the wake of the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. This designation will eventually...
New Wave of Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Activity Emerges on Campuses
JNS.org - Jewish college students returning after their summer break are encountering a wave of swastika daubings and anti-Israel activity on campuses across the country; and...
A New Documentary Shows the Extent and Nature of Anti-Zionist ‘Hate Spaces’ on Campus
JNS.org - Americans for Peace and Tolerance’s (APT) new documentary, Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus, explores the roots of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
Tracking the Jewish Reaction to Antisemitism on Campus
Over the years -- and more particularly since 2006 -- various surveys and reports have told us that Jewish university students confronted with antisemitism on campus feel...
Amid BDS Activism, Divestment Falters on College Campuses
It has become a summer ritual to predict that college campuses will erupt in anti-Israel activity, and, after 2014-15’s record number of antisemitic divestment resolutions,...
